[Marxism] "Revolution in the Air"

[Charles Brown]

 Revolution in the air is what we need to stop global heating.

CB
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*	Subject: [A-List] "Revolution in the Air" 

Dear friends,
 
After two hardcover printings, a new paperback edition of "Revolution in
the
Air" has just come off the press. The paperback includes a new preface
Offering some thoughts on what the history of 1960s-70s radicalism looks
like  from a 
post-9/11 vantage point, and what it might mean for activism  today.  
 
Marking the paperback release, MRZine has just posted an interview with me
about the book and the challenges facing today's left - you can find it at 
_http://www.MRZine.org_ (http://www.MRZine.org) 
 
Reviews of the hardback edition, a chronology of events affecting radical
movements from 1954 to 1992, and other materials are all available at 
_http://www.revolutionintheair.com_ (http://www.revolutionintheair.com) 
This  site will be upgraded, and new material added, later this month. You
are  invited
to submit your own comments on the book, or on the political topics  and
history it addresses, for posting. Send your thoughts to 
_contact at revolutionintheair.com_ (mailto:contact at revolutionintheair.com) 
 
Below is the press release from Verso announcing the paperback's
publication.
 
Thanks for your time, peace,
 
Max
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New in paperback with a new preface by the  author
 
REVOLUTION IN THE AIR
Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
MAX  ELBAUM
 
"Max Elbaum has given us an incisive and critical history of the Other New
Left - the radicals who brought class struggle and Third World liberation to
the forefront, looked to the world for allies, and tried their best to work
through the dynamics of race *and* class. If you still believe sixties
radicalism was nothing
more than youthful middle-class confusion or parochial  identity politics,
then open these pages and dig." --Robin D.G. Kelley,  author of Freedom
Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
 
Revolution in the Air is a major interpretive history that transforms our
understanding of 1960s radicalism, detailing the work of activists who
turned  to Third World-oriented
versions of Marxism and for a decade anchored the  most dynamic and racially
integrated trend on the US Left. Enthusiastically  reviewed in the Los
Angeles Times ("required reading for those interested in  the modern history
of social movements") and the Village Voice, ("an  absolutely first-rate
work of political  scholarship"),Revolution in the Air  is now available in
a paperback edition, which includes a new preface by the  author discussing
the lessons of the 1960s for a post-9/11 world,
and  confronts George W. Bush's open-ended "war on terror." 
 
Max Elbaum was a member of Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s,
and a leader of one of the main New Communist Movement organizations in the
70s and 80s.
His writings have appeared in the Nation, Radical History Review  and the
Encyclopedia of the American  Left.       
 
Publication: October 13, 2006
New in Paperback
1 84467 563  7         
$23/$30CAN
 
 
 
 



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