Welcome to the longest-ever issue of Love and Rage, produced by one of the smallest-ever Production Groups. We want to thank all the members of the Federation who came through and wrote articles for this issue of the newspaper. The amount of stuff in this issue written by Federation members reflects the increased activity of the Federation and the commitment of its membership.
Starting this issue we will be running editorials. These editorials are meant to give the Love and Rage Federation's position on certain topics and to spark debate. This issue's editorial, "What Kind of Revolutionary Organization Is Useful Today?," is featured below and was written by the Coordinating Committee of Love and Rage. The CC will solicit editorials from Federation members on different topics for future issues of the paper.
Two running themes through this issue are events in México and Anti-Fascism. We have lots of recent EZLN communications (see pages 3, 18, 19, 21, and 24), a broad analytical piece on the situation in México (page 1), two critiques of the National Democratic Convention (CND) (pages 20-21), an article on the drama in the Mexico City anarchist 'scene' which unfolded around an attack on a McDonalds and reviews of a CD dedicated to the Zapatistas and a book, Rebellion from the Roots, about the Zapatistas.
Our lead story on Anti-Fascism shows the way forward in the pro-choice struggle. Love and Rage has called for an anarchist contingent at the April 9 demonstration for reproductive freedom in Washington, DC. Different aspects of the international right-wing offensive are chronicled in this article as well as in articles about anti-fascists on trial in Germany and the US (pages 7 and 10), the stabbing of a member of Toronto Anti-Racist Action (page 9), and The Bell Curve, a book intended to familiarize the public with the language of fascism (page 8). We also have updates on the activities of Toronto and Minneapolis ARA's.
¡Viva Zapata!
The Production Group