Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism by Underground, Weather - 1974

USA: San Francisco Communications Co.. Paperback. B000EEGAYM [10], 152 pages. Bibliography. Lists of black and white maps and illustrations. 'Printed underground in the U.S. for the people.' - title page. "The unity and consolidation of anti-imperialist forces around a revolutionary program is an urgent and pressing strategic necessity. Prairie Fire is offered as a contribution to this unity of action and purpose. Now it is in your hands." - Opening statement by Bernadine Dohrn, Billy (Bill) Ayers, Jeff Jones and Celia Sojourn. Chapters include: Arm the Spirit; Vietnam; Impressions of U.S. History; Imperialism in Crisis - The Third World; Imperialism in Crisis - The Home Front; Against the Common Enemy. "We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years... Our intention is to disrupt the empire... to incapacitate it... to forge an underground, a clandestine political organization engaged in every form of struggle, protected from the eyes and weapons of the state, a base against repression, to accumulate lessons, experience and constant practice, a base from which to attack." - page 1. Prior to publication the Weather Underground had already bombed multiple government buildings. Twenty-one years after publication, Ayers and Dohrn hosted a meeting at which Illinois state Sen. Alice Palmer introduced Barack Obama as her chosen successor. The rest is history. Moderate quantity of marginal markings, mostly in red. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound first edition copy. . Good. 1974. First Edition.