List of anarchist periodicals explained

Current publications

The following is a chronological list of noteworthy anarchist periodicals that are still being published.

Dates of publication	Title	Format	Language	Base
1886–present	Freedom	Biannual journal	English	London (UK)
1888–19191930–1949 1977–present	Tierra y Libertad^[1]	Newspaper	Spanish	Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid (Spain)Mexico City (Mexico)
1898–present	Brand	Magazine	Swedish	Stockholm (Sweden)
1907–present	Solidaridad Obrera	Weekly newspaper	Spanish	Spain
1920–1922 1945–present	Umanità Nova	Weekly newspaper	Italian	Italy
1954–present	Le Monde Libertaire^[2]	Monthly Newspaper	French	Paris, France
1965–present	Fifth Estate	Tri-yearly magazine	English	Detroit, Michigan (US)
1969–present	The Match!^[3]	Irregular magazine	English	Tucson, Arizona (US)
1970–present	Black Flag^[4]	Annual newspaper	English	United Kingdom
1970–present	Gateavisa	Newspaper	Norwegian	Oslo (Norway)
1980–present	^[5] ^[6]	Quarterly magazine	English	Berkeley, California, originally Columbia, Missouri (US)^[7]
1981–present	Social Anarchism	Irregular journal	English	Baltimore, Maryland (US)
1982–present	Rebel Worker	Bi-monthly magazine	English	Sydney, Australia
1983–present	Class War	Newspaper	English	London (UK)
1985–present	El Libertario	Newspaper	Spanish	Buenos Aires City (Argentina)
1986–present	Anarcho-Syndicalist Review	Quarterly	English	United States
1988–present	Organise!	Biannual magazine	English	Great Britain and Ireland
1993–present	Anarchist Studies	Biannual magazine	English	London (UK)
1995–present	El Libertario	Newspaper	Spanish	Caracas (Venezuela)
1996–present	Perspectives on Anarchist Theory	Biannual magazine	English	Washington, DC (US)
1998–present	resistance	Monthly bulletin	English	London (UK)
2021–present	The Anarchist Review of Books	Biannual magazine	English	United States and Greece
2021–present	Liberté Ouvrière^[8]	Annual journal	English and French	Montreal, QC (Canada)
2023–present	Anarchist Union Journal^[9]	Irregular journal	English	United States and Canada

Defunct

The following is a chronological list of noteworthy anarchist and proto-anarchist periodicals that are now defunct.

Dates of publication	Title	Format	Language	Base
1833	The Peaceful Revolutionist	Monthly newspaper	English	Cincinnati, Ohio (US)
1872–1890 1892–1893	The Word	Magazine	English	Princeton, Cambridge (US)
1879–1910	Freiheit	Newspaper	German	London (UK), New York City (US)
1879–1885	Le Révolté	Newspaper	French	Geneva (Switzerland)
1881–1896	^[10]	Newspaper	Catalan	Barcelona (Spain)
1881–1908	Liberty	Biweekly newspaper	English	Boston, Massachusetts (US)
1883–1907	Lucifer the Lightbearer	Weekly newspaper	English	Valley Falls, Kansas and Chicago, Illinois (US)
1884–1888?	The Alarm	Weekly newspaper	English	Chicago (US)
1890–1977	Fraye Arbeter Shtime	Tabloid	Yiddish	United States
1890–1897 1903–1908	El Corsario	Weekly periodical	Spanish	A Coruña (Spain)
1891–1894	L'EnDehors	Newspaper	French	Paris (France)
1892–1915 1920–1923^[11]	Arbeter Fraynd	Newspaper	Yiddish	London (UK)
1894–1896	Liberty	Monthly newspaper	English	London (UK)
1895–1904	The Firebrand, 1895–1897 Free Society, 1897–1904^[12]	Newspaper	English	Portland, Oregon (1995–1997), San Francisco, California (1997–2001), Chicago, Illinois (2001–2004) (US)^[13]
1896–1897	La Voz de la Mujer^[14] ^[15]	Newspaper	Spanish	Rosario (Argentina)
1896–1932	Der Eigene	Journal	German	Berlin (Germany)
1897–1899	The Adult	Journal	English	London (UK)
1898–1905 1923–1936	La Revista Blanca	Magazine	Spanish	Madrid and Barcelona (Spain)
1900–1940 1947–1950 1957–1960^[16]		Newspaper	French and Italian	Geneva (Switzerland)
1900–??	Regeneración	Newspaper	Spanish	Mexico and United States
1905–1914	L'Anarchie	Journal	French	Paris (France)
1900–1903 1905–1908	Germinal	Journal	Yiddish	London (UK)
1903–1918	Cronaca Sovversiva	Newspaper	Italian	New Jersey (US)
1907–1908	Tianyi bao	Magazine	Chinese	Tokyo (Japan)
1907–1910	Xin Shiji (新世纪 = New Era, Nouveau Siècle), periodical of the Chinese students abroad in France	Monthly newspaper	Chinese	Paris (France)
1906–1917	Mother Earth	Monthly magazine	English	United States
1907–1932	Die Aktion	Weekly periodical	German	Germany
1911–1923	Bluestockings Journal	Magazine	Japanese	Japan
1911–1919	Golos Truda	Monthly, weekly, later daily newspaper	Russian	New York City, Petrograd, Moscow
1912–1913 1913–1916 1921	Huiminglu (Cock Crow Journal, also titled with Pingminzhisheng, 'Voice of the Common People') Minsheng (Voice of the People) Minsheng	Weekly magazine	Chinese	Guangzhou, China Portuguese Macau, later moved to Shanghai International Settlement Guangzhou, China
1916–1917	The Blast	Biweekly magazine	English	San Francisco, California (US)
1918	Labor	Monthly magazine	Chinese	Shanghai, China
1922–1939	L'EnDehors	Newspaper	French	Paris (France)
1922–1971	L'Adunata dei refrattari	Magazine	Italian	New York City (US)
1923–1928	De Moker	Magazine	Dutch	Netherlands
1927–1931	Road to Freedom	Newspaper	English	New York City, New York (US)
1929–1937^[17]	Iniciales	Magazine	Spanish	Barcelona and Valencia (Spain)
1932–1939	Vanguard	Monthly journal	English	New York City, New York (US)
1936–1939	Spain and the World	Newspaper	English	London (UK)
1937–1940	Jingzhe	Newspaper	Chinese	Chengdu
1939–1945	War Commentary	Newspaper	English	London (UK)
1942–1952	Why? An Anarchist Bulletin and Resistance	Magazine	English	New York City (US)
1945–1956	L'Unique	Journal	French	France
1960–1992	Solidarity	Magazine	English	London (UK)
1961–1970	Anarchy	Monthly magazine	English	London (UK)
1961–1994	Our Generation	Biannual newspaper	English	Montreal (Canada)
1966–1968	Black Mask	Journal	English	New York City, New York (US)
1975–1980	Libero International	Newspaper	English	Kobe (Japan)
1981–1997	Ideas and Action	Magazine	English	United States
1984–???	Green Anarchist	Magazine	English	United Kingdom
1987–2003		Quarterly journal	English	London (UK)
1988–1991	The Arousal	Newsletter	English	Pakistan
1989–2013	Profane Existence	Irregular zine	English	Minneapolis, Minnesota (US)
1994–2014	SchNEWS	Weekly A4 sheets	English	Brighton (UK)
1996–2010	Direct Action	Quarterly magazine	English	Manchester (UK)
2000–2008	Green Anarchy	Quarterly magazine	English	Eugene, Oregon (US)
2001–2010	Abolishing the Borders from Below	Irregular magazine	English	Berlin (Germany)
2005–2015	Rolling Thunder	Biannual magazine	English	United States
2010	Róstur	Monthly newspaper	Icelandic	Iceland

Further reading

• Hughes. H.G.A. Anarchist Periodicals in English Published in the United States (1833–1955): An Annotated Guide. Reference Reviews. 25. 1. 19–21. 2011. 10.1108/09504121111103047. 0950-4125. mdy-all.
• Book: Longa. Ernesto A.. Anarchist Periodicals in English Published in the United States (1833–1955): An Annotated Guide. 2009. 978-0-8108-7254-7. Scarecrow Press. mdy-all.
• Book: Turcato, Davide. The Other Nation: The Places of the Italian Anarchist Press in the USA. 40–64. Ferretti. Federico. Torre. Gerónimo Barrera de la. Ince. Anthony. Toro. Francisco. Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges. 2017. en. 978-1-315-30753-4. Routledge. mdy-all.
• Walter. Nicolas. Anarchism in Print: Yesterday and Today. Government and Opposition. 5. 4. 523–540. October 1970. en. 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1970.tb00514.x. 145321976 . 0017-257X. mdy-all.

External links

• Cold Off The Presses contains full text copies of anarchist periodicals from the Anarchy Archives.
  • Lidiap: List of digitized anarchist periodicals A list of freely accessible digitized anarchist journals/newspapers on the internet

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tierra y Libertad . 2022-02-26 . www.nodo50.org.
2. Web site: Le Monde Libertaire . 2023-05-11 . www.monde-libertaire.fr.
3. Book: Polt, Richard. The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century. 2015. Countryman Press. 978-1-58157-587-3. 103.
4. Web site: Black Flag . 2023-05-11 . www.blackflag.org.uk.
5. Book: Porton, Richard. Film and the Anarchist Imagination. 1999. Verso. 978-1-85984-261-4. 119.
6. Book: Atton . Chris . Alternative literature : a practical guide for librarians . 1996 . Gower . Aldershot, England . 9780566076657 . 48 .
7. News: . Mary K. . Feeney . Voices You May Not Want to Hear. November 22, 2001 .
8. Web site: 2023-10-05 . liberté ouvrière . 2023-11-15 . liberté ouvrière . fr-CA.
9. Web site: Anarchist Union Journal – Anarchist Union Journal . 2023-11-15 . en-US.
10. Vicente i Izquierdo . Manuel . 1994 . La Tramontana (1881-1896), periòdic vermell escrit en català . Gazeta . 1 . 371–394 . 2013-9977.
11. Arbeter Fraynd was originally launched in 1885, but only became anarchist in 1892. Publication was interrupted during the First World War.
12. "Free Society was the principal English-language forum for anarchist ideas in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century." Emma Goldman: Making Speech Free, 1902–1909.
13. Web site: Smith. Steven. Further Notes on Abraham Isaak, Mennonite Anarchist. 21 September 2015.
14. "The paper was briefly revived in 1901. A similar paper with the same name was reportedly published later in Montevideo, which suggests that Virginia Bolten may also have founded and edited it after her deportation."
15. Book: Molyneux, Maxine. Women's movements in international perspective: Latin America and beyond. Palgrave MacMillan. 2001. 24. 978-0-333-78677-2.
16. Leonardo Bettini, Bibliografia dell'Anarchismo, v. I, t. 2, Periodici e numeri unici anarchici in lingua italiana pubblicati all'estero (1872–1971), Firenze, Crescita politica, 1976, p 251, 258-260.
17. Book: Preston . Paul . Republic Besieged: Civil War in Spain 1936–1939 . 2019 . en . 978-1-4744-7176-3 . Edinburgh University Press . 151 .