[Anarchist Newspaper Archive] - : Love and Rage: A Revolutionary Anarchist Newsmonthly

The Development of Love & Rage

New York: Love & Rage, 1990-1998. First edition. The Love & Rage Network was founded in 1989, at a conference to launch a North American revolutionary newspaper. The group began publishing their bi-lingual paper, Love & Rage, in January 1990. It had a strong activist orientation; their first major issue was the 1990 Earth Day Wall Street Action (Subways).

28 issues 1990-1998 (Including the Final Issue, Fall 1998)

Other topics covered in the collection are: national liberation struggles, racism, women's liberation, animal rights and more specifically, Mexican Solidarity, Prison Abolition and Anti- Fascism (including anti-police brutality, anti-KKK, abortion and gay rights).

There are previous mail folds as issued, some minor wear from handling, tanning at the edges, and a few mailing labels, else a Very Good collection. Spanning the entire years of the paper's existence, this collection offers a detailed overview of the Love & Rage Network.

The anarchist movement of the 1970s was part of a larger radical/militant scene that was in many respects still propelled by the social explosions of the late 1960s and early 70s. That radical/ militant scene was able to compose itself as a presence within the anti-nuclear power movement, but was effectively eclipsed by the reformism of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze campaign.

Love and Rage has its roots in the social movements of the 1980s. It is a formation with an explicit commitment to revolutionary politics that is largely the creation of activists who became politically active in the 1980s and 90s.

This new generation was more culturally rooted in the punk scene of the 80s than in the hippie scene of the 60s that still heavily influenced the ethos of radical politics. One of the earliest indications that there was a new generation of radical youth was outside the 1984 Democratic Party convention in San Francisco and the Republican Party convention in Dallas.

It is a formation with an explicit commitment to revolutionary politics that is largely the creation of activists who became politically active in the 1980s and 90s.

Much of the history is actually an account of the development of the anarchist movement in the 1980s. This history is important because it shaped the people who launched Love and Rage.

From the No Business As Usual Action Network [1987]:

First edition. Wrappers. Newsprint folded to make four outside pages and one inside broadside leaf. The Pamphlet measures approximately 8 3/4 s 11.5" folded. Illustrations. Some tanning, creasing and wear; good condition.

A call to arms and review of the actions of one of the more radical peace activists groups of the 1980s, with calls to college activists to "turn the campuses into zones of disruption" and taking on "Religion as Usual. ("They are using religion to sway people into blind faith in the government's 'war against the Evil Empire, war on terrorism, war against AIDS victims, and Stay Wars. We say, No Religion as Usual!")

No Business As Usual They Won't Listen to reason They Won't Be Bound By Votes World War Three Must Be Stopped No Matter What it Takes" Publication Sequence as follows:

Issues

• Love & Rage: A Revolutionary Anarchist Newsmonthly. 28 issues (1990-1998) Vol. 1 no. 2-3, 5, 7 vol. 2 nol 4-7 vol. 3 no. 2, 6-7

vol. 4 no. 2-6 vol. 5 no. 3

vol. 6 no. 2, 4 vol. 7 no. 3,5 vol. 8 no. 1-4 vol. 9 no. 1-2

• Love & Rages' Greatest Hits: 6 Years of Revolutionary Anarchist Action

• Love & Rage's Brand Spankin' New Network Bulletin Dec 15 ,1992

• The Discussion Bulletin of the Love & Rage Network May-June 1992

• Disco Bull: the disco bull of the Love & Rage network Sept-Oct-Nov. 1992 issue

• Generic Disco Bull April, May, June 1993 issue

• Polka Bull: The Polemic Bulletin of the Love & Rage Network Dec, Jan, Feb 1993 issue

Suzy Subways. "A New World In Our Hearts: 8 Years of Writings from the Love & Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation." Goodreads Inc. AK Press. Retrieved April 15, 2016.

The Love & Rage Newsletter represents a rare primary document of one of New York's more controversial but culturally important periodicals.