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“Return Fire” PDF version (anarchist publication from the U.K.)

Return Fire | 25.10.2013 09:54 | Ecology | History | Technology

The PDF version of “Return Fire” volume 1 is now hosted online by 325.nostate.net and volume 2 is in the works.



Find it at  http://325.nostate.net/?p=8753 as two separate files:

the covers -  http://325.nostate.net/library/return-fire-cover.pdf

and the contents -  http://325.nostate.net/library/return-fire-1-contents.pdf



ORIGINAL RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT (23.05.2013):

Our new zine Return Fire is now available. It's a diverse mix with liberatory aims, which we hope to be informative and inspiring for anyone who decides to make their life a weapon against the dominant order.

We present fresh content such as the new anti-psychiatry piece Fucked Off Not Fucked Up by V.Q., updates on modern surveillance and alienation (New Technologies, New Control), an article situating the ongoing Sealife Deformities from the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill within the industrial catastrophe everywhere, and 'The State Always Has a Conspiracy... Have You?' from some U.K. irreducibles on refusal, illegality and attack, and more.

The zine includes the full-length pieces Fukushima's Fallout On My Soul, Alex Gorrion examining the anti-social tension in We Want to Be Great Like Our Crime through reviewing Isabelle Eberhardt and Renzo Novatore, an English version of the claim by an 'International Revolutionary Front' cell taking responsibility for the Vehicle Bomb at the Headquarters of Microsoft, Athens, during June 2012, the classic critiqué Nature as Spectacle, and Auschwitz-Disneyland translated from the French-language journal La Mauvaise Herbe.

We've also reproduced excerpts from others texts we consider valuable. These include parts of the founding statement by 'Cultural Terrorists' of the ASIF subversive women's group (on surrealism and the rejection of forced femininity) along with other historical pieces of interest, considerations on informal anarchism and 'The Organised Minority Structure' by the then-captives of the 'Vyrona 4' case, thoughts on the anguish of romantic co-dependency in 'Can't Live Without You', anti-prison polemic 'An Hourglass That Kills Slowly' by Random Anarchists in London, observations on the reduced capacity for autonomy under mechanised life ('The Loss of Competence', by Crystalised Ginger), alongside selected other words that recently came out of the U.K...

...As well as many more articles, imprisoned but undefeated voices from Rebels Behind Bars, snatches of Poems for Love, Loss & War (from V.Q., Claudia López, Severino di Giovanni and more), information on Wild Plants for edible and medicinal purposes, and scattered news and communiqués from the Global Flash Points of radical action from the winter of 2012-2013.

We hope that the intent throughout is as clear as we intended: that is, against civilisation and domination, for anarchy and wildness.

Open this link for a PDF file of the editorial piece alone:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2013/05//509656.pdf

Visit or contact the following spaces in the Britain and Ireland to get copies of the zine:
The Cowley Club (Brighton)
Kebele (Bristol)
Pitchfork Anarchist Library (Bristol)
Hydra Books (Bristol)
The Red & Black Umbrella (Cardiff)
Seomra Spraoi (Dublin)
Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh (Edinburgh)
News From Nowhere (Liverpool)
56a Infoshop (London)
'The Canny Little Library' at the Star & Shadow Cinema (Newcastle)
The Sumac Centre (Nottingham)
Oxford Action Resource Centre (Oxford)
… & look out for international distribution in the future.

Return Fire

Comments

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Something else?

25.10.2013 21:26

Nothing on anarcho-syndicalist industrial unions?

@


Anarchism is about a social revolution.

26.10.2013 00:22

Anarchism is about a social revolution created and controlled by working class people in their communities and workplaces. It is about simple things like mutual aid, solidarity and cooperation. I love hillwalking and escaping for the day from the type of society we have under capitalism, but it is only escapism, and the hard work remains as long as we allow it.

I don't want to give my name, ok?


anarchosyndicalism?

26.10.2013 08:59

@ @Nothing on anarcho-syndicalist industrial unions?

Sorry the 1930s are gone comrade.
The industrial unions went the way of the industrial workers.
Any new ideas for how we fight capitalism today in the world we actually live in?

ana


social revolution

26.10.2013 12:28

is about the destruction of all hierarchy (including the working class).

x


Anarcho-syndicalism for the 21st century

27.10.2013 20:23

 http://www.selfed.org.uk/read/ffo << see chapter 5 ;-)

(also, to clarify, imo UK syndicalists and insurrectionist both have what the other lacks. They both seriously need to stop critiquing and learn from each other! Syndicalists need to take on the insurrectionary spirit of revolt and the idea that everyday 'crime' and rioting is also resistance. Most syndicalist writing I see is dull and hasn't got an 'edge'. Not very inspiring to the many that really do want to throw out their boss and stop paying their landlord! Insurrectionaries need to get better at relating their ideas to the majority of people - in the workplace, in communities, at the job centre - and learn from the syndicalists understanding that we need to organise and build resistance among the people we live and work with, not just for causes we've learnt about through reading or in solidarity with people far away, but around issues that materially affect all of us, and in solidarity with people fighting every day struggles without flowery language or anarchist symbols. That's my 2 cents anyway...)

anon
- Homepage: http://www.selfed.org.uk/read/ffo


anarchism for the 21st century

28.10.2013 10:02

re. anon
Agree with what you say about "fighting every day struggles without flowery language or anarchist symbols".
But also think that needs to involve moving away from the old fetishes of the "worker" and the "industrial union".
In countries like the UK (as opposed to say China or Bangladesh) that speaks just as little to most people now days, particularly most young people, as the most high flying insurrectionary poetry. We need to be making anarchism for the 21st century, in the everyday conditions of struggle we face where we are. That probably doesn't mean "anarchosyndicalism" or "insurrectionary anarchism" as currently understood, but new tactics that I don't think we've figured out yet.

ana


"Irreducibles" are Fascist hooligans

29.10.2013 01:34

Paolo di Canio - Irreducibile
Paolo di Canio - Irreducibile

Looks for all the world like another iteration of the Conspiracy Cells of Fire / 325 magazine / police agent-provocateurs who constantly trolled Indymedia making anti-semitic comments, talking about ketamine, and trying to convince people that Anarchism was about attacking medical scientists and arson attacks against firms that provide customised vehicles for disabled people, etc

Really, these dickheads are so transparent they can't even get the terminology right. "Irreducibles" are the Irreducibile (SS Lazio) hooligans associated with Italian Fascist Paolo do Canio

Now do fuck off

Maxi


equation

29.10.2013 16:49

IMC UK = State security asset

lol


Unique and Meaningful Title

30.10.2013 10:43

Seem to getting a bit confused there, was there too many words to read at once?

(A Maxi is an out of date piece of shite from the 80's.)

Do fuck off.

Troll Spotter


The obvious is becoming more obvious...

31.10.2013 22:43

Thanks for your reply ana - generally agree with you :-)

I think it is quite evident from the above comments that police are attempting to stir up divisions between insurrectionists and syndicalists. Would suggest both sides be careful to be friendly in any criticism - it is clearly in the state's interests and against ours to see each other as enemies....

Also, would editors of above magazine be interested in articles about workplace struggles? One's that avoid fetishising "industrial unions" and "workers", obviously ;-)

anon


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