Love and Revolution: A Political Memoir

This is the memoir of Signe Waller, whose husband, James, was killed in the Greensboro Massacre on November 3rd, 1979. The author, intimately connected with the event, documents an important period in the Southern struggle against racism, bigotry and economic injustice and explores its meaning and implications for the survival of American democracy. Part 1, Heirs to the Radical Sixties , documents the events leading up to the massacre in the lives of those immediately involved and introduces the five people killed on November 3rd, 1979: Dr James Waller, William Sampson, Sandra Smith, Dr Michael Nathan and Cesar Cauce. Part 2, Home-Grown Bolsheviks , documents the growth of the Workers Viewpoint Organization (WVO), inspired by Marx, Lenin and Mao Tse-Tung. By 1979, the WVO decided to the time was ripe to found a working-class party in the USA and planned a congress for that fall. They also joined Anti-Klan rallies in Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina. Chapter 10 details the massacre itself, and Part 4, Home-Grown Fascists , discusses the immediate aftermath. Part 5, On New Foundations , discusses the long-term aftermath, including the 1985 civil suit that found three Klansmen, three Nazis and two Greensboro police officers liable for the death of Dr Nathan, and the 20th anniversary commemoration of the Greensboro Massacre in 1999.