An irreplaceable account of the fight for a political course able to organize working people, GIs, and youth and help lead growing world opposition to the Vietnam War.
Fred Halstead (1927–1988) joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1948 and was a member of its National Committee for more than 30 years. He was the party’s candidate for US president in 1968. A garment cutter by trade, he had been a member of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, United Auto Workers, and International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. A frequent contributor to the Militant newsweekly, he was the author of Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the Movement in the United States against the Vietnam War (1978) and The 1985–86 Meat-Packers Strike in Austin, Minnesota (1986).