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This series consists of nationally-distributed magazines and newspapers with a generally anarchist, underground, or counterculture focus. Represented publications include Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, Z Magazine, Ideas and Action, and Kick it Over. The materials are organized into sub-series by name of publication, and are arranged chronologically within each sub-series.

Scope and Contents Adbusters is a Canadian publication, created and distributed by the Adbusters Media Foundation in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Adbusters Media Foundation, founded in 1989, is a "global network of artists, activities, writers, pranksters, students, educators, and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the inforamtion age," and is especially notable for initiating the Occupy Wall Street protest in 2011. The bi-monthly publication, which is supported by...

Scope and Contents The Guardian was a radical leftists independent weekly newspaper, founded by James Aronson, Cedric Belfrage, and John T. McManus. It was published between 1948 and 1992 in New York City. Originally called the National Guardian, the paper historically supported communist, socialist, and New Left political viewpoints, though it never aligned itself with any particular political party. The newspaper stopped publication in 1992 due to financial problems and declining readership....

Scope and Contents Ideas and Action is an anarcho-syndicalist journal, founded in 1981 by the New York Metropolitan area Libertarian Workers' Group and the Syndicalist Alliance of Milwaukee. Since 1984 the journal has been published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance. Published in print form between 1981 and 1997, an online version of the publication was established in 2010. The journal generally supports an anarchist, anti-authoritarian, and activist viewpoint. ...

Scope and Contents Kick it Over is a social anarchist/anti-authoritarian quarterly publication, founded in Toronto in 1982. Edited and published by the Kick it Over Collective, the journal was distributed in Canada, Australia, and the United States. Opposed to "all forms of hierarchy and domination," though not officially affiliated with any particular branch of anarchism, the journal and its contributors attempted to "draw out an popularize those implicitly radical values and lifestyles which" they believed...

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The Nation, founded in 1865 and published in New York City by The Nation Company, is the oldest continually running weekly magazine in the United States. Described as "the flagship of the left," the contents are generally devoted to politics and culture, and generally take on a popular liberal viewpoint.

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The Nation, Mar. 29, 1993

The Nation, Jun. 21, 1993

Scope and Contents Z Magazine, founded in 1988, is an independent monthly periodical published by Z Communications. The magazine is generally socialist and anti-capitalist in nature, and covers political, cultural, and foreign affairs topics. The Z Communications media group and the magazine were established by Michael Albert and Lydia Sargent. Items BOX 1, FOLDER 9 (5 items):Z Magazine, 1989 MayZ Magazine, 1990 SeptemberZ...

Scope and Contents Brother, started in 1983, was the newquarterly of the New National Mens' Organization. In 1983, the organization changed their name to the National Organization for Changing Men (NOCM) and later in 1990 to the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS). NOMAS is the oldest anti-sexist mens' organization in the United States. The issues contain information about conferences and events of interest to the anti-sexist mens' movement, as well as articles about mens' issues....

Scope and Contents Processed World was an anti-capitalist magazine focused on labor issues facing office workers that was published between 1981 and 2005. It was based out of San Francisco, California.This series was added to the Joseph Heathcott Collection of Counterculture Publications in August 2025, after it had been acquired by the Library. Items Processed World, issue 5, Summer 1982Processed World, issue 7, Spring 1983...

Scope and Contents Workers' Democracy was a socialist magazine published out of St. Louis, Missouri. They published articles about socialism and labor issues in the United States and internationally.This series was added to the Joseph Heathcott Collection of Counterculture Publications in August 2025, after it had been acquired by the Library. Items Workers' Democracy, Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 1983 Workers' Democracy, No. 18, Winter 1986 Workers'...