The Black Dwarf was a political and cultural newspaper published between May 1968 and 1972 by a collective of socialists in the United Kingdom. It is often identified with Tariq Ali who edited and published the newspaper until 1970, when the editorial board split between Leninist and non-Leninist currents. Black Dwarf took its name from the 19th-century radical paper of that name which was first published in 1817. The Leninists, including Ali and other members of the International Marxist Group, went on to found the Red Mole.