Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s

by Daniel Burton-Rose

Book Overview

"We are cozy cuddly/armed and dangerous/and we will/raze the fucking prisons/to the ground." In an attempt to deliver on this promise, the George Jackson Brigade launched a violent three-year campaign in the mid-1970s against corporate and state institutions in the Pacific Northwest. This campaign, conceived by a group of blacks and whites, both straight and gay, claimed fourteen bombings, as many bank robberies, and a jailbreak. Drawing on extensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520264290
• ISBN13: 9780520264298
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"