PRINT CULTURE

Despite the irregularity inherent to the alternative press, workers’ periodicals constituted a reliable source of news, opinions, ideas, and practices. They also operated as connecting hubs for anarchist networks in the United States, as their editors and staff became organic leaders of the anarchist movement. For many decades, anarchist newspapers and magazines functioned as effective resources to contest elitism and repression, while fostering grassroots solidarity and mutual aid in the heterogeneous and decentered cultures of the US anarchist movement. The Exhibits show the connections between antifascist activism and its press. US Hispanic antifascists, in particular anarchists, believed in the free press as a means to engage the general public intellectually, politically, and culturally through journalism, literature, theater, and graphic art. ​Worker periodicals editorial agency was a team and grassroots effort, and that means that they were funded, written, and printed collectively. In other words, editors, contributors, writers, and readers had a cooperative relationship, and the distinction common in the main press is not so obvious in a community periodical.