The New Left: A Collection of Essays (Extending Horizons Books)

Contents: Introduction: Towards a history of the New Left by Staughton Lynd. Part I. NEW LEFT THEORY - Letter to the New Left by C. Wright Mills; Consumption : domestic Imperialism by Dave Gilbert; Anarcho-syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker; Marxism and the New Left by Howard Zinn; Nonviolence and radical social change by Barbara Deming; No rights, no duties by Truman Nelson. Part II. ISSUES - The national security bureauracy and military intervention by Richard Barnet; On repressive institutions and the American empire by Peter Irons; Racism in the United States : an introduction by Frank Joyce; Workers battle automation by Charles Demby; Knowledge and power : intellectuals and the welfare/warfare state by Noam Chomsky; Columbia : an explanation by Steve Halliwell; Revolutionary change and the urban environment by Michael Appleby. Part III. THE MOVEMENT - A meditation by Daniel Berrigan; A woman is a sometime thing by Sue Munaker, Evelyn Goldfield, Naomi Weisstein; Evolution of the ERAP organizers by Richard Rothstein; Getting by with a little help from our friends by Barbara and Al Haber; Thoughts on the movement by John McDermott; From resistance to student-worker alliance by Hilary Putnam; Prison notes by Peter Irons. Part IV. THE NEW SOCIETY: A BEGINNING - The triple revolution; On community building by Rick Margolies; Workers' control by Paul Mattick; Journey to the place by Amy Cass; Participatory democracy and the dilemma of change by C. George Benello; Notes toward a radical culture by Louis Kampf; A new community by Percival and Paul Goodman.