Weather Underground Bombing Research Paper

The Weather Underground Organization (WUO) went on to claim credit for some 25 bombings over the next several years like the Haymarket statue, a bathroom at the Pentagon, the Capitol barber shop, the New York City police headquarters, and a variety of other targets. The WUO also (for a fee of $25,000) helped psychedelic drug guru Timothy Leary break out of a California prison and arranged for his transport to Algiers. However, these bombings didn’t have any mass mobilization effect and the fact that the Vietnam war was coming to a close also didn’t help their cause. Also the structure of the WUO was that they had a Central Committee (known as the Weather Bureau) that postulated and controlled what the Weather Underground did, and this reduced

They have owned up more than 19 instances of Bombings and delineated three major reasons for their bombing campaign, 1) To retaliate for the most savage criminal attacks against Black and Third World people, especially by the police apparatus. 2) To disrupt and agitate against US aggression and terror against Vietnam and the Third World. 3) To expose and focus attention against the power and institution which most cruelly oppress, exploit and delude the

The group estimated that the working class population would arise in the revolt against the US oppressive rule. The group advocated violence as the only way ahead and this was the main reason for them being distinct from other organizations carrying out protest. The group expected that all of the whites in the country would be inspired by their movement and result in a decentralized mass movement, the ‘foco’ theory, and the ‘neighborhood-based Citywide Youth Movement” and ‘Socialist Self Determination’ (SDS-1960s 2014). Also while the civil rights movement was aimed at allowing the blacks to be part of the main stream of USA, the Weatherman were looking at it in a manner that would lead to the overthrow of the government. Based on Maoists theory of the world revolutionary process they believed that aggressive and prolonged guerilla tactics could accomplish overthrow of US economic system and its “military industrial