List of anarchist periodicals

"The Match!" redirects here. For other uses, see Match (disambiguation).

## Current publications

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Dates of publication  | Title  | Format  | Language  | Base

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1886–present  | Freedom | Biannual journal  | English  | London (UK)
1888–1919
1930–1949
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[3] | Tri-yearly magazine  | English  | Detroit, Michigan (US)
1969–present  | The Match![4] | Irregular magazine  | English  | Tucson, Arizona (US)
1970–present  | Black Flag[5] | Annual newspaper  | English  | United Kingdom
1970–present  | Gateavisa | Newspaper  | Norwegian | Oslo (Norway)
1980–present  | Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed[3][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

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Dates of publication  | Title  | Format  | Language  | Base

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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  | La Tramontana [es][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] | Le Réveil anarchiste [fr; it] | 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)
1940-1947  | Now | Magazine  | 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  | The Raven: Anarchist Quarterly | 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)
1997-2015  | Total Liberty / Anarchist Voices magazine | Biannual / Annual magazine  | English  | British Isles
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

## Footnotes

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1. ^ "Tierra y Libertad". www.nodo50.org. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
2. ^ "Le Monde Libertaire". www.monde-libertaire.fr. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
3. ^ a b Porton, Richard (1999). Film and the Anarchist Imagination. Verso. p. 119\. ISBN 978-1-85984-261-4.
4. ^ Polt, Richard (2015). The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century. Countryman Press. p. 103\. ISBN 978-1-58157-587-3.
5. ^ "Black Flag". www.blackflag.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
6. ^ Atton, Chris (1996). Alternative literature : a practical guide for librarians. Aldershot, England: Gower. p. 48\. ISBN 9780566076657.
7. ^ Feeney, Mary K. (November 22, 2001). "Voices You May Not Want to Hear". Hartford Courant.
8. ^ "liberté ouvrière". liberté ouvrière (in Canadian French). 2023-10-05. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
9. ^ "Anarchist Union Journal – Anarchist Union Journal". Retrieved 2023-11-15.
10. ^ Vicente i Izquierdo, Manuel (1994). "La Tramontana (1881-1896), periòdic vermell escrit en català". Gazeta (1): 371–394\. ISSN 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. ^ Smith, Steven. "Further Notes on Abraham Isaak, Mennonite Anarchist". Retrieved 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. ^ Molyneux, Maxine (2001). Women's movements in international perspective: Latin America and beyond. Palgrave MacMillan. p. 24\. ISBN 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. ^ Preston, Paul (2019). Republic Besieged: Civil War in Spain 1936–1939. Edinburgh University Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-4744-7176-3.

## Further reading

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* Hughes, H.G.A (2011). "Anarchist Periodicals in English Published in the United States (1833–1955): An Annotated Guide". Reference Reviews. 25 (1): 19–21\. doi:10.1108/09504121111103047. ISSN 0950-4125.
* Longa, Ernesto A. (2009). Anarchist Periodicals in English Published in the United States (1833–1955): An Annotated Guide. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7254-7.
* Turcato, Davide (2017). "The Other Nation: The Places of the Italian Anarchist Press in the USA". In Ferretti, Federico; Torre, Gerónimo Barrera de la; Ince, Anthony; Toro, Francisco (eds.). Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges. Routledge. pp. 40–64\. ISBN 978-1-315-30753-4.
* Walter, Nicolas (October 1970). "Anarchism in Print: Yesterday and Today". Government and Opposition. 5 (4): 523–540\. doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1970.tb00514.x. ISSN 0017-257X. S2CID 145321976.

## External links

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

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