Howard Machtinger, a former member of Students For a Democratic Society and a founding member of Weatherman (later Weather Underground), is a retired teacher, but remains politically active and still believes in the need for social and political transformation--hopefully in the spirit of the “organizing tradition.”
Feature
You Say You Want a Revolution
A founding member of the Weather Underground looks back at an organization unable to come to terms with its own violence.
Howard Machtinger
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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