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What magazine/paper/periodical most shaped your political thinking?

As it happens, just been listening to this podcast interview with the makers of Signal journal (nope, never heard of it before either), and one of them mentions how finding old issues of Cienfuegos was really influential for them.
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"And finally, I’ve run out of Cienfuegos titles, but do have a pamphlet produced in 1968 by Coptic Press, Albert Meltzer’s publishing company before he threw in with Stuart Christie on Black Flag and Cienfuegos. Aims and Principles of Anarchism is laid out on a typewriter, roughly printed, and has an extremely charming cover, well laid out in a strong, naive way. It’s relatively rare to see unique and original illustrations on anarchist pamphlets these days, so this is a real treat. I’m not entirely sure how this was printed, it looks part-mimeograph, part-offset, with the edges of the ink of the cover a little fuzzy, which Lincoln Cushing says is a tell-tale sign of a Gestetner machine. I’ll have to do more research into Coptic to find out."
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The Albany Street shop was at 36 and was used as a contact address for both Class War and A Communist Effort.

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“The anarchist bookshop at no 36 Albany Street, in Euston, was a successor to the Peace Centre in 1983, based in an area of mass squatting for both housing and alternative projects, around Tolmers Square and Drummond Street. The anarchist paper Class War was briefly based at the bookshop.” Today in London’s dole history, 1985: Islington Unwaged Centre occupied to prevent its closure

Any info about A Communist Effort? I've never heard about that group/journal before.

I do remember the journal, A Communist Headache.
 
Living Marxism….yeah I know. That group also produced their version of Private Eye. I remember it was quite scurrilous they targeted Portillo a lot with his sexual dalliances with male staffers. Dunno I guess fairly tame stuff now but at the time the time quite scandalous.

Scallywag just remembered the name.

For a while Soviets released an English version of Pravda. I used to buy it on the way to work at my local newsagents.
 
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I expect it was done samizdat style on a Roneo or Gestetner duplicator after typing directly onto a stencil and doing simple drawings with a ball point pen.

Back then, before computers and DTP, a lot of us small communist/anarchist groups made our propaganda this way. I had an electric Roneo machine in the living room of my squat (a step up from the old hand-cranked duplicator) and was churning out thousands of flyers and bulletins. It was a thing of beauty.
 
Living Marxism….yeah I know. That group also produced their version of Private Eye. I remember it was quite scurrilous they targeted Portillo a lot with his sexual dalliances with male staffers. Dunno I guess fairly tame stuff now but at the time the time quite scandalous.

Scallywag just remembered the name.

For a while Soviets released an English version of Pravda. I used to buy it on the way to work at my local newsagents.
I think Robert Maxwell was involved in the English language versh of Pravda
 
I expect it was done samizdat style on a Roneo or Gestetner duplicator after typing directly onto a stencil and doing simple drawings with a ball point pen.

Back then, before computers and DTP, a lot of us small communist/anarchist groups made our propaganda this way. I had an electric Roneo machine in the living room of my squat (a step up from the old hand-cranked duplicator) and was churning out thousands of flyers and bulletins. It was a thing of beauty.
I briefly shared a house with an anarchist printer / zine producer / cartoonist known to people on here and it was great to see his little productions using various modern and older machines and methods to be honest.
 
Living Marxism….yeah I know. That group also produced their version of Private Eye. I remember it was quite scurrilous they targeted Portillo a lot with his sexual dalliances with male staffers. Dunno I guess fairly tame stuff now but at the time the time quite scandalous.

Scallywag just remembered the name.
What connection did RCP/Living Marxism/Junius/Informinc have with Scallywag? :confused:
 
Never heard of it but just found this in a copy of Hackney Peoples Press from 1982... :thumbs:

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While visiting my parents this weekend, had a look through not one but two Lazarus Lamb books. You never officially find out where he lives, but my mum reckons it was based on Islington, and also claims that she used to work with the person who it was actually modelled on. Took photos of various bits I enjoyed:
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And from the sequel:
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I expect it was done samizdat style on a Roneo or Gestetner duplicator after typing directly onto a stencil and doing simple drawings with a ball point pen.

Back then, before computers and DTP, a lot of us small communist/anarchist groups made our propaganda this way. I had an electric Roneo machine in the living room of my squat (a step up from the old hand-cranked duplicator) and was churning out thousands of flyers and bulletins. It was a thing of beauty.
Late I know, but I can smell this post...
 
Living Marxism….yeah I know. That group also produced their version of Private Eye. I remember it was quite scurrilous they targeted Portillo a lot with his sexual dalliances with male staffers. Dunno I guess fairly tame stuff now but at the time the time quite scandalous.

Scallywag just remembered the name.

For a while Soviets released an English version of Pravda. I used to buy it on the way to work at my local newsagents.
I can assure you Scallywag (Simon Regan) was nothing to do with LM….
 
I enjoyed this brief account by one of the people behind Timperley Village Anarchist - a small anarcho/Class War newsletter from the mid-80s:

Which you can take a look at here:

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I enjoyed this brief account by one of the people behind Timperley Village Anarchist - a small anarcho/Class War newsletter from the mid-80s:

Which you can take a look at here:

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I enjoyed this brief account by one of the people behind Timperley Village Anarchist - a small anarcho/Class War newsletter from the mid-80s:

Which you can take a look at here:

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What shadowy figure could be behind this shocking filth?

 
Impressively baffling decision to keep the schnews.org header, which takes you to a link that makes no mention of the new issue, rather than replacing it with one to the network23.org site that actually has it.
Gotta keep steps ahead of the feds, dude
 
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