DANCIN' IN THE STREETS! Anarchists, IWs, Surrealists, Situationists & Provos in tf?e 1960s ae recorded in the pages of Edited with Introductions by J Franklin Rosemont Am W & Charles Radcliffe Chicago Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company 2005 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 Rebel Worker 1 83 Fred Thompson: Why Rebelf 85 Editorial: The Wobblies Return in Chicago 86 Jimmy Jewers: A Longshoreman's Call 87 Jack Sheridan: Education—What Is It? 88 Rene Daumal: The Great Magician 90 Barbara Garson: Will We All Go Together When We Go? 92 Franklin Rosemont: Introduction to T-Bone Slim 95 T-Bone Slim: Selections 96 Rebel Worker 2 97 Editorial: On the Job 99 Torvald Faegre: Organizing Blueberries 100 Shorty: The Kitten in the Wheat 104 Bob Potter: Thoughts on Bureaucracy 104 Daniel R. Thompson: Starvation Army 1964 110 Letters from Guy B. Askew, Bruce Elwell, Abraham Wuori, George. Slavchuk, Hyatt Bache, Bernard Marszalek 112 Rebel Worker 3 115 A. S. Neill: The Unfree Child 117 Torvald Faegre: The Victims of the Benefactors of the Poor 118 Murray Steib: Egyptian Trouble—A Story 119 Robert S. Calese: Harlem Journal—Homage to Pandemonia 120 Benjamin Peret: The Fleas of the Field 126 Franklin Rosemont: Mods, Rockers and the Revolution 127 Robert Green: Conditioning for Bureaucracy 132 Penelope Rosemont: Storming Heaven in Hungary 134 Note: A "Labor Leader" Speaks 135 Penelope Rosemont: Humor or Not or Less or Else! 198 Bernard Marszalek: Anarchism as Seen from an Ivory Tower Charles Radcliffe: The Who—Crime Against the Bourgeoisie 199 Through Opaque Lenses 136 Franklin and Penelope Rosemont: The Haunted Mirror 203 Letters from Guy B. Askew, Tom Hillier, Judith Kaplan, Archie Shepp: I Am Not Angry: I Am Enraged! 204 Ian Bedford, Marc Prevotel, Alan Graham 138 Kenneth Patchen: / Hate the Poor 206 Rebel Worker 4 141 Bernard Marszalek: Letter from Chicago 207 Craig T. Beagle: How to Make Friends and Influence No One....143 Rebel Worker 7 209 Cornelius Castoriadis: Modern Capitalism and Revolution 144 Bernard Marszalek, Franklin Rosemont: Wild Celery 211 Joji Onada and Torum Kurokawa: Zengakuren— Bernard Marszalek: / Saw It On TV and Then We Perspective of the Revolutionary Movement of Japan 149 Proved It at Home 212 Penelope Rosemont: Berkeley Was Only the Beginning 154 Benjamin Peret: Post No Bills 219 Franklin Rosemont: Everything Must Be Made Anew 156 Franklin Rosemont: Vengeance of the Black Swan: Bernard Marszalek: Malatesta 157 Notes on Poetry and Revolution 220 Letters from Deri Smith, Barton Stone, Ken Weller, I. Shigeo, Andre Breton: The Colors of Freedom 225 O.N. Peterson, Martin Glaberman, Judy Kaplan 160 Jean Garnault: Elementary Structures of Reification 227 Rebel Worker 5 165 Lawrence DeCoster: Delight Not Death 233 Torvald Faegre: Watching the War 167 Guy B. Askew: Reminiscences of T-Bone Slim 234 Louise Crowley: On the Unwholesomeness of Honest Toil 168 Jim Evrard: 5 O'Clock World 2—Workers' Hobbies 236 Peter Allen: Black Intervention in America's Dreams 172 Leonora Carrington: White Rabbits 239 Bernard Marszalek: Popularly Applauded and Sciolistically Robert D. Casey: A Plea to All 242 Obfuscated 174 James W. Cain: Prophetic Mutterings 244 JimEvrard: 5 O'clock World—Pop Music and Propaganda 178 Franklin Rosemont: Not Every Paradise Is Lost— Jonathan Leake: Windy City Emergency 181 Andre Breton, 1896-1966 245 Charles Radcliffe: London Bluesletter 183 Letters from Mike Everett, Linda Kopczyk, Madrid Daniele, Letters from Jim Evrard, Judi Sigler, Brooks Lewis Erickson, Lester Dore, Nicolas Calas, Charles Radcliffe 247 Arthur Mendes-George 184 From the Rebel Worker Pamphlets 249 Rebel Worker 6 187 Charles Radcliffe: Pop Goes the Beatle (from Mods, Rockers Editorial (London edition): Freedom: The Only Cause & the Revolution) 251 Worth Serving 189 Robert S. Calese: Blackout—24 Hours of Black Anarchy in New York 254 Editorial (Chicago edition): Lost Whispers 190 Jim Evrard: Consciousness and Theory (from Revolutionary Charles Radcliffe: A Very Nice, Very Respectable, Consciousness) 267 Very Useless Campaign 191 Walter Caughey: Reflections on Invisibility (from Franklin Rosemont: Souvenirs of the Future—Precursors of Revolutionary Consciousness) 269 the Theory and Practice of Total Liberation 193 Franklin Rosemont: Introduction to The Incredible Hulk 319 Franklin Rosemont: Surrealist Ambush (Preface to Letters from Tony Allan, Her de Vries, Schlechter Duvall, Surrealism and Revolution) 271 Deri Smith, Russell Jacoby 321 The Surrealist Group in Paris: Open the Prisons! Disband the Army! (from Surrealism and Revolution) 273 PART II: HEATWAVE 325 The Surrealist Group in Paris: Declaration of 27 January, 1925 Charles Radcliffe: Two Fiery Flying Rolls— (from Surrealism and Revolution) 274 The Heatwave Story, 1966-1970 327 The Surrealist Group in Paris: Letter to the Directors of Lunatic Asylums (from Surrealism and Revolution) 275 Heatwave 1 381 The Surrealist Group in Paris: Inaugural Break (from Opening Statement 383 Surrealism and Revolution) 276 Charles Radcliffe: The Provotariat Acts 384 Bernard Marszalek: Introduction and Epilogue to The Decline John O'Connor: The Great Accident of England 385 and Fall of the Spectacular Commodity-Economy 278 Paul Garon: Extract from The Expanded Journal of Addiction....386 Other Rebel Worker Documents 282 Charles Radcliffe: Only Lovers Left Alive 388 Paul Goodman: Charles Radcliffe: The Seeds of Social Destruction 392 In Defense of the Roosevelt University Wobblies 282 Bernard Marszalek: The Long Hot Summer in Chicago 402 The Meaning of it All: Introduction to the Solidarity Charles Radcliffe: Daytripper! A Visit to Amsterdam 405 Bookshop catalogue 283 High School Students! Why Stay in School? 285 Heatwave 2 413 Christopher Gray and Charles Radcliffe: All or Not at All! 415 Ztangi! (Some Texts that Might Have Been Included in a Christopher Gray and Charles Radcliffe: The Provo Riots 417 Journal that Never Appeared) 287 Uel Cameron: The Almost Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp...424 Bernard Marszalek: The Poverty of Piety 289 Franklin Rosemont: Landscape With Moveable Parts 425 Charles Radcliffe: Malcolm, Semper Malcolm 290 Louise Crowley: Beyond Coition— Charles Radcliffe: A New International for the Total Thoughts on the Man Question 299 Overthrow of Everything 428 Franklin Rosemont: A Black Power Wildcat in Chicago 302 Walter Caughey, Jonathan Leake, et al.: Guerrilla Manifesto 431 Anthony Braxton: Earth Music—The AACM 304 Chicago Surrealist Group, et al.: The Forecast is Hot! 433 Jonathan Leake: History as Hallucination 305 Afterword 435 Bernard Marszalek: Toward a Counter-Society 307 Bibliography 438 Charles Willoughby Smith: Mushroom Country 308 Index 442 Sharon Freedman: Mommy in Toyland 310 Franklin Rosemont: The Jimi Hendrix Experience 312 Bernard Marszalek: Surrealism—By Any Means Necessary 315 Penelope Rosemont: Ice Palace 316 Jim Evrard: On the Situationists' "Intellectual Terrorism" 317 Jonathan Leake: Letter from California 318.