We’re happy to announce that we’ll be tabling at the anarchist bookfair in Minneapolis-St. Paul next month. We’ll have our usual assortment of free zines, as well as some of our fancier stuff like bandannas, SteamPunk Magazine, patches, posters, everything you’ve ever wanted!
A short little piece about the future and why it seems like it sucks.
“Fuck flying cars, I just want shit to be weird.”
The print version comes with “Jessup The Goblin” as well… print it out, then cut the zine down to square (hint: the cover should be full bleed). Note that these square zines are really don’t work as well laid out for A4 paper, my apologies. You can just “shrink to fit” to print on A4 paper.
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At long last, an Attack Attack Attack music video! Also, we set up a youtube channel. Our username is StrangersInATangled. This video features the execution of Mussolini.
We’re quite happy to begin to put up posters on our site! We’ve been tabling fancy prints of these for most of 2010, but now you can print them out yourselves. Each poster is available in 11×17 or Legal paper size (clicking on the image downloads the full size pdf).
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A short essay exploring how anarchism has always been at odds with civilization. This is primarily earnest, but is a slightly tongue-in-cheek attempt to address the mind-boggling stupid essay anarchism vs. primitivism that still seems to be making the rounds.
This is our first experiment with eBook format! (Yes, we appreciate the irony of this.) We’ve laid it out as an ePub file, for most readers, and as a .mobi file for your kindle!
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Squatters of the Alhambra, by Washington Irving
A post-apocalyptic tale of drunk-punk squatters occupying the Alhambra, fighting against government!
Okay, this zine actually came out in 2008, but we weren’t certain how we were going to publish it. Short-run color printing at an odd size is pretty freaking expensive. So we’ve been printing these on a laser color printer and tabling them for the past couple of years. Now we’re making it available to read online or print out yourself. Be warned, the files are around 100mb. To print the “letter” one, print it double-sided with long-edge binding, making sure to print the blank page. Cut the pages in half, then trim off outer margins but not the inner margins (which is the left side of the front of the paper). Note that the cover piece of paper has the margins set up a bit differently than the others, so you cut the left side off the top one and the right side off the bottom one. There are guidelines on the page. I probably won’t ever reformat this to A4, because it would change the whole thing too much. You can just “shrink to fit” however if you live somewhere without access to letter-size paper.
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crossposted from Birds Before The Storm:
When I was in Amsterdam I spent several days at the International Institute of Social History, which actually has a fascinating history of its own (such as smuggling documents out of Spain as fascist forces sweep through). Anyhow, the place is the world’s largest repository of anarchist history. Of particular note to me, it houses almost-complete collections of La Novela Ideal and La Novela Libre, two long-running, regular, widely distributed fiction magazines published by anarchists in Spain up into the Spanish civil war.
So I went and I photographed a lot of stuff, which I’ve put up on my Flickr. The catch is that I can’t really read enough Spanish to understand these things. So please, anyone with interest in this stuff, let me know. If the stories are good, I’d be happy to make them available in zine format. And if anyone is feeling really inspired, I’d be happy to print English translations as well.
Specifically, I’ve posted (books are in Spanish unless noted):
- La novela ideal #1: Mi amigo Julio by Adrian del Valle (1920s sometime)
- La novela ideal #292: Julieta by Maria Sola (1932)
- La Novela Ideal #449: Por una sola noche by Federico Urales (1935)
- La novela ideal #482: Crimenes en tierrafirma by Teresa Gibert (1935)
- La Novela Ideal #591: Juanita by Valentin Obac (1938)
- 1928 Almanaque de la novela ideal (includes various writers and translations of anarchist texts)
- La Novela Libre #36: Amor De Un Dia by Federica Montseny
- La Novela Libre #44: Mujeres libres by Mariano Gallardo (novela sexual)
- Heroinas, a novella by Federica Montseny (here are two photos of her and published by the CNT (or by CNT printers?) sometime around 1936
- A collection of German-language anarchist newspapers, mostly the covers, from a book at IISH (in German)
- Nihilism as it is by Stepniak (translated to English)
We’ve been tabling it for more than half a year, and it’s been available to purchase for $5 from our mail-order for months, but we’ve finally made Margaret Killjoy’s second seasonal photo zine available for free download: And Into Autumn (warning, 79mb file). This is the stirring collection of photos from autumn 2009 in Arizona, the south, the Pittsburgh g20 protests, office chair races, pretty waterfalls by abandoned buildings, and more! It’s also the sequel to summer 2009′s Being The Explorations of One Fine Summer.
