Some Cool History Zines

We’re happy to present a very incomplete list of cool rad history zines that we distro!

Note that this is not ALL of the zines we carry on our table; some we don’t currently have PDFs of, others aren’t online at this point in time, and we carry a rotating selection of miscellaneous non-history-focused titles when tabling.

A few friendly recommendations for digital zine libraries: Fugitive Distro, 1312 Press, Puget Sound Anarchists, Louise Crowley Library (note most physical zines for sale have a free PDF download), Sprout Distro, A Zine Library

Zines by Historical Seditions

1856: The Battle in Seattle

Anarchists and Rebellion in Walla Walla State Prison

In Search of Freedom and Self Determination: A Tour Through the Anarchist Movements in Graz, Austria, 1918-1938 – Letter-Imposed PrintingDigital Reading

The Centralia IWW

The Dude Smashed the Federal Courthouse, Too!

The Eyes of a Monster

The Kitsap Ferry Riot

We Don’t Forget: 2017 Inauguration Day Reflections from the Salish Sea – Letter-Imposed PrintingDigital Reading

Regional History

Multiple Eras

A People’s History of the University of Washington – Print

Notes on Mutual Aid Vol 1: A Local History of Survival and Struggle – PrintRead

Portland’s Antifascist History – PrintRead

Late 1800s-Early 1900s

The Everett Massacre – Print

The Seattle General Strike – Read

Red Harbor – Print

Who the hell is Jack London? – PrintRead

The Collected Works of Anna Falkoff – PrintRead

The Unstoppable Anarchist Ersilia Cavedagni – PrintRead

Elena Purgatorio; or, A Brief History of the Galleanisti – PrintRead

The Trials of a Noble Experiment – PrintRead

Mid-Late 1900s

Queer Fire: The George Jackson Brigade, Men Against Sexism, & the Gay Struggle Against Prisons – PrintReadListen

N30: The Seattle WTO Protests – A Memoir and Analysis with an Eye to the Future – PrintRead

Sharper Times: Portland Anti-Racist Action & Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice – Print

2000-Occupy Movement

A Shorter History of a Northwest ELF Cell – Read/Print

The Hilltop Boys: A True Story of the Hilltop Crips – PrintRead

You Can’t Shoot us All: Oscar Grant – Print

Against the Police and the World They Maintain: Communiques from the Pacific Northwest – January-March, 2011 – Print

Burning the Bridges they are Building: Anarchist Strategies Against the Police – Puget Sound, 2011 – PrintRead

Standing on the Land to Stand Up Against Pipelines – Print

Love for the Silent Ones: A Collection of Communiques and Reports from Actions in Solidarity with the Northwest Grand Jury Resisters – Print

Bridges Still Burning: An Anarchist Account of Occupy Seattle 2012 – Print

Longview, Occupy, and Beyond: Rank & File and the 89% Unite! – Print

“BLM 1.0”-Present

The Post-Ferguson Struggle Against Police and Fascism in the Pacific Northwest: An Incomplete Glimpse into a Dynamic and Unfolding Context – Print

Towards a More Holistic Violence – PrintRead

Against the Port and its World: Actions Against Fracking in Olympia – Print

Between Storms: Anarchist Reflections Wet’suwet’en Resistance – Print

Heal the People, Heal the Land: Unist’ot’en Camp – Print

 

So-Called North America

Multiple Eras

500 Years of Indigenous Resistance – Print

In Their Own Tongue: Bats’i’ k’op zapatista – PrintRead

Punk: Dangerous Utopia – PrintRead

Late 1800s-Early 1900s

The Stockade Stood Burning: Rebellion and the Convict Lease in Tennessee’s Coalfields, 1891-1895 – Print

Lowry Wars: Attacking Plantation Society in Reconstruction – Print

Slave Patrols and Civil Servants – PrintRead

Sacco & Vanzetti’s Revenge – Print

Johann Most – PrintRead

David Edelstadt, With His Poems for the Haymarket Martyrs – Print

Ross Winn: Digging Up a Tennessee Anarchist – Print

Bury Me Not in a Land of Slaves – PrintRead

Mid-Late 1900s

Queens, Hookers, and Hustlers: Organizing for Survival and Revolt Amongst Gender-Variant Sex Workers, 1950-1970 – PrintRead

STAR – Print

Militant Flamboyance – Print

jane – Print

Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: Flower Power Won’t Stop Fascist Power – The Story of a Small, Underground 1960s Revolutionary Group in New York City – PrintRead

I Will Not Crawl: Black Struggle & Armed Self Defense – Print

Repression Breeds Resistance: The Black Liberation Army and the Radical Legacy of the Black Panther Party – PrintRead

The Trial Statement of Anarchist & New Afrikan Revolutionary: Kuwasi Balagoon – Print

The Dragon and the Hydra: A Historical Study of Organizational Methods – Read/Print

The National Union of the Homeless: A Brief History – Print

The Oka Crisis of 1990 – Print

Political Prehistory of Love and Rage – PrintRead

Claim No Easy Victories: A History and Analysis of Anti-Racist Action – PrintRead

The Baldies & Anti-Racist Action: A History in Anti-Racist Skinhead Organizing – Print

2000-Occupy Movement

“BLM 1.0”-Present

Anarchist Tactics at Standing Rock – PrintRead

No Regrets: Accounts and Reflections from the 2016 National Prison Strike – Print

It’s a Sin to Kill a Mockingbird: Writings on Scout Schultz, Queer Anarchist Killed by Georgia Tech Polics – Print

We’ve Got Your Back J20 Defense – PrintRead

What They Mean When They Say Peace & The Making of “Outside Agitators” – Print

 

Global History

Multiple Eras

The Unquiet Dead: Volume .5 – PrintReadListen — Volume 1 – PrintReadListen — Volume 2 – PrintReadListen — Volume 3 – PrintReadListen — Volume 4 – PrintReadListen — Volume 5 – PrintReadListen — Volume 6 – PrintReadListen — Volume 7 – PrintReadListen — Volume 8 – Not currently online

Yalensky’s Fable Anarchist Black Cross – PrintRead

Anarchic Practices Chilean State – Read

Koukoulofori: Stories, Lessons, and Inspiration from the Greek Anarchist Movement – Print

Mobilisations of Philippine Anarchisms – Print

Can’t Stop Kaos – Print

Against All Tyranny! Essays on Anarchist in Brazil – Print

Late 1800s-Early 1900s

The Devil Rode a Bicycle: Science, Art, and Anarchism – Print

They Leaned on Each Other in Ecstasy – Print

La Band a Bonnot: Robberies and Getaways – Print

Sante Caserio – Print

Anarchists and Anarchism Ottoman Empire – Read/Print

Santos: The Barcelona of Brazil – Print

The Uniqueness of Anarchism in Argentina (1880-1930) – Print

Two Revoutions: The Ghadar Movement and India’s Radical Disapora – Read/Print

Blessed is the Flame – Print

Eternal War on the Hitler Youth – Print

A Jewish Anarchist Refutation of the Hammer and Sickle – PrintRead

Mid-Late 1900s

Memory Loss – Print

The Federacion Anarquista Uruguaya: Crisis, Armed Struggle, and Dictatorship, 1967-85 – PrintRead

“BLM 1.0”-Present

Don’t Try to Break Us – We’ll Explode: The 2017 G20 and the Battle of Haburg: A Full Account and Analysis – Print

Memories from La Zad – Print