Archive of Radical America magazine, a left-wing journal published in the US 1967-1999. It began life as an official journal of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) but later became independent.
Radical America was founded by members of SDS in 1967. The initial editors were Paul Buhle and Mari Jo Buhle in their graduate school days, operating in Madison, Wisconsin. In the first few years, it served as the "unofficial journal of SDS."
Initially, subscriptions were sold at a discount rate to national SDS members. The Buhles relocated to the Boston, Massachusetts area, and brought the journal with them. By the time of the Boston move the journal was independent from the SDS.
The journal, published in Somerville, Massachusetts, focused on topical issues of concern to the left and society at large, such as women's liberation and working class radicalism. Beginning in 1970, each issue had a dedicated focus upon one issue. Mainly, during the 1970s, the journal evolved in a direction concerned with New Left issues, rather than traditional, Old Left concern with strengthening ties with trade unions. It was particularly active in the 1970s, as authors related the experiences of feminist activists and autonous work-place activists.
Many of the PDF issues here have been taken from this website and we are grateful to Reddebrek for posting them here.
- Radical America #01.02: The workers produce all
- Radical America #01.03: The New York rent strike
- Radical America #02.01: Failure and lessons
- Radical America #02.02: The Guardian from Old to New Left
- Radical America #02.03: The New Left 1960-65
- Radical America #02.04: Historical roots of Black liberation
- Radical America #02.05: New Left, 1965-67
- Radical America #02.06: Radicalism & culture
- Radical America #03.01: Komiks
- Radical America #03.02: Working class & culture
- Radical America #03.03: Alternative education project, May-June 1969
- Radical America #03.04: Alternative education project, July-Aug. 1969
- Radical America #03.05: Alternative education project, Sept. 1969
- Radical America #03.06: Alternative education project, Nov. 1969
- Radical America #04.01: Surrealism in the service of Revolution
- Radical America #04.02: Women
- Radical America #04.03
- Radical America #04.04: CLR James
- Radical America #04.05: Society of the Spectacle
- Radical America #04.06: I don't eat that bread
- Radical America #04.07: Special Lenin-Hegel issue
- Radical America #04.08: Double issue on radical histiography
- Radical America #05.01: Special issue on radical historiography
- Radical America #05.02: Black labor
- Radical America #05.03: Labor's Mayday
- Radical America #05.04: Alternative education project, July-Aug. 1971
- Radical America #05.05: Italy 1969-1970
- Radical America #05.06: Alternative education project, Nov.-Dec. 1971
- Radical America #06.02: Alternative education project, Mar.-Apr. 1972
- Radical America #06.03: Alternative education project, May-June 1972
- Radical America #06.04: Alternative education project, July-Aug. 1972
- Radical America #06.06: Alternative education project, Nov.-Dec. 1972
- Radical America #07.02: Working class struggles in Italy
- Radical America #07.03: Underhanded history of America
- Radical America #07.04-5 Women's labor
- Radical America #07.06: Workers & the control of production
- Radical America #08.01-2: Vietnam
- Radical America #08.03: Organizing against the war: G.I.'s and civilians
- Radical America #08.04: Alternative education project, July-Aug. 1974
- Radical America #08.05: Alternative education project, Sept.-Oct. 1974
- Radical America #08.06: Alternative education project, Nov.-Dec. 1974
- Radical America #09.01: Current economic crisis
- Radical America #09.02: Alternative education project, Mar.-Apr. 1975
- Radical America #09.03: Alternative education project, May-June 1975
- Radical America #09.04-5: Alternative education project, July-Aug. 1975
- Radical America #09.06: Alternative education project, Nov.-Dec. 1975
- Radical America #10.01: Organizing office workers
- Radical America #10.02: Update on Portugal
- Radical America #10.03: Stalinism and China
- Radical America #10.04: US Working Class and Unemployed Organizing
- Radical America #10.05: Workers' rights and legal repression
- Radical America #10.06: Italy Women, the left, the Communists
- Radical America #11.01: The fiscal crisis of the cities
- Radical America #11.02: Spain: Communism and repression
- Radical America #11.03: Alternative Education Project, May-June 1977
- Radical America #11.04: Gay Rights and the Left
- Radical America #11.05: History of Welfare Rights
- Radical America #11.06: American Leninism in the 1970's
- Radical America #12.02: Murals
- Radical America #12.03: The Miners
- Radical America #12.04: Sexual harassment at the workplace
- Radical America #12.05: The Black South in the Seventies
- Radical America #12.06: Organizing the Farmworkers
- Radical America #13.02: Cartooning
- Radical America #13.03: Nuclear Fascism a French Analysis
- Radical America #13.04: Gay Politics in California
- Radical America #13.05: Feminism and Leninism
- Radical America #13.06: Black Feminism in Boston
- Radical America #14.01: Movies about Workers
- Radical America #14.02: Anti-Nuke Photography
- Radical America #14.03: Sheltering
- Radical America #14.04: Workers Control and the News
- Radical America #15.01-2: Facing Reaction (Double Issue)
- Radical America #15.03: Poland
- Radical America #15.04: Sexual harassment
- Radical America #15.05: Re-industrialization Capitalism Takes Flight
- Radical America #15.06: Reviewing Radical History
- Radical America #16.01-2: Dreams of Freedom (Double issue)
- Radical America #16.03: 15 Years of Radical America an Anthology
- Radical America #16.04-5: Union Busting (Double Issue)
- Radical America #16.06: Feminism Theory in the Eighties
- Radical America #17.01: The Greens
- Radical America #17.02-3: Environment Special Double Issue
- Radical America #17.04: Political Uses of the Holocaust
- Radical America #17.05: Queen of the Bolsheviks
- Radical America #17.06: The Mel King campaign and coalition politics in the eighties (Double issue)
- Radical America #18.02-3: Voices of Black Feminism
- Radical America #18.04: Social relations among women in the welfare state
- Radical America #18.05: Women and Labor Activism
- Radical America #18.06: Special Issue on Culture and Youth
- Radical America #19.02-3: The British miners strike 1984-85
- Radical America #19.04: Banana's Bases and Patriarchy
- Radical America #19.05: Germany Left and Right
- Radical America #19.06: Technology the Tarnished Promise
- Radical America #20.01: Women and War
- Radical America #20.02-3: Chernobyl (Double Issue)
- Radical America #20.04: 1967 Twentieth Anniversary
- Radical America #20.05: Race and Community, Control, Politics
- Radical America #20.06: Facing AIDs
- Radical America #21.02-3: AIDs communities respond
- Radical America #21.04: Contesting Families
- Radical America #21.05: Fiction and the New Alliance Party
- Radical America #21.06: Radical America Remembers the Sixties
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Radical America
- Radical America #01.02: The workers produce all
- Radical America #01.03: The New York rent strike
- Radical America #02.01: Failure and lessons
- Radical America #02.02: The Guardian from Old to New Left
- Radical America #02.03: The New Left 1960-65
- Radical America #02.04: Historical roots of Black liberation
- Radical America #02.05: New Left, 1965-67
- Radical America #02.06: Radicalism & culture
- Radical America #03.01: Komiks
- Radical America #03.02: Working class & culture
- Radical America #03.03: Alternative education project, May-June 1969
- Radical America #03.04: Alternative education project, July-Aug. 1969
- Radical America #03.05: Alternative education project, Sept. 1969
- Radical America #03.06: Alternative education project, Nov. 1969
- Radical America #04.01: Surrealism in the service of Revolution
- Radical America #04.02: Women
- Radical America #04.03
- Radical America #04.04: CLR James
- Radical America #04.05: Society of the Spectacle
- Radical America #04.06: I don't eat that bread
- Radical America #04.07: Special Lenin-Hegel issue
- Radical America #04.08: Double issue on radical histiography
- Radical America #05.01: Special issue on radical historiography
- Radical America #05.02: Black labor
- Radical America #05.03: Labor's Mayday
- Radical America #05.04: Alternative education project, July-Aug. 1971
- Radical America #05.05: Italy 1969-1970
- Radical America #05.06: Alternative education project, Nov.-Dec. 1971
- Radical America #06.02: Alternative education project, Mar.-Apr. 1972
- Radical America #06.03: Alternative education project, May-June 1972
- Radical America #06.04: Alternative education project, July-Aug. 1972
- Radical America #06.06: Alternative education project, Nov.-Dec. 1972
- Radical America #07.02: Working class struggles in Italy
- Radical America #07.03: Underhanded history of America
- Radical America #07.04-5 Women's labor
- Radical America #07.06: Workers & the control of production
- Radical America #08.01-2: Vietnam
- Radical America #08.03: Organizing against the war: G.I.'s and civilians
- Radical America #08.04: Alternative education project, July-Aug. 1974
- Radical America #08.05: Alternative education project, Sept.-Oct. 1974
- Radical America #08.06: Alternative education project, Nov.-Dec. 1974
- Radical America #09.01: Current economic crisis
- Radical America #09.02: Alternative education project, Mar.-Apr. 1975
- Radical America #09.03: Alternative education project, May-June 1975
- Radical America #09.04-5: Alternative education project, July-Aug. 1975
- Radical America #09.06: Alternative education project, Nov.-Dec. 1975
- Radical America #10.01: Organizing office workers
- Radical America #10.02: Update on Portugal
- Radical America #10.03: Stalinism and China
- Radical America #10.04: US Working Class and Unemployed Organizing
- Radical America #10.05: Workers' rights and legal repression
- Radical America #10.06: Italy Women, the left, the Communists
- Radical America #11.01: The fiscal crisis of the cities
- Radical America #11.02: Spain: Communism and repression
- Radical America #11.03: Alternative Education Project, May-June 1977
- Radical America #11.04: Gay Rights and the Left
- Radical America #11.05: History of Welfare Rights
- Radical America #11.06: American Leninism in the 1970's
- Radical America #12.02: Murals
- Radical America #12.03: The Miners
- Radical America #12.04: Sexual harassment at the workplace
- Radical America #12.05: The Black South in the Seventies
- Radical America #12.06: Organizing the Farmworkers
- Radical America #13.02: Cartooning
- Radical America #13.03: Nuclear Fascism a French Analysis
- Radical America #13.04: Gay Politics in California
- Radical America #13.05: Feminism and Leninism
- Radical America #13.06: Black Feminism in Boston
- Radical America #14.01: Movies about Workers
- Radical America #14.02: Anti-Nuke Photography
- Radical America #14.03: Sheltering
- Radical America #14.04: Workers Control and the News
- Radical America #15.01-2: Facing Reaction (Double Issue)
- Radical America #15.03: Poland
- Radical America #15.04: Sexual harassment
- Radical America #15.05: Re-industrialization Capitalism Takes Flight
- Radical America #15.06: Reviewing Radical History
- Radical America #16.01-2: Dreams of Freedom (Double issue)
- Radical America #16.03: 15 Years of Radical America an Anthology
- Radical America #16.04-5: Union Busting (Double Issue)
- Radical America #16.06: Feminism Theory in the Eighties
- Radical America #17.01: The Greens
- Radical America #17.02-3: Environment Special Double Issue
- Radical America #17.04: Political Uses of the Holocaust
- Radical America #17.05: Queen of the Bolsheviks
- Radical America #17.06: The Mel King campaign and coalition politics in the eighties (Double issue)
- Radical America #18.02-3: Voices of Black Feminism
- Radical America #18.04: Social relations among women in the welfare state
- Radical America #18.05: Women and Labor Activism
- Radical America #18.06: Special Issue on Culture and Youth
- Radical America #19.02-3: The British miners strike 1984-85
- Radical America #19.04: Banana's Bases and Patriarchy
- Radical America #19.05: Germany Left and Right
- Radical America #19.06: Technology the Tarnished Promise
- Radical America #20.01: Women and War
- Radical America #20.02-3: Chernobyl (Double Issue)
- Radical America #20.04: 1967 Twentieth Anniversary
- Radical America #20.05: Race and Community, Control, Politics
- Radical America #20.06: Facing AIDs
- Radical America #21.02-3: AIDs communities respond
- Radical America #21.04: Contesting Families
- Radical America #21.05: Fiction and the New Alliance Party
- Radical America #21.06: Radical America Remembers the Sixties
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And thats the last of the scans uploaded.
mate, that's amazing, thank you so much! That was a huge bit of work that we didn't have the time for ourselves, so much appreciated.
Thanks, but you should also thank Wojtek for adding the images to most of the early issues. When I tried the images were tiny and enlarging them left them in such a poor resolution you couldn't make them out.
Oh and some of the missing issues aren't actually missing. For some reason near the end of its life Radical America would re-issue the last one from the previous volume as issue number one. As far as I know there was no differences between the versions.