Pathfinder Press is the publishing house of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP,) of which Mike had been an active member for two decades. He proposed the project at a time when it seemed that the party had developed serious problems with bureaucratic functioning. The willingness to sponsor a serious cultural initiative made him hopeful that it would be a contribution to combat those tendencies.

Unfortunately, what began as a celebration of community, art and revolution was transformed into a clumsy tool of the party leadership – censored,  mutilated and eventually removed.