The Alternative Press Index Archive is a subject index to  alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.

The Alternative Press Index (API) was born with the New Left of the 1960's. It was launched in 1969 to provide access to the practices and theories of radical social change. The Index is international and interdisciplinary, spanning the social sciences and humanities. 

Subjects Covered: anarchism, indigenous peoples, democracy, labor, ecology, national liberation, feminism, socialism - theory and practice, gay and lesbian issues  

Dates Covered: 1969 to 1990.  For coverage from 1991 to present see Alternative Press Index.

Titles Covered: Over 700

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