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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 83 (January 1968): Tenants take over
• Anarchy 84 (February 1968): Notes on poverty
• Anarchy 85 (March 1968): Conversations about anarchism
• Anarchy 94 (December 1968): The machinery of conformity
• Anarchy 101 (July 1969): Approved schools and detention centres
• Anarchy 103 (September 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.

Missing issues

The following issues are currently unavailable to me. If you are in possession of them and can provide scans, please write a message to let me know.

• Anarchy 5 (contents page and page 129)
• Anarchy 66
• Anarchy 70
• Anarchy 71
• Anarchy 78
• Anarchy 90
• Anarchy 97
• Anarchy 105

Volume 1. 1961

No.			IA	LC	SN
1	March	Sex-and-Violence	link	link
2	April	Worker’s control		link
3	May	What does anarchism mean today?	link	link
4	June	Deinstitutionalisation	link	link
5	July	Spain	link	link
6	August	Cinema	link	link
7	September	Adventure playground	link	link
8	October	Anthropology	link	link
9	November	Prison	link	link
10	December	Industrial decentralisation		link

Volume 2. 1962

No.			IA	LC	SN
11	January	Paul Goodman, A. S. Neill	link	link
12	February	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; Ethics of anarchism	link	link
17	July	Towards a Lumpenproletariat	link	link
18	August	Comprehensive school	link	link
19	September	Theatre	link	link
20	October	Non-violence as a reading of history	link	link
21	November	Secondary Modern	link	link
22	December	A dialogue on anarchy	link	link

Volume 3. 1963

No.			IA	LC	SN
23	January	Squatters	link	link
24	February	The Community of Scholars	link	link
25	March	Technology, science and anarchism	link	link
26	April	CND; Salesmanship; Thoreau	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	August	The community workshop	link	link
31	September	Anarchism & the cybernetics of self-organising systems
32	October	Crime	link	link
33	November	The Anarchism of Alex Comfort	link	link
34	December	Science fiction, Workless teens	link	link

Volume 4. 1964

No.			IA	LC	SN
35	January	House and home	link	link
36	February	Arms of the law	link	link
37	March	Why I won’t vote	link	link
38	April	Nottingham	link	link	link
39	May	Homer Lane	link	link
40	June	The Unions & Workers’ Control		link	link
41	July	The land	link	link
42	August	Indian anarchism	link	link
43	September	Parents and teachers
44	October	Transport
45	November	The Greeks had a word for it			link
46	December	Anarchism and the historians			link

Volume 5. 1965

No.			IA	LC	SN
47	January	Towards freedom in work
48	February	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	August	Buber, Landauer, Mühsam			link
55	September	Mutual Aid and Social Evolution
56	October	In a man’s world …		link	link
57	November	Law			link
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): Notes on 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): Student anarchy
• 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

Details

ISSN: 0003-2751

Library of Congress call number: HX821 .A5

Dewey Decimal Classification: 335.83