Vanguard. Vol. 3 No. 5. December, 1936.

Contents: Makhno Interviews Lenin, War on the Waterfront by Sam Dolgoff, The Other Face of Fascism by Max Nomad, Towards Libertarian Communism by Mark Schmidt, The A.F. of L. Convention by Joseph Zack Kornfeder, November, War and Revolution by Luigi Bertoni, Spanish Revolution from an Ivory Tower, Spain’s Lessons Ignored by French Popular Front, Conference of Polish Anarchists, “Moscow trials” on Trial in New York, Libertarians in Support of Spanish Revolution, Vanguard Expands Activities, Another Important Center of Libertarian Activities.

Vanguard: A Libertarian Communist Journal was among the most important anarchist/libertarian communist periodicals in the United States throughout the 1930s. Published monthly in New York City between April 1932 and July 1939, and edited by Samuel Weiner, among others, the paper was the project of the Vanguard Group, The roots of which were in the Rising Youth Group, founded by Sara and Elizabeth Goodman, and the Bronx-based Friends of Freedom, which became the Vanguard Group in 1932. A split in the group by Abe Bluestein om 1939 formed the Challenge Group in response to Vanguard leader Mark Schmidt’s increasingly pro-Soviet positions. Vanguard broke apart in the run-up to World War Two, with some continuing on as What Next? an anti-militarist group.

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