Vanguard Group (anarchist)

Vanguard Group
PredecessorRising Youth Group
SuccessorLibertarian League
Formation1932; 92 years ago (1932)
FoundersLouis Slater
Sidney Solomon
Tommy Dolgoff
Albert Weiss[1]
Dissolved1939; 85 years ago (1939)
PurposeAnarcho-communism[2]
Locations
LeaderMark Schmidt
Main organ
Vanguard: Journal of Libertarian Communism

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 (aka Sam Weiner, editor of Vanguard). Vanguard was for a time, during the 1930s, the leading English-language anarchist youth organization in New York City.[3]

  1. ^ Avrich 2005, p. 448.
  2. ^ Avrich 2005, p. 424.
  3. ^ Avrich 2005, pp. 416, 434.