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This is the first of a two-part article written by Alexander Riccio. The second part, “Towards a new vanguard theory,” will appear in PR #114 in March, 2019. Vanguardism is alive and well in the 21^st^ century, yet it rarely gets named as such. One hears often of the need to ‘center’ particular forms of leadership; the leadership of the working-class, or Indigenous people, or Black people for instance. Centering at times refers to placing a particular object of struggle at the forefront of all issues, as in calls to consider climate catastrophe the primary concern for the Left, or the crises of reproduction as the major issue which folds every other into its purview. [Read More]

On July 25, 2018 – after a meeting at a symposium hosted by King’s College London, entitled 68 and its Legacies – Sophia Freeman interviewed prominent 1960s & ‘70s radical Kathleen Cleaver via Skype. In 1967, following a secretarial job with the New York office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Cleaver joined the Black Panther Party, where she became Communications Secretary. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. [Read More]

The following is an edited transcript of an interview with Bobby Seale on July 9^th^, 2018 at Platypus UC Berkeley’s New Left reading group. Bobby Seale cofounded the Black Panther Party with Huey Newton in 1966. Audrey Crescenti: In preparation for our summer reading group on the 1960s–70s New Left, we read The Movement Magazine’s jail interview with Huey Newton in 1968, in which Newton distinguished between “Cultural Nationalism” and what he called “Revolutionary Nationalism. [Read More]