Cogently edited by Abigail Susik, Resurgence! presents a selection from the twelve-issue run of the (very) small press, agit-prop zine of the same name published from 1964 to 1967, along with photographs, ephemera, and other documentation, some of which has never been published before. The Resurgence zines were the print manifestation of the anarcho-surrealist Resurgence Youth Movement (RYM) led – or, at least, most closely associated with with – Jonathan Leake, that began life as an ultra-low budget mimeograph publication and maintained a "lo-fi" print æsthetic throghout its run.
Also included is a series of essays by Susik along with Paul Leake, Maggie Wrigley Leake, Sean Lovitt and Penelope Rosemont that provide a much needed biographical background on Jonathan Leake, along with providing a publication history of Resurgence and its relationship to the RYM and also then contextualizing both within the era of "the sixties" in which they flowered.
AND, there's also a selection form Jonathan Leake's own Root and Branch: A Radical Sixties Odyssey that was orignally published in 1992, in the same lo-fi, double-spaced, typed manuscript format.
Timely and inspiring.
softcover | 224 pages | 8.25" x 10.5" | print run: 500