We are happy to report that ONWARD anarchist newspaper, which was published quarterly and distributed internationally between 2000 and 2003, can once again be found online! We have established a website to archive and make publicly available the contents of the paper. Check it out at: onwardnewspaper.wordpress.com
The site currently features all of the articles which were available on our original website, from the first issue through volume 3 issue 2 (fall 2002). We are particularly interested in trying to find material from the final issue that we produced -- volume 3, issue 3 (winter 2002/2003) -- and from the single issue produced by the Ohio-based collective in the fall of 2003. We would like ultimately to have all of the contents from the paper online. Some technical difficulties have limited our ability to include the contents of every issue, so if you have a copy of an article published in ONWARD that does not appear on the website, please send it to us at this address: rob@riseup.net.
ONWARD played a role, however briefly, in providing a forum for anarchists with different viewpoints to share news, theory, history, and opinion in a non-sectarian and organizing-based framework. The paper was based in Gainesville, Florida, but published articles by authors engaged in grassroots organizing around the world. We prioritized articles that emphasized what we saw as two vital, complementary elements of anarchism: struggles to create direct democracy, and struggles against oppression.
The paper emerged out of the global justice movement and an attempt to highlight the role anarchists were playing in that movement and in community struggles around the world.
We had special issues about anarchist perspectives on leadership development, parenting in anarchist communities, Palestine/Israel, nationalism, queer liberation, feminism, and ecology, among other topics. We had a regular focus on prison issues and political prisoners in part through our cooperation with the Anarchist Black Cross Federation, and we made the paper available for free to hundreds of prisoners around the country.
Our original self-description is included below for more information. We’re excited to once again be able to provide access to its contents for anarchists and other assorted revolutionaries and activists today!
Please check out the site and spread the word:
onwardnewspaper.wordpress.com
In solidarity,
Rob Augman, Berlin
Dan Berger, Philadelphia
ONWARD co-founders/co-editors
Onward is an anarchist newspaper intending to facilitate both a report of anarchist actions worldwide and foster analysis of current events from an anarchist perspective, all in the process of building an intelligent, well informed and powerful revolutionary movement. Our goal is to show the relation of the different liberation struggles and the unification of often separated movements. Different anarchist viewpoints (Syndicalist, Feminist, Green etc.) are not mutually exclusive but rather all fit together in the larger revolutionary framework. Real liberation is freedom in every sphere of life; we must dissolve all forms of hierarchy that tangle the world in coercion, oppression, and domination and replace them with liberatory and cooperative structures guaranteeing all to participate in reshaping the local and world communities. We aim for a social sphere that needs and desires no such rulings over our lives and communities. We believe in the abolition of capitalism; that economies should not set one class above another but foster solidarity, mutual aid and direct decision making.
To that end, ONWARD is a forum for anarchist news and contains anarchist and radical history, theory and opinion in order to not only critique the social and political relationships that exist today, but also present a viable and logical future based on voluntary cooperation, direct and participatory democracy, mutual aid, solidarity, and freedom; in short, anarchy!
ONWARD newspaper, 2000-2003
Archives available: onwardnewspaper.wordpress.com