(Counter Culture, Black Power, Activism.) A collection of ra...

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(Counter Culture, Black Power, Activism.) A collection of radical and alternative/underground periodicals and magazines from the late 1960's/early 1970's, including 5 issues of the fortnightly Black community newspaper 'Hustler', comprising issues 14 August 1968, 31 August 1968, 14 November 1968, 17 January 1969 & 8 March 1969, each 8 lithographed pages (46 x 29cm), illustrations from photographs, content includes rare coverage of the racism suffered by immigrants to the UK written by people who would become significant figures in the British Black Power movement. First published in May 1968, it was initially edited by Courtney Tulloch from the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill. Frank Crichlow’s Mangrove effectively operated as a Black community centre and became the de facto office of the Notting Hill Carnival and it was also at the centre of a ground-breaking trial. Covers a mixture of news such as community housing issues, racist violence, police raids, and articles and reviews broadening the reader’s understanding of the worldwide Black Power movement within the historical perspective of the struggle against racism. Rare; together with 'The Black Dwarf', 25 assorted issues 1968-1970 of the fortnightly radical left/anarchist broadsheet. It was conceived by the literary agent Clive Goodwin, who owned the name; the poet Christopher Logue who came up with the name; Tariq Ali, already a leader of VSC; designer Robin Fior; and poet Adrian Mitchell, among others. While clearly guided by a revolutionary Marxist perspective, Black Dwarf was driven by the spirit of the times. The May 1968 events in France, and their parallels in the USA, Italy, Germany, and Japan, taught the potential for students to destabilise the advanced capitalist countries, just as Cuba and Vietnam were demonstrating the possibility of peasants to fight (and win) in colonised ones; plus 12 assorted issues of the counterculture newspaper 'International Times' 1969/70; plus 8 assorted issues of 'The Red Mole', 1970, a "revolutionary internationalist" paper carrying a broad range of left-wing opinion edited by Tariq Ali and others, formed after 'The Black Dwarf's' editorial board split over questions of Leninism; plus 7 assorted issues of the newspaper 'Irish Democrat' July 1969 to January 1970, much content Irish Troubles; plus 2 issues of 'Marxism Today' 1975 & 1979, 'International Free Press Present a Cosmic Paper', Nov. 1st 1969, and 'Miner', Jan/Feb 1974