The AVA's masthead features mottoes borrowed from the French Revolution and the Industrial Workers of the World: Various quotations are distributed throughout every issue of the paper.
He left the AVA, as the paper is known, in 2004 for Oregon where he tried to start another weekly.
It failed and Anderson bought the AVA back in July 2007.
The paper is unique in that it is based in the rural community of Boonville, Mendocino County, California, but features much leftwing opinion wrapped around local sports, school board reports, profiles of local characters, and impressively detailed stories on local controversies.
Anderson describes himself as "a socialist with strong, nay overwhelming, anarchist instincts."