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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. (A few Anarchy articles whose copyrights are not held by Freedom Press may not be reproduced here.) Articles listed below in boldface contain transcribed articles. The rest are pending transcription.

Complete issues

Several early issues of Anarchy have been scanned and uploaded to Archive.org, whilst many later issues are available from The Sparrows’ Nest. I have resolved to complement these by focusing on issues not yet freely available on the internet.

• Anarchy 101 (July 1969): Approved schools and detention centres

Partial issues

Issues in the process of transcription and proofreading are placed here. Issues otherwise complete, but for omissions due to copyrights not held by Freedom Press, are marked with a © symbol.

• Anarchy 83 (January 1968): Tenants take over
• Anarchy 103 (September 1969): The rights of the young ©

Volume 1. 1961

• 1 (March): Sex-and-Violence — archive.org
• 2 (April): Workers’ control
• 3 (May): What does anarchism mean today? — archive.org
• 4 (June): Deinstitutionisation — archive.org
• 5 (July): Spain — archive.org
• 6 (August): Cinema — archive.org
• 7 (September): Adventure playground — archive.org
• 8 (October): Anthropology — archive.org
• 9 (November): Prison — archive.org
• 10 (December): Industrial decentralisation — archive.org

Volume 2. 1962

• 11 (January): Paul Goodman, A. S. Neill — archive.org
• 12 (February): Who are the anarchists? — archive.org
• 13 (March): Direct action — archive.org
• 14 (April): Disobedience — archive.org
• 15 (May): The work of David Wills — archive.org
• 16 (June): Africans and anarchism; Ethics of anarchism — archive.org
• 17 (July): Towards a Lumpenproletariat — archive.org
• 18 (August): Comprehensive school — archive.org
• 19 (September): Theatre — archive.org
• 20 (October): Non-violence as a reading of history — archive.org
• 21 (November): Secondary Modern — archive.org
• 22 (December): A dialogue on anarchy — archive.org

Volume 3. 1963

• 23 (January): Squatters — archive.org
• 24 (February): The Community of Scholars — archive.org
• 25 (March): Technology, science and anarchism — archive.org
• 26 (April): CND; Salesmanship; Thoreau — archive.org
• 27 (May): Talking about youth — archive.org
• 28 (June): The future of anarchism — archive.org
• 29 (July): The Spies for Peace story — archive.org
• 30 (August): The community workshop — archive.org
• 31 (September): Anarchism & the cybernetics of self-organising systems
• 32 (October): Crime — archive.org
• 33 (November): The Anarchism of Alex Comfort — archive.org
• 34 (December): Science fiction, Workless teens — archive.org

Volume 4. 1964

• 35 (January): House and home — archive.org
• 36 (February): Arms of the law — archive.org
• 37 (March): Why I won’t vote — archive.org
• 38 (April): Nottingham — archive.org; Sparrows’ Nest
• 39 (May): Homer Lane — archive.org
• 40 (June): The Unions & Workers’ Control — Sparrows’ Nest
• 41 (July): The land — archive.org
• 42 (August): Indian anarchism — archive.org
• 43 (September): Parents and teachers
• 44 (October): Transport
• 45 (November): The Greeks had a word for it — Sparrows’ Nest
• 46 (December): Anarchism and the historians — Sparrows’ Nest

Volume 5. 1965

• 47 (January): Towards freedom in work
• 48 (February): Lord of the flies
• 49 (March): Automation
• 50 (April): The anarchist outlook — Sparrows’ Nest
• 51 (May): Blues, R’n’B, pop, folk
• 52 (June): The limits of Pacifism
• 53 (July): After school
• 54 (August): Buber, Landauer, Mühsam — Sparrows’ Nest
• 55 (September): Mutual Aid and Social Evolution
• 56 (October): In a man’s world … — Sparrows’ Nest
• 57 (November): Law — Sparrows’ Nest
• 58 (December): Statelessness and Homelessness

Volume 6. 1966

• 59 (January): The white problem — Sparrows’ Nest
• 60 (February): Synanon & anarchism / Narcotic addiction
• 61 (March): Creative vandalism
• 62 (April): Anarchism as a theory of organisation
• 63 (May): The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boetie
• 64 (June): Misspent youth — Sparrows’ Nest
• 65 (July): Derevolutionisation — Sparrows’ Nest
• 66 (August): Provo
• 67 (September): USA
• 68 (October): Class and anarchism
• 69 (November): Ecology
• 70 (December): Libertarian psychiatry

Volume 7. 1967

• 71 (January): Sociology of school
• 72 (February): Strike City, Mississippi — Sparrows’ Nest
• 73 (March): The Free School idea
• 74 (April): How realistic is anarchism?
• 75 (May): Trying it on: improvised drama
• 76 (June): How many years to 1984?
• 77 (July): Do-it-yourself anarchism — Sparrows’ Nest
• 78 (August): Liberatory technology
• 79 (September): Latin America
• 80 (October): Workers’ control — Sparrows’ Nest
• 81 (November): Anarchism in Russia — Sparrows’ Nest
• 82 (December): Braehead School

Volume 8. 1968

• 83 (January): Tenants take over
• 84 (February): Poverty
• 85 (March): Conversations about anarchism
• 86 (April): Fishermen & workers’ control
• 87 (May): The penal system considered as a game
• 88 (June): Wasteland Culture
• 89 (July): The May Days in France
• 90 (August): Students
• 91 (September): Artists and anarchism — Sparrows’ Nest
• 92 (October): Risinghill and Kilquhanity: a tale of two schools
• 93 (November): Radio freedom — Sparrows’ Nest
• 94 (December): The machinery of conformity

Volume 9. 1969

• 95 (January): Yugoslavia: is it workers’ control? — Sparrows’ Nest
• 96 (February): Playing at revolution — Sparrows’ Nest
• 97 (March): Architects and people
• 98 (April): A libertarian criminology? — Sparrows’ Nest
• 99 (May): Lessons of the French Revolution — Sparrows’ Nest
• 100 (June): About anarchism — Sparrows’ Nest
• 101 (July): Approved schools and detention centres — Sparrows’ Nest
• 102 (August): Squatters — Sparrows’ Nest
• 103 (September): The rights of the young — Sparrows’ Nest
• 104 (October): On Refusing — Sparrows’ Nest
• 105 (November): Reich
• 106 (December): What is property? — Sparrows’ Nest

Volume 10. 1970

• 107 (January): The present moment in Education — Sparrows’ Nest
• 108 (February): Big flame flickering — Sparrows’ Nest
• 109 (March): Russell and the Anarchists — Sparrows’ Nest
• 110 (April): Tim Daly — Sparrows’ Nest
• 111 (May): Anarchism, freedom, power — Sparrows’ Nest
• 112 (June): Southern Africa — Sparrows’ Nest
• 113 (July): Women in prison
• 114 (August): Goldman, Berkman — Sparrows’ Nest
• 115 (September): Students’ community action — Sparrows’ Nest
• 116 (October): Chomsky on anarchism — Sparrows’ Nest
• 117 (November): Conurb and country — Sparrows’ Nest
• 118 (December): The meaning of Work today & tomorrow — Sparrows’ Nest