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Anarchist Journals and Related Publications Collection

Scope and Content

The collection consists of anarchist periodicals and related publications, including newsletters and self-published books gathered in the main by Allan Antliff.

Periodicals

  1. Alarm! nos. 1–7 (2001–2002). Vancouver-based anti-war publication produced in response to the escalation of militarism after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. This is the entire run of the journal.
    1. Alarm! Against War and Racism, Issue no. 1, 2001, eds. Kimball Cariou, Nandita Sharma, Zig Zag, Irwin Oostindie, Anton Pilipa & John Moss, Vancouver (ZigZag, Indigenous anarchist Gord Hill).
    2. Alarm! Against War and Racism, Issue no. 2, 2001, eds. Kimball Cariou, Nandita Sharma, Georgina Farah, Irwin Oostindie, John Moss, & Anton Pilipa, Vancouver.
    3. Alarm! Against War and Racism, Issue no. 3, 2001, eds. Kimball Cariou, Ronald Chavez, Georgina Farah, Harold Lavender, John Moss & Nandita Sharma, Vancouver.
    4. Alarm! Against War and Racism, Issue no. 4, 2001, eds. Nandita Sharma, Keshav Mukunda, John Moss, Harold Lavender, Georgina Farah, Blair Dowell, Ronald Chavez, Kimball Cariou & Allison Campbell, Vancouver.
    5. Alarm! Against War and Racism, Issue no. 5, January 2002, eds. Allison Campbell, Kimball Cariou, Harold Lavender, Blair Dowell, John Moss, Keshav Mukunda, Vancouver.
    6. Alarm! Against War and Racism, Issue no. 6, March 2002, eds. Allison Campbell, Kimball Cariou, Harold Lavender, Blair Dowell, Keshav Mukunda & Nandita Sharma, Vancouver.
    7. Alarm! Against War and Racism, Issue no. 7, September 2002, eds. Allison Campbell, Kimball Cariou, Harold Lavender, Keshav Mukunda & Nandita Sharma, Vancouver.
  2. War No More! Issue no. 1, By B.C. Anti-War Activists, eds. Derrick O’Keefe, Gary Jarvis, Kimball cariou, Mordecai Briemberg & Dave Markland, Vancouver, BC, October 2007.
  3. Four Minutes to Midnight, Issue no. 13, Spring 2014.
  4. Terre et Libertè. Anarchist ecological collective.
    1. Terre et Libertè, vol. 1 no. 1, (2008).
    2. Liberterre Collectif: Une Monographie: Collectif de recherché sur l’autonomie collective, par Amandine Guilbert, Anna Kryznski, avec des members de Liberterre, 2008.
  5. The Peak. Journal published by the Public Interest Research Group at Guelph University.
    1. The Peak: Anarchism issue, vol. 53, no. 1, September 2013, Guelph, Ontario.
    2. The Peak: biotechnology issue, vol. 53, no. 3, Winter 2014, Guelph, Ontario.
    3. The Peak: dispatches from prison, vol. 53, no. 5, Summer 2014, Guelph, Ontario.
    4. The Peak: education issue, vol. 54, no. 1, Fall 2014, Guelph, Ontario.
    5. The Peak: mining: extracting the future, vol. 54, no. 2, Spring 2015, Guelph, Ontario.
    6. The Peak: Reimagining: Reigning in the New Skool, produced in partnership with BlackLivesMatterTO & the CJ Munford Centre for Students of Colour on Attawandaron Territories, printed by The Peak, n.d. (2015), Guelph, Ontario.
  6. Iconoclast. This journal was associated with an Ontario-wide anarchist network operating in the 2000s which played a key role in organizing for the Toronto G20 protests of 2010. It was published in London, Ontario.
    1. Iconoclast, “Crisis? What Crisis?” Issue 12, July 2009, London, Ontario.
    2. Iconoclast, “One Year Anniversary Issue” Issue 13, August 2009, London, Ontario.
    3. Iconoclast, “Fascism: Then and Now” Issue 14, September 2009, London, Ontario.
    4. Iconoclast, “Consume and Destroy” Issue 25, August 2010, London, Ontario.
  7. Anarchy: A Journal of Desire, Armed. An American publication founded in Columbia, Missouri.  Eventually, the leading editor moved the publication to the San Franciso area..
    1. Anarchy: A Journal of Desire, Armed no. 14 (Summer, 1987).
    2. Anarchy: A Journal of Desire, Armed no. 15 (Winter, 1988).
    3. Anarchy: A Journal of Desire, Armed no. 20/21 (August-October, 1989).
    4. Anarchy: A Journal of Desire, Armed no. 22 (Nov.–Dec., 1989).
    5. Anarchy: A Journal of Desire, Armed no. 23 (Jan.-Feb., 1990).
    6. Anarchy: A Journal of Desire, Armed no. 24 (Mar.-April, 1990).
    7. Anarchy: A Journal of Desire, Armed no. 25 (Summer, 1990).
    8. Anarchy: A Journal of Desire, Armed no. 28 (Spring, 1991).
    9. Anarchy: A Journal of Desire, Armed no. 30 (Fall, 1991).
    10. Anarchy: A Journal of Desire, Armed no. 32 (Spring, 1992).
    11. Bob Black, Debunking Democracy (C.A.L. Press Pamphlet Series #2, 2011): C.A.L. Press is the imprint of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire, Armed.
  8. Black Flag is a UK-based anarchist-communist publication co-founded by Albert Meltzer (1920–1996) and Stuart Christie (b. 1946) in 1970 which is pointedly oriented around armed revolution, violent insurrectionary activities and working-class organizing. It had links to underground/international Spanish anarchist networks fighting against Franco’s Fascist regime in Spain.
    1. Black Flag no. 178 (8 Dec., 1987).
    2. Black Flag no. 180 (21 Mar., 1988).
    3. Black Flag no. 185 (3 Oct., 1988).
    4. Black Flag no. 186 (14 Nov., 1988).
    5. Black Flag no. 187 (12 Dec., 1988).
    6. Black Flag no. 188 (23 Jan., 1989).
    7. Black Flag no. 190 (27 Mar., 1989).
    8. Black Flag no. 191 (1 May., 1989): “20 Years of Black Flag” issue.
    9. Black Flag no. 192 (Jul., 1989).
    10. Black Flag no. 194 (Oct., 1989).
    11. Black Flag no. 195 (Nov.-Dec., 1989).
    12. Black Flag no. 197 (Mar., 1990).
    13. Black Flag no. 198 (May, 1990).
    14. Black Flag: For Anarchist Resistance—Anti-Capitalist Special (Montreal, no date): this publication likely dates to 2005. It includes 3 flyers which I have stapled in, one of which lists NEFAC (North American Federation of Anarchist-Communists) groups in the region (the Toronto branch is no longer listed—it disbanded around 2003).
  9. Libero.In the mid-1970s the Japan-based Center for International Research on Anarchism Archive, CIRA-JAPANA, published this short-lived (5 issues) English-language journal to make its activities known internationally.
    1.  Libero #1 (January, 1975).
    2. Libero #2 (May, 1975).
    3. Libero #3 (November, 1975).
    4. Libero #4 (April, 1976).
    5. Libero #5 (September, 1978).
  10. Le Mode Libertaire: 23 issues (2013–14) of the French Anarchist Federation’s most widely circulated publication.
  11. Libertarian. A Canadian anarchist journal edited by Attilio Bortolotti (1903–1995), an Italian-born anarchist and anti-fascist militant who immigrated to Canada in 1920 and remained active in the anarchist movement from 1921 until his death. One of Emma Goldman’s last political struggles was to save Bortolotti from deportation to Italy in 1939 (Paul Avrich, “Attilio Bortolotti Interview,” Anarchist Voices (Princeton; Princeton University Press, 1995).
    1. Libertarian Vol. 1, no. 1 (May, 1968).
    2. Libertarian Vol. 1, no. 2 (June–July, 1968).
  12. On Gogol Boulevard: Network Bulletin for Activists East and West. A very historically important publication edited by three New York based anarchists. It was the North American source on anarchist-related activities in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the late 1980s.
    1. On Gogol Boulevard: Network Bulletin for Activists East and West 2, no. 1/2 (Fall 1988).
  13. Roots. Ecology Action East was a group of New York anarchists who coalesced around American anarchist Murray Bookchin’s emerging concept of Social Ecology.
    1.  Roots no. 2 (1971): “Ecology Action East” publications.
  14. Anarchos. A theoretical journal associated with Ecology Action East.
    1. Anarchos no. 1 (Feb., 1968).
    2. Anarchos no. 2 (Spring, 1968).
    3. Anarchos no. 3 (Feb., 1969).
  15. A New Iron Column (1985): an Anaheim, California based anarchist publication with articles on Indigenous struggles.
  16. Libertarian Analysis. This journal attempted to forge a ‘middle ground’ for American individualists and anarchist communists in the early 1970s.
    1. Libertarian Analysis Vol 1, no. 1 (Winter, 1970).
    2. Libertarian Analysis Vol 1, no. 2.
    3. Libertarian Analysis Vol 1, no. 3.
    4. Libertarian Analysis Vol 1, no. 4.
  17. “Benjamin Tucker’s ‘Liberty’ and Individualism,”Literature of Liberty: A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought, Vol. 3 no. 4 (Autumn, 1981), edited by Wendy McElroy: Important period study of the 19th-century anarchist Benjamin Tucker with contributions from anarchist-capitalist theorists. The editor is based in Canada and is a self-described “individualist anarchist and individualist feminist” who supports “free market economics.”
  18. The Utopian: A Journal of Anarchism & Libertarian Socialism, December 2001, Volume 2.
  19. The Utopian: A Journal of Anarchism & Libertarian Socialism, November 2002, Volume 3.
  20. New Studies on the Left—The Prison Issue, Vol. XIV, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 1989, Saxifrage Publications Group, Boulder, Colorado.
  21. The Communitarian Anarchist: Newsletter of the Anarchist Communitarian Network, “Social Anarchism is our Lifestyle,” Volume 1, Number 1, Louisa, Virginia.
  22. Adventures in Subversion: Flyers and Posters, 1981-1985, by Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous.
  23. Smile (1987–1988). These issues were produced by a short-lived “Neoist” collective in the US. Karen Eliot is a pseudonym signalling the contents have been appropriated from other sources. “Neoism” refers to an anti-art ideology promoted by British Marxist Stewart Home. 
    1. Smile, “Instructions for taking up arms,” no. 1, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (1987).
    2. Smile, “Art Eats Life,” no. 2, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (1987).
    3. Untitled (Smile), Madison, Wisconsin, USA (1987).
    4. Eliot, Karen. Snarl (Smile no. 3), Madison, Wisconsin, USA (1988).
  24. Journal of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. The Institute for Anarchist Studies was founded in the late 1990s and is based in North America.
    1. The New Formulation, Vol 2, no. 2, Winter-Spring 2004, ed. Chuck Morse, New York, 2003. Continued as Perspectives.
    2. Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Vol 8, no. 2, Fall 2004, Institute for Anarchist Studies, D.D.O., Quebec (includes bookmark from anarchist Black Sheep Books, then based at Montpelier, Vermont).
    3. Perspectives on Anarchist Theory: The Politics of Climate Change, Vol 12, no. 2, ed. Maia Ramnath, et al., Fall 2010
  25. Alternative Press Review. Founded by Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed editor Jason McQuinn (a psydonym) in the 1990s.
    1. Alternative Press Review, Vol 10, no, 1, Spring 2006, eds. Allan Antliff, Jason McQuinn, Thomas Wheeler, Arlington, 2006.
    2. Alternative Press Review, Vol 10, no, 2, Fall 2006, eds. Allan Antliff, Jason McQuinn, Thomas Wheeler, Arlington, 2006.
  26. Passionate and Dangerous: Conversations with Midwestern Anti-Authoritarians and Anarchists, ed. Mark Bohnert, St. Louis, 2003): This is an important ‘time capsule’ with an interview with Peter Werbe, editor of the Fifth Estate, and others. The editor received funding from the IAS.
  27. Journal of the Northeast Anarchist-Communist Federation. Based mainly in Quebec and the northeast US with a few members in Ontario.
    1. The Northeastern Anarchist: A Magazine of Class Struggle Theory and Practice, Issue #14, Spring 2009, published by NEFAC (Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists), Boston, 2009.
    2. The Northeastern Anarchist: A Magazine of Class Struggle Theory and Practice, Issue #11, Spring 2006, published by NEFAC (Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists), Boston.
    3. The Northeastern Anarchist: A Magazine of Class Struggle Theory and Practice, Issue #9, Summer/Fall 2004, published by NEFAC (Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists), Boston.
  28. Clamour: The Revolution of Everyday Life, Issue 33, July/August 2005, eds. Jen Angel & Jason Kucsma, Toledo.
  29. The Warrior Wind: Against a Society of Confinement: “Blow, wild wind, blow!”, Issue #1, February 2006, Lexington, Kentucky.
  30. A Murder of Crows: We’re the Birds of the Coming Storm, Issue #1, Seattle, March 2006.
  31. A Murder of Crows: For Social Was and the Subversion of Daily Life, Issue #2, Seattle, March 2007.
  32. The New York Rat, 2007: (one-off reprise of a notorious underground newspaper from the early 1970s).
  33. Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research and Education, Volume 22, Number 3, Culver City California, Summer 2009.
  34. Autonomous Action: Social War in Greece, Issue 4, July 2003.
  35. False Hope vs. Real Change, 2008.
  36. A Civilian’s Guide to Direct Action, Crimethinc Agents Provocateurs, n.d.
  37. Active transformation, Volume 3, Issue 3, Detroit, July-August 2000.
  38. War On Misery #2, St. Louis, Autumn 2006.
  39. War On Misery #3, St. Louis, Summer 2008.
  40. A Letter from the RNC8, Minneapolis, n.d.
  41. No Compromise!, Issue #18, Santa Cruz, Winter 2001-02.
  42. Underground: The Magazine of the North American Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group, Issue #5, Willowdale, Ontario, Summer/Fall 1996.
  43. Underground: The Magazine of the North American Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group, Issue #11, Willowdale, Ontario, Summer 1998.
  44. Live Wild or Die, no.7, Berkley, 1998: LWD was produced by rotating collectives in the Earth First! network.
  45. The Outsider, Volume 1, Number 2, Summer, 1962, New Orleans, USA (hand printed).
  46. Moonstorm: Lesbian Feminist Magazine for Women (4th Year), St. Luis, No. 10, Fall 1977.
  47. The Class War. The Class War Federation is a British based organization founded in the 1983 by anarchist Ian Bone and others. It was one of the most controversial anarchist groups of the period, known for its ground-breaking tabloid publication and belligerent politics.
    1. Class War: The Heavy Stuff #2, n.d.
    2. Class War: The Heavy Stuff #3, n.d.
    3. Class War: The Heavy Stuff #5, July 1992.
    4. Class War: By All Means Necessary, No.34, n.d.
    5. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid, No.40, n.d.
    6. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid, No.44, n.d.
    7. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: By All Means Necessary, No.47, n.d.
    8. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: By All Means Necessary, No.48, n.d.
    9. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: By All Means Necessary, No.49, n.d.
    10. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: With Free Poster, No.50, n.d. Note: Contains a Class War USA insert, produced by a Class War group in New York.
    11. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: Thought: Ca’n Bob’s Sunk!, No.51, n.d.
    12. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: Election Special, No.53, n.d.
    13. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: Not for Sale to Rich Scum, No.57, n.d.
    14. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: Not for Sale to Rich Bastards, No.58, n.d.
    15. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: Capitalism – It’s Criminal, No.59, n.d.
    16. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: Warning: May Cause Offense to Cop Lovers, No.60, n.d.
    17. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: Keep Warm this Winter…, No.61, n.d.
    18. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: Class Anger: Bigger Than Linford Christie’s Lunchbox…Olympic Special, No.72, n.d.
    19. Class War: Britain’s Most Unruly Tabloid: You Know it Makes Sense, No.97, Autumn/Winter 2009/10.

Other Publications

  1. Ecological Activist Campaigns.
    1. The Stoltmann Sympathizer, Peoples Action for Threatened Habitat (PATH), Campaign Update Summer 1997.
    2. The Friends of Clayquot Sound, Tofino, BC, Summer 1993.
    3. The Friends of Clayquot Sound, Director: Valerie Langer, Tofino, BC, Spring 1997.
    4. The Friends of Clayquot Sound, Director: Valerie Langer, Tofino, BC, Fall/Winter 1998.
    5. The Friends of Clayquot Sound, Tofino, BC, Winter/Spring 1998/99.
    6. The Friends of Clayquot Sound, Tofino, BC, Fall 2000.
    7. The Friends of Clayquot Sound, Tofino, BC, Spring 2002.
    8. Bear Watch Journal Update, ed. Jana Thomas, Vancouver, Volume 3, Summer 1997.
    9. Forest Action Network (FAN) Great Coast Rainforest Campaign Newsletter, Bella Coola, BC, Spring 1997.
    10. Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty Fact Sheets, Philadelphia, n.d. This was an important campaign that led to the targeting of animal liberation anarchists in the UK and North America.
  2. Hamilton Anarchist Blackcross Newsletter #1, May 2009.
  3. DownPour: A Contribution to the Struggle against prison and its world, Hamilton, Fall 2010.
  4. Murray Bookchin, Towards a Liberatory Technology (New York: Anarchos, 1968): printed by “le presse populaire de Montreal” and stamped with the logo of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World).
  5. Poster: das netz: Unabomber, LSD und Internet, screening at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Feb 28, 2003.
  6. Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists, Break de Chains of Legalized U.$. Slavery, 1976.

Books

  1. Dupuis-Déri, Francis. Lettre aux cons, Les Éditions Du Silence, 1992. Prominent anarchist political theorist of the Black Blocs, etc.
  2. Murray Bookchin, Post Scarcity Anarchism (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1971): signed copy.
  3. Murray Bookchin, Social Anarchism of Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm (San Francisco, AK Press, 1995): first edition.
  4. Tuccile, Jerome. Radical Libertarianism: A Right Wing Alternative (1970):  A key publication in the history of the emergent anarchist-capitalist tendency in the US during and after the Vietnam war. 

Self-Published Books, Victoria and Vancouver.

  1. End Poverty Primer, Assembly to End Poverty. Victoria, BC, Jan 31, Feb 1 & 2, 2003 (art by Victoria anarchist ‘Vrinda’), produced by the Status of Women Action Group (SWAG), October, 2002.
  2. Amor de Cosmos, Victoria, May (1968).
  3. British Columbia Access, 3rd Catalogue, Vancouver, 1972.

London Anarchist Bookfair Programs

  1. 2003.
  2. 2006.
  3. 2007.
  4. 2008.
  5. 2009.
  6. 2012.