Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974

This work presents the explosive writings of the revolutionary weather underground, never before available in book form. Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to bring the war home . The Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the US government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison and evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history. Sing a Battle Song brings together the three complete and unedited publications produced by the Weathermen during their most active period underground, 1970 to 1974. It is also introduced and annotated by three of the Weather Underground’s original organisers - Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and Jeff Jones - all of whom are still actively engaged in social justice movement work. Idealistic, inspired and often way-over-the-top, the writings of the Weather Underground epitomise the sexual, psychedelic, anti-war counterculture of the American 1960s and 1970s and provide a fascinating historical document to this era in time.