MAYDAY - a great new magazine

[The Black Hand]

Mayday is a well put together mag in terms of style and also forward looking content, with much political potential... my quick review

Well somebody out there must think so too - or in a contrary way - or have a postive but less enthusiastic approach....

Having sold out at the Anarchist bookfair in london, and at the Durham working class bookfair.

Has anybody read this excellent new magazine so far and what do they think of it?

 

[TopCat]

How many have you sold?

 

[marty21]

is it like heat magazine?

 

[Dubversion]

i was hoping for anarcho word search. I was ready to circle 'praxis' - i bought a new felt-tip and everything

by the way, isn't this spam?

 

[TopCat]

Well like heat magazine Jade Goody features heavily.

 

[TopCat]

i was hoping for anarcho word search. I was ready to circle 'praxis' - i bought a new felt-tip and everything

by the way, isn't this spam?

Nah, it ain't.

 

[marty21]

Well like heat magazine Jade Goody features heavily.

any other slebs in it?

 

[TopCat]

I don't know, I never bought a copy.

 

[The Black Hand]

I don't know, I never bought a copy.

Tight arse.

 

[The Black Hand]

How many have you sold?

Not enough. Approaching 200 I believe, but you will have to ask the publisher in London for official numbers. We could have done 200 at the London bookfair alone I think. There's always next year But anyway, it is quality that counts and this magazine is worth a 100 times more than any stale and predictable anarcho ghetto one from the usual suspects

 

[marty21]

it's such a pity that anarchos just can't be friends

 

[cesare]

it's such a pity that anarchos just can't be friends

Yeah if they all got on with each other, common goal etc, would be quite appealing

 

[The Black Hand]

Yeah if they all got on with each other, common goal etc, would be quite appealing

Yeah. They only meet politically once a year at a bookfair, this shows they are not interested in politics.

 

[JHE]

Mayday is not online. It's soooo last century.

...forward looking content...

What the fuck does that mean?

...with much political potential...

Like what...? Give us an example, you daft old hunt sab.

Having sold out at the Anarchist bookfair in london, and at the Durham working class bookfair...

Ah, you admit it, eh?

 

[free spirit]

Not enough. Approaching 200 I believe, but you will have to ask the publisher in London for official numbers. We could have done 200 at the London bookfair alone I think. There's always next year But anyway, it is quality that counts and this magazine is worth a 100 times more than any stale and predictable anarcho ghetto one from the usual suspects

so sold out at the london and durham book fairs actually translates to didn't take enough with you then?


btw show us yer cover

 

[chico enrico]

yea, let's see the cover mate. That mock-up one with the smelly in the beanie hat doing the Dracula impression was piss.

 

[invisibleplanet]

Yeah. They only meet politically once a year at a bookfair, this shows they are not interested in politics.

O rly?

 

[In Bloom]

Once a year is more than enough time spent with other anarchists, bunch of smelly, middle class wankers with bad hair.

 

[dwenfish]

Once a year is more than enough time spent with other anarchists, bunch of smelly, middle class wankers with bad hair.

they really did smell this year, poor neglected showers

 

[nosos]

Give us an example, you daft old hunt sab.

Brilliant phrase

 

[The Black Hand]

O rly?

Yes. Sects that only meet other people once a year are not developing their or others politics. It's pathetic. There is no serious development of politics. No research agenda, no actual research or sharing of ideas/practice for comparison, no questioning of 'received wisdom'. If you think politics develops without non sectarian forums, serious research, or conferences you are very deluded. In truth, the UK @ Movement is infantile, trapped in Leninist inspired practices and thinking processes (Franks - "Rebel Alliances - THe means and ends of contemporary British Anarchism", AK Press, 2006).

 

[The Black Hand]

Brilliant phrase

It's not me though.

 

[nosos]

If you think politics develops without non sectarian forums, serious research, or conferences you are very deluded.

Surely anarchist politics develop through activity?

(not that there's all that much of that either)

 

[The Black Hand]

Surely anarchist politics develop through activity?

(not that there's all that much of that either)

That as well, but I was also on about engaging new ideas/debate, new thinkers and ways of thinking, AND even talking strategically and politically about potential alliances...

 

[nosos]

I completely agree: it's just that "non sectarian forums, serious research, or conferences" struck me as a recipe for theory at the cost of praxis. I probably read too much into what you said.

 

[The Black Hand]

I completely agree: it's just that "non sectarian forums, serious research, or conferences" struck me as a recipe for theory at the cost of praxis. I probably read too much into what you said.

We should get in bed together then

 

[nosos]

<backs slowly away from the old hunt sab>

What "non sectarian forums, serious research, or conferences" are you talking about? In all seriousness I am in agreement with you here. It's just that my involvment in these things purely relates to liberal environmentalism, single issue stuff and academic stuff: anarchism doesn't practically enter into it per se.

 

[The Black Hand]

<backs slowly away from the old hunt sab>

What "non sectarian forums, serious research, or conferences" are you talking about? In all seriousness I am in agreement with you here. It's just that my involvment in these things purely relates to liberal environmentalism, single issue stuff and academic stuff: anarchism doesn't practically enter into it per se.

Well there are none, so perhaps what I and you want doesn't exist...

 

[nosos]

What would you see them as involving?

 

[Blagsta]

Is Attica an old hunt sab? Blimey, wonder if I ever knew him?