The New Left Reader

Newspaper headlines define the New Left through its dramatic actions: campus revolts, black rebellions, draft resistance, antiwar protests, and the metamorphosis of the political malaise of the Fifties into a new concept of revolution in the Sixties.Yet the New Left has its philosophical and political roots. Carl Oglesby, a leading figure in what has come to be called "the Move-ment," has assembled the first comprehensive anthology of seminal writings of the New Left. Herbert Marcuse, C. Wright Mills, and other influential political analysts are repre-sented, and the works of New Left heroes Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, Castro, and Huey Newton are here, as well. The younger activists speak through the writings of European New Leftists Rudi Dutschke and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and through moving accounts of the 1968 French uprising and other European revolts.The New Left Reader is a book for anyone who wishes to understand the complex thought behind actions that are affecting the entire world.