Black Mask

Online archive by or about the New York City based revolutionary group Black Mask formed in 1966. The group morphed into Up Against The Wall Motherfucker in the late sixties.

Black Mask Wall Street protest

Covers of Icteric magazine

The Courage: What Happened in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

The mid-nineteen sixties and Icteric. Re-evaluation of a dissident European past. Russian nihilism. Recuperated artistic Dada and revolutionary…

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A Critique of the Situationist International as a Revolutionary Organization - Robert Chasse and Bruce Elwell

A critical history of the SI from 1970 by two former members of its American…

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 …

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.

Now - Black Mask

Black Mask gallery

A selection of covers, artwork and photographs from the New York City "street gang with an analysis" Black Mask. Taken from various online…

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…

masthead plus text of manifesto issued during their protest against MOMA

Black Mask #1 1966

Debut issue of the journal of the New York "situationist street gang" Black Mask, published November 1966. Includes a write up of their action…

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 photo

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…

The Latest Exclusions

The exclusion of English situationists Timothy Clark, Christopher Gray and Donald Nicholson-Smith from the SI, with some harsh words for Black Mask. From Internationale Situationniste #12 (September 1969).