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Home Subscribe Donate Merchandise Books Login Account Podcasts Magazine Archive CP+ Perks Archives New York State Police in riot gear retake control after the four-day Attica prison uprising in New York, September 1971, which left 43 dead. Wikimedia Commons. Fair use.

The US empire cracked in 1971. History calls it a minor fracture, but a fracture nonetheless. The forces in control of the government in DC at the time—Nixon, Kissinger, the Pentagon—recovered from their fall with a vengeance, but only because they employed clearly unconstitutional, authoritarian, even fascistic means to keep control. A new history of […]

Ron Jacobs is the author of several books, including Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies published by CounterPunch Books. His latest book, titled Reality, Resistance, Rock and Roll is a collection of book reviews written for Counterpunch over the years and is now available. He lives in Vermont. He can be reached at: [email protected]