MAYDAY - a great new magazine

[The Black Hand]

In your dreams, mackscum.

You've quickly got into the faux Ne. inter town rivalry thing haven't you, how long you been in Newcastle? I live about 45 minutes drive from Sunderland though...

 

[chico enrico]

Refused as Fuck. does the sXe thing in your tag mean 'straight edge'? Only asking as i was looking at a 'straight edge' website the other day out of interest as i'd heard of it on myspace but didnt really know what folk who were into it believed in.

It was nuts.

 

[The Black Hand]

Refused as Fuck. does the sXe thing in your tag mean 'straight edge'? Only asking as i was looking at a 'straight edge' website the other day out of interest as i'd heard of it on myspace but didnt really know what folk who were into it believed in.

It was nuts.

Nobody in the NE will trust a man who doesn't have a drink

 

[JHE]

Funnily enough you're totally wrong.

I'm very disappointed. I'll probably cancel my subscription and standing order now.

 

[The Black Hand]

I'm very disappointed. I'll probably cancel my subscription and standing order now.

You never had one! But saying that - you can buy me a drink i think its time. At the www.1968andallthat.net bookfair/conference. See you there.

 

[brasicritique]

i particulary liked the radical summer fashion selection section

 

[The Black Hand]

i particulary liked the radical summer fashion selection section

We're doing a winter fashion line too -those velcro body armour tops

 

[lights.out.london]

I was hoping for a bit of sXe-baiting... ..not Oop North (it's grim) inter-slum bickering. Lmao.

**taxi for Lights**

 

[The Black Hand]

well done with getting to issue 2- hope it isn't as delayed as #1 getting printed

Thanks. Issue 2 came out very nicely Barney, and there are already plans for issue 3

 

[The Black Hand]

I thought this threaad should have the magazines contents!

Advertised on the front of Mayday magazine there is The Tribe of Wombles, Autonomous Anti Fascism, 1967-2007 a Socialist review, and a large founding statement; Introduction - Open Letter to the movement.

Inside as well, there is a review article about wrecking and a good book called "the wreckers"(!) - as far as I know the first @/left article to tackle the subject that was huge news for a fortnight earlier this year (the Napoli was beached in Devon), and a great Ian Bone article on the history of football, corporate media and Jade Goody talking about the new cultural environment.

BUTCHERS - did you read the polemic - 'Reading Autonomist Marxism Politically'?

I know you will have, but what do you think of it?

 

[Refused as fuck]

Does Issue 2 have pictures?

 

[The Black Hand]

Does Issue 2 have pictures?

It has got cool as fuck graphics from Dface - look him up on google. Same mould as banksy.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Banksy? Fuck that shit.

 

[mk12]

It has got cool as fuck graphics from Dface - look him up on google. Same mould as banksy.

Privately educated you mean?

 

[The Black Hand]

Privately educated you mean?

Pol pot can fek orrfff.

 

[The Black Hand]

Banksy? Fuck that shit.

Banksy's work is good. You lot of ultra leftists have no sense of humour or adventure...

 

[trevhagl]

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?

Is it full of boring historical/theoretical bollocks or is it funny and interesting like Now Or Never or CW?

 

[Refused as fuck]

It's boring as fuck.

 

[The Black Hand]

Is it full of boring historical/theoretical bollocks or is it funny and interesting like Now Or Never or CW?

I haven't found CW funny for years or had much useful. It has never been able to reproduce the 1980s style which was very good.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Well the world has changed since the 80's, Attica. You seem to have struggled to realise this.

 

[The Black Hand]

It's boring as fuck.

Only the boring get bored

Its a magazine which is politically exciting - and also the best from the libertarian milieu. No competition I know but there you go

Covering issues such as Wrecking (Remember Napoli and Branscombe Bay?) which most have ignored and it is also not afraid to identify movement/group shortcomings. Mayday IS looking to creat something better than what exists, cos what exists is nowhere near good enough.

 

[The Black Hand]

Well the world has changed since the 80's, Attica. You seem to have struggled to realise this.

Doh!
CW is just not funny anymore, its lost the political bite it had which is what I meant. Its more like a lame duck rather than anything else...

 

[The Black Hand]

BUTCHERS - did you read the polemic - 'Reading Autonomist Marxism Politically'?

I know you will have, but what do you think of it?

Seen as he hasn't got a political mind or answer i will answer it. It was a good article covering what passes for the Autonomist marxist milieu in the UK. It also appears to have had an effect cos now the autonomists have an interesting campaign; http://www.privateequitysucks.com/

 

[The Black Hand]

We shall cover The Tribe of Wombles article now - please put your opinions about that article here everybody.

Inc. Butchers - or are you cowardly still?

 

[Random]

are the acoustics good in your private room, attic?

 

[Yelkcub]

Those writers could be something else after their A-levels!

 

[The Black Hand]

Those writers could be something else after their A-levels!

 

[The Black Hand]

are the acoustics good in your private room, attic?

 

[The Black Hand]

We shall cover The Tribe of Wombles article now - please put your opinions about that article here everybody.

Inc. Butchers - or are you cowardly still?

Butchers still hasn't got a brain, so I will say that it is a good article, covering social conditions the length and breadth of the UK. For some reasons politico's do not often ground their theory in real places and things people can associate with. This article does not fall into that trap.

All in all "The Tribe of Wombles" is a great article on class composition and the Wombles and their organisational context in the early 21st century -

A 'Tribe of Moles' for our time, and not that of the been, never has been, and gone.