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Anarchy

a journal of anarchist ideas

Anarchy was an anarch­ist monthly magazine pro­duced in London from March 1961 until December 1970. Art­icles are re­printed with the kind per­mis­sion of the copy­right holder, Freedom Press. Issues listed below in bold­face contain tran­scribed art­icles. The rest are pending tran­scrip­tion.

Complete issues

In addi­tion to the full issues avail­able on this site, a major­ity of Anarchy issues have been scanned and up­loaded to the Inter­net Archive (IA), libcom.org (LC), and The Sparrows’ Nest (SN). Links to these issues are pro­vided with the full list of issues.

My purpose here is to fill in the gaps wherever pos­sible with art­icles fully tran­scribed by hand using wiki for­matting. This is done to pre­serve the look and spirit of the ori­ginal magazine, but in a form that is easier to read, search, copy, and view on a smart­phone. Clicking an author’s name reveals a list of all the author’s con­tribu­tions to Anarchy, while subject cat­egor­ies dis­played at the bottom of each article will show avail­able art­icles on the same topic. Hyper­links in the body of each article are pro­vided to give context to the places, people, insti­tu­tions, events, and cita­tions refer­enced therein. These aren’t sub­sti­tutes for your own research, but can be helpful espe­cially to the twenty-first-century reader un­famil­iar with the termin­ology and cul­tural touch­stones assumed by the authors to be already famil­iar to their con­tempor­aries.

The fol­low­ing issues are fully avail­able to read on this site:

No.
31	(Sept. 1963)	Anarch­ism & the cyber­netics of self-organ­ising systems
43	(Sept. 1964)	Parents and Teachers
70	(Dec. 1966)	Liber­tarian psy­chi­atry—an intro­duc­tion to ex­ist­en­tial ana­lysis
83	(Jan. 1968)	Tenants take over
84	(Feb. 1968)	Notes on poverty
85	(March 1968)	Con­versa­tions about anarch­ism
89	(Jul. 1968)	The May Days in France
94	(Dec. 1968)	The ma­chinery of con­form­ity
101	(July 1969)	Ap­proved schools and deten­tion centres
103	(Sept. 1969)	The rights of the young

Partial issues

Issues in the process of tran­scrip­tion and proof­read­ing are placed here. You can also browse all art­icles so far tran­scribed here.

No.
44	(Oct. 1964)	Transport
47	(Jan. 1965)	Towards free­dom in work
51	(May 1965)	Blues, R’n’B, pop, folk
66	(Aug. 1966)	Provo

Missing issues

I would like to acknowledge the kind help of Dr. Norman Epstein in loaning me copies of all Anarchy issues that were previously unavailable to me for transcription, and to Dr. Laith Furatian for facilitating the exchange. My sincere gratitude goes out to both of them.

—Ivanhoe  

Volume 1. 1961

No.			IA	LC	SN
1	(March)	Sex-and-Viol­ence	link	link
2	(April)	Workers’ control		link
3	(May)	Moving with the times … but not in step	link	link
4	(June)	Where the shoe pinches	link	link
5	(July)	Spain: the re­volu­tion of 1936	link	link
6	(Aug.)	The Anarch­ism of Jean Vigo: anarchy & cinema	link	link
7	(Sept.)	Ad­ven­ture Play­ground: a parable of anarchy	link	link
8	(Oct.)	George Orwell	link	link
9	(Nov.)	Prison	link	link
10	(Dec.)	Com­mit­tee of 100		link

Volume 2. 1962

No.			IA	LC	SN
11	(Jan.)	The world of Paul Goodman	link	link
12	(Feb.)	Who are the anarch­ists?	link	link
13	(March)	Direct action	link	link
14	(April)	Dis­obedi­ence	link	link
15	(May)	The work of David Wills	link	link
16	(June)	Afric­ans and anarch­ism	link	link
17	(July)	Towards a Lumpen­pro­let­ariat	link	link
18	(Aug.)	Com­pre­hens­ive school	link	link
19	(Sept.)	Theatre	link	link
20	(Oct.)	Non-viol­ence as a reading of history	link	link
21	(Nov.)	Second­ary Modern	link	link
22	(Dec.)	A dia­logue on anarchy	link	link

Volume 3. 1963

No.			IA	LC	SN
23	(Jan.)	Squat­ters	link	link
24	(Feb.)	The commun­ity of schol­ars	link	link
25	(March)	Tech­nology, science and anarch­ism	link	link
26	(April)	Peace	link	link
27	(May)	Talking about youth	link	link
28	(June)	The future of anarch­ism	link	link
29	(July)	The Spies for Peace story	link	link
30	(Aug.)	The commun­ity work­shop	link	link
31	(Sept.)	Anarch­ism & the cyber­netics of self-organ­ising systems
32	(Oct.)	Crime	link	link
33	(Nov.)	The Anarch­ism of Alex Comfort	link	link
34	(Dec.)	Science fiction	link	link

Volume 4. 1964

No.			IA	LC	SN
35	(Jan.)	House and home	link	link
36	(Feb.)	Arms of the law	link	link
37	(March)	Why I won’t vote	link	link
38	(April)	Notting­ham	link	link	link
39	(May)	The legacy of Homer Lane	link	link
40	(June)	The Unions & Workers’ Control		link	link
41	(July)	The land	link	link
42	(Aug.)	India	link	link
43	(Sept.)	Parents and teach­ers			link
44	(Oct.)	Trans­port
45	(Nov.)	The Greeks had a word for it			link
46	(Dec.)	Anarch­ism and the his­tori­ans			link

Volume 5. 1965

No.			IA	LC	SN
47	(Jan.)	Towards freedom in work
48	(Feb.)	Lord of the Flies		link
49	(March)	Auto­ma­tion		link
50	(April)	The anarch­ist out­look			link
51	(May)	Blues, R’n’B, pop, folk
52	(June)	The limits of Paci­fism
53	(July)	After school		link
54	(Aug.)	Buber, Landauer, Mühsam			link
55	(Sept.)	Mutual aid and social evolu­tion
56	(Oct.)	Emma Goldman: In a man’s world …		link	link
57	(Nov.)	The law			link
58	(Dec.)	State­less­ness and Home­less­ness

Volume 6. 1966

No.			IA	LC	SN
59	(Jan.)	The white problem		link	link
60	(Feb.)	Synanon & anarch­ism / Nar­cotic addic­tion			link
61	(March)	Creat­ive vandal­ism
62	(April)	Anarch­ism as a theory of organ­isa­tion
63	(May)	An early renais­sance text: The Dis­course of Volun­tary Ser­vitude by Etienne de la Boetie			link
64	(June)	Mis­spent youth		link	link
65	(July)	De­re­volu­tion­isa­tion		link	link
66	(Aug.)	Provo			link
67	(Sept.)	USA		link
68	(Oct.)	Salva­tion by working class—an out­moded myth?			link
69	(Nov.)	Ecology			link
70	(Dec.)	Liber­tarian psy­chi­atry—an intro­duc­tion to exist­ential ana­lysis			link

Volume 7. 1967

No.			IA	LC	SN
71	(Jan.)	Educa­tion
72	(Feb.)	Strike City, Mis­sis­sippi
73	(March)	The Free School idea
74	(April)	How real­istic is anarch­ism?
75	(May)	Trying it on: impro­vised drama		link
76	(June)	How many years to 1984?		link
77	(July)	Do-it-yourself anarch­ism			link
78	(Aug.)	Towards a liber­atory tech­nology
79	(Sept.)	Latin America		link
80	(Oct.)	Workers’ control		link	link
81	(Nov.)	Anarch­ism in Russia			link
82	(Dec.)	Braehead School

Volume 8. 1968

No.			IA	LC	SN
83	(Jan.)	Tenants take over
84	(Feb.)	Notes on poverty		link
85	(March)	Con­versa­tions about anarch­ism		link
86	(April)	Fisher­men and workers’ control		link
87	(May)	The penal system con­sidered as a game		link
88	(June)	Waste­land Cul­ture
89	(July)	The May Days in France			link
90	(Aug.)	Student anarchy
91	(Sept.)	Artists and anarch­ism			link
92	(Oct.)	Rising­hill & Kil­quhan­ity: a tale of two schools
93	(Nov.)	Radio freedom			link
94	(Dec.)	The ma­chinery of con­form­ity			link

Volume 9. 1969

No.			IA	LC	SN
95	(Jan.)	Yugo­slavia: is it workers’ control?		link	link
96	(Feb.)	Playing at re­volu­tion		link	link
97	(March)	Architects and people
98	(April)	A liber­tarian crimin­ology?			link
99	(May)	Lessons of the French Re­volu­tion		link	link
100	(June)	About anarch­ism			link
101	(July)	Ap­proved schools and deten­tion centres		link	link
102	(Aug.)	Squatters			link
103	(Sept.)	The rights of the young		link	link
104	(Oct.)	On Refus­ing: A per­sonal preface to a hand­book on select­ive trouble­making		link	link
105	(Nov.)	Wilhelm Reich and the sexual re­volu­tion			link
106	(Dec.)	Prop­erty is theft		link	link

Volume 10. 1970

No.			IA	LC	SN
107	(Jan.)	The present moment in Educa­tion		link	link
108	(Feb.)	Big flame flicker­ing		link	link
109	(March)	Russell and the Anarch­ists			link
110	(April)	Jump my brothers jump: Poems from prison by Tim Daly		link	link
111	(May)	Anarch­ism, freedom and power			link
112	(June)	South­ern Africa		link	link
113	(July)	Women in prison		link
114	(Aug.)	Emma Goldman, Alex­ander Berkman, and the dream we hark back to …			link
115	(Sept.)	McLuhan­ism: a liber­tarian view			link
116	(Oct.)	Instant Anarchy			link
117	(Nov.)	The future of the urban envir­on­ment		link	link
118	(Dec.)	The meaning of Work today & tomorrow		link	link

Details

ISSN: 0003-2751

Library of Con­gress call number: HX821 .A5

Dewey Decimal Clas­sifi­ca­tion: 335.83