We are pleased to present the inaugural issue of Avant-Garde: A Journal of Peace, Democracy, and Science. Our journal seeks to advance the struggle of ideas at the dawning of a new revolutionary period in American and world history. Featuring both articles and artwork, our first issue is dedicated to Henry Winston (Chairman of the Communist Party USA, 1966-86), a great theorist and leader in the Black Freedom Struggle and World Communist Movement, who laid a scientific groundwork for grasping the logic of revolutionary change in our time. Avant-Garde is published by the Saturday Free School for Philosophy & Black Liberation.

Issue 1

• Avant-Garde: Mission Statement
• Science, the Black Proletariat, and Revolution: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Henry Winston’s Strategy for a Black Agenda | by Anthony Monteiro
• Civilization: A Concept for the Future of Humanity | by Nuri Yi
• The Black Worker and World Peace – Black Reconstruction Painting, Part I | by Serafina Harris
• Trotskyism: A Warning to the Young Generation | by Emily Dong
• Latinos Belong in the Struggle for Freedom | by Edgar Barraza
• Finding the Free School | by Michelle Lyu
• The Counter-Revolution of Gerald Horne: Empiricism, Mechanical Materialism, Cultural Nationalism in Service of Elites | by Jahan Choudhry
• Free Jazz Communism, Archie Shepp, Philadelphia, the World | by Kathie Jiang
• Norman Finkelstein’s Burnt Bridges Leave No Way Forward | by Jeremiah Kim