Partial online archive of Black star, a publication of the Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation in Milwaukee USA. Published from 1975.
Black star anarchist review
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First issue of Black Star: an anarchist review, published in 1975 by the Milwaukee U.S. based Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation.
CONTENTS:
-News: here and there
-Some thoughts on anarchist culture by Glenn Meredith
-Wooden Horse (reprint from Black Flag, March 1975)
-How we saved Arboretum from the multiversity
-Why I espouse such reformist undertakings by Louise Crowley
-Rape a crime? by Jim Bumpas (Trigger warning for mention of sexual violence.)
-The June Second, Baader-Meinhoff and Holger Meins Commandoes: an account
-A lifetime in institutions by Sandy Ruben
-Government, state & society by Mike Hargis
-A position on Armageddon
-Hard times in East Europe by Jeff
-Declaration of the Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation
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Black Star: An Anarchist Review was a periodic magazine issued by the north american Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (SRAF)
The issue was printed in either late 1975 or early 1976)
- Whole Anarchy Catalog
- Rape Rebuttal
- The Role of an Intellectual in a Class Society
- June 1975 anarchist conference
- Workers Control
- Campus Free Speech
- SRAF Declaration
and more ...
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I forgot Steven put this one up
https://libcom.org/library/black-star-anarchist-review
Including: Young Socialist Convention review, anarchism in Australia, anarchist economics, towards an American anarchism, Angola, US global interventions, prisons, etc.
PDF courtesy of Louise Crowley Library.
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black-star-anarchist-review-vol1-no-3.pdf
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Including: international news, the interpersonal as revolution, intellectuals in a free society, Des Moines anarchist conference, decline of the authoritarian family, Kronstadt fiction, the Declaration of Independence - worth celebrating?, etc.
PDF courtesy of Louise Crowley Library.
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black-star-anarchist-review-vol1-no-4.pdf
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This issue had a couple of decent articles. I found the international news/information and translations of greater (personal ) interest at that time. Probably still do.
Including: Zionism and the left, Lucy Parsons and Bakunin book reviews, revolutionary writing from China, letters, etc.
Including: 30,000 rally in Spain, interview with a delegate of the regional committee of Catalonia, book reviews (Cuba, Bakunin, Spain), Canadian general strike, perils of counterculture, The Murrays, China literature pt 2, a reformist's challenge to anarchists, etc.
PDF courtesy of Louise Crowley Library.
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black-star-anarchist-review-no-6.pdf
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This was, I believe, one of the better issues, as you will see.
The reporting on Spain was some of the earliest to be published
in the US and Canada(aside from coverage which appeared in the "Industrial Worker")..
For those of us who directly adhered to anarcho-syndicalism her history and traditions,
the flowering from the underground to above by the CNT-AIT was absolutely heartwarming and encouraging.
The 1977 SRAF conference, as announced in this issue, would be lead to a number of new friendships and realignment (ultimately leading to the formation of the Anarchist-Communist Federation of North America. See Libcom entries: https://libcom.org/article/north-american-anarchist-newspaper ........ and ........https://libcom.org/library/declaration-anarchist-communist-federation-north-america-1980 )
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That's quite a first cover.
That's quite a first cover. How many women were in the organization at the time? And in the editorial group?
Sad to say this is a typical
Sad to say this is a typical graphic from the time period. I was involved with the broader group of SRAF members engaged with this. There were actually a number of women involved. Been a long time so I can't remember the breakdown
I have some water damaged
I have some water damaged issues in my personal archives
I'd have to dig them out tho
Syndicalist, that would be
Syndicalist, that would be great if you could dig some up!
Yeah, with the graphic nowadays I would say that was totally inappropriate, however from stuff I have seen from the 70s that sort of imagery seemed pretty common
Steven.... We'll see what we
Steven.... We'll see what we can do. It really was very eclectic and not the best publication. But it reflected the eclectic nature of mid 1970s anarchism. Def not class struggle That's why we went on to form the ACF/NA a few years later
I'll be in touch on this
Great stuff, thanks
Great stuff, thanks
No problem
No problem
Mimi did the graphic, and I
Mimi did the graphic, and I always liked her drawings. The mag was certainly class struggle, although not of the rabid organizational variety that leftoids like. I did the process camera work at RPM print Coop in Madison for a few issues.
Quote: although not of the
And this is why SRAF failed.
More issues here: https:/…
More issues here: https://www.louisecrowleylibrary.org/black-star - now added to Libcom. I also found a scan of the cover of vol 2 issue 1 which is added to this page.