New York State Police in riot gear retake control after the four-day Attica prison uprising in New York, September 1971, which left 43 dead. Wikimedia Commons. Fair use.

Hot Town, Summer in the Capitol City

Richard Nixon vs. the American Left

Ron Jacobs

August 30, 2026

The US empire cracked in 1971. History calls it a minor fracture, but a fracture nonetheless. The forces in control of the government in DC at the time—Nixon, Kissinger, the Pentagon—recovered from their fall with a vengeance, but only because they employed clearly unconstitutional, authoritarian, even fascistic means to keep control. A new history of […]

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Ron Jacobs is the author of several books, including Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies published by CounterPunch Books. His latest book, titled Reality, Resistance, Rock and Roll is a collection of book reviews written for Counterpunch over the years and is now available. He lives in Vermont. He can be reached at: [email protected]

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