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[005229] [Albon, Alan; Hunt, Richard; Christo, Marco]. Green Anarchist. Oxford: Dot Press [Printers], 1984. First Edition. 4to. Paper Covers. Journal. Good. A run of twenty-four of the first thirty issues, 1984-1992; numbers 1-4, 6-11, 13, 15-18, 21-24, 26, 28-30. Original paper covers. Some minor wear and creasing, but generally quite bright and clean. No.1, Jul-Aug [1984], 20pp; No.2, Sept-Aug [1984], 20pp; No.3, Nov-Dec [19]84, 20pp; No.4, Jan-Feb 1985, 20pp; No.6, May-June 1985, 20pp; No.7, July-Aug, 1985, 20pp; No.8, Sept-Oct 1985, 20pp; No.9, Nov-Dec-Jan 1985-6, 20pp; No.10, Feb-Mar 1986, 20pp; No.11, Apr-Mar 1986, 20pp; No.13, Aug-Sept 1986, 20pp; No.15, Late Winter 1987, 20pp (though probably 1986); No.16, Late Spring 1987, 20pp (small hole to lower cover, catching text but with no loss); No.17, Autumn 1987, 20pp; No. 18, 1988, 20pp (tear to foot of upper cover, piece nearly detached but present and holding); No.21, Spring 1989, [24]p; No.22, Late Summer/Autumn 1989, [24]p; No.23, Winter 1989 / Spring 1990, 24pp; No.24, Summer 1990, 24pp; No.26, Spring 1991, 24pp; No. 27, Summer 1991, 24pp; No.28, Autumn 1991, 24pp; No.29, Winter 1991, 24pp; No.30, Summer 1992, 24pp

Formed just after the ‘Stop the City’ demonstration in 1984, Green Anarchist was initially largely individualist and pacifist in outlook, though several opposing opinions can often be found in a single issue; indeed many articles are not anarchist at all (the supporting of Western intervention in the Iraq invasion of Kuwait in issue 28 for example), with later issues tending more towards primitivism

For a good overview of the ideological deviations, see Stott and Franks’ Green Anarchist, in Ness (Ed), The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present

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