Anarchy. Issue 29, July 1963.
London: Freedom Press, 1964. Octavo, original illustrated stapled wraps, b&w illus. (Continuous annual pagination, each issue approx. 30 pages.) This article focuses almost entirely (32 pages) on "The Spies for Peace Story". (Spies for Peace was a British group of anti-war activists who publicized government preparations for rule after a nuclear war. In 1963 they broke into a secret government bunker, Regional Seat of Government Number 6, where they photographed and copied documents. They published this information in a pamphlet, Danger! Official Secret RSG-6. The authors objected strongly to the fact that the RSG network had not been publicly debated, that its staff were unelected and that they would have military powers. The public were virtually unaware what the government was planning for the aftermath of a nuclear war until it was revealed by Spies for Peace.) "Anarchy" saw the events as the beginning of "the basis of a genuine revolutionary mass movement". An important issue of the journal. Very good condition.
"Anarchy" was an anarchist monthly magazine produced in London from March 1961 until December 1970. (Early issues were issued with the subtitle "a journal of anarchist ideas".) It was edited by its founder, Colin Ward, the leading British anarchist writer and a pioneering social historian. The journal was known for its articles on anarchism and reflections on current events from an anarchist perspective, e.g. workers control, criminology, colonialism, squatting, education. It published many important writers. "Anarchy" is generally considered the best anarchist serial of its day for both interesting content and quality of production (including distinctive art and design by the anarchist and illustrator Rufus Segar). "Anarchy" was an important distributor of radical ideas, and remains of great interest for those interested in anarchism, political theory, and political praxis. Item #104201
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