Mayday - new mag set to take the movement by storm

[Jografer]

Well the MAYDAY magazine is out and proud, with more to come. Our meetings went well and you will be seeing other issues of the best magazine at the bookfair Review copies will circulate shortly for those too tight to purchase theirs

The Contents are an Open Letter to the Movement (Left and @), THe Tribe of Wombles (class composition and the Wombles), Autonomous Anti Fascism, Victory to the Wreckers - a review article of a new book on Wrecking and descriptions of theory in the wake of the Napoli episode earlier this year (the first article about this huge phenomena from within the movement AFAIK), 40 years of socialist politics - 1967-2007 by Dave Douglass, and Ian Bone on Jade Goody, racism and football and the medias role. A challenging reda and theoretically progressive, challenging most if not all the politics within the movement and developing new perspectives for our time and the future.

I mean, the Viz piss take Black Flag with a whole page Bakunin on the back is not doing it. DA was very predictable as was the obscurity of Arfheben, not to mention their ultra left nonsense about De Angelis. I did like the WSM magazine somewhat though, far better than Organise 'A Touch of Class' I haven't had a chance to look at properly, but it appears to be OK. Notes from the Bordercamp, I mean Borderland takes some reading, and I hope it will be worth it. Though I have to admit I have spent some time doing this already and you can loose yourself for some time in its pages.

Zzzzzzzzzz ..........

 

[The Black Hand]

yes - you are tiresome.

 

[The Black Hand]

There is an article on anti-fascism so having a photo of a guy from Afa is logical. Though also we wanted something with is associated with radical politics.

Anyhow, I've had enuff of all these armchair designers sticking their 2 pennies worth

ales

Well said that man. Incidentally the deadline for articles is coming up, the end of the month for issue 2, so ya boo sucks to the nay sayers with pathetic judgement and even worse politics

 

[The Black Hand]

Look at this - some copy for issue 2. Also, this is a well thought through piece which deserves a serious reply....

http://platypus1917.home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/platypus_organizationpoliticshistory012208.html

Organization, political action, history, and consciousness: on anarchism and Marxism

A response to Mayday magazine (UK) inaugural issue #1 (Winter 2007-08)

Chris Cutrone, for Platypus

 

[chilango]

They also put issue 1 up if anyone wants to read it without paying for it...

http://platypus1917.home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/mayday_uk_issue1_win2007-08.pdf

Looks like the same old same old to me mind.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Look at this - some copy for issue 2. Also, this is a well thought through piece which deserves a serious reply....

http://platypus1917.home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/platypus_organizationpoliticshistory012208.html

Organization, political action, history, and consciousness: on anarchism and Marxism

A response to Mayday magazine (UK) inaugural issue #1 (Winter 2007-08)

Chris Cutrone, for Platypus

Now I have a lot of time for anarchist politics, but what the fuck is this:

Programmatic organization might be necessary precisely because it can objectify and thus make available for critical reflection problems of changes in consciousness

...supposed to mean? It all reads a bit too much like a leftie paper for my liking. Long winded self important prose hasn't set us free yet, and there's been plenty of it floating about in the last two hundred odd years. Nobody who doesn't already agree with you will read this stuff.

 

[Jografer]

Well the MAYDAY magazine is out and proud, with more to come.

... err, it's the 29th January...

 

[Skimix]

Well it looks like a fascinating read

 

[The Black Hand]

... err, it's the 29th January...

You would do well to check the date of that post when i made it. I posted that back in October 2007. Thanks for asking though, MAYDAY issue 2 should be out for Mayday 2008.

 

[The Black Hand]

Now I have a lot of time for anarchist politics, but what the fuck is this:



...supposed to mean? It all reads a bit too much like a leftie paper for my liking. Long winded self important prose hasn't set us free yet, and there's been plenty of it floating about in the last two hundred odd years. Nobody who doesn't already agree with you will read this stuff.

Platypus are re-thinking Marxist politics, Mayday however are libertarian in approach.

The problem is Frank that the British @ movement does not do politics at all well - infact it is crap at politics. Which is one of the reasons behind our magazine...

We are trying to increase our tendencies political presence and increase the standards within the movement

 

[The Black Hand]

Well it looks like a fascinating read

And you would be right, the introduction is a good introduction to our current epoch, and there are articles such as the anti fascist one which specialise; describing the problems of the current anti fascist movement, and suggesting ways forward out of the impasse.

 

[untethered]

We are trying to increase our tendencies political presence and increase the standards within the movement

Well you have fantastic 20th century communication methods to go with your 20th century ideas.

We've got something really important to say that we want the whole world to know, but you can only read it if you pay us some money for a not-very-widely-available chunk of dead tree.

The conservative groups I'm involved with are more progressive in their methods than you are.

 

[The Black Hand]

Well you have fantastic 20th century communication methods to go with your 20th century ideas.

We've got something really important to say that we want the whole world to know, but you can only read it if you pay us some money for a not-very-widely-available chunk of dead tree.

The conservative groups I'm involved with are more progressive in their methods than you are.

Are you blind? Here it is;
http://platypus1917.home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/mayday_uk_issue1_win2007-08.pdf

 

[untethered]

Are you blind? Here it is;
http://platypus1917.home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/mayday_uk_issue1_win2007-08.pdf

Apologies. I'll let you know if I have a Damascene conversion.

 

[The Black Hand]

Apologies. I'll let you know if I have a Damascene conversion.

Is that the effect you get after too much Absinthe?

 

[untethered]

Is that the effect you get after too much Absinthe?

I wouldn't know.

 

[The Black Hand]

I wouldn't know.

I do hope you enjoy the mag though, it has definately been worth doing, and we haven't been able to keep up with demand.

So much so we are considering serious publication changes for issue 2 - including but not limited to, printing shedloads from the off.

 

[TopCat]

Just re work crowbar and be done with it.

 

[The Black Hand]

Just re work crowbar and be done with it.

Some London squatters can do that - it would make no sense up here...

 

[The Black Hand]

The new PDF of issue 1 is here;

http://platypus1917.home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/mayday_uk_issue1_win2007-08.pdf

 

[brasicritique]

Can somebody please explain what 'the movement' is who involves who it excludes etc

hmmmmm maybe i should have asked spion he seems to like explanations.....

 

[The Black Hand]

Can somebody please explain what 'the movement' is who involves who it excludes etc

hmmmmm maybe i should have asked spion he seems to like explanations.....

The movement is groups, and anybody and everybody who clings to left/@ ideas, however removed or tenuously. It's a very simplistic descriptive analysis but it will do for a start.

 

[fractionMan]

shite cover I'm afraid

 

[brasicritique]

The movement is groups, and anybody and everybody who clings to left/@ ideas, however removed or tenuously. It's a very simplistic descriptive analysis but it will do for a start.

sounds like more like a political diaspora. But i suppose it has top start somewhere

Has the IWCA ever featured on Indymedia ?

 

[belboid]

The new PDF of issue 1 is here;

http://platypus1917.home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/mayday_uk_issue1_win2007-08.pdf

bejeesus! what DTP software doesnt come with an automatic print/save to pdf function?

 

[The Black Hand]

sounds like more like a political diaspora. But i suppose it has top start somewhere

Hmm yes. But I can recognise my fellow travellers miles away

 

[The Black Hand]

Has the IWCA ever featured on Indymedia ?

WHo cares? Indy should get a feature on the Community Action Party from Wigan - they are a bigger National organisation!! - b4 the IWCA no hopers....

 

[The Black Hand]

bejeesus! what DTP software doesnt come with an automatic print/save to pdf function?

I'm computer illiterate so I cannot speak your language.

 

[The Black Hand]

shite cover I'm afraid

But forever relevant, as the recent murder of the Czech anti fascist showed.

 

[The Black Hand]

shite cover I'm afraid

Have you (Or anybody) got any designs for issue 2 then?