A remarkable story collection about the radical anti-establishment of
the 1970s by the late D.M. Fraser, one of Canada's most underappreciated
writers. Comprised of assertive missives and richly hued character
studies, Class Warfare is a gloriously written call to arms firmly
rooted in the politics and culture of the 1970s; a paean to the
disenfranchised about the possibilities of the sweetness of life. First
published in 1976 but never before released in the United States, Class
Warfare includes an introduction by Arsenal Pulp Press' co-founder
Stephen Osborne.
D.M. Fraser was Arsenal Pulp Press' editor until his death in 1985 at
age thirty-eight.
We would have slept forever, if it had been possible; but it was not
possible. The noise of gunfire woke us. The siren in the street, the
crack of truncheon on skull, the groaning of muscle and crashing of
blood, in all the unrewarded labours of the world, woke us. The shouts
of the dying penetrated into that sleep, dragged us half-blind and
staggering out of the lovely dreams, the sheltered nests we thought were
ours by right, into this wakefulness, this cold and unforgiving
daylight. There was no other choice.