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TREASON #1-3 (in two; all published). NY: The Free School of New York, Summer 1967-Winter 1968.
Each 4to. Stapled wrps., 66pp. + 64pp. Illustrated with photographs, cartoons and graphics. First issue edited by John Gerassi, Frank Gillette, Allen Krebs and Sharon Krebs, all of them instructors at FUNY, and the following double issue by John Gerassi and Sharon Krebs only.
The editorial in the first begins with the statement “Revolution is now the measure of mankind” and urges readers to reject Americanism and search instead for an alternative way of life (when Allen Krebs and others drove to Canada with 125 copies to distribute, US custom officials confiscated the remaining 65 copies on their return, arguing that “any magazine that advocates the overthrow of the US government is illegal”).
Contents include Allen Kreb’s analysis of American universities; Frank Gillettes’ account of the activities of the Revolutionary Contingent in New York, an organisation that sought “an effective - that is, organic - alliance” with those revolutionaries physically confronting imperialism in Latin America, Africa and Asia; Charles Johnson’s review of Franz Fanon’s “Black Skin, White Masks”; a Peruvian guerrilla’s account of the Peruvian Revolution; a translation of Che Guevara’s message to the Tricontinental Congress, in which he argued for the necessity of creating “two, three, many Vietnams”; “The Cell”, a play by John Gerassi; and poetry, as well as the Summer 1967 catalogue.
The second issue, combining numbers 2 and 3, appeared in Winter 1968, when FUNY was holding its last term (the catalogue for which appears as the final six pages). In the editorial, Sharon Krebs argues for the necessity of organizing “a movement within a movement”, and writes that a “new coalition” in the movement was being built by a younger generation of “college students, artists, heads and hippies plus an equal number of drop-outs from each of those communities” that wouldn’t be controlled by conventional leftists. Contributors include Jerry Rubin (a speech delivered at a debate of the Socialist Workers’ Party in New York on December 29, 1967); Julius Lester (“Che is Alive on 103rd Street”); Tuli Kupferberg (“Fuck War”); Tana de Gámez on “Lorca’s America”; Yannis Ritsos and Mikis Theodorakis; John Gerassi (on American imperialism in Latin America); and others.
Wrappers to first issue lightly soiled, o/w both items Very Good or better.
