We do not support in any way vanguardist Marxist Leninist terrorist organisations - for a critique of this kind of activity see this anarchist critique of terrorism - and we reproduce this text for reference. Never short-changing the fierce debates which underpinned the Weather’s strategy, Jacobs argues that the groups eventual demise resulted as much from the contradictions of its politics as from the increasingly repressive FBI attention. WUO called ahead stating that this was in protest of Nixon’s resent bombing of Laos. Capitol, Pentagon and State Department Bombings Posted on Maby maymeg14 On Mathe United States Capitol is bombed. He recounts the operational failures of the group-three members died when a bomb they were building exploded in Greenwich Village-as well as its victories including a successful jailbreak of Timothy Leary. The History of the Weather Underground from SDS conception, to today. He describes the group’s formation of clandestine revolutionary cells, its leaders' disavowal of monogamous relationships, and their use of LSD to strengthen bonds between members. In this highly readable history, Ron Jacobs captures the hair-raising drama of a campaign which planted bombs in banks, military installations and, twice on successive days, in the US Capitol. They turned instead to underground guerrilla combat. Mauled in street battles with the Chicago police during the Days of Rage demonstrations, Weather concluded that traditional political protest was insufficient to end the war. Bombing its way into the headlines of the early 1970s, the Weather Underground was one of the most dramatic symbols of the anger felt by young Americans opposed to the US presence in Vietnam.
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