Going Up the Country
The New Left and the “back-to-the-land” movement.
When Ray Mungo deserted Cambridge for a commune, he absconded with the Liberation News Service’s (LNS) entire printshop. A radical wire service, conceived as the New Left’s answer to the Associated Press, the LNS had been mired in sectarian bickering since Mungo co-founded the organization in 1967 as a Boston University undergrad. By the next […]