Year Left Volume 4, Fire in the Hearth
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- ISBN 9780860919766
- Weight: 437g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 17 Sep 1990
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Over the last two decades the North American Left has attempted a series of political interventions in local government. Yet the problems, achievements and prospects of these city initiatives have rarely been analyzed: Nicaragua is better charted than Roxbury, Youngstown or Oakland. This book, written by leading activists, fills that gap to provide an in-depth assessment of radical municipal initiatives throughout the United States, including struggles against gentrification and domination by local elites and political machines, and for community economic development and democratic participation in planning.
The book moves from Berkeley, Burlington and the Yukon, through the Black Democratic regimes of Chicago and Los Angeles, and on to the coalitions of Boston and New York - taking in accounts from the Alabama Black Belt, Phoenix, Montreal and Mexico City. The authors draw a balance sheet on local progressive projects, but the issues raised are international: Can economic populism work without an economic base? What are the dangers of coalitionism? Can grassroots organizing really lead to dramatic political realignment?
Fire in the Hearth shows how activists are taking the fight for regional empowerment forward. It is essential reading for anyone wishing to under-stand the trajectory of the Rainbow challenges on America's horizon.
The book moves from Berkeley, Burlington and the Yukon, through the Black Democratic regimes of Chicago and Los Angeles, and on to the coalitions of Boston and New York - taking in accounts from the Alabama Black Belt, Phoenix, Montreal and Mexico City. The authors draw a balance sheet on local progressive projects, but the issues raised are international: Can economic populism work without an economic base? What are the dangers of coalitionism? Can grassroots organizing really lead to dramatic political realignment?
Fire in the Hearth shows how activists are taking the fight for regional empowerment forward. It is essential reading for anyone wishing to under-stand the trajectory of the Rainbow challenges on America's horizon.
Mike Davis (1946-2022) was a writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian. He is best known for his investigations of power and class in works such as City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Planet of Slums. His last two non-fiction books are Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener, and The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism. He was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. Michael Sprinker was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism and History and Ideology in Proust are also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso's Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.
