List of anarchist periodicals

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Current publications

The following is a chronological list of noteworthy anarchist periodicals that are still being published.

Contents

Dates of publicationTitleFormatLanguageBase
1886–present Freedom Biannual journalEnglishLondon (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 newspaperSpanish Spain
1920–1922
1945–present
Umanità Nova Weekly newspaperItalian Italy
1954–present Le Monde Libertaire [2] Monthly NewspaperFrench Paris, France
1965–present Fifth Estate [3] Tri-yearly magazineEnglish Detroit, Michigan (US)
1969–presentThe Match! [4] Irregular magazineEnglish Tucson, Arizona (US)
1970–present Black Flag [5] Annual newspaperEnglish United Kingdom
1970–present Gateavisa Newspaper Norwegian Oslo (Norway)
1980–present Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed [3] [6] Quarterly magazineEnglish Berkeley, California, originally Columbia, Missouri (US) [7]
1981–present Social Anarchism Irregular journalEnglish Baltimore, Maryland (US)
1982–present Rebel Worker Bi-monthly magazineEnglish Sydney, Australia
1983–present Class War NewspaperEnglish London (UK)
1985–present El Libertario NewspaperSpanish Buenos Aires City (Argentina)
1986–present Anarcho-Syndicalist Review QuarterlyEnglish United States
1988–present Organise! Biannual magazineEnglish Great Britain and Ireland
1993–present Anarchist Studies Biannual magazineEnglishLondon (UK)
1995–present El Libertario NewspaperSpanish Caracas (Venezuela)
1996–present Perspectives on Anarchist Theory Biannual magazineEnglish Washington, DC (US)
1998–present resistance Monthly bulletinEnglishLondon (UK)
2021–present The Anarchist Review of Books Biannual magazineEnglishUnited States and Greece
2021–presentLiberté Ouvrière [8] Annual journalEnglish and French Montreal, QC (Canada)
2023–presentAnarchist Union Journal [9] Irregular journalEnglish United States and Canada

Defunct

The following is a chronological list of noteworthy anarchist and proto-anarchist periodicals that are now defunct.

Dates of publicationTitleFormatLanguageBase
1833 The Peaceful Revolutionist Monthly newspaper English Cincinnati, Ohio (US)
1872–1890
1892–1893
The Word MagazineEnglish Princeton, Cambridge (US)
1879–1910 Freiheit Newspaper German London (UK), New York City (US)
1879–1885 Le Révolté NewspaperFrench Geneva (Switzerland)
1881–1896 La Tramontana  [ es ] [10] NewspaperCatalanBarcelona (Spain)
1881–1908 Liberty Biweekly newspaperEnglish Boston, Massachusetts (US)
1883–1907 Lucifer the Lightbearer Weekly newspaperEnglish Valley Falls, Kansas and Chicago, Illinois (US)
1884–1888? The Alarm Weekly newspaperEnglishChicago (US)
1890–1977 Fraye Arbeter Shtime Tabloid Yiddish United States
1890–1897
1903–1908
El Corsario Weekly periodicalSpanish A Coruña (Spain)
1891–1894 L'EnDehors NewspaperFrenchParis (France)
1892–1915
1920–1923 [11]
Arbeter Fraynd NewspaperYiddishLondon (UK)
1894–1896 Liberty Monthly newspaperEnglishLondon (UK)
1895–1904The Firebrand, 1895–1897

Free Society , 1897–1904 [12]

NewspaperEnglish Portland, Oregon (1995–1997), San Francisco, California (1997–2001), Chicago, Illinois (2001–2004) (US) [13]
1896–1897 La Voz de la Mujer [14] [15] NewspaperSpanishRosario (Argentina)
1896–1932 Der Eigene Journal German Berlin (Germany)
1897–1899 The Adult JournalEnglishLondon (UK)
1898–1905
1923–1936
La Revista Blanca MagazineSpanish Madrid and Barcelona (Spain)
1900–1940
1947–1950
1957–1960 [16]
La Réveil Anarchiste  [ fr ]NewspaperFrench and Italian Geneva (Switzerland)
1900–?? Regeneración NewspaperSpanish Mexico and United States
1905–1914 L'Anarchie JournalFrench Paris (France)
1900–1903
1905–1908
Germinal Journal Yiddish London (UK)
1903–1918 Cronaca Sovversiva Newspaper Italian New Jersey (US)
1907–1908 Tianyi bao MagazineChinese Tokyo (Japan)
1907–1910 Xin Shiji (新世纪 = New Era, Nouveau Siècle), periodical of the Chinese students abroad in FranceMonthly newspaperChineseParis (France)
1906–1917 Mother Earth Monthly magazineEnglishUnited 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 magazineEnglish San Francisco, California (US)
1918 Labor Monthly magazineChinese Shanghai, China
1922–1939 L'EnDehors NewspaperFrenchParis (France)
1922–1971 L'Adunata dei refrattari MagazineItalianNew York City (US)
1923–1928 De Moker MagazineDutchNetherlands
1927–1931 Road to Freedom NewspaperEnglishNew York City, New York (US)
1929–1937 [17] Iniciales MagazineSpanish Barcelona and Valencia (Spain)
1932–1939 Vanguard Monthly journalEnglishNew York City, New York (US)
1936–1939 Spain and the World NewspaperEnglishLondon (UK)
1937–1940 Jingzhe NewspaperChinese Chengdu
1939–1945 War Commentary NewspaperEnglishLondon (UK)
1942–1952 Why? An Anarchist Bulletin and Resistance MagazineEnglish New York City (US)
1945–1956 L'Unique Journal French France
1960–1992 Solidarity MagazineEnglishLondon (UK)
1961–1970 Anarchy Monthly magazineEnglishLondon (UK)
1961–1994 Our Generation Biannual newspaperEnglish Montreal (Canada)
1966–1968 Black Mask JournalEnglishNew York City, New York (US)
1975–1980 Libero International NewspaperEnglish Kobe (Japan)
1981–1997 Ideas and Action MagazineEnglishUnited States
1984–??? Green Anarchist MagazineEnglish United Kingdom
1987–2003 The Raven: Anarchist Quarterly Quarterly journalEnglishLondon (UK)
1988–1991 The Arousal NewsletterEnglish Pakistan
1989–2013 Profane Existence Irregular zineEnglish Minneapolis, Minnesota (US)
1994–2014 SchNEWS Weekly A4 sheetsEnglish Brighton (UK)
1996–2010 Direct Action Quarterly magazineEnglish Manchester (UK)
2000–2008 Green Anarchy Quarterly magazineEnglish Eugene, Oregon (US)
2001–2010 Abolishing the Borders from Below Irregular magazineEnglish Berlin (Germany)
2005–2015 Rolling Thunder Biannual magazineEnglishUnited States
2010RósturMonthly newspaperIcelandicIceland

Footnotes

  1. "Tierra y Libertad". www.nodo50.org. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  2. "Le Monde Libertaire". www.monde-libertaire.fr. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
  3. 1 2 Porton, Richard (1999). Film and the Anarchist Imagination. Verso. p. 119. ISBN   978-1-85984-261-4.
  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.
  5. "Black Flag". www.blackflag.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
  6. Atton, Chris (1996). Alternative literature : a practical guide for librarians. Aldershot, England: Gower. p. 48. ISBN   9780566076657.
  7. Feeney, Mary K. (November 22, 2001). "Voices You May Not Want to Hear". Hartford Courant .
  8. "liberté ouvrière". liberté ouvrière (in Canadian French). 2023-10-05. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
  9. "Anarchist Union Journal – Anarchist Union Journal" . Retrieved 2023-11-15.
  10. Vicente i Izquierdo, Manuel (1994). "La Tramontana (1881-1896), periòdic vermell escrit en català". Gazeta (1): 371–394. ISSN   2013-9977.
  11. Arbeter Fraynd was originally launched in 1885, but only became anarchist in 1892. Publication was interrupted during the First World War.
  12. "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.
  13. Smith, Steven. "Further Notes on Abraham Isaak, Mennonite Anarchist" . Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  14. "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."
  15. Molyneux, Maxine (2001). Women's movements in international perspective: Latin America and beyond. Palgrave MacMillan. p. 24. ISBN   978-0-333-78677-2.
  16. 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.
  17. Preston, Paul (2019). Republic Besieged: Civil War in Spain 1936–1939. Edinburgh University Press. p.  151. ISBN   978-1-4744-7176-3.

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