Vanguard (publication)

Vanguard: A Libertarian Communist Journal was a monthly anarchist political and theoretical journal, based in New York City, published between April 1932 and July 1939.

RNC 1932 at Chicago Stadium

The futility of the ballot - Abe Bluestein

An article by Abe Bluestein (using the pen name "Abe Coleman") about the forthcoming 1932 United States presidential election. Originally…

Anarchist Communism

Anarchist communism - Sam Dolgoff

An article by Sam Dolgoff describing the tenets of anarchist communism. (using the pen name "Sam Weiner") Published in three parts in the New…

Vanguard liberation communist journal

Anarchy is order: confronting the definitional tension in the Vanguard group's anarchism - Merci Michelle Decker

A dissertation by Merci Michelle Decker of the Vanguard group's interpretation of…

Interview with Esther and Sam DoIgoff – Doug Richardson

An interview with longtime anarchists Esther and Sam Dolgoff on the anarchist movement in the United…

New York City "Vanguard Group" Meeting Minutes (May-July 1939)

New York City "Vanguard Group" Meeting Minutes (May-July 1939) Also are recorded as joint Vanguard…

New York City "Vanguard Group" Meeting Minutes (April-May 1939)

New York City "Vanguard Group" Meeting Minutes (April-May 1939) Photocopies from the New York…

The Vanguard Group Meeting Minutes (January-March 1939)

New York City "Vanguard Group" Meeting Minutes (January-March 1939) Photocopies from the New York…

A history of Vanguard

A history by Andrew Cornell of Vanguard, an anarchist journal produced during the 1930s in New York. Taken from Cornell's excellent “For a world…

Sid and Clara Solomon

Sidney Solomon, in his own words

A short autobiography of Sidney Solomon long-time anarchist and painter who lived in New York. Member of Vanguard Group, the New Trends Group and…

Vanguard cover from 1936, main headline "Revolutionary forces in Spain"

Vanguard: a libertarian communist journal

A complete online archive of Vanguard, an anarchist publication based out of New York during the 1930s.

A new anarchism emerges, 1940–1954

A history by Andrew Cornell of the American anarchism movement from the beginning of the Second World War until the mid-1950s.

Clara in her 20s

A memoir: some anarchist activities in New York in the thirties and forties - Clara Freedman Solomon

A lookback at the efforts of anarchists in New York City during The Great…