Wildcat (magazine)

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Wildcat

language German
First edition 1984
Frequency of publication irregular
Web link www.wildcat-www.de
Article archive www.wildcat-www.de/archiv.htm
ZDB 620218-4

Wildcat is a workerist journal based in Karlsruhe was founded.

The first edition was published in 1984. The magazine emerged from the Karlsruhe city newspaper , founded in 1977 , whose name it kept as a subtitle until November 1986. Eleven years after the first issue, the magazine, which appeared three times a year and had a circulation of around 1500 to 2500 copies, was discontinued.

On the occasion of the Iraq war in 2003, the magazine was revived. The magazine comes on the market approximately every two to three months and contains articles in German as well as articles in English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Hungarian and sometimes in Farsi. The articles do not have an author's name. The magazine is mostly sold in bookstores, but you can also subscribe to it.

Associated with the Wildcat was Circular , which saw itself as a discussion forum. The supplement was published from 1994 to 2003. Belonging is also Thekla in which texts by theorists such. B. Austin Lewis , Romano Alquati and the initiative Welt in Umwälzung . The magazine is published by a registered association called Shiraz , based in Cologne and Potsdam.

Bernd Drücke , the editor of the grassroots revolution , characterizes it in 1998 as “[s] yndicalist magazine with a decreasing libertarian and an increasing communist orientation”.

The name Wildcat can be traced back to the English term for actions outside of institutional facilities to improve the living conditions of workers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Jenrich: Anarchist Press in Germany 1945–1985 , Grafenau 1988, p. 247.
  2. ↑ Index of the first task on the website
  3. ↑ Self-statement on their website (PDF; 735 kB)
  4. ↑ a b Wildcat entry in: Ralf G. Hoerig, Jochen Schmück, in the database of German-speaking anarchism . Periodicals 1798-2001 ff.
  5. ↑ Self-statement on website
  6. ↑ Bernd Drücke: Between a desk and street battle? , Münster 1998, p. 569.