ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
Spare Rib.
Crowbar was an anarchist paper centred on Brixton and was very funny and full on.What was Crowbar?
Btw, I see a few people have mentioned New Society. A few years back I got a hold of photocopies of most of Ian Walker's New Society articles, scanned them in and put them on the net. He was a journalist from the 70s and 80s, who started at independent radical magazine, The Leveller, moved onto New Society for a few years and then worked for The Observer in the second half of the 80s. He only published the one book, Zoo Station, which was about his time living in West Berlin in the early 80s.
His New Society articles covered everything from Skinheads, New Romantics, Anarchism in the UK, Toxteth Riots, infiltrating the National Front (by someone else) and much, much more. If nothing else, his articles are interesting snapshot of the times and the various sub-cultures.
Anyway, here's the link to his articles: New Society's Ian Walker.
Crowbar was an anarchist paper centred on Brixton and was very funny and full on.
It encouraged direct action and gave advice and instructions on breaking into squats, fiddling the meters, making petrol bombs and how to use them, general tactics about fighting the police.
Many involved in it's production were very active and some were right up the front in 1985 and kicked off the Brixton riots of that year by attacking the police station with rocks and mollies.
I read Spare Rib from about 77 onwards. The sheer hate towards men and boys was palpable.Spare Rib.
Its front page after the 85 riots openly celebrated Blakelocks death. This was the last issue I think. The police targetted all involved.- - - - > Heads over to Libcom to see if it's in the vaults.
Never seen an online copy. A poster on urban probably has the whole set.- - - - > Heads over to Libcom to see if it's in the vaults.
I read Spare Rib from about 77 onwards. The sheer hate towards men and boys was palpable.
The hypocrisy and lack of selfawareness was hilarious.
Never seen an online copy. A poster on urban probably has the whole set.
The Canary!!!
I will ask my comrade to let me scan and post the set. Should be achived by 2050.Just had a quick look. Sadly, I can only see quotes from individual issues of Crowbar here and there.
I will ask my comrade to let me scan and post the set. Should be achived by 2050.
I dont like limp cock and wont give them the steam off my piss.Normally, I would say they should just lend them to Libcom and they'd scan them in for them, but someone just turned on a Facebook group to complain that they'd lent them a load of rare early Solidarity pamphlets over a year ago and they've yet to get them back . . . so, maybe not.
Normally, I would say they should just lend them to Libcom and they'd scan them in for them, but someone just turned on a Facebook group to complain that they'd lent them a load of rare early Solidarity pamphlets over a year ago and they've yet to get them back . . . so, maybe not.
I read Spare Rib from about 77 onwards. The sheer hate towards men and boys was palpable.
The hypocrisy and lack of selfawareness was hilarious.
I don't remember it being hateful towards men and boys. It was just very different from anything that had been around before. Some men felt a bit threatened by it, I think.
have a pity likeThe NME, 1976-80.
Too small to read!!!TopCat imposs1904
There's some scanned issues of Crowbar around the place:
Crowbar
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/6819.pdf
Crowbar 45 (Oct 1985) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Crowbar
The free Pete Mastin piece I want to read dammit!!!TopCat imposs1904
There's some scanned issues of Crowbar around the place:
Crowbar
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/6819.pdf
Crowbar 45 (Oct 1985) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Crowbar
The free Pete Mastin piece I want to read dammit!!!
get a bigger monitorToo small to read!!!