Resurgence! Jonathan Leake, Radical Surrealism, and the Resurgence Youth Movement, 1964-1967

Edited by Abigail Susik Eberhardt Press 2023, paperback SKU: 9780977839254 Jonathan Leake was WAY out, even for the farthest-out groups in the sixties, an "extreme phenomenon" of ultra-leftism who holds a legendary status in the memories of those who knew him. In the pages of Leake's fierce anti-racist magazine, Resurgence (twelve issues; printed New York, Chicago, San Francisco; autumn, 1964–March 1967), radical surrealism operated in tandem with the group’s fundamental cause of a youth-led rebellion: protection of civil liberties for students and minors; the call for the dismantling of the imperialist Nation State; opposition to military conscription; support of African-American youth defense councils against the white power structure; and coordination of the youth struggle with that of the working class. Leake also put his politics into action, co-founding the New York City-based Resurgence Youth Movement (RYM) in 1964, and organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World Union (