ANARCHIST YEARBOOK 1995

  • Periodicals
  • Publishers
  • Organisations
  • Bookshops (London)
  • Phoenix Press

  • This is the fifth edition of the Anarchist Yearbook If you don't know what anarchism is about then see the statement of anarchism HERE

    Periodicals

    The followlng descriptions are written by the periodicals themselves. Where no information has been sent, this is recorded. If we think that a magazine no longer exists we don't just put "no information received", we delete the entry.

    BAD ATTITUDE
    121 Railton Road
    Brixton
    London SE24 OLR
    Tel 0171 978 9057, fax 0171 326 0353
    Bad Attitude. Got it? Be positlve about negativity girlz! The only national nasty feminist newspaper lashing back against the backlash. International news, interviews, cartoons, jokes, revlews.
    Quarterly. Subscrlptions 5 pounds, 10 pounds for boys and supporters (6 lssues).
    The unacceptable face of femlnism.

    BLACK FLAG
    BM Hurrlcane
    London
    WCIN 3XX
    More than .just the best anarchist mag ln the English language, lt's a focus for international anarchism (not the diluted sort). Published weekly during the upsurge of activity in the strike years, it's now a glossy quarterly. Guaranteed make the shamans do their nut but well respected by class struggle activists. News, theory and stories from the real anarchist and syndica1ist past. Its team have always been involved in many other fighting organisations. Free samp1e copy on request.

    CLASS WAR
    PO Box 772
    Bristol
    BS99 lEG
    Tel 0272 870050
    The agitational paper of the most widespread anarchist/communist current in Britain, with groups in most towns and cities. On the ball newd and views coverage of events in Britain and abroad. This is more than just comment, this is a campaigning paper and movement to change the world.

    CONTRAFLOW
    c/o 56a Infoshop
    56 Crampton Street
    London SE17
    Contraflow is the free magazlne of the London office of the European Counter Network, an evolving network based on the exchange of information vla computers. Firmly based in the antiauthoritarian camp, we cover as much as we can from the lndustrial to the sexual. We distribute to bookshops, centres, groups and individuals (in and out ot the anarchist milieu), exchange contraflow for other publications and offer copies on a one stamp = one issue basis. We are not computer boffins and we don't bite.

    COUNTER INFORMATION
    Pigeon Hole CI c/o 11 Forth Street
    Edinburgh EH1
    For ten years CI has been reporting on social struggles world-wide, workers', community, women's, prisoners', resistance to racism, environmental destruction . . .and more! We encourage self-organisation, collective direct action, and the generalisation of resistance to all oppressionand exploltatlon. SAE brings sample. Bundles available for free distribution (12,000 printed). Donations, news, exhanges welcome.

    ECHANGES ET MOUVEMENT
    BM Box 91
    London
    WC1N 3XX
    A network of comrades and groups exchanging information and discussions on class struggle, trying to escape the traditional sectarlan opposition of ready-made theories, learning from class actions against capital.
    Quarterly bulletin in English and French, and pamphlets. Presentation text and publlcatlons from above address or from
    BP 241, 75866 Paris, Cedex 18

    FIGHTING TIMES
    Box A
    ArJuna
    12 Mill Road
    Cambridge
    Rag of Cambridge anarchists. Twice a year, coveing wlde range of subJects, in particular direct actlon, involvment with anti-pornography, Earth First!, animal rights, Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, International Struggles, anti-censorship, and lots more, not to mention cartoons,crosswords, poetry. . .refusing to toe anarchist party lines. 25p + SAE.

    FREEDOM
    (in Angel Alley) 84b Whitechapel High Street
    London E1 7QX
    Tel 0171 247 9249
    Fortnightly (24 lssues a year) 50p. Write, phone or call at Freedom Press (q. v.) bookshop for a free specimen copy. Aims to build the anarchist movement by persuading people to be anarchists. First published in 1886 but always up-to-date.

    GREEN ANARCHIST
    c/o Box Z
    111 Magdalen Road
    Oxford
    OX4 1RQ
    UK's quarterly primitivist paper, 20+ A3 pages 75p. Now in its tenth year. Forum for international network of Earth First! anti-fascist, animal and sexual liberationist, and other autonomous groups. (see Green Anarchist Network entry in Organisations list).
    Challenging, practical range of publications via
    GA mall order PO Box 407, Camberley GU15 2FL.

    THE HEAVY STUFF
    PO Box 467
    London
    E8 3QX
    Tel 0272 870050
    New look and emphasls have been given to the thoughts ot Class War activists. Every edltion will put our ideas to the front of struggles and help create a real revolutionary movement that is not afrald to muck in, rather than snipe from the rear. Our day wlll come.

    HERE AND NOW
    c/o 28 King Street, Glasgow G1 5QP
    PO Box 109, Leeds LS5 3AA
    Irregular magazine of irregular ideas. Trying find a way out of the impasse of radical politics. Heretical articles, letters, spoofs, reports on particular social processes and events publlshed. Alternate editorial addresses.

    Lib ED
    170 Wells Road
    Bristol
    BS4 2AG
    Since the mid-sixties, Libertarian Education hasbeen actively promoting freedom in education by publishing books, pamphlets and magazlnes and organislig meetings, conferences and other events.For full informatlon and a free copy of Lib Ed magazine, send a large A4 stamped, addressed envelope.

    NEW ANARCHIST REVIEW
    84b Whltechapel Hlgh Street
    London
    El 7QX
    Now rather lrregular revlew of anarchlst titles currently ln print and available in the UK. At least one issue a year.

    ORGANISE! 84b Whitechapel High Street
    London
    El 7QX
    50p. 20 pages. Magazlne of the Anarchist Communist Federation, published quarterly since 1988. Carries the important debates, the big issues in the revolutionary movement. Equally against academic sterility and anti-intellectual posturing. International news, reviews and discussion. Puts the class into class politics.

    PUBLIC SERVICE WORKERS' NETWORK
    PO Box 73, Norwich NR1 2EB
    PO Box 29, Manchester M15 5HW
    PO Box 1681, London N8 7LE
    Is affiliated to the Solidarity Federation, British Section of the International Workers' Association. Promotes workers' self-management and revolutionary unions as the way to overthrow capitalism and establish libertarian communist soclety. We seek to network with public servlce workers whether ln health, municipalities or the voluntary or 'private' sector.

    THE RAVEN
    84b Whitechapel High Street
    London
    E1 7QX
    Tel 071 247 9249 Quarterly, 96 pages (or more) A5, 3pounds post free. Each issue consists of articles related to a particular topic of anarchist interest. 1994 issues(25 to 28) are on Religion, Science (part 2, Religious Fundamentalism, and a topic we haven't yet decided as this Yearbook goes to press. All back issues available at œ3.00 post free. Bound volumes (4 issues plus index) 8 pounds

    SUBVERSION
    Dept 10
    1 Newton Street
    Manchester
    M1 IHW
    Free bulletin published every 3 or 4 months, with news, comment, analysls, debate and dialogue on international politlcs and class struggle. Neither Anarchist nor Marxist but - read it and find out. Also available: The best of Subversion a compilation of articles from early issues - and pamphlets on Ireland and the Labour Party.

    TAKING LIBERTIES
    c/o London ABC
    121 Railton Road
    London SE24 OLRL
    Tel 0171 274 6655, fax 0171 326 0383
    is published roughly quarterly, costs 25p and subscriptions are as fo11ows;
    5/3pounds individuals, waged/unwaged
    10/5pounds organisations, large/small Covers the cases of working class prisoners, whether lmprlsoned for resistance to capitalism, framed by the police or fighting the prison system. It also covers prison resistance, news, views and writings by prisoners, and attacks by prisons from a class perspective. The ABC is an active prisoner solidarity network.

    TR07WATCH
    c/o Box NDF
    72 Radford Road
    Hyson Green
    Nottingham NG7 5FT
    the leading anti-left, anarcho-proletarian publishlng force, studying the gruesome reality of the counter-revolutionary (and Just plain capitalist reformist) British partyist left. Our hard fought struggle to become the most irregular anarchist publication continues. Carry on recrutlng ,our pamphlet critique of the SWP - remains in print. Work on TW2 is well underway; other projects are under scutiny. TW welcomes cor respondence from interested comrades.

    WORKERS SOLIDARITY
    Workers Solidarity Movement
    PO Box l528
    Dublin 8
    Ireland
    Due to our expanded readership we have switched from a magazine to a newspaper format. And soon we will be launching a new magazine Red & Black Revolution. We want to hear from anyone interested in selling these publicatios or our range pamphlets. Send 5 pounds for a sub, free samples available.

  • Top of the document
  • Periodicals
  • Organisations
  • Bookshops (London)
  • Phoenix Press

  • Publishers

    ACE EDITIONS
    84b Whitechapel High Street
    LONDON E1 7QX AK PRESS
    22 Lutton Place
    Edinburgh
    EH8 9PE
    031 667 1507
    AK Press publishes books. And pamphlets. On a wide variety of anarchist, situationist, libertarian and related themes. Everything from poetry to parapolitics. Other active service units of the AK empire include AK Press mail order for individuals. Our current catalogue has around 4,000 books, magazines, political tapes and sexy sports wear. Ask us for a copy of the catalogue.

    DS4A
    Box 8, Greenleaf Bookshop
    82 Colston Street
    Bristol BS1 5BB
    Published so far: "Last of the Hippies" by Crass. "Zapatista Uprisin~ in Mexico - Interviews with Marcos". We also distribute hundreds of books, records, CDs, patches, T shirts etc (related to anarchism).

    FREEDOM PRESS
    84b Whitechapel High Street
    LONDON
    E1 7QX
    Tel 071 247 9249
    Publisher of Freedom, The Raven, and some fifty anarchist books and pamphlets. Bookshop open Monday to Friday 10.30 to 6.00, Saturday 10.30 to 5.00, closed Sundays and Bank Holidays, is in Angel Alley, up an unattractive pedestrian tunnel at the side of the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Hundreds of anarchist titles in stock. Mall order service many tit1es post free). Send for free catalogue.

    IRATE PRESS
    still no address
    Still ticklig over at about 2-3 tltles a year. Mostly reprints. A11 avallable from AK Press. Sticking to class struggle anarchlst or communist stuff, but completely mercenary. "If it sells print it!" Rumours of an offshoot called Rate Press are, as yet, unfounded. Very lnto ant Stalinlsm, not anti-sexism.

    KATE SHARPLEY LIBRARY (KSL)
    BM Hurricane
    London
    WClN 3XX
    The Kate Sharpley Llbrary exlsts as an archival centre holding anarchist publications from the 19th century onwards as well as valuable letters, minutes and countless unpublished manuscripts. We continue to publish the volces from our movement that have not been heard as well as material that sheds new light on our history. A 1ist of our publications is available by sending an SAE to our address. Use us for your research, enquiries and discussions. All donations of material ar welcome.

    PHOENIX PRESS
    PO Box 824
    LONDON
    Nl 9DL
    Mixture of old titles and new ones. Working towards a history of anarchism and a new anarchist manifesto. Existing titles include Valerie Solanas' Scum Manifesto and the Anarchist Yearbook.See elsewhere in the Yearbook for details of Phoenix's loan system by which you can help pus1ish anarchist books.

    DERRICK A PIKE
    1 Market Place
    Glastonbury BA6 9HD
    Tel 0458 831648
    Self publisher. Subjects anarchism and pacifism. Four titles in print which deal with state propaganda, making anarchists and pacifists, the nature of the state, and how anarcho-pacifists should behave to produce the free society.

    PIRATE PRESS
    PO Box 446
    SHEEFIELD
    S1 1NY
    Produces anarchist pamphlets cheaply. Mixture of class struggle serious stuff and more situationist, but we print whatever takes our fancy. Only published one pamphlet in 94 but should be back in full flow in 95.

    REBEL PRESS
    Box R
    84b Whitechapel High Street
    LONDON
    El 7QX
    Publishers of a number of key texts (eg Revolution of Everyday Life, The Ego and Its Own) as well as other titles around the theme of anarchism and situationism. Titles are distributed in the UK by A Distribution only.

    SPECTACULAR TIMES
    Box 99
    84b Whitechapel High Street
    LONDON
    E1 7QX
    Pocketbooks with a situationist-inspired critique of the 20th century. Originally authored and published by Larry Law. Since Larry's death A Distribution has had stewardshlp of the titles and has been gradually bringing them back into print (11 are currently available.)


    SPUNK PRESS
    is an electronic anarchist press, which freely redistributes anarchist texts (theory, actions, present, past, fiction and fact) via the Internet, BBS systems, and diskettes. For more information, and to contribute material, send electronic mail to "spunk-info-request@1ysator.1iu.se" or write to Electronic Anarchist Archive, Box A, Arjuna, 12Mill Road, Cambridge CB1.

    UNPOPULAR BOOKS
    Box 15
    136 Kingsland High Street
    LONDON E8 2NS
    Purveyors of proletarian literature since 1983.Pecullarly pertinent portrayals of proletarian pressure to usher in outernational notions that negate normal ideological identifications in a no nonsense way. In particular, publishers of London Psychogeographical Association material along with such gems as Black Mask and Asger Jorn's Open Creation and Its Enemies.

  • Top of the document
  • Periodicals
  • Publishers
  • Bookshops (London)
  • Phoenix Press

  • Organisations

    There are four national groupings of anarchists and/or libertarians in Britain. They have slightly different views on things, see the list of Aims and Principles or equivalent that each of them has in their paper.

    ANARCHIST COMMUNIST FEDERATION
    See the entry Oranganise! in the periodicals list.

    CLASS WAR
    .

    GREEN ANARCHIST NETWORK
    See Green Anarchist entry in periodicals list. "An international network of some 40+ autonomous groups dedicated to fighting for a free society in harmony with nature. See CA for your regional co- ordinator - we'll make you a UAB if you can't be a full-time contact. Other networked publications:
    Lancaster Bomber, Bolton Scumbuster, R@bblxian Anarchist Times, Camberley Arsonist and Land and Liberty."

    SOLIDARITY FEDERATION
    See Public Service Workers' Network in the periodicals list.

    In addition to the national groups there are various other organisations, plus all the periodicalsand publishers listed elsewhere in the Yearbook. The Anarchist Black Cross, , were written up in detail in the last but one Yearbook. The Kate Sharpley Library is an archive of anarchist material. See their entry in the publishers list.

  • Top of the document
  • Periodicals
  • Publishers
  • Organisations
  • Phoenix Press

  • Bookshops

    There are several shops in London which should be mentioned because they have good selections of anarchist books.

    London Greenpeace can be written to at 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London Nl 9DX and their phone number is 071 837 7557.
    They are an anarchist ecological collective, two of whose members are (still!) being sued for libel by MacDonalds, the multi-national corporation behind the plastic smile of Ronald McDonald. They have a Fayre in Central London every autumn and are no relation to Greenpeace UK

    .
    The Anarchist Distribution Service sends out free material to class struggle groups around the country once a month or so. With a bit of luck this fills in some of the gaps between the three national groups. Send them a hundred copies of the leaflet you want sent out, plus a fiver for the postage. Class struggle stuff only.
    Their address is
    P0 Box 446, Sheffield, S1 lNY

    Moving outside the anarchist ghetto there is the


    Anti-Nuclear Network, a direct action group whose address is
    .c/o 265 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, London N4 2DE


    The Stop the M11 campaign are currently at
    66 Claremont Road, Leyton, London E11 4EE
    but may have been evicted by the time you read this. (lt's a squat in the way of the M11.) they are evicted mail will be forwarded to the next address.
    Their phone number is 081 558 2638 and their fax is 081 558 1236. If

    Last of all, a special mention for South Bristol Anarchists whose address is
    P0 Box 1076, Bristol BS99 1WF
    and who wish you to know that they were born out of the 1992 Hartcliffe riots and their main aim is to produce propaganda and distribute it on the working class estates of South Bristol. In 2 years they've put class struggle anarchist alternatives into the letter boxes of over 12,000 homes, concentrating on, among other things, anti social crimee, police harassment and murders, bailiffs and dodgy councillors. This has resulted in a lot of support from local communities plus local media attention.

  • Top of the document
  • Periodicals
  • Publishers
  • Organisations
  • Bookshops (London)

  • Phoenix Press

    After the revolution money will either be abolished or will grow on trees, I forget which. In these decadent,pre-revolutionary times, however, printers want to be paid for their work. So if you want to see more anarchist books inprint and don't mind putting your money where your mouth is, Phoenix Press has a loan system whereby money is collected in small sums until enough has been got to pay for the printing of a book. Ten books have been printed using this system. The basic sum of money being asked for as a loan is currently 40.00 (It used to be less but that's inflation for you.) This sum has been chosen because it's slightly less than a full week's dole and therefore within the reach of most people. For the 40.00 loan you'll get a copy of the book for which the money was lent, plus a copy of the current Anarchist Yearbook. When enough books have been sold you'll be offered your loan back. (Remember Phoenix is asking for loans,not gifts.) This takes ages and of course you'll be asked to continue the loan for another book.

    The Phoenix loan system means you can help anarchist publishing without having to put up the full cost of a book(at least 2,000 pounds a sum beyond the reach of most people). So if you think anarchists publishing is worth supporting, and can afford it, send a 40.00 loan the

    Phoenix Press at PO Box 824,London N1 9DL.
    Try and remember to include your name and address since there come in useful when sending you the book. the book for which loans are currently being sought is Turning up the Heat: MI5 After the cold War by Larry O'Hara. This is an attack on our unelected and unaccountable secret state. By the time you read this it will have been printed but lend the money anyway. There's a book every year and once you've lent the 40 pounds you'll get a copy of each years book

    Return to the seed