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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. Articles listed below in boldface contain transcribed articles. The rest are pending transcription.
Contents
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 more searchable and more dynamic. Clicking an author’s name will reveal 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, and events referenced therein. These aren’t substitutes for your own research, but can be helpful especially for the twenty-first-century reader unfamiliar with the terminology and cultural touchstones assumed by the authors to be already familiar to contemporary anarchists.
The following issues are fully available on this site:
| No. | ||
| 83 | January 1968 | Tenants take over |
| 84 | February 1968 | Notes on poverty |
| 85 | March 1968 | Conversations about anarchism |
| 94 | December 1968 | The machinery of conformity |
| 101 | July 1969 | Approved schools and detention centres |
| 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 | 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 | August | The Anarchism of Jean Vigo: anarchy & cinema | link | link | |
| 7 | September | Adventure Playground: a parable of anarchy | link | link | |
| 8 | October | George Orwell | link | link | |
| 9 | November | Prison | link | link | |
| 10 | December | Committee of 100 | link | ||
Volume 2. 1962
| No. | IA | LC | SN | ||
| 11 | January | The world of Paul Goodman | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | The legacy of Homer Lane | link | link | |
| 40 | June | The Unions & Workers’ Control | link | link | |
| 41 | July | The land | link | link | |
| 42 | August | India | 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 | Emma Goldman: In a man’s world … | link | link | |
| 57 | November | The law | link | ||
| 58 | December | Statelessness and Homelessness | |||
Volume 6. 1966
| No. | IA | LC | SN | ||
| 59 | January | The white problem | link | link | |
| 60 | February | Synanon & anarchism / Narcotic addiction | |||
| 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 | |||
| 64 | June | Misspent youth | link | link | |
| 65 | July | Derevolutionisation | link | link | |
| 66 | August | Provo | |||
| 67 | September | USA | link | ||
| 68 | October | Salvation by working class— |
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| 69 | November | Ecology | |||
| 70 | December | Libertarian psychiatry— |
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Volume 7. 1967
| No. | IA | LC | SN | ||
| 71 | January | Education | |||
| 72 | February | 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 | August | Towards a liberatory technology | |||
| 79 | September | Latin America | link | ||
| 80 | October | Workers’ control | link | link | |
| 81 | November | Anarchism in Russia | link | ||
| 82 | December | Braehead School | |||
Volume 8. 1968
| No. | IA | LC | SN | ||
| 83 | January | Tenants take over | |||
| 84 | February | 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 | |||
| 90 | August | Student anarchy | |||
| 91 | September | Artists and anarchism | link | ||
| 92 | October | Risinghill & Kilquhanity: a tale of two schools | |||
| 93 | November | Radio freedom | link | ||
| 94 | December | The machinery of conformity | |||
Volume 9. 1969
| No. | IA | LC | SN | ||
| 95 | January | Yugoslavia: is it workers’ control? | link | link | |
| 96 | February | 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 | August | Squatters | link | ||
| 103 | September | The rights of the young | link | link | |
| 104 | October | On Refusing: A personal preface to a handbook on selective troublemaking | link | link | |
| 105 | November | Wilhelm Reich and the sexual revolution | |||
| 106 | December | Property is theft | link | link | |
Volume 10. 1970
| No. | IA | LC | SN | ||
| 107 | January | The present moment in Education | link | link | |
| 108 | February | 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 | August | Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and the dream we hark back to … | link | ||
| 115 | September | McLuhanism: a libertarian view | link | ||
| 116 | October | Instant Anarchy | link | ||
| 117 | November | The future of the urban environment | link | link | |
| 118 | December | The meaning of Work today & tomorrow | link | link | |
Details
ISSN: 0003-2751
Library of Congress call number: HX821 .A5
Dewey Decimal Classification: 335.83
