With the WeathermenDrugs. Sex. Revolutionary violence. From its first pages, Susan Stern's memoir With the Weathermen provides a candid, first hand look at the radical politics and the social and cultural environment of the New Left during the late 1960s. The Weathermen a U. S. based, revolutionary splinter group of Students for a Democratic Society advocated the overthrow of the government and capitalism, and toward that end, carried out a campaign of bombings,