West Coast Historical Anarchist Media in Print and Online
Newspapers were first published under the black flag on the Pacific Coast over 130 years ago. Blogs, podcasts, and zine distros carry on that work today.
This incomplete list of digitized anarchist publications from the colonized west of the so-called united states makes accessible that long history of insurgent media. Anarchists seeking inspirations and warnings from the past will hopefully find it useful.
Newspapers and magazines from the late-19th and early 20th century chronicle everyday organizing and insurrectionary moments during an era when the West Coast was a major node in a globe-spanning anti-colonial, anti-capitalist anarchist movement. Papers published in several languages from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Portland to Home, Washington were backbones of local networks, sometimes attracting global attention. The various publications below are available in various formats, from PDFs of individual issues to searchable web tools.
There is a dearth of publications from the 1940s until the 1960s; not unexpected given the lull of anarchistic movements in these decades. The revival came in the form of independent and often diy bulletins and newsletters. The 70s witnessed a small proliferation of publications from clandestine prison papers to anarchist comic books to the birth of zine culture.
With the rise of the internet, Indymedia became an early hub building on connections established at the 1999 WTO in Seattle. A network of frequently anonymous, sometimes submission-driven anarchist blogs proliferated in the years that followed. Some of these blogs are still active today, but many old sites remain live and are valuable resources for the interested. There was also several anarchist magazines and newspapers published in Seattle and Tacoma during the late 2000s and 2010s with digitized copies available for reading.
There are undoubtedly publications missing from this list. Old periodicals become lost to time or collect dust in archives or on microfilm. Vibrant anonymous blogs become dead links, occasionally accessible in limited form on the Wayback Machine. One aim of Historical Seditions is to seek out and preserve these. More digitized historic newspapers will be added to our site in the future, and we are always on the hunt for forgotten URLs and PDFs. If you have leads to expand this list, contact us at historicalseditions [at] riseup [dot] net.
A growing, global list of digitized anarchist publications is available at lidiap.ficedl.info
Digitized by Historical Seditions
Many more coming soon!
So-Called PNW
The Firebrand – Portland (Or.), 1895-1897
vol. 1, nos. 1, 8, 10, 12-15, 17-22, 24-25, 27-47, 49-52
vol. 2, nos. 2-8, 10-16, 18-19, 21-24, 27, 30-32, 34-52
vol. 3, nos. 1-34
vol. 1, nos. 1, 42
vol. 2, nos. 31-32, 34-45, 47-52
vol. 3, nos. 1-34
Discontent – Home (Wash.), 1898-1902
Clothed with the Sun – Home (Wash.), 1900-1904
The Demonstrator – Home (Wash.), 1903-1908?
The Industrial Worker – Spokane, Seattle, 1909-1931
The Agitator – Home (Wash.), 1910-1912
Hammerslag – Seattle, 1911-1912
Why? – Tacoma, 1913-1914
The Dawn – Seattle, 1922-?
The Seattle Group Bulletins – Seattle, 1965-1971
Lilith – Seattle, 1968-1970
Earth and Fire – Vancouver, 1972
Revolutionary Anarchist – 1973-?
Open Road – Vancouver, 1976-1990
Anarchist Black Dragon – Walla Walla, 1978-1983
British Columbia’s blackout – Vancouver, 1978-1984?
nos. 1-4, 6, 66, 74-75, 77, 79, 82-85, 91, 109, 117
The Spark: A Newsletter of Contemporary Anarchist Thought – Port Townsend, 1982-1984
Ecomedia – Vancouver, 1988-1991?
nos. 12-21, 23-39, 41-51, 54-69, 72-76, 78-81, 83, 85, 87-92, 94-100
The Insurgent – Eugene, 1991-Present
New World Disorder – Tacoma, 1992
Spontaneous Combustion – Seattle and Portland, 1992
NWAC Northwest Anarchist Collective – Seattle, 1992-1993?
Anti-Power – Seattle, 1993
Black Autonomy: A Journal of Anarchism and Black Revolution – 1994-1997
Crimethinc – Olympia and Elsewhere, 1996-Present
Legacy Article Search: crimethinc.com/library
Parascope – Seattle, 1999?-2000?
Indymedia – Seattle, 1999-2013 Portland, 2000-2020
Green Anarchy – Eugene, 2000-2008
Face to Face with the Enemy – Vancouver, 2004-2007?
facetofacewiththeenemy.wordpress.com
Rad Dad – Portland, 2005-2013
Unfinished Business – Portland, 2005
A Murder of Crows – Seattle, 2006-2007
Prisoner’s Dillema – Seattle, 2006-?
CrimethInc. Worker Bulletin – Olympia, 2007
Wii’nimkiikaa – 2007-2010
Aint No Party Like a West Coast Party – Olympia, 2008
Intersections – Portland and Tacoma, 2008-2009
Pink and Black Attack – Olympia, 2008-2010
Vancouver Anarchist Online Archive – Vancouver, 2009-2010
The Rebel – Tacoma, 2009
Autonomy//253 – Tacoma, 2010-2011
Lunaria Press – Tacoma, 2010-2011
Unmanageable Outlaws – 2010-2011
Continual War – 2010-2012
2010-2011 continualwar.wordpress.com
2011-2012 continwar.noblogs.org
Autonomy Acres – Rural PNW, 2010-2015
Tides of Flame – Seattle, 2011-2012
Puget Sound Anarchists – 2011-Present
PugetSoundAnarchists.org (Current Site, 2014-Present)
Warrior Publications – Occupied Coast Salish Territory, Vancouver BC, 2011-Present
warriorpublications.wordpress.com
Gray Coast – Pacific Northwest, 2011-2013
Portland Occupier – Portland, 2011-Present
BCBlackOut – So-Called British Columbia, 2011-Present
(A) Wild Harbor – Aberdeen, 2012
Seattle Free Press – Seattle, 2012-2015
Anarres Press – Seattle, 2013-2015?
Storming Heaven – Seattle, 2013-2015
Warzone Distro – Chicago, Portland, elsewhere – 2013 – Present
Outside Agitator (206) – Seattle, 2015-2016
Blog Wayback Machine (2015-2016)
Black and Green Review – Salem, 2015-2018
The Transmetropolitan Review – Seattle, 2015-2018 (Magazine), 2015-Present (Blog)
thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com
Wreck – Vancouver, 2015-2016
Salish Sea Black Autonomists – Olympia, 2017-2020
blackautonomynetwork.noblogs.org
1312press – Seattle, 2018?-Present
Published Zines – 1312press.noblogs.org/1312-published-titles
Rose City Counter-Info – Portland, 2020-Present
rosecitycounterinfo.noblogs.org/
PNW Youth Liberation Front – 2020-2021
no more city – Vancouver, 2020-2022
2020-20201 Issues – nomore.city/archive
Fugitive Distro – Olympia, 2021-Present
Rose City Radical – Portland, 2021-2022
nos. 1-4 rosecityradical.com/past-issues
Sabot Media – Aberdeen, 2021-Present
The Communique Newsletter nos. 1-3
Creeker – Fairy Creek, Vancouver Island, 2021-Present
BC Counter-Information – so-called British Columbia, 2022-Present
The Occupied West
The Beacon – San Francisco, 1889-1891
vol. 1, nos. 12-13, 15-17
vol. 2, nos. 1-2, 6-8, 18
Egoism – San Francisco, 1890-1897
vol. 1
vol. 2
vol. 3, nos. 1, 18, 23
vol. 4, nos 1-2
Enfant Terrible – San Francisco, 1891-92
Secolo Nuovo – San Francisco, 1894-1906
Free Society (Sucessor of Portland’s The Firebrand) – San Francisco/Chicago, 1897-1904
Mirror vol. 9
vol. 10, no. 20
Regeneración – Los Angeles and elsewhere, 1900-1901, 1904-1906, 1910-1918
La Protesta Umana – San Francisco and Chicago, 1900-1905
Kakumei/The Revolution – Berkeley, 1906-1907
Revolución – Los Angeles, 1907-1908
Regeneración. Sezione Italiana – Los Angeles, 1911
Hindustan Ghadar – San Francisco, 1913-192?
The Blast – San Francisco, 1916-1917
Man! – San Francisco, 1933-1940
Now & After – San Francisco, 1977-1978
Anarchy Comics – San Francisco, 1978-1987
Slingshot – Berkeley, 1988-Present
Anarchist Labor Bulletin – San Francisco (Calif.), 1989?-1990?
Willful Disobedience – Los Angeles, 1996-2006
vol. 3, no. 5
vol. 5, nos. 1-2
Ignite! – Denver, 2011-2012
Black Flag – Los Angeles, 2012-2016
Black Seed – Berkeley, 2014 – Present
It’s Going Down – Bay Area and Elsewhere, 2015-Present
2015/Old Legacy Articles via Wayback Machine