The underground press were the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations.
The term "underground press" is also used to refer to illegal publications under oppressive regimes, for example, the samizdat and bibuĊa in the Soviet Union and Poland respectively.
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