policies advocating the overthrow of capitalism exhorting white radicals to trigger a worldwide revolution by fighting in the streets of the “mother country” and proclaiming that the time had come to launch a race war against the “white” United States on behalf of the non-white Third World.
Emerging in 1969 as the most militant wing of the SDS’s Revolutionary Youth Movement, the fledgling Weatherman issued a “manifesto” eschewing nonviolence and calling instead for armed opposition to U.S.
Weatherman (known colloquially as The Weathermen) was a political faction elected in 1968 to lead the radical group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The organization took its name from a line in the Bob Dylan song Subterranean Homesick Blues (“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”).