THE ZINE ARCHIVE
Zines are the underground propaganda engine of leftist subculture. These raw, DIY publications have been a cornerstone of radical organizing for decades, used to recruit, radicalize, and indoctrinate readers with far-left ideology. They are the unfiltered voice of activist networks, circulating revolutionary ideas, protest strategies, and ideological dogma through back channels and subcultural spaces. It is an unvarnished look at their propaganda in its original form.
The Zine Archive will be a comprehensive collection of these materials, preserving the authentic language and imagery of radical left movements. It offers direct access to zines from across the spectrum of far-left activism—anarchist manifestos, Marxist pamphlets, identity politics diatribes, and more. These documents reveal how radical ideas spread, how activists communicate, and how they maintain ideological cohesion.
We’ve just begun to build out this archive. You may also refer to the Zine Directory for additional resources in the meantime.
THE COLLECTION
Understanding what propaganda is being distributed in the eco-system tells us which ideas are circulating and being discussed in the real world.
Each zine listed here has been collected in the real world at an far left bookstore, book fair, event, conference, meeting, or other in person event. The physical copy is in the collection of the Center for Left Wing Studies. For ease, digital versions of the publications are linked here, organized by the event they were collected at. Zines many be listed in multiple event categories.
BOSTON DYKE MARCH 2025
June 13, 2025, Boston Common
Most (but not all) of these zines were distributed by MBTA Distro, Antifa in Boston
- 7 Theses On The Three-Way Fight. Zine PDF
- 8 Things You Can Do To Stop ICE. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- 1995 Standoff At TS’PETEN.
- A Message From Free Revolutionaries Of Tehran For The First Anniversary of the Revolutionary Uprising. Zine PDF
- A No Borders Manifesto. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- A Recipe for Nocturnal Direct Actions. Zine PDF
- Affinity Groups: Essential Building Blocks of Anarchist Organizations. Zine PDF
- Anarchism and Revolutionary Strategy: Insurrectionary Councilism. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Atamansha: The Life Of Maria Nikiforova. Digital Archive
- Be Gay, Do Crime. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Blocing Up, Vol II. Zine PDF
- Burning the Bridges They Are Building: Anarchist Strategies Against Police in the Puget Sound, Winter 2011. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Confidence. Courage. Connection. Trust. A Proposal For Security Culture. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- De-Arrest Primer. Zine PDF
- Decolonize Means Attack. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Defining Gentrification & On Displacement. Zine PDF
- Direct Action for Animal Rights: A Member of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) Tells Why She Broke The Law For Animals.
- Don’t Just Do Nothing To Counter Fascism: 20 Things You Can Do To Counter Fascism – Yes, You, Yes Now. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Fascism & Anti-Fascism: A Decolonial Perspective. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Fight To Win: Protest Tactics and Staying Safe with Pride Was A Riot, SAC. Zine PDF
- Flowers Will Emerge From The Desert: Interviews & Communiques From Sudanese Anarchists. Zine PDF
- Go Kits For Anti-Fascist Community Defense: Materials, Organizations, Deployment, and Uses. Zine PDF
- How To Get Ready For A Demonstration: Tips and Tricks To Stay Safe and Dangerous in the Streets. Zine PDF
- I Don’t Bash Back, I Shoot First. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Militant Flamboyance: A Brief History of the Stonewall Riots and Other Queer Happenings. Zine PDF
- Militant Street Tactics: Pushing & Pulling. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- No Neutrality In A Rape Culture: Open Letter To Progressives From Rape Victims/Survivors.
- Queering Anarchism (short zine, not the book)
- On Women & Violence. Zine PDF
- Process-Centered Love: Dismantling Capitalist Logic In Our Relationships. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Prologue: A Brief History of Capitalism. Zine PDF
- Queer Fire: The George Jackson Brigade, Men Against Sexism and Gay Struggle Against Prison. Zine PDF
- Radical Campus Power. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Red Flags: Before You Join That Org…: A Primer on Authoritarian & Vanguard Communist Groups & What You Can Do Instead. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Rent: An Injustice. Zine PDF
- Repair. Zine PDF
- Resistance & Rebellion & Repression: Questions To Consider When You’re In The Streets. Digital Copy. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Sabotage In The Workplace. Zine PDF
- Settler Sexuality: Resistance To State-Sanctioned Violence, Reclamation of Anti-Colonial Knowledges & Liberation For All, An Indigenous Feminist Zine. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Shattering Abolition: Against Reformist Counterinsurgency in the Streets of Oakland. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- Socialism, Anarchism & Feminism. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- The Combahee River Collective Statement. Zine PDF
- The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- These Faggots Fight Fascists: Defend Pride Direct Action Handbook. Zine PDF
- Three-Way Fight: Revolutionary Anti-Fascism and Armed Self Defense. Zine PDF
- This Is War: Inspiration for A Fag & Drug-User Uprising. Digital Archive | Zine PDF
- We All Float Down Here: RAM’s “Floating Tactics” & the Long Hot Summer of 1967. Digital Archive (Part of a book)
- We Are All Very Anxious: Six These On Anxiety and Why It Is Effectively Preventing Militancy, and One Possible Strategy for Overcoming It. Zine PDF
- You’d Be Better Off Without Police, Presidents, Money & Capitalism: A Short Intro to Anarchism. Zine PDF
ANALYSIS
In the future, we will be archiving an analyzing digital copies of these publications by year and subject matter to enable ease of research.