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Modern Slavery #1 Thumbnail

Modern Slavery #1

Paul Simons

2012

Sakoslky, Simons, Black et. al discuss coercive labor forms, mutual aid, Stirnerism, IWW, Situationists, and more.

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Armed Struggle in Italy

Bratach Dubh

1979

Account of labor tensions in Italy, 1976-78. FIAT strike, government building occupations, and other subversions are detailed.

Gabba Gabba Gazette #10 Thumbnail

Gabba Gabba Gazette #10

Mary Ramel

1979

Final GGG (a "Punk Rock Relic") features interviews with Devo and Talking Heads.

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Gabba Gabba Gazette #4

Mary Ramel

1977

"The Gabba Gabba Gazzete is even better than drugs. I'll contribute...."

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Gabba Gabba Gazette #2

Mary Ramel

1977

2nd GGG issue features Ramel's "controversial Joey interview".

Les Aventures d'el Momo Thumbnail

Les Aventures d'el Momo

Maurice Lemaitre

1968

Lemaitre's pop-surreal May '68 comic. Reader fills in the blanks.

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Rubber Vol. 4, Issue #1: Table-project

Pim Wiersinga

1981

Exhibition detail for Robin Crozier's Table-project. His stamp sequences are "reminiscent of mail-art projects".

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Artpolice (Fall 1982)

Frank Gaard

1982

"An unconscious (for better or worse) art journal concerned primarily with possibility of art in a world on the brink of extinction."

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Artpolice (Summer 1986)

Frank Gaard

1986

"I am an art student. I have a $600 tuition bill to prove it. Dad worked hard in his corporation to get me here."

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Folk Art of Oceania

Maurice Leenhardt

1950

Art historical examination of Oceanic art. Masks, sculpture, pottery from Guinea, Tonga, Easter Island, and more.

Theory of Misery, Misery of Theory Thumbnail

Theory of Misery, Misery of Theory

Daniel Denevert

1973

Denevert describes, in retrospect, the fruits and failures of the Situationists' "organized theoretical effort".

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Sabot Vol. 1, Issue #5

Seattle Liberation Front

1970

"This issue of Sabot is created by over one-hundred Seattle women".

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Idiolects #11

Collective for Living Cinema

1981

Illustration, poetry, and experimental prose from Manhattan's Living Cinema group.

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Local Heroes

Burlington Cultural Center

1989

Canadian correspondence artists honor their heroes. Catalogue for the exhibition held at Burlington's Cultural Center (ON).

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Kerger Immer Arger

Alfred Kerger

1991

Self-published account of Alfred Kerger's art actions, correspondence, and interventions in the '80s.

Implications Thumbnail

Implications

Isaac Cronin

1975

Critiques of "Vaneigism", a review of "Anti-Situationist Maneuvers", and recorded correspondence between Bay Area Situs Cronin, Shutes, Knabb.

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IWW Financial Statement, June 1964

Industrial Workers of the World

1964

Bookkeeping statement for the IWW, mid-'60s. Cover illustration by Carlos Cortez.

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Botswana Live

The Botswana Society

1993

Text for the National Museum's 1993 exhibition of Botswanian folk art. Emphasis on traditional art and craft-making, versus the emerging (Western) possibility of formal art education.

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Free Association

More to Come

1972

Bay Area anarchists More to Come share their schema for a new society built on direct democracy, affinity organization, and revolutionary councils.

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Pinelli Assassinato

Europe-America Communication Service

1972

EUCS write on the Pinelli assassination. Solidarity Bookshop reprint in collaboration with Chicago's Anarchist Black Cross.

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Point Blank #1

Point Blank

1972

First publication by the the Bay Area's Point Blank. Ruminations on global pseudo-socialisms, the amplification of spectacle by technology, and concrete possibilities for resistance.

Left Curve: Art & Revolution #8 Thumbnail

Left Curve: Art & Revolution #8

Csaba Polony

1983

First issue after a 4-year lapse. Essays and graphics discuss rationalism, culture in Nicaragua, photography, and the role of art in the labor movement.

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Left Curve: Art & Revolution #4

Richard Olsen

1975

Summer 1975 publication discusses communal art possibilities, imperialism via art world, and proletarian film-making.

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Leviathan Vol. 2 No. 2

Leviathan

1970

June 1970 edition of San Francisco's Leviathan discusses industry in the Midwest, black labor, and the guerrilla situations in Cuba, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

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Agit Prop: Performance in Banff

Lorne Falk

1982

Documentation for Walter Phillips Gallery's "agitprop" performance series, featuring Rosler, et al. Discussion of the role of politics in art (and vice versa).

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Solidarity Bookshop (1971)

Solidarity Bookshop

1971

1971 catalogue for Chicago's Solidarity Bookshop. Original publications, anarchist, Surrealist, and Situationist documents for sale.

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The Morning of a Machine Gun

Franklin Rosemont

1968

"In poetry as in life I am for freedom and against slavery."

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Provo #12

Provo

1966

In this issue: Vietnam War protest planning, polemics on China's "Culturele Revolutie", and an abundance of Provo-cative political cartoons.

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Provo #9

Provo

1966

Provo imagine a new urbanism, discuss the conflict in Vietnam, and reprint newspaper snippets about their actions.

On The Barricades (Journal for the Protection of All Beings #2) Thumbnail

On The Barricades (Journal for the Protection of All Beings #2)

Journal for the Protection of All Beings

1968

Timely photo essay of '68 revolts, compiled for the American audience. The young make love, the old make obscene gestures.

The Mass Strike In France, May-June 1968 (Root & Branch Pamphlet #3) Thumbnail

The Mass Strike In France, May-June 1968 (Root & Branch Pamphlet #3)

Informations Correspondance Ouvriere

1970

English translation of ICO's analysis of the mass strikes in France, 1968. Emphasis on French capitalism and its unique student movement.

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Виктор Васнецов

Nadejda Chanina

1979

Review of Viktor Vasnetsov's ouevre, ranging from depictions of St. Petersburg's suburbs to "epic historical compositions".

Веселкові барви Thumbnail

Веселкові барви

Майя Эссаулова

1971

Rainbow colors. Showcase of Ukrainian decorative (folk) art: ceramics, sculpture, fibers.

Paris: May 1968 (Solidarity Pamphlet #30) Thumbnail

Paris: May 1968 (Solidarity Pamphlet #30)

Maurice Brinton

1969

Workers Beware! Chris Pallis' diary of '68 strikes, published through Britain's libertarian Solidarity group.

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Харківський метрополітен

Будивельник

1981

Soviet photo essay documents the art and architecture of Ukraine's Kharkiv Metro.

Jan K. Elzinga en zijn mechanisch kunstwerk "Salomo's Eerste Rechtspraak" Thumbnail

Jan K. Elzinga en zijn mechanisch kunstwerk "Salomo's Eerste Rechtspraak"

K. Elzinga

1978

Discussion of Jan K. Elzinga's mechanical puppetry, particularly his major work “Solomon's first judgment" (1900).

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Provo #7

Provo

1966

Provo address urban/rural technocracy and warn against social atomization, drug use.

La Plastique Lettriste Et Hypergraphique Thumbnail

La Plastique Lettriste Et Hypergraphique

Maurice Lemaitre

1956

Lettrist and Hypergraphic Plastic. Lemaitre presents a visual poetry of symbols, maps, and graphics.

Как оформить выставку в городе Thumbnail

Как оформить выставку в городе

В.П. Борисов

1978

How to arrange an exhibition in the city. Late Soviet instruction for installing art in public.

Программы московских Театров #9 Thumbnail

Программы московских Театров #9

Московское объединение театрально-зрелищных касс

1954

Mid-50s survey of Moscow theater productions consisting of reviews, photographs, cast rundowns.

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Voices, Insistent Voices

Stuart McCarrell

1990

McCarrell presents 33 vital poems dramatizing modern/ancient life, fit for performance or theater.

Psycho Unity Gagged in the Puritan State Thumbnail

Psycho Unity Gagged in the Puritan State

Frank Zirbel

1989

Psycho Unity makes a second appearance. Comics originally serialized in Houston's Public News.

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Scrawls

Frank Zirbel

2003

Zirbel's bike messenger street drawings and accompanying notes, '90-'95.

At Maxwell Street Thumbnail

At Maxwell Street

Tom Palazzolo

2008

Palazzolo's artful homage to Maxwell Street during its cultural heyday. Vibrant collection of essays and photos.

Clark Street Thumbnail

Clark Street

Tom Palazzolo

2019

Palazzolo photo-documents Clark and surrounding neighborhoods in early '60s Chicago.

One Big Union Thumbnail

One Big Union

Industrial Workers of the World

1970

Wobblies argue, in this essay, for the necessity of industrial democracy and a unified, international working class.

Техническая Пропаганда #19 (1935) Thumbnail

Техническая Пропаганда #19 (1935)

El Lissitzky

1935

Technical propaganda review for a Soviet industrialism. In this issue, Trotsky appears alongside discussions of welding and bricklaying. Cover and type by Lissitzky.

Техническая Пропаганда #18 (1934) Thumbnail

Техническая Пропаганда #18 (1934)

El Lissitzky

1934

Post-revolution Soviet industrial magazine explores clocks, construction equipment, microscopes, and more. Cover/layout by Lissitzky.

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Trekt de schoen u aan?

Willet-Holthuysen Museum

1957

Does the shoe attract you? Catalog for the Willet-Holthuysen Museum' 1957 exhibition of shoes and sandals.

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Kabouter Krant #12

Kabouters

1971

In this edition, Kabouters on Dylan, Dutch education, and a nascent technology: the Computer.

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Ракурсы Родченко

Александр Лаврентьев

1992

Survey of Rodchenko's photographic career, from Neues Sehen experimentation to forays into sports journalism, documenting public gatherings, etc.

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Provo #4

Provo

1965

The Provo analyze Constant Nieuwenhuys' utopian constructions, specifically New Babylon, and call for an international provotariat.

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Provo #3

Provo

1965

Provos discuss Eel riots in Jordaan, introduce the "Provohappening", review Swedish anarchist movements, and more.

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Seriös

Galerie Wanda Reiff

1988

Reiff collects, in her words, intriguing and confrontational art for this 1988 exhibition in Maastricht.

Kunstenaars uit Brabant Thumbnail

Kunstenaars uit Brabant

Stedelijk Museum

1958

Catalog for Stedelijk's 1958 exhibition of artists from Brabant. Images of figurative, abstract, and sculptural work.

In USA Erbaut 1932-1944 Thumbnail

In USA Erbaut 1932-1944

Elizabeth Mock

1944

German translation of MoMA's "Built in USA" exhibition. Survey of American architectural currents with appearances by Mies, Wright, et al.

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Front #3

Norman Macleod

1931

Early proletarian literary review, contributions from USSR, Europe, and USA. Notably, poems by Mayakovsky, Bunting.

Asahi Camera #12 (December 1967) Thumbnail

Asahi Camera #12 (December 1967)

Asahi Camera

1967

December 1967 issue of Asahi. Figures, humanistic scenes, and technical manuals for cameras.

Asahi Camera #5 (May 1967) Thumbnail

Asahi Camera #5 (May 1967)

Asahi Camera

1967

May 1967 edition of Japan's longest-running photography magazine. Emphasis on nature and cityscapes.

Art Ancien du Mexique et du Perou Thumbnail

Art Ancien du Mexique et du Perou

Musée des Beaux-Arts

1971

Documentation for Lyon's early '70s exhibition of ancient Mexican and Peruvian artifacts.

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1958

Charles Dessart

1958

Artful exhibition documentation for Brussels' Expo 58, the first major World's Fair since World War II.

Het Feest dat Wiegel Wilde Thumbnail

Het Feest dat Wiegel Wilde

Paul Babeliowsky

1980

Photo exposé of squatter riots in Amsterdam, triggered by the coronation of Queen Beatrix.

Three Days That Shook the New World Order Thumbnail

Three Days That Shook the New World Order

Chicago Surrealist Group

1993

Discussion of the revolutionary (proletarian) potential of LA's '92 riots.

Naivi '87 Thumbnail

Naivi '87

Zagreb City Galleries Gallery of Primitive Art

1987

Catalog for Zagreb's major outsider exhibition in 1987. Extensive introduction to international art brut.

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ArTRANDOM #50: From the Outsider Archive, London

Monika Kinley

1989

Samples of American/European art brut (Darger, etc.), sourced from London's Outsider Archive.

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Visions Vol. 5 / We Are Not Alone

Rebecca Hoffberger

2000

Catalog for AVAM's 1999 exhibition on aliens, angels, and other outsiders.

Gabba Gabba Gazette #9 Thumbnail

Gabba Gabba Gazette #9

Mary Ramel

1978

Winter-y GGG: Residents special, a fashion feature, and assorted New Wave gossip.

Gabba Gabba Gazette #7 Thumbnail

Gabba Gabba Gazette #7

Mary Ramel

1978

La Mere Vipere punkers review Pink Flag, interview the Boomtown Rats, and gab about Joey Ramone.

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Ex Libris #13

Elaine Cohen

1985

Art books catalog featuring listings for Lissitzky, Schwitters, Tschichold, and more.

Banga Thumbnail

Banga

Vilnius Fashion House

1964

Soviet fashion magazine showcasing prominent European styles.

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Overdub #4

Overdub

1996

Greek alternative fanzine, highlights Smog, Mental Insect, Nick Cave, and everyone else.

Industrial Worker Vol. 67 #4 Thumbnail

Industrial Worker Vol. 67 #4

Industrial Workers of the World

1970

Early '70s copy of the Wobblies' official newspaper. Notes on "free enterprise", suggestions for boycott, and more.

Artisan #1 Thumbnail

Artisan #1

Lee Calcote

1984

Houston DIY rag exposes the city's underground: independent music, art, and a lively club scene.

When Truth Was Called A Witch Thumbnail

When Truth Was Called A Witch

Frank Zirbel

1989

Zirbel's ink drawings accompany haunted Reagan quotes.

Psycho Unity's First Notebook of Head Injury Thumbnail

Psycho Unity's First Notebook of Head Injury

Frank Zirbel

1985

Do you want a career in modeling?

Arsenal #4 Thumbnail

Arsenal #4

Chicago Surrealist Group

1989

Final edition of the Rosemonts' Arsenal. Surrealism in service of poetry, revolution, dreams.

Recent Painting USA: The Figure Thumbnail

Recent Painting USA: The Figure

Museum of Modern Art

1962

Early '60s figurative exhibition at MoMA feat. Sabine friend Elinore Schnurr.

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The Twenty-first International Exhibition of Water Colors

Art Institute of Chicago

1942

550 artworks from the Art Institute's 21st watercolor exhibition. 12 works are printed.

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Provo #15

Provo

1967

Bikes, statues, and dynamite. The Provo strategize their next actions.

Surrealism: The Octopus-Typewriter #1 Thumbnail

Surrealism: The Octopus-Typewriter #1

Chicago Surrealist Group

1978

Well, what are you going to do about it? - Jacques Vaché

Maurice Lemaitre: Lettriste Thumbnail

Maurice Lemaitre: Lettriste

Sandro Ricaldone

2002

Catalogue for Galleria Peccoli's Lemaître exhibition in Italy.

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Provos & Kabouters

Rudolf de Jong

1979

Exposition on Provos and Kabouters, Dutch anarchists with carnivalesque tactics.

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Vague #16-17

Tom Vague

1988

Vague writes (frantically) on Psychic TV, Angry Brigade, and Euro-tourism.

Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy, & Function Thumbnail

Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy, & Function

Walker Smith

1917

Black Swan reprint (1967) of Walker Smith's guidebook for worker insubordination.

Bread & Roses #5 Thumbnail

Bread & Roses #5

Industrial Workers of the World

2000

Autumn 2000 edition of the IWW union magazine. Writing on trade unions, Blair, strike tactics, and more.

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General Strike France 1968

Andrée Hoyles

1970

Factory-by-factory account of strike actions in France, 1968.

An Anarchist Communist Program Thumbnail

An Anarchist Communist Program

Errico Malatesta

1920

IWW reprint of Malatesta's Anarchist Programme. Call for insurrectionary struggle.

Anarchy #78 (August 1967) Thumbnail

Anarchy #78 (August 1967)

Colin Ward

1967

Towards a Liberatory Technology, by Murray Bookchin (as Lewis Herber).

Initiation à la Haute Volupté Thumbnail

Initiation à la Haute Volupté

Isidore Isou

1960

Initiation to high pleasure. Collection of erotic drawings and Lettrist symbols.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. VII) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. VII)

Armin Lehmann

1967

Oct 1967 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. IV) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. IV)

Armin Lehmann

1967

Apr 1967 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. III) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. III)

Armin Lehmann

1967

Mar 1967 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. II) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. III, No. II)

Armin Lehmann

1967

Feb 1967 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. VI) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. VI)

Armin Lehmann

1966

Summer 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. V) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. V)

Armin Lehmann

1966

May 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. IV) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. IV)

Armin Lehmann

1966

Apr 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. II) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. II)

Armin Lehmann

1966

Feb 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. I) Thumbnail

Midwestern Art Reviews & Chicago Gallery Guide (Vol. II, No. I)

Armin Lehmann

1966

Jan 1966 edition of Chicago Gallery Guide.

Daughter of the Nile (April 1955) Thumbnail

Daughter of the Nile (April 1955)

Doria Shafik

1955

April '55 edition of Bint al Nill, Shafik's liberatory fashion magazine from Cairo.

Daughter of the Nile (January 1955) Thumbnail

Daughter of the Nile (January 1955)

Doria Shafik

1955

January '55 edition of Bint al Nill, Shafik's liberatory fashion magazine from Cairo.

Daughter of the Nile (March 1955) Thumbnail

Daughter of the Nile (March 1955)

Doria Shafik

1955

March '55 edition of Bint al Nill, Shafik's liberatory fashion magazine from Cairo.

Daughter of the Nile (June 1955) Thumbnail

Daughter of the Nile (June 1955)

Doria Shafik

1955

June '55 edition of Bint al Nill, Shafik's liberatory fashion magazine from Cairo.

Daughter of the Nile (December 1955) Thumbnail

Daughter of the Nile (December 1955)

Doria Shafik

1955

December '55 edition of Bint al Nill, Shafik's liberatory fashion magazine from Cairo.

Daughter of the Nile (May 1955) Thumbnail

Daughter of the Nile (May 1955)

Doria Shafik

1955

May '55 edition of Bint al Nill, Shafik's liberatory fashion magazine from Cairo.

The Decline and Fall of the Spectacular Commodity-Economy Thumbnail

The Decline and Fall of the Spectacular Commodity-Economy

Situationist International

1965

Situationist examination of Los Angeles' Watts riots in '65.

On the Poverty of Student Life Thumbnail

On the Poverty of Student Life

Situationist International

1968

Strasbourg students apply Situationist critique to university life.

Anarchist Youth #3 Thumbnail

Anarchist Youth #3

Charles Radcliffe

1963

Syndicalist magazine born from Anarchist Student. Writing on economy, nonviolence, permanent strike.

The Rebel Worker #6 Thumbnail

The Rebel Worker #6

Charles Radcliffe

1966

First (only) English edition of Rebel Worker, penned in Radcliffe's London flat.

Cultural Correspondence #12-14 Thumbnail

Cultural Correspondence #12-14

Paul Buhle

1981

Last issue of CC. Comics by Crumb, Rosemonts on surrealism, and more.

Cultural Correspondence #10-11 Thumbnail

Cultural Correspondence #10-11

Paul Buhle

1979

Special issue discussing surrealism and popular culture, from Lautréamont to Marx to Bugs Bunny.

Leaving the 20th Century Thumbnail

Leaving the 20th Century

Christopher Gray

1974

Compilation of Situationist materials from the English section.

King Mob Echo Thumbnail

King Mob Echo

Tom Vague

2000

Texts from the Situationist milieu in London.

The Match #78 Thumbnail

The Match #78

Fred Woodworth

1983

Surrealism, Subversion, Strange Reviews, Dream World, Work, Boredom & Unemployment.

International Surrealist Bulletin #4 Thumbnail

International Surrealist Bulletin #4

Surrealist Group In England

1936

Mid-30s report on surrealist activities in England.

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Heatwave #2

Charles Radcliffe

1966

Charles Radcliffe's pre-Situationist mimeograph. Emphasis on pop culture critique.

Marvelous Freedom, Vigilance of Desire Thumbnail

Marvelous Freedom, Vigilance of Desire

Chicago Surrealist Group

1976

Exhibition text for the World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago, 1976.