Anarchist Critiques of Jim Crow and State Repression Resistance Periodical New York 1947

Anarchism Jim Crow

Periodical

Young, William, ed. Resistance (formerly Why?), Vol. 6, No. 7 (December 1947) presents anarchist analysis of state repression, racial segregation, and global anti-colonial struggle in the early Cold War United States. Published in New York by Resistance Press, the issue supports research into radical print culture, anarchist political thought, and African American civil rights discourse outside liberal and Communist frameworks. Appearing amid intensifying federal scrutiny of dissent and the entrenchment of Jim Crow segregation, the publication advances a sustained critique of nationalism, militarism, and racial hierarchy as interconnected forms of domination.
Young, William, ed. Resistance (formerly Why?). New York: Resistance Press, December 1947. Vol. 6, No. 7. Quarto. Stapled self-wrappers. The eight-page issue opens with “Talk About Free Speech!” which characterizes federal repression of political dissent as a coordinated campaign against anti-war and anti-authoritarian voices, accompanied by a cartoon depicting the contradiction between professed and enforced limits on free expression. “Riding Through Dixie” provides a first-person account of travel through the segregated South, describing Black longshore labor, segregated transportation, and tensions between white liberal discourse and antiracist organizing, concluding that Jim Crow persists as a structural condition of the existing social order. Additional articles document anti-colonial and labor struggles, including peasant protests in Bengal, demonstrations by Nigerian women against taxation, and labor solidarity among Belgian miners. A statement of principles printed within the issue rejects racism, patriarchy, nationalism, and militarism, advocating a cooperative social framework. The letters section records internal debates among anarchists on pacifism, sexuality, and public perception of anarchism, while rear-page advertisements list contemporary anarchist and anti-authoritarian publications.
8 pages. Stapled self-wrappers. Quarto format (8½ x 11 inches). Moderate toning to pages, light edge wear, faint corner creasing, and minor foxing to outer margins; staples intact without tearing; overall very good condition. Issued during the formative years of Cold War domestic policy, the issue provides contemporaneous anarchist perspectives on racial segregation, civil liberties, and international resistance movements, offering concentrated documentation of dissenting political discourse in the United States during 1947.

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