and then with a breakdown of capitalism in the thirty's you have a resurgence then we begin with taft hartley 14747 you have again this repressive. resurgence in the 1960 s. 1971 powell memo and now we're really at the bottom i mean they have really put the heel of the boot on our neck and i think what your looking at in this book is what let's all hope is the next wave well yeah i mean i would i would put it slightly differently i mean besides the profiles of activists there are 33 historical chapters in the book there's a chapter called the whiskey whiskey republic which is about what ordinary yeoman farmers. who fought for independence from britain thought they were fighting for there's the lincoln republic which for me i live part of the year in vermont and vermont never had slavery and it also had the highest rate of participation in the union army of any state so what were those vermont farm boys fighting for what did they think they were fighting for they were fighting against something called the slave power which was essentially oligarchic financial power based on human exploitation