Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism (1974) is a manifesto written by Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and Celia Soeiro. It calls for armed struggle against US imperialism, solidarity with Third World revolutionary movements, and the overthrow of capitalism. It was distributed clandestinely and publicly simultaneously as a political declaration of the WUO's ideology.
The most complete ideological statement of the Weather Underground Organisation; synthesised New Left, anti-imperialist, and Third Worldist thought into a call for domestic armed revolution; documented the logic of radical left political violence in 1970s America.
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