Clippings and works by M.A.N.I.A.C., a Maryland anarchist youth collective

M.A.N.I.A.C. (Mad Anarchist New International Alliance of Crazies)  was a 1980's youth group of junior high and high school students from Chevy Chase, Maryland.

M.A.N.I.A.C. originally formed in the late 1970's at Western Junior High School in Montgomery County, MD (now Westland Middle School), and published various underground newspapers that were illicitly distributed on campus.

The group was known for its guerrilla street theater antics, fighting against "the system," and called themselves “Groucho Marxists.”

They were allied with nearby Washington, D.C.'s Yippies (members of the Youth International Party).  D.C. YIPPIE published Outlaws!, an underground newspaper and M.A.N.I.A.C. became a contributor.

M.A.N.I.A.C. first gained national attention in 1982 after a button it made and distributed at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School gained major media attention. After the principal started a campaign to confiscate the group's "NUKE B-CC" buttons, M.A.N.I.A.C. took the issue up with the ACLU.