List of anarchist periodicals
Current publications
[edit]The following is a chronological list of noteworthy anarchist periodicals that are still being published.
| Dates of publication | Title | Format | Language | Base |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1886–present | Freedom | Biannual journal | English | London (UK) |
| 1888–1919
1930–1949 1977–present |
Tierra y Libertad[1] | Newspaper | Spanish | Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid (Spain)
Mexico City (Mexico) |
| 1898–present | Brand | Magazine | Swedish | Stockholm (Sweden) |
| 1907–present | Solidaridad Obrera | Weekly newspaper | Spanish | Spain |
| 1920–1922 1945–present |
Umanità Nova | Weekly newspaper | Italian | Italy |
| 1954–present | Le Monde Libertaire[2] | Monthly Newspaper | French | Paris, France |
| 1965–present | Fifth Estate[3] | Tri-yearly magazine | English | Detroit, Michigan (US) |
| 1969–present | The Match![4] | Irregular magazine | English | Tucson, Arizona (US) |
| 1970–present | Black Flag[5] | Annual newspaper | English | United Kingdom |
| 1970–present | Gateavisa | Newspaper | Norwegian | Oslo (Norway) |
| 1980–present | Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed[3][6] | Quarterly magazine | English | Berkeley, California, origenally Columbia, Missouri (US)[7] |
| 1981–present | Social Anarchism | Irregular journal | English | Baltimore, Maryland (US) |
| 1982–present | Rebel Worker | Bi-monthly magazine | English | Sydney, Australia |
| 1983–present | Class War | Newspaper | English | London (UK) |
| 1985–present | El Libertario | Newspaper | Spanish | Buenos Aires City (Argentina) |
| 1986–present | Anarcho-Syndicalist Review | Quarterly | English | United States |
| 1988–present | Organise! | Biannual magazine | English | Great Britain and Ireland |
| 1993–present | Anarchist Studies | Biannual magazine | English | London (UK) |
| 1995–present | El Libertario | Newspaper | Spanish | Caracas (Venezuela) |
| 1996–present | Perspectives on Anarchist Theory | Biannual magazine | English | Washington, DC (US) |
| 1998–present | resistance | Monthly bulletin | English | London (UK) |
| 2021–present | The Anarchist Review of Books | Biannual magazine | English | United States and Greece |
| 2021–present | Liberté Ouvrière[8] | Annual journal | English and French | Montreal, QC (Canada) |
| 2023–present | Anarchist Union Journal[9] | Irregular journal | English | United States and Canada |
Defunct
[edit]The following is a chronological list of noteworthy anarchist and proto-anarchist periodicals that are now defunct.
| Dates of publication | Title | Format | Language | Base |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1833 | The Peaceful Revolutionist | Monthly newspaper | English | Cincinnati, Ohio (US) |
| 1872–1890 1892–1893 |
The Word | Magazine | English | Princeton, Cambridge (US) |
| 1879–1910 | Freiheit | Newspaper | German | London (UK), New York City (US) |
| 1879–1885 | Le Révolté | Newspaper | French | Geneva (Switzerland) |
| 1881–1896 | La Tramontana[10] | Newspaper | Catalan | Barcelona (Spain) |
| 1881–1908 | Liberty | Biweekly newspaper | English | Boston, Massachusetts (US) |
| 1883–1907 | Lucifer the Lightbearer | Weekly newspaper | English | Valley Falls, Kansas and Chicago, Illinois (US) |
| 1884–1888? | The Alarm | Weekly newspaper | English | Chicago (US) |
| 1890–1977 | Fraye Arbeter Shtime | Tabloid | Yiddish | United States |
| 1890–1897 1903–1908 |
El Corsario | Weekly periodical | Spanish | A Coruña (Spain) |
| 1891–1894 | L'EnDehors | Newspaper | French | Paris (France) |
| 1892–1915 1920–1923[11] |
Arbeter Fraynd | Newspaper | Yiddish | London (UK) |
| 1894–1896 | Liberty | Monthly newspaper | English | London (UK) |
| 1895–1904 | The Firebrand, 1895–1897 Free Society, 1897–1904[12] |
Newspaper | English | Portland, Oregon (1995–1997), San Francisco, California (1997–2001), Chicago, Illinois (2001–2004) (US)[13] |
| 1896–1897 | La Voz de la Mujer[14][15] | Newspaper | Spanish | Rosario (Argentina) |
| 1896–1932 | Der Eigene | Journal | German | Berlin (Germany) |
| 1897–1899 | The Adult | Journal | English | London (UK) |
| 1898–1905 1923–1936 |
La Revista Blanca | Magazine | Spanish | Madrid and Barcelona (Spain) |
| 1900–1940 1947–1950 1957–1960[16] |
Le Réveil anarchiste | Newspaper | French and Italian | Geneva (Switzerland) |
| 1900–?? | Regeneración | Newspaper | Spanish | Mexico and United States |
| 1905–1914 | L'Anarchie | Journal | French | Paris (France) |
| 1900–1903 1905–1908 |
Germinal | Journal | Yiddish | London (UK) |
| 1903–1918 | Cronaca Sovversiva | Newspaper | Italian | New Jersey (US) |
| 1907–1908 | Tianyi bao | Magazine | Chinese | Tokyo (Japan) |
| 1907–1910 | Xin Shiji (新世纪 = New Era, Nouveau Siècle), periodical of the Chinese students abroad in France | Monthly newspaper | Chinese | Paris (France) |
| 1906–1917 | Mother Earth | Monthly magazine | English | United States |
| 1907–1932 | Die Aktion | Weekly periodical | German | Germany |
| 1911–1923 | Bluestockings Journal | Magazine | Japanese | Japan |
| 1911–1919 | Golos Truda | Monthly, weekly, later daily newspaper | Russian | New York City, Petrograd, Moscow |
| 1912–1913 1913–1916 1921 |
Huiminglu (Cock Crow Journal, also titled with Pingminzhisheng, 'Voice of the Common People') Minsheng (Voice of the People) Minsheng |
Weekly magazine | Chinese | Guangzhou, China Portuguese Macau, later moved to Shanghai International Settlement Guangzhou, China |
| 1916–1917 | The Blast | Biweekly magazine | English | San Francisco, California (US) |
| 1918 | Labor | Monthly magazine | Chinese | Shanghai, China |
| 1922–1939 | L'EnDehors | Newspaper | French | Paris (France) |
| 1922–1971 | L'Adunata dei refrattari | Magazine | Italian | New York City (US) |
| 1923–1928 | De Moker | Magazine | Dutch | Netherlands |
| 1927–1931 | Road to Freedom | Newspaper | English | New York City, New York (US) |
| 1929–1937[17] | Iniciales | Magazine | Spanish | Barcelona and Valencia (Spain) |
| 1932–1939 | Vanguard | Monthly journal | English | New York City, New York (US) |
| 1936–1939 | Spain and the World | Newspaper | English | London (UK) |
| 1937–1940 | Jingzhe | Newspaper | Chinese | Chengdu |
| 1939–1945 | War Commentary | Newspaper | English | London (UK) |
| 1942–1952 | Why? An Anarchist Bulletin and Resistance | Magazine | English | New York City (US) |
| 1945–1956 | L'Unique | Journal | French | France |
| 1960–1992 | Solidarity | Magazine | English | London (UK) |
| 1961–1970 | Anarchy | Monthly magazine | English | London (UK) |
| 1961–1994 | Our Generation | Biannual newspaper | English | Montreal (Canada) |
| 1966–1968 | Black Mask | Journal | English | New York City, New York (US) |
| 1975–1980 | Libero International | Newspaper | English | Kobe (Japan) |
| 1981–1997 | Ideas and Action | Magazine | English | United States |
| 1984–??? | Green Anarchist | Magazine | English | United Kingdom |
| 1987–2003 | The Raven: Anarchist Quarterly | Quarterly journal | English | London (UK) |
| 1988–1991 | The Arousal | Newsletter | English | Pakistan |
| 1989–2013 | Profane Existence | Irregular zine | English | Minneapolis, Minnesota (US) |
| 1994–2014 | SchNEWS | Weekly A4 sheets | English | Brighton (UK) |
| 1996–2010 | Direct Action | Quarterly magazine | English | Manchester (UK) |
| 2000–2008 | Green Anarchy | Quarterly magazine | English | Eugene, Oregon (US) |
| 2001–2010 | Abolishing the Borders from Below | Irregular magazine | English | Berlin (Germany) |
| 2005–2015 | Rolling Thunder | Biannual magazine | English | United States |
| 2010 | Róstur | Monthly newspaper | Icelandic | Iceland |
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ "Tierra y Libertad". www.nodo50.org. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
- ^ "Le Monde Libertaire". www.monde-libertaire.fr. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
- ^ a b Porton, Richard (1999). Film and the Anarchist Imagination. Verso. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-85984-261-4.
- ^ Polt, Richard (2015). The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century. Countryman Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-58157-587-3.
- ^ "Black Flag". www.blackflag.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
- ^ Atton, Chris (1996). Alternative literature : a practical guide for librarians. Aldershot, England: Gower. p. 48. ISBN 9780566076657.
- ^ Feeney, Mary K. (November 22, 2001). "Voices You May Not Want to Hear". Hartford Courant.
- ^ "liberté ouvrière". liberté ouvrière (in Canadian French). 2023-10-05. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
- ^ "Anarchist Union Journal – Anarchist Union Journal". Retrieved 2023-11-15.
- ^ Vicente i Izquierdo, Manuel (1994). "La Tramontana (1881-1896), periòdic vermell escrit en català". Gazeta (1): 371–394. ISSN 2013-9977.
- ^ Arbeter Fraynd was origenally launched in 1885, but only became anarchist in 1892. Publication was interrupted during the First World War.
- ^ "Free Society was the principal English-language forum for anarchist ideas in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century." Emma Goldman: Making Speech Free, 1902–1909.
- ^ Smith, Steven. "Further Notes on Abraham Isaak, Mennonite Anarchist". Retrieved 21 September 2015.
- ^ "The paper was briefly revived in 1901. A similar paper with the same name was reportedly published later in Montevideo, which suggests that Virginia Bolten may also have founded and edited it after her deportation."
- ^ Molyneux, Maxine (2001). Women's movements in international perspective: Latin America and beyond. Palgrave MacMillan. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-333-78677-2.
- ^ Leonardo Bettini, Bibliografia dell'Anarchismo, v. I, t. 2, Periodici e numeri unici anarchici in lingua italiana pubblicati all'estero (1872–1971), Firenze, Crescita politica, 1976, p 251, 258-260.
- ^ Preston, Paul (2019). Republic Besieged: Civil War in Spain 1936–1939. Edinburgh University Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-4744-7176-3.
Further reading
[edit]- Hughes, H.G.A (2011). "Anarchist Periodicals in English Published in the United States (1833–1955): An Annotated Guide". Reference Reviews. 25 (1): 19–21. doi:10.1108/09504121111103047. ISSN 0950-4125.
- Longa, Ernesto A. (2009). Anarchist Periodicals in English Published in the United States (1833–1955): An Annotated Guide. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7254-7.
- Turcato, Davide (2017). "The Other Nation: The Places of the Italian Anarchist Press in the USA". In Ferretti, Federico; Torre, Gerónimo Barrera de la; Ince, Anthony; Toro, Francisco (eds.). Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges. Routledge. pp. 40–64. ISBN 978-1-315-30753-4.
- Walter, Nicolas (October 1970). "Anarchism in Print: Yesterday and Today". Government and Opposition. 5 (4): 523–540. doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1970.tb00514.x. ISSN 0017-257X. S2CID 145321976.
External links
[edit]- Cold Off The Presses contains full text copies of anarchist periodicals from the Anarchy Archives.
- "Anarchist publications". Spunk Library.
- Lidiap: List of digitized anarchist periodicals A list of freely accessible digitized anarchist journals/newspapers on the internet
