Dancin' in the Streets!

by Rosemont, Franklin

• ISBN13: 9780882863023
• ISBN10: 0882863029
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Charles H Kerr Pub Co

Summary

While square critics derided them as "the left wing of the Beat Generation," the multi-racial, working-class editorial groups of The Rebel Worker and its sister journal Heatwave in London became well known for their highly original revolutionary perspective, innovative social/cultural criticism, and uninhibited class-war humor. Rejecting traditional left dogma, and proudly affirming the influence of Bugs Bunny and the Incredible Hulk, these playful rebels against work expanded the critique of Capital into a critique of daily life and developed a truly radical theory and practice, rooted in poetry, provocation, blues, jazz and the pleasure principle. Active in strikes, free-speech fights and other tumults, they also introduced countless readers to important writings by and about surrealists, situationists, IWWs, anarchists, libertarian Marxists, Provos, the Japanese Zengakuren, and other political/cultural revolutionary-minded individuals and movements from all over the world. This lavish tome provides dozens of selections from all the editions of both journals, with a wealth of related documents, communiques and articles, a bibliography, and detailed introduc tions by the original editors. What a book! What other work could Murray Bookchin, Sam Dolgoff and Guy Debord all agree was worthwhile and revolutionary!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
A Note on the Texts	x
PART I: THE REBEL WORKER
Franklin Rosemont: To Be Revolutionary in Everything: The Rebel Worker Story, 1964-1968	1	(82)
Rebel Worker 1	83	(14)
Fred Thompson: Why Rebel?	85	(1)
Editorial: The Wobblies Return in Chicago	86	(1)
Jimmy Jewers: A Longshoreman's Call	87	(1)
Jack Sheridan: Education—What Is It?	88	(2)
René Daumal: The Great Magician	90	(2)
Barbara Garson: Will We All Go Together When We Go?	92	(3)
Franklin Rosemont: Introduction to T-Bone Slim	95	(1)
T-Bone Slim: Selections	96	(1)
Rebel Worker 2	97	(18)
Editorial: On the Job	99	(1)
Torvald Faegre: Organizing Blueberries	100	(4)
Shorty: The Kitten in the Wheat	104	(1)
Bob Potter: Thoughts on Bureaucracy	104	(6)
Daniel R. Thompson: Starvation Army 1964	110	(2)
Letters from Guy B. Askew, Bruce Elwell, Abraham Wuori, George Slavchuk, Hyatt Bache, Bernard Marszalek	112	(3)
Rebel Worker 3	115	(26)
A.S. Neill: The Unfree Child	117	(1)
Torvald Faegre: The Victims of the Benefactors of the Poor	118	(1)
Murray Steib: Egyptian Trouble—A Story	119	(1)
Robert S. Calese: Harlem Journal—Homage to Pandemonia	120	(6)
Benjamin Péret: The Fleas of the Field	126	(1)
Franklin Rosemont: Mods, Rockers and the Revolution	127	(5)
Robert Green: Conditioning for Bureaucracy	132	(2)
Penelope Rosemont: Storming Heaven in Hungary	134	(1)
Note: A "Labor Leader" Speaks	135	(1)
Bernard Marszalek: Anarchism as Seen from an Ivory Tower Through Opaque Lenses	136	(2)
Letters from Guy B. Askew, Tom Hillier, Judith Kaplan, Ian Bedford, Marc Prevotel, Alan Graham	138	(3)
Rebel Worker 4	141	(24)
Craig T. Beagle: How to Make Friends and Influence No One	143	(1)
Cornelius Castoriadis: Modern Capitalism and Revolution	144	(5)
Joji Onada and Torum Kurokawa: Zengakuren-Perspective of the Revolutionary Movement of Japan	149	(5)
Penelope Rosemont: Berkeley Was Only the Beginning	154	(2)
Franklin Rosemont: Everything Must Be Made Anew	156	(1)
Bernard Marszalek: Malatesta	157	(3)
Letters from Deri Smith, Barton Stone, Ken Weller, I. Shigeo, O.N. Peterson, Martin Glaberman, Judy Kaplan	160	(5)
Rebel Worker 5	165	(22)
Torvald Faegre: Watching the War	167	(1)
Louise Crowley: On the Unwholesomeness of Honest Toil	168	(4)
Peter Allen: Black Intervention in America's Dreams	172	(2)
Bernard Marszalek: Popularly Applauded and Sciolistically Obfuscated	174	(4)
Jim Evrard: 5 O'Clock World—Pop Music and Propaganda	178	(3)
Jonathan Leake: Windy City Emergency	181	(2)
Charles Radcliffe: London Bluesletter	183	(1)
Letters from Jim Evrard, Judi Sigler, Brooks Lewis Erickson, Arthur Mendes-George	184	(3)
Rebel Worker 6	187	(22)
Editorial (London edition): Freedom: The Only Cause Worth Serving	189	(1)
Editorial (Chicago edition): Lost Whispers	190	(1)
Charles Radcliffe: A Very Nice, Very Respectable, Very Useless Campaign	191	(2)
Franklin Rosemont: Souvenirs of the Future—Precursors of the Theory and Practice of Total Liberation	193	(5)
Penelope Rosemont: Humor or Not or Less or Else!	198	(1)
Charles Radcliffe: The Who—Crime Against the Bourgeoisie	199	(4)
Franklin and Penelope Rosemont: The Haunted Mirror	203	(1)
Archie Shepp: I Am Not Angry: I Am Enraged!	204	(2)
Kenneth Patchen: I Hate the Poor	206	(1)
Bernard Marszalek: Letter from Chicago	207	(2)
Rebel Worker 7	209	(40)
Bernard Marszalek, Franklin Rosemont: Wild Celery	211	(1)
Bernard Marszalek: I Saw It On TV and Then We Proved It at Home	212	(7)
Benjamin Péret: Post No Bills	219	(1)
Franklin Rosemont: Vengeance of the Black Swan: Notes on Poetry and Revolution	220	(5)
André Breton: The Colors of Freedom	225	(2)
Jean Garnault: Elementary Structures of Reification	227	(6)
Lawrence DeCoster: Delight Not Death	233	(1)
Guy B. Askew: Reminiscences of T-Bone Slim	234	(2)
Jim Evrard: 5 O'Clock World 2—Workers' Hobbies	236	(3)
Leonora Carrington: White Rabbits	239	(3)
Robert D. Casey: A Plea to All	242	(2)
James W. Cain: Prophetic Mutterings	244	(1)
Franklin Rosemont: Not Every Paradise Is Lost Andre Breton, 1896-1966	245	(2)
Letters from Mike Everett, Linda Kopczyk, Madrid Daniele, Lester Doré, Nicolas Calas, Charles Radcliffe	247	(2)
From the Rebel Worker Pamphlets	249	(33)
Charles Radcliffe: Pop Goes the Beatle (from Mods, Rockers & the Revolution)	251	(3)
Robert S. Calese: Blackout-24 Hours of Black Anarchy in New York	254	(13)
Jim Evrard: Consciousness and Theory (from Revolutionary Consciousness)	267	(2)
Walter Caughey: Reflections on Invisibility (from Revolutionary Consciousness)	269	(2)
Franklin Rosemont: Surrealist Ambush (Preface to Surrealism and Revolution)	271	(2)
The Surrealist Group in Paris: Open the Prisons! Disband the Army! (from Surrealism and Revolution)	273	(1)
The Surrealist Group in Paris: Declaration of 27 January, 1925 (from Surrealism and Revolution)	274	(1)
The Surrealist Group in Paris: Letter to the Directors of Lunatic Asylums (from Surrealism and Revolution)	275	(1)
The Surrealist Group in Paris: Inaugural Break (from Surrealism and Revolution)	276	(2)
Bernard Marszalek: Introduction and Epilogue to The Decline and Fall of the Spectacular Commodity-Economy	278	(4)
Other Rebel Worker Documents	282	(5)
Paul Goodman: In Defense of the Roosevelt University Wobblies	282	(1)
The Meaning of it All: Introduction to the Solidarity Bookshop catalogue	283	(2)
High School Students! Why Stay in School?	285	(2)
Ztangi! (Some Texts that Might Have Been Included in a Journal that Never Appeared)	287	(38)
Bernard Marszalek: The Poverty of Piety	289	(1)
Charles Radcliffe: Malcolm, Semper Malcolm	290	(9)
Louise Crowley: Beyond Coition Thoughts on the Man Question	299	(3)
Franklin Rosemont: A Black Power Wildcat in Chicago	302	(2)
Anthony Braxton: Earth Music—The AACM	304	(1)
Jonathan Leake: History as Hallucination	305	(2)
Bernard Marszalek: Toward a Counter-Society	307	(1)
Charles Willoughby Smith: Mushroom Country	308	(2)
Sharon Freedman: Mommy in Toyland	310	(2)
Franklin Rosemont: The Jimi Hendrix Experience	312	(3)
Bernard Marszalek: Surrealism—By Any Means Necessary	315	(1)
Penelope Rosemont: Ice Palace	316	(1)
Jim Evrard: On the Situationists' "Intellectual Terrorism"	317	(1)
Jonathan Leake: Letter from California	318	(1)
Franklin Rosemont: Introduction to The Incredible Hulk	319	(2)
Letters from Tony Allan, Her de Vries, Schlechter Duvall, Deri Smith, Russell Jacoby	321	(4)
PART II: HEATWAVE	325	(110)
Charles Radcliffe: Two Fiery Flying Rolls-The Heatwave Story, 1966-1970	327	(54)
Heatwave 1	381	(32)
Opening Statement	383	(1)
Charles Radcliffe: The Provotariat Acts	384	(1)
John O'Connor: The Great Accident of England	385	(1)
Paul Garon: Extract from The Expanded Journal of Addiction	386	(2)
Charles Radcliffe: Only Lovers Left Alive	388	(4)
Charles Radcliffe: The Seeds of Social Destruction	392	(10)
Bernard Marszalek: The Long Hot Summer in Chicago	402	(3)
Charles Radcliffe: Daytripper! A Visit to Amsterdam	405	(8)
Heatwave 2	413	(22)
Christopher Gray and Charles Radcliffe: All or Not at All!	415	(2)
Christopher Gray and Charles Radcliffe: The Provo Riots	417	(7)
Uel Cameron: The Almost Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp	424	(1)
Franklin Rosemont: Landscape With Moveable Parts	425	(3)
Charles Radcliffe: A New International for the Total Overthrow of Everything	428	(3)
Walter Caughey, Jonathan Leake, et al.: Guerrilla Manifesto	431	(2)
Chicago Surrealist Group, et al.: The Forecast is Hot!	433	(2)
Afterword	435	(3)
Bibliography	438	(4)
Index	442