 The paper had been taken over by the Eat the Rich Gang, a group that had successfully published several pamphlets and were particularly influenced by Fredy Perlman, Jacques Camatte, Jean Baudrillard, Council communism, and Left Communism, as well as the Situationists.They did not originally identify themselves as explicitly anarchist and had no contacts with the anarchist currents of the 1930s.However, they were contacted by veterans of that period who they saw as powerful role models.