Vanguard (journal)
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Vanguard: A Libertarian Communist Journal was a monthly anarchist political and theoretical journal, based in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, published between April 1932 and July 1939, and edited by Samuel Weiner, among others.

Vanguard began as a project of the Vanguard Group
Vanguard Group (anarchist)
The Vanguard Group was an anarchist political group active during the 1930s, which published the periodical Vanguard: Journal of Libertarian Communism, led by Sam Dolgoff ....

, composed of members of the editorial collective of the Road to Freedom
Road to Freedom
Road to Freedom was a monthly anarchist political journal published by Hippolyte Havel, between 1927 and 1931, and is known as the successor to Emma Goldman's Mother Earth. Its contributors included Rose Pesotta, Joseph Spivak, Hippolyte Havel and S Van Valkenburgh.- References :*-See also:*List of...

newspaper, as well as members of the Friends of Freedom group. Its initial subtitle was "An Anarchist Youth Publication", but changed to "A Libertarian Communist Journal " after issue 1.

Within several issues Vanguard would become a central sounding board for the international anarchist movement, including reports of developments during the Spanish Revolution
Spanish Revolution
The Spanish Revolution was a workers' social revolution that began during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and resulted in the widespread implementation of anarchist and more broadly libertarian socialist organizational principles throughout various portions of the country for two to...

 as well as movement reports by Augustin Souchy
Augustin Souchy
Augustin Souchy was a German anarchist, antimilitarist, and journalist.- First World War :At the outbreak of the First World War he moved in Austria. From there he was deported to and forced to wear a sign around his neck that read "Beware: Anarchist!", which later became the title of his...

 and Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century....

.

Contributors

The following is a partial list of contributors whose essays were published in Vanguard:
  • "Samuel Weiner" (Sam Dolgoff
    Sam Dolgoff
    Sam Dolgoff was an American anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist.Dolgoff was born in the shtetl of Ostrovno in Vitebsk, Russia, moving as a child to New York City in 1905 or 1906, where he lived in the Bronx and in Manhattan's Lower East Side where he died...

    )
  • S Morrison
  • Senex
  • Abe Coleman
  • Roman Weinrebe
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