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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. 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 the Internet Archive, 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

Issues 2, 10, 66, 70, 71, 78, 90, 97, 105, and 113, and the contents and page 129 of issue 5 are currently unavailable to me. If you are in possession of them and can provide scans, please write a message to let me know.

Partial issues

Issues in the process of transcription and proofreading are placed here.

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

Volume 1. 1961

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

Volume 2. 1962

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

Volume 3. 1963

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

Volume 4. 1964

• 35 (January): House and home — Internet Archive
• 36 (February): Arms of the law — Internet Archive
• 37 (March): Why I won’t vote — Internet Archive
• 38 (April): Nottingham — Internet Archive; Sparrows’ Nest
• 39 (May): Homer Lane — Internet Archive
• 40 (June): The Unions & Workers’ Control — Sparrows’ Nest
• 41 (July): The land — Internet Archive
• 42 (August): Indian anarchism — Internet Archive
• 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