Mike Davis

Mike Davis was born in 1946 in Fontana, a suburb of Los Angeles. At the age of 16, he dropped out of high school to work in a meat-packing factory to support his family. In the early 1960s, he studied briefly in Oregon, joined Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), then joined the Communist Party, and ran his library in Los Angeles until he was expelled from the party's regional leadership in 1969 for his alleged stance on Russian propaganda.…