The struggle within : prisons, political prisoners, and mass movements in the United States

An Accessible Yet Wide-ranging Historical Primer About How Mass Imprisonment Has Been A Tool Of Repression Deployed Against Diverse Left-wing Social Movements Over The Last Fifty Years. Berger Examines Some Of The Most Dynamic Social Movements Across Half A Century: Black Liberation, Puerto Rican Independence, Native American Sovereignty, Chicano Radicalism, White Antiracist And Working-class Mobilizations, Pacifist And Antinuclear Campaigns, And Earth Liberation And Animal Rights. Berger's Encyclopedic Knowledge Of American Social Movements Provides A Rich Comparative History Of Numerous Social Movements That Continue To Shape Contemporary Politics. The Book Also Offers A Little-heard Voice In Contemporary Critiques Of Mass Incarceration. Rather Than Seeing The Issue Of America's Prison Growth As Stemming Solely From The War On Drugs, Berger Locates Mass Incarceration Within A Slew Of Social Movements That Have Provided Steep Challenges To State Power. -- Taken From Publisher Website Acknowledgments -- Foreword / By Ruth Wilson Gilmore -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. North American Freedom Struggles. Black Liberation And Settler Colonialism -- The American Indian Movement -- Puerto Rican Independence -- Chicano Liberation -- Ch. 2. Anti-imperialism, Anti-authoritarianism, And Revolutionary Nonviolence. The Politics Of Solidarity -- Militants Of The White Working Class -- Revolutionary Nonviolence -- Ch. 3. Earth And Animal Liberation -- Ch. 4. Déjà Vu And The Patriot Act -- Conclusion : A New Beginning -- Afterword / By Dream Hampton -- A Bibliographic Note -- Organizational Resources -- About The Authors. By Dan Berger. Includes Bibliographic References (pages 89-95).

The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear campaigns, and earth liberation and animal rights.

Berger’s encyclopedic knowledge of American social movements provides a rich comparative history of numerous social movements that continue to shape contemporary politics. The book also offers a little-heard voice in contemporary critiques of mass incarceration. Rather than seeing the issue of America’s prison growth as stemming solely from the war on drugs, Berger locates mass incarceration within a slew of social movements that have provided steep challenges to state power.

The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear campaigns, and earth liberation and animal rights. Berger's encyclopedic knowledge of American social movements provides a rich comparative history of numerous social movements that continue to shape contemporary politics. The book also offers a little-heard voice in contemporary critiques of mass incarceration. Rather than seeing the issue of America's prison growth as stemming solely from the war on drugs, Berger locates mass incarceration within a slew of social movements that have provided steep challenges to state power. An accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer, The Struggle Within discusses how mass imprisonment has been a state-sponsered tool of repression deployed against diverse, left-wing social movements over the last 50 years. Author Dan Berger goes on to examine some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century, including black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear campaigns, earth liberation, and animal rights. Berger's encyclopedic knowledge of social movements in the United States provides a rich comparative history of numerous campaigns that continue to shape contemporary politics. The book also offers a little-heard voice in contemporary critiques of mass incarceration by investigation how mass incarcerations have occurred within a slew of social movements that have provided steep challenges to state power.