Claude Brown speaks straight from the Harlem dead end. He is able to reproduce what no one quite has before: the sensation that there really isn’t anywhere further to go. In the South, working a cotton field twelve hours a …
The civil rights movement is pledged to nonviolence. It is commonly assumed by those of us involved in it that the provocation of violence is alien to its strategy and that violence is simply a calculated risk in trying to …
Peter Worsley, who holds the chair of sociology at Manchester, has written an admirable social-democratic manifesto for underdeveloped countries. Having just tried my own hand at dealing with this topic—a survey of the “Third World” and the prescription of new …
My own disenchantment with American society was not caused by its racial bigotry, its warlike posturing, its supreme respect for money. All these might be understood as irrationalities which could be struck from the national character if only rational men …
Letters from Andrew Hawley and George Fischer
I participated in what may well turn out to have been an historic occasion, the first “teach-in” at the University of Michigan. This originated as a protest movement against the escalation of the war in Vietnam, by a group of …
I Virtually all parties, except the most narrowly doctrinaire or authoritarian, are coalitions of a sort. In Europe the broad coalitions have developed inside parties which operate within a general ideological, very much a class, alignment for which we have …
Seymour Melman’s book is a bit disconcerting. It is repetitious, at times it screams at the reader, and it is seriously wanting in sustained analysis. What Melman needed most was a good editor. The recurrent theme is that American emphasis …
The following article is adapted from a speech delivered at a conference of “Turn Toward Peace.” I will be talking about direct action as a nonparliamentary, nonelectoral form of struggle for social change—that is, as a political act. I mean …
Episcopal Seminarian Jonathan Myrick Daniels was shot dead at Hayneville, Alabama, near Selma, on Friday, August 20, 1965. The man accused and tried for the murder was freed by a Hayneville jury—all white, of course. This article, of which we …
Last October Western correspondents reported from Moscow that two Soviet writers, Andrei Sinyayski and Yuli Daniel, had been arrested and that they would be charged under article 70 of the Soviet Criminal Code with “dissemination of anti-Soviet propaganda.” Most of …
We propose that the U.S. government declare in favor of an immediate cease-fire. Nothing less will do if the mounting slaughter is to be stopped, nothing less than a forthright declaration to the world that as of a certain date …
1. Tea in Ambush Villages in the Delta are laid out mainly along the canals and rivers. “Village” may be the wrong term. The houses stand side by side, strung out for hundreds of yards along a road or path …
Most of the reactions to the self-immolations of Roger LaPorte and Norman Morirson have been fatuous defensive, or at best, beside the point. Their acts have been seen largely in terms of individual psychology, when in fact they might serve …
Among participants in the recent demonstrations for peace, especially the younger activists, dismay over the position of the unions on the Vietnam war has a way, at times, of spilling over into impatience, even hostility, toward the whole idea of …
