Black & Red No. 3
Date
November 1968
Credits
- Black & Red 35
- Linda Lanphear 6 Author
- Linda Lanphear 6 Editor
- Bob Maier 6 Author
- Bob Maier 6 Editor
- Fredy Perlman 43 Author
- Fredy Perlman 43 Editor
- Lorraine Perlman 29 Author
- Lorraine Perlman 29 Editor
- Fredy Perlman and Lorraine Perlman 5 Layout Designer
Format
- Magazine 652
Type of Work
- Finished work 5482
Printers
Publishers
- Black & Red 35
Techniques
- staple bound 76
Dimensions
8 × 5 in
Printed Pages
72
Locations Made
"The third issue of Black & Red continues in the vein of the first two issues, by presenting more first-hand accounts of radical activity around the country and the world. This issue, however, focuses on events that took place in the preceding months in Kalamazoo.The issue opens with “On White Radicalism,” a statement by the Black Action Movement in Kalamazoo. It is a critique of people they consid-ered so-called revolutionaries and radicals who fail to understand the deep racist roots of the American system of capitalism. The author of the statement argues that, in the American context, Marxist analysis is not sufficient because of the “almost insurmountable obstacle” of the racism of white workers.The next article is written by a group called the Committee on Higher Education (CHE). Itis a blow-by-blow account of the firing of Fredy Perlman’s colleague, Bob Rafferty, from the Economics Department at Western Michigan University.4 Perlman is referred to as the “Radical Professor” and Rafferty is the “House Marxist.” The firing was followed by student protests and the formation of CHE. The article outlines the chron-ology of events, and also provides a self-analysis of the failures, successes, and goals for the group to change the “objective conditions” on the ground at WMU in order to lay the foundations for revolutionary change.Other pieces include a statement from students at New York University describing a student strike following the firing of John Hatchett, Director of the Afro-American Student Center; an analysis of a June 1968 student insurrection in Belgrade; a statement by Up Against the Wall / Motherfuckers on the effectiveness of affinity groups as an organizing structure; the 1966 Situationist International text, “On Student Poverty”; and two short texts attributed to Black & Red. One of these texts, “The Purpose of Black & Red,” defines the objective of the magazine as a “front in the world anti-capitalist struggle ... an organic link between the theory-action of the world revolutionary mov-ement and the action-theory of the new revolution-ary front.”5This issue includes a number of collages—the centerfold is a collage of statements issued by Columbia University, tying the institution to napalm research and police repression." The Detroit Printing Co-op by Danielle Aubert.
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