{{Short description|British anarchist magazine, 1961–1970}} {{For|the contemporary American publication|Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed}} {{Infobox Magazine | title = Anarchy | image_file = Anarchy14cover.jpg | image_caption = Cover of ''Anarchy'' 14 on Disobedience | image_size = 180px | category = Political philosophy | format = | frequency = Monthly | firstdate = March 1961 | finaldate = 1970 | publisher = Freedom Press | editor = Colin Ward | language = English | based = London | oclc = 222887480 | ISSN = 0003-2751 | website = }} '''''Anarchy''''' was an anarchist monthly magazine which was produced from March 1961 until December 1970.{{sfn|Warpole|2010}} It was founded and edited by anarchist Colin Ward{{sfn|Goodway|2012|pp=312-315}}, and was published by Freedom Press{{sfn|Graham|2009|p=362}} in London.
David Goodway observed in his book ''Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow'' that Ward urged the case to his fellow editors for a 'more reflective' ''Freedom'', to which they eventually responded 'by giving him his head with the monthly ''Anarchy'' from March 1961'.{{sfn|Goodway|2012|p=312}} The magazine included articles on anarchism and reflections on current events from an anarchist perspective, e.g. workers' control, criminology and squatting. It published contributions from established authors such as Marie Louise Berneri, Murray Bookchin, Stanley Cohen, Paul Goodman, George Woodcock and Nicholas Walter. From issue six onwards, graphic designer and illustrator Rufus Segar became the resident art director of the magazine.{{sfn|Goodway|2012|p=312}} Ward gave him significant freedom in his design of each issue, albeit while working to a tight deadline.<ref>The cover designs for all of the issues are reproduced in ''Autonomy: The Cover Designs of ''Anarchy'' 1961‒1970'' edited by Daniel Poyner, 2012.</ref>
Goodway commended ''Anarchy'''s 'simple excellence',{{sfn|Goodway|2012|p=313}} which he supported by citing the British Marxist historian and author Raphael Samuel: {{blockquote| 'The editing, according to an admiring, though not uncritical contributor [Nicholas Walter], was minimal: nothing was rewritten, nothing even subbed. "Colin almost didn't do anything. He didn't muck it about, didn't really bother to read the proofs. Just shoved them all in. Just let it happen."'{{sfn|Samuel|1987}}}}
A second series of ''Anarchy'' was published into the 1980s with an editorship that included, at various times, Charlotte Baggins, Chris Broad and Phil Ruff.<ref>{{cite web|title=Anarchy magazine (series 2)|url=https://libcom.org/library/anarchy-magazine|work=Libcom|date=November 24, 2012|accessdate=January 16, 2015}}</ref> Freedom Press later published ''A Decade of Anarchy 1961–1970: Selections from the Monthly Journal Anarchy'', which collected writing from the first series.{{sfn|Ward|1987}}
The 2012 book, ''Autonomy: The Cover Designs of Anarchy 1961–1970,'' features all the covers designed by Segar.{{Sfn|Kossoff|2016|p=94–96}}
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==References== *{{Cite book |last=Goodway |first=David |url=http://archive.org/details/Seeds_Beneath_the_Snow_9781604866674 |title=Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward |publisher=PM Press |year=2012 |orig-date=originally 2006 |isbn=978-1-60486-669-8 |location=Oakland, California }} * {{cite book |last1=Graham |first1=Robert |authorlink=Robert Graham (historian) |title=Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas |date=2009 |publisher=Black Rose Books |location=Montreal |isbn=978-1-55164-310-6}} * {{cite journal |last1=Kossoff |first1=Gideon |date=Winter 2016 |title=Reviewed Work: Autonomy: The Cover Designs of Anarchy 1961-1970 by Daniel Poyner |url=https://direct.mit.edu/desi/article-abstract/32/1/94/69727/Autonomy-The-Cover-Designs-of-Anarchy-1961-1970 |journal=Design Issues |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=94–96 |doi=10.1162/DESI_r_00370 |jstor=43830460 |url-access=subscription}} *{{cite book|last=Poyner|first=Daniel|title=Autonomy: The Cover Designs of Anarchy 1961–1970|date=2012|publisher=Hyphen Press|location= London |isbn=9780907259466}} *{{cite journal |last1=Samuel |first1=Raphael |title=Utopian sociology |journal=New Society |date=1987 |issue=2 October |page=276}} * {{cite book|last=Ward|first=Colin|authorlink=Colin Ward|title=A Decade of Anarchy 1961-1970: Selections from the Monthly Journal Anarchy|year=1987|publisher=Freedom Press|isbn=9780900384370}} * {{cite web |last=Warpole |first=Ken |year=2010 |title=Colin Ward obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/22/colin-ward-obituary |website= |publisher=The Guardian |access-date=14 September 2025}}
== Further reading == *{{cite book |last1=Ferguson |first1=Kathy E. |title=Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture |date=2023 |publisher=Duke University Press Books |location=Durham, North Carolina |isbn=1478016590}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Scott-Brown |first1=Sophie |title=Inventing Ordinary Anarchy in Cold War Britain |journal=Modern Intellectual History |pages=1251–1272 |date=2023-05-17 |volume=20 |issue=4 |language=en |doi=10.1017/S1479244323000057 |issn=1479-2443 |df=mdy-all |doi-access=free }}
== External links == *[https://archive.org/details/AnarchyMagazine ''Anarchy'' issue covers] from Internet Archive *[https://network23.org/library/2013/03/05/scanning-anarchy-index/ ''Anarchy'' issues] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140720201104/http://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/public_archive_info.html ''Anarchy'' archive] from The Sparrows' Nest. *[https://anarchy-mag.org/ Full-text articles] from ''Anarchy: a journal of anarchist ideas'' *[https://libcom.org/library/anarchy-journal-anarchist-ideas''Anarchy'' issues #23 and #40] at Libcom.org * The Raven: Anarchist Quarterly (1987 to 2003) *[http://audioanarchy.org/antiwork/01-Work_101.mp3 "Work"] reading of an excerpt from ''Anarchy 101'', published in issue 59
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