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- ↑ Revolution in The Air Archived 2012-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Garrow, David J . (July 9, 2002). "Review of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che" (PDF). The Village Voice. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
- ↑ "Colours of Resistance Archive".
