Up Against the Wall Motherfucker

Content by or about Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, a late sixties revolutionary group based in New York City with its origins in Black Mask.

Up Against The Wall Motherfucker

nietzsche playing the piano

Nietzsche, Revolutionary Subversion and the Contemporary attack on Music - Stuart Wise

On Nietzsche, music, motherfuckers and insects. From December 2007. Originally published on the…

Up Against The Wall Motherfucker - family with guns

Up Against The Wall Motherfucker gallery

Posters, flyers etc from Up Against The Wall Motherfucker and related initiatives. Taken from various online sources.

two Spanish books about the Motherfuckers

Introduction for a book in Spanish on Black Mask & The Motherfuckers

Two members of King Mob travel from Newcastle to New York in 1967 to meet Black Mask. Written by …

UAWMF poster

Self Defense / Affinity Groups - Up Against The Wall Motherfucker

A poster/flyer with two articles from this late sixties NYC group.

A Motherfucker is a Werewolf

“A Motherfucker is a Werewolf”: Gang Identity and Avant-Garde Rebellion - David AJ Murrieta Flores

An academic article on the critique of American identity by Up Against The Wall…

Up Against The Wall Motherfucker anthology cover

Up Against The Wall Motherfucker anthology

A collection of rants, posters and texts by New York revolutionary group the Motherfuckers from 1967-1969. Compiled by Homebrew Press 2007.

detail of artwork includng the slogan "We are Outlaws!" with a gun wielding cowboy and excerpts of other texts

Poetry Written in Gasoline: Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker - Gavin Grindon

An interesting article from 2014 about 1960s New York revolutionary group Black…

cover of King Mob 3

King Mob #3

Third King Mob journal, published May 1969.

Black Mask pamphlet cover

Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: flower power won't stop fascist power

Subtitled "the story of a small, underground 1960s revolutionary group in New York City", this is a…

Ben Morea: Garbage Guerrilla

An interview with Ben Morea, member of Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker!, conducted by Jon McMillian for New York Press on 5th June, 2005.

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Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! - Interview with Ben Morea

Morea talks of the 1960s Black Mask and Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! groups and their…

Black Mask book 1993 edition cover

Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: The incomplete works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask group

Chronicling the history of two New York City provocateur groups—Black Mask and Up…