I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would be useful to make a list. All of those that are included are free to access (there are others that require some form of subscription). If there are any that I have missed, do let me know, either by commenting below or sending me an email.
AKP M-L Historie (Norwegian Maoism)
Amiel and Melburn Trust Internet Archive
Archibald Gorrie collection (Leicester centred activism)
Assorted communist stuff (via Socialist Truth – Cyprus)
Banned Thought (collection of global Maoist literature)
Black Liberation Front (UK black power)
Broadsheet (NZ feminist magazine)
Bulletin of the 1955 Bandung Conference
Communist Review (Australia)
Communist Party of Australia pamphlets (from State Library of Victoria)
Daily Worker (USA)
De Waarheid (paper of the Dutch Communist Party)
Die Rote Fahne (paper of the German Communist Party)
Digital Innovation South Africa (including Communist Party and ANC material, as well as Searchlight South Africa)
Direct Action (IWW Australia)
Documents in Revolutionary Socialism in Canada
Entdinglichung (German left history)
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Freedom archive (US and international material from 1960s-80s)
Freedom newspaper (London)
High Times (Australia)
Independent Voices (US Alternative Press archive)
Industrial Worker (US IWW newspaper)
International Labour and Radical History Pamphlet Collection (Canada focused)
International Socialist (Australian newspaper 1910s)
Joseph A. Labadie Collection (radical documents with US focus)
La Bataille Socialiste (French)
Labor Star (British Columbia)
Library of the Free (German anarchist focus)
Living Marxism (RCP)
Mao Projekt (German far left)
Movimento Reorganizativo do Partido do Proletariado (Portguese Maoism)
Oz (Sydney)
Oz (London)
Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya
Political and Rights Issues and Social Movements collection
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine historical documents
Reassembler, diffuser les archives de révolutionnaries (French Trotskyist archive)
Revolution (Australia)
Revolutionary Communist Group publications
Revolutionary Democracy (Indian Stalinism)
Rise Up! (Canadian feminist archive)
Rudé Právo (paper of the Czech Communist Party)
Socialist Standard Past & Present (SPGB)
Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library (US)
Sparrow’s Nest (UK anarchist and Nottingham centred activism)
Spirit of Revolt (Scottish anarchism)
Splits and Fusions (British Trotskyist history)
Tandana (Asian Youth Movement)
The Communist (Australia)
The Communist (USA)
The Digger (Australia)
The Living Daylights (Australia)
Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa
University of Alberta World Communism in the 20th Century Collection
Wits Historical Papers (includes material on Communist Party of South Africa and ANC)
Workers’ Star (Communist Party of Australia – Perth newspaper)
Workers’ Weekly (Australia)
12 responses to “Radical history online – a list of collections”
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Thanks for this!
Perhaps worth adding: Early American Marxism 1864-1946 http://marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/index.html
Socialist Standard (UK)
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/
womensvoicearchive.wordpress.com a Splits&Fusions spin-off but presented as a standalone archive.
https://movementsarchive.org/doku.php?id=en:start ongoing project to digitise and translate material from the socialist movement in Cyprus
Glasgow’s Spirit of Revolt archive: https://spiritofrevolt.info/
Oh, also the Joseph Labadie collection at University of Michigan: https://www.lib.umich.edu/labadie-collection
The Tyneside Anarchist Archive: https://tynesideanarchistarchive.wordpress.com/
Arm the Spirit Archives
https://armthespiritforrevolutionaryresistance.wordpress.com/
https://issuu.com/randalljaykay
Marxist Archive (trotskyism in Sweden)
https://marxistarkiv.se
Just a heads up that Broadsheet is a TERF publication & not worthy of your time.
Snylterstaten – materials from the groups KAK/KUF/M-KA, the Danish Appelians / Blekingegade Gang,
https://snylterstaten.dk/