It’s sad and interesting to read that front cover and feel almost like that zine could come out today and be just as relevant. Racism, fascism, “Palestine pogroms,” like damn, what have we been doing for 100 years?

The Vanguard Group and launched its organ, Vanguard: A Libertarian Communist Journal, partially to counteract anti-organizationalist and commune-building tendencies in anarchism. Clara Freidman, a founding member, explained, “Our purpose was to work out a positive program, to deal with anarchism in less amorphous and more concrete terms, to show it was a viable social philosophy.”