Leviathan, vol. 1, no. 8, 1969

Leviathan, vol. 1, no. 8, 1969

New Left

Leviathan was a radical New Left newspaper loosely aligned with Student for a Democratic Society, published in 1969 and 1970. Early editorial leaders of the periodical included Carol Brightman, Beverly Leman, Kathy McAfee, Marge Piercy and Sol Yurick in New York, as well as Peter Booth Wiley, Carole Deutch, Danny Beagle, Matthew Steen, Bob Gavriner, Al Haber, Bruce Nelson, Todd Gitlin, and David Wellman. The paper, which took a generally serious, intellectual-minded approach to radical organizing, as opposed to the more irreverent tone of the counterculture, ceased publication in the Fall of 1970 in the wake of SDS factionalization. This issue focuses on political repression against radicals, including a lengthy introductory essay on political repression; articles on “torture” by New York City police; the relationship of white revolutionaries to Third World liberation struggles; systematic repression of white radicals; repression against the Black Panther Party; a prison letter from John Sinclair; an interview with correction officer; an essay about the jail experience of Columbia University activists.

Leviathan Publications, Inc.

Roz Payne

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

1969

underground press

newspaper