Anarchy: a journal of desire armed. #36, Spring 1993 anticopyright - Anarchy may be reprinted at will for non-profit purposes, except in the case of individual copyrighted contributions. ALTERNATIVE MEDIA REVIEW -includes Alternative Press Review, Alternative Press Books, and Anarchist Press Review. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Alternative Press Review compiled by Jason McQuinn As always, we're happy to exchange publications with other `alternative' periodical publishers. I try to list all the publications (of more than 2 pages) that we receive in a timely way, but please be aware that there are times when this is impossible due to time and space limitations. Also keep in mind that the Anarchy issue we send for exchanges will be the one your publication is reviewed in, so please be patient. -Jason ADBUSTERS Vol.2,#3/Winter '93 (The Media Foundation, 1243 W. 7th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V6H 1B7, Canada) is a lively and effective 84-page anti-advertising magazine. Unfortunately, it takes only a superficial, single-issue approach to its criticisms, but within this narrow limit it does a very effective job. This issue includes several cover stories on consumerism as "New time religion" (shades of commodity fetishism!), and Kono Matsu on "The demarketing of North America." Subscriptions are $16/4 issues. FACTSHEET 5 #46/undated (Seth Friedman, POB 170099, San Francisco, CA. 94117-0099), the marginal/alternative press networking zine, is back and on track to regain its stature & maybe become better than ever! After a couple years hiatus (under the blundering stewardship of Hudson Luce) the first issue from new publisher Seth Friedman (who formerly put out Food For Thought zine, now a column here) contains an even hundred pages packed with over a thousand zine re- views. The reviews are organized by subject - though not always appropriately, and the sections include: Comics & Humor, B-Movies, Mail Art, Spirituality, Science Fiction, Environmental, Leftist & Anarchy, Music, Punk, Queer, and much more. It even includes an index. If you haven't seen this zine, order one right now! Samples are $4; subscriptions are $20/6 issues. CHARLOTTES MAG unnumbered/ Oct.-Nov.'92 (POB 288, Shere, Guildford, Surrey GU5 9JS, England) is a glossy & colorful 54-page "open ac- cess" magazine "for the young of all social groups to say and show what they want." Full of short pieces - fiction, poetry, articles, comix, photos, etc., this professionally produced magazine needs to be seen to be fully appreciated. From the advertisement headlined "Free condoms" to the serialized "true story" of the life of "Jason" (a teenage rent boy working the streets of London) to the free classified ads at the end, this mag is worth every penny of its cover price of œ1.40 for kids of any age - 1 to 99. Be sure to send extra for postage. GAUNTLET #4/1992 (Barry Hoffman, 309 Powell Rd., Springfield, PA. 19064) is an annual anti-censorship journal now scaled back to a 180-pages, but still containing plenty of meaty information - this time on the theme of "Media Manipulation." This issue includes Ed Cafasso on "Floyd Brown's dirty tricks and the Bush campaign," a reactionary diatribe by Mark Di Ionno on "Media pandering to Black revolutionaries," Richard Carter's "Rodney King: No isolated incident," and Caitlin Barry on "Censorship and the community press," among many other pieces. The perspectives her are at best limited to a civil liberties defense of free speech (and at worst confused media worship or bashing), but this remains an important project, worth checking out. Sample copies are $9.95 + $2 p&h. SOCIETY AND NATURE #2/Sept.-Dec. '92 (Subscription Services, POB 637, Littleton, CO. 80160-0637) is a new 234-page academic-style journal subtitled "The International Journal of Political Ecology." This issue features 12 essays divided into the categories of "The Methodological Question," "Ecological Debate," "Deep or Social Ecology?" and "Marxism and Ecology." It includes several contributions, as one might expect, from John Clark and Murray Bookchin. Also represented are Arne Naess, Robyn Eckersley, Cor- nelius Castoriadis and Ward Churchill. I haven't had time to read this journal yet, but it promises to be worth digesting. Sub- scriptions are $20/year (3 issues). ALSO RECEIVED: NORTHERN SUN NEWS Vol.15,#2/ Winter '93 (2129 Riverside Ave. #A, Minneapolis, MN. 55454-1340) is a 16-page tabloid subtitled "Alternatives in Energy, Politics and Culture." This issue includes "U.S. repeatedly lies about radiation danger: The Doomsday Plan," a collection of pieces under the overall title of "Palestine: A struggle for land" (including a short piece on a subject that the mainstream media refuses to name, the Israeli death squads), and excerpts from the writings of the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta under the title "On the necessity of violence." Sub- scriptions are $10/year (4 issues). LOOKOUT! #38/Winter '93 (POB 11374, Berkeley, CA. 94701) is a literate and highly readable zine published by Lawrence Livermore, this time back down to 32 pages. This issue features a couple pieces of entertaining fiction by the publisher - "Satan Lives at the End of My Street" and the continuing serialization of "Once Upon A Time In The Mountains." Recommended. Send $1 for a sample issue. THE OTHER ISRAEL #54-55/Jan.-Feb. '93 (I.C.I.P.P., POB 2542, Holon 58125, Israel) is a 20-page double issue of the consistently well- written newsletter of the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. This issue describes in detail "The betrayal of hope" resulting from the cowardly December deportations of over 400 Palestinians by Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. Recommended. Sub- scriptions are $30/year (6 issues). NOZONE #4/undated (1 W. 64th St. Apt.5B, NYC, NY. 10023) is an unusual & nicely-done 50-page, comic zine. This issue on "Utopia/Dystopia," includes strips by David Goldin, Steven Marcus, Russell Kristian, Jonathan Royce and others, along with an inter- esting text reviewing the history of utopias titled "Utopiascape" by Fiamifera. Send $5 for a copy. GNOSIS #26/Winter '93 (POB 14217, San Francisco, CA. 94114) is an 88-page journal of "the Western Inner Traditions." This issue on "Psychedelics & The Path" features Myron Stolaroff on "Using psychedelics wisely," Thomas Riedlinger on "Two classic trips" (by Adelle Davis and Jean-Paul Sartre), and an interview with veteran media guru Ram Dass. Subscriptions are now $20.00/year (4 issues); samples are $6 postpaid. PLAZM #3/undated (1105 SW Washington, Portland, OR. 97205) 54pp. new & impressively-produced art tabloid quarterly, featuring short essays & fiction along with lots of strong graphics "dedicated to the unrestricted expression of ideas." This issue includes an interview with Jello Biafra, "Abortion facts," and a story by Jeff Studebaker titled "Eclipse." Send $4.50 for a sample copy; sub- scriptions are $21/year. LEFT GREEN NOTES unnumbered/ Aug.-Sept.'92 (POB 293, Monte Rio, CA. 95462) is the 24-page tabloid voice for the "left-green" faction of the U.S. greens. This issue includes more news on the descent of the greens into electoralism, along with James Boggs' social-work leftist injunction that it's "Time to act like citizens, not subjects." Subscriptions are $10/year (6 issues). OH-TOH-KIN #2/Fall-Winter '92 (POB 2881, Vancouver, B.C., V6B 3X4, Canada) is an important new 16-page tabloid "focusing on Indigenous struggles and resistance since the first colonizers landed in the Caribbean," published by a former editor of the tabloid Resistance. This issue features "No justice on stolen land: Native peoples in the prisons of Canada." Recommended. Sub- scriptions are $10/4 issues. Sample copies are $2 postpaid. EAT MY SHIT #8/undated (EMS, POB 12504, Raleigh, NC. 27605) is an always readable and interesting 26-page zine. This issue includes another instalment on censorship by the postal service, a subjective piece on "Shooting dope," and interviews with a "dirty old man," a stripper and a murderer. Send a contribution for a sample copy. EARTH FIRST! Vol.13,#2/Yule '92 & #3/Brigid '93 (POB 5176, Missoula, MT. 59806) is a 40-page tabloid of the Earth First! move- ment/organization. Issue #2 includes an editorial on "Earth First! and social justice," Jean Eisenhower on "The battle for Mount Gra- ham," Jacob Bear on "Subpoena: What everyone should know about grand juries," and "If it's so bad, why isn't everybody worried?" by Mark Davis. Issue #3 includes an editorial on "Debate and censorship," along with Darryl Cherney's critique of the Center for Investigative Reporting titled "First, they kill your story..." Always recommended. Subscriptions are $20/year (8 issues). CHALLENGE Vol.3,#6/Nov.-Dec.'92 & Vol.4,#1/Jan.-Feb.'93 (POB 14338, Tel Aviv 61142, Israel) is a 42-page "Magazine of the Israeli Left," written "by Arabs & Jews." (It is also published in a Hebrew-language version titled Etgar.) Issue #6 features Yakov Ben Efrat on "Left-wing opposition: A vanishing act." Issue #1 includes reactions to the recent deportations of Palestinians, along with an interview with Noam Chomsky titled "This is U.S. turf." Highly rec- ommended. Subscriptions are $30/year (6 issues). RAIN Vol.14,#3/Spring '93 (POB 30097, Eugene, OR. 97403-1097) is a 64-page decentralist/appropriate technology magazine. This issue includes articles on "Grassroots relief in the Balkans", "Piaxtla: Village-organized healthcare," and a rather rosy look at Berlin titled "From the wall to the neighborhood." Subscriptions are $20/year (4 issues). MEDIACULTURE REVIEW Vol.1,#5/ Nov.-Dec.'92 (100 East 85 St., New York, NY. 10028) is a relatively smart (though definitely liberal) newsletter published by the Institute for Alternative Journalism. (The IAJ also maintains an on-line computer wire service carrying articles "from the independent and alternative press.") This issue includes Peter Donald's account of "Rush Limbaugh's draft record," and Peter Bracegirdle on the new Noam Chomsky film titled "Manufacturing Consent." Subscriptions are $24/year (6 issues). OFF OUR BACKS Vol.22,#11/Dec.'92 Vol.23,#1/Jan. & #2/Feb.'93 (2423 18th St. NW, Washington, DC. 20009) is a 24-page feminist news tabloid. Issue #10 features Nikki Craft's hysterical attack on NAMBLA and Uncommon Desires, along with threats to boycott Changing Men magazine because it ran ads for them. Issue #2 includes a cover story on "Revolution girl style now," and includes a story announcing "Catharine A. MacKinnon to represent Croatian, Muslim wartime rape survivors." An essential magazine on the feminist movements, showing both their strengths and weaknesses. Subscriptions are $19/year (11 issues). HERESIES #26/undated (POB 1306, Canal St. Station, New York, NY. 10013) is a beautifully-produced 110-page "Feminist Publication on Art and Politics," also subtitled "A Journal of Feminist Post-Totalitarian Criticism." This is a special bilingual Rus- sian/English issue, featuring "Reflections of resistance: Women artists on both sides of the Mir" by Jo Anna Isaak, Linda Nochlin on "Why have there been no great women artists?" and Irina Sandomirskaya's interesting account "Around - : Power and the magic of writing." Subscriptions are $23 (? is- sues). OPEN MAGAZINE #22/Nov.'92 (POB 2726, Westfield, NJ. 07091) is the newest 20-page issue of this pamphlet series, with each edition tackling a meaty subject in a literate style. This issue features Manning Marable "On Malcolm X: His meaning & message." Individual pamphlets are $3.50 postpaid, while subscriptions are $30/10 pamphlets. OTHER PUBLICATIONS RADICAL BEAUTY #1/Nov.'92 (c/o Rachel, 260 N. Grand, Eugene, OR. 97402) is a 10-page tabloid-sized poetry/lit paper subtitled "Rearranging the Furniture in Your Head Through Language." This issue includes a chapter from a novel titled "Wandering" by Jonathan Joe, and editor Rachel Creager's thoughtful review of Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae. Copies are $2; subscriptions are $5/3 issues. PAGANS FOR PEACE #57/Nov. 9992 & #58/Feb. 9993 A.D.A. (POB 2205, Clearbrook, B.C. V2T 3X8, Canada) is a 10-page newsletter for socially-activist pagans. Issue #57 includes Deena Metzger on "Re-vamping the world: On the return of the holy prostitute." Subscriptions are $10/year (6 issues). LIBERTY Vol.6,#3/Feb. & #4/April '93 (POB 1167, Port Townsend, WA. 98368) is an 80-page, right-wing `libertarian' magazine advocating "free market" economics. Issue #7 includes Ronald Lipp's superficial analysis of the Eastern European "Revolution betrayed," Leland Yeager's argument that racism is genetically based (!) in "Racism and civility," and Wendy McElroy contributes yet another expos‚ of "The unholy alliance" between feminist and fundamentalist anti-porn activists. Subscriptions are $19.50/year (6 issues). THE NUCLEAR RESISTER #87/Dec.'92 (POB 43383, Tucson, AZ. 85733) is an 8-page anti-nuclear, civil resistance tabloid. This issue includes information on the current status of Mordechai Vanunu, a kidnapping victim of the Israeli government still mistreated and imprisoned for giving the world evidence of the Israeli nuclear weapons program. Subscriptions are $18/year (10 issues). ARTPAPER Vol.12,#4/Dec.'92, #5/ Jan. & #6/Feb.'93 (2402 Univer- sity Ave. W. #206, St. Paul, MN. 55114)) is a 32-page tabloid subtitled "Art/Community/Cultural Activism." Issue #5 includes pieces by Louis Alemayehu and Don Belton on the theme of "Re- membering Malcolm: Cultural meanings of Malcolm X." Subscriptions are $20/ year (10 issues). THE FIRE FLY #18/Dec.'92 (Box 1077, Mission, SD. 57555) is a homey 8-page newsletter from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota subtitled "A tiny glow in a forest of darkness." This issue includes Jon Lurie's "X is the unknown" on Malcolm X. Sub- scriptions are $5.00/6 issues. THE MADISON EDGE Vol.4,#1/Nov. 18, #2/Dec.2, #3/Dec.16,'92 & #4/ Jan.13,'93 (POB 845, Madison, WI. 53701-0845) is a good 8-page alternative community biweekly tabloid with an emphasis on prison reportage. Issue#3 includes Dan Coughlin on Haitian refu- gees in an article titled "Behind barbed wire: U.S. forces HIV- positive refugees into concentration camp." Subscriptions are $15/year. ON INDIAN LAND unnumbered/Winter '92-93 (POB 2104, Seattle, WA. 98101) is a 12-page tabloid subtitled "Newsletter of Support for Native Sovereignty." The issue includes more news on Big Moun- tain, the Peltier case, the raids on the Shoshone, and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act. Subscriptions are $8/4 is- sues. INCITE INFORMATION Vol.3,#6/Jan.-Feb.'93 (1507 E.Franklin St. #530, Chapel Hill, NC. 27514) is a 16-page bulletin of "News Analysis and Commentary." This issue includes a review by Richard Kostelanetz of Herbert Mitgang's Dangerous Dossiers in which Kostelanetz seriously suggests privatizing "the FBI, the CIA, and the like"! Subscriptions are $10/year (6 issues). UNCOMMON DESIRES Newsletter #8/Oct.-Nov.'92 (Postbus 408, 1000AK, Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a very well-done, 16-page `girl-love' newsletter. Issue #8 includes pieces on "Thought control from the Third Circuit: U.S. v. Knox" by Lawrence Stanley and "Debate on Oregon referendum on perversion exposes double-standard in gay community." Subscriptions are now $20/year cash or undesig- nated check. SYNTHESIS/REGENERATION #5/Winter '93 (WD Press, POB 24115, St. Louis, MO. 63130) is the new 52-page "theoretical discussion bulletin of the Greens/Green Party USA." It succeeds both Green Synthesis [formerly an irregular Greens periodical] and Regenera- tion [formerly the "Magazine of Left Green Social Thought"]. This issue focuses on "Education for Democratic Empowerment," including a decent assessment by John Vidoli of Joel Spring's Primer of Libertarian Education titled "The libertarian education alternative: A discussion of Spring's Primer." Subscriptions are #10/year (4 issues). CRISES Alternative Press Exhibit Catalog #4/Jan.'93 (CRISES Press, Inc., 1716 SW Williston Rd., Gainesville, FL. 32608) is a 76-page catalog listing books and periodicals participating in the CRISES Press exhibit at the Midwinter ALA (American Library Ass.) conference. (Anarchy magazine was there.) Any alternative publishers that are serious about trying to get their publications into libraries - and willing to spend some money on the prospect - should contact Charles Willett of CRISES. Single copies are $6; subscriptions are $12/year (2 issues). THE CRASH UPDATE unnumbered/ Jan. '93 (519 Castro St. #7, San Francisco, CA. 94114) is a 16-page zine for "travellers who want to see the world and meet people along the way." This issue includes a detailed trip diary titled "Crash course" by Miles Poindexter, and M.L. Endicott's "Vagabond globetrotting." Sub- scriptions are $6/6 issues, or $14/6 issues if you also want to receive the semi-annual Crash Directory with the addresses of members of the network. THE SURVIVOR Vol.8,#10/undated (POB 95, Alpena, AR. 72611) is a 40-page survivalist catalog/zine with detestable politics published by the author of The Poor Man's James Bond. This issue includes Kurt Saxon's "After the election" (in which he calls for "the compulsory sterilization of social dependents, morons, criminals and mental cases"), and a reprint of an unsympathetic view "Among the Apaches" from an 1887 issue of Century Magazine. Subscriptions are $12/year (12 issues). THE NEW CATALYST #25/Winter '92-'93 (POB 99, Lillooet, B.C. V0K 1V0 Canada) is a 12-page "bioregional" tabloid affiliated with New Society Publishers. This issue includes a "If you can't beat 'em, sue 'em! - SLAPPs: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Partic- ipation." Free; or subscriptions to the paper are included in subscriptions to "The New Catalyst Bioregional Series" of books at $25/year (2 books). ABAPA FREER #4/Dec.'92 (Pat Underhill, POB 759, Veneta, OR. 97487) is an improving, small-format, 18-page "aberrant assured publication arrangement" publication on freer places to live, concentrating on MT, NH, & OR states. This issue includes a very interesting statistical breakdown by states of "Where the iconoclastic periodicals are" compiled by the publisher. Samples are $1 cash. KASPAHRASTER #5/Jan.'93 (POB 8831, Portland, OR. 97207) is a readable 34-page zine of poetry, comment, computer mail, dreams and often-interesting graphics. This issue includes "Dangerous precedents in sysop prosecution" (an account of police persecu- tion of Munroe, OH. sysop Mark Lehrer on bogus child-porn charges), and an "Anti-essay on anti-art essays, or poetry vis a vis radicalism" by Carla Nadismo. Send $2 cash for a sample. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ALSO RECEIVED: FRONTIER REPORT Vol.2,#6/Dec.'92, #7/Jan. & #8/Feb.'93 (POB 8481, Kansas City, MO. 64114-0481) is a nicely-done 8-page monthly, "Independent, Unconventional, Non-commercial" community tabloid. Single copies are 95›; subscriptions are $10/year. WDR/WORLD DOMINATION REVIEW #5/Winter '92-93 & #6/Spring '93 (Larry Taylor, POB 762, Madison, WI. 53701-0762) 8pp. bizarre humor "Journal of Amateur Paranoia." Sample copies are $2; sub- scriptions are $4/4 issues. THE GEIS LETTER #10/Nov., #11/ Dec.'92 & #12/Feb.'93 (POB 11408, Portland, OR. 97211) 8pp. personal zine of "Thought crime, Dogmacide, and Intellectual Heresy" from the former publisher of Science Fiction Review. Copies are $1/issue. THE GATEWAY GREENS' COMPOST-DISPATCH Vol.3,#12/Dec.'92, Vol.4, #1/Jan. & #2/Feb.'93 (Gateway Green Alliance, POB 8094, St. Louis, MO. 63156) 6-8pp. local/regional environmental newsletter. Subscriptions are included with membership in GGA at $25/year (12 issues). MSRRT Newsletter Vol.5,#10/Dec. '92, Vol.6,#1/Feb. & #2/Mar.'93 (Chris Dodge/ Jan DeSirey, 4645 Columbus Ave. S., Mpls, MN. 55407) 16pp. `socially-responsible' librarians' newsletter. Send a 52› SASE for a sample. THE BODY POLITIC Vol.2,#11/Nov.-Dec.'92, Vol.3,#1/Jan. & #2/Feb.'93 (POB 2363, Binghamton, NY. 13902) is an informative 38-page zine billing itself as a "Monthly pro-choice news re- port." Single copies are $3; subscriptions are $18/year. NEW INDICATOR Vol.17,#11/May & Vol.18,#1/Oct.28,'92 (Student Co- op Center, U.C. San Diego, B-203, La Jolla, CA. 92093) 12-20pp. scrappy `progressive' leftist student tabloid. Send an SASE for a sample copy. TURNING THE TIDE Vol.5,#6/Nov.-Dec.'92 & Vol.6,#1/Jan.-Feb.'93 (POB 1990, Burbank, CA. 91507) 8-12pp. tabloid "Anti-Racism Newsletter" published by People Against Racist Terror. Subscrip- tions are $6/year (6 issues). INDUSTRIAL WORKER #1554/Dec.'92, #1555/Jan. & #1556/Feb.'93 (1095 Market St. #204, San Francisco, CA. 94103) 12-16pp. union news- paper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Subscriptions are $10/year (12 issues). BEATNIK SOUP #5/Nov.'92 (2306 College Ave., Stevens Point, WI. 54481) 40pp. "Art and Literary Magazine for a New Generation," primarily an art & poetry-zine. Cover price is $1. SMALL PRESS REVIEW #239/Dec.'92, #240/Jan. & #241/Feb.'93 (POB 100, Paradise, CA. 95967) 16pp. review of small press poetry and fiction. Subscriptions are $20/year (12 issues). ALTERNATIVE PRESS INDEX Vol.24,#3/July-Sept.'92 (POB 33109, Baltimore, MD. 21218) 108pp. quarterly, library-style index to a wide range of alternative and radical periodicals - including anarchic publications like Fifth Estate, Kick It Over, Our Generation, and Social Anarchism, as well as Anarchy. Subscrip- tions are $30/year (4 issues) for individuals & movement groups. NUKEWATCH PATHFINDER unnumbered/Winter '92-93 (The Progressive Foundation, POB 2658, Madison, WI. 53701-2658) 4pp. `nonviolent' anti-nuke tabloid. Send an SASE. LUNO unnumbered/Nov. & Dec.'92 (31960 SE Chin St., Boring, OR. 97009) 10pp. newsletter of the Learning Unlimited Network of Oregon. Send an SASE for a sample copy. RECLAIMING NEWSLETTER #49/Winter '92 (POB 14404, San Francisco, CA. 94114) 36pp. pagan newsletter "working to unify spirit and politics." Subscriptions are $6-$25/year (4 issues). THE OUTLANDER #4/Dec.'92 (POB 585, Mountlake Terrace, WA. 98043- 0585) 6pp. prisoners' zine. Send a donation for a sample copy. TWISTED IMAGE #44 & #45/Jan.'93 (1630 University Ave. Apt.26, Berkeley, CA. 94703) 10pp. comics zine published by Ace Back- words. Sample copies are $2; subscriptions are $20/year (12 issues). FACTSHEET 5 Vol.2,#3/Nov.'92 (Andrew Roller, 5960 S. Land Park Dr., Suite 331, Sacramento, CA. 95822) 12pp. pedophile publication? - certainly not a review zine! Sample copies are $1. I HATE BRENDA Newsletter #1/undated (POB 3166, Hollywood, CA. 90028) 8pp. anti-Shannen Doherty zine. Sample copies are $2. REPUBLICAN LIBERTY Vol.3,#5/Winter '92-3 (RLC, 1717 Apalachee Parkway, Suite 434, Tallahassee, FL. 32301) 8pp. newsletter for a self-described `libertarian' caucus in the Republican Party. Subscriptions are $20/year (4 issues). SOUTHERN LIBERTARIAN MESSENGER Vol.20,#11/Mar.'92 thru Vol.21,#7/ Nov.'92 (Rt.10 Box 52A, Florence, SC. 29501) 4-8pp. photocopied, right-wing `libertarian' news-clipping collection. Subscriptions are $6/year (12 issues). PHOTO STATIC #41/Jan.'93 (The Drawing Legion, POB 227, Iowa City, IA. 52244) 24pp. irregularly produced, but literate, mail art zine. Subscriptions are $10/year (? issues). SEZ ME #8/undated (c/o John Burt, 960 SW Jefferson Ave., Corvallis, OR. 97333) 16pp. review zine. Send an SASE or trade. JABIRU TRIBE #6/undated (POB 3648, Corpus Christi, TX. 78463- 3648) 4pp. "alternative paper in your town and up your street." Send an SASE for a sample. WESTERN REVIEW INSTITUTE Newsletter #21/Nov.'92 (POB 806, Chino, CA. 91708) 8pp. interesting newsletter published by Robert Sage- horn, who also has available copies of his own reprinting of Max Stirner's important anarchist classic, The Ego and His Own, for $8.95 postpaid. Subscriptions are $25. THE SABOT TIMES #2 thru #5/undated (Lois Lane, 12345 Lake City Way NE, Suite 211, Seattle, WA. 98125) is a lively new 2 to 6- page "Newsletter for Disgruntled Journalists" or "The Zine of Journalistic Sabotage," depending on which issue you read. Issue #5 includes a short account of religion page sabotage at the Billings Gazette last fall, in which the usual heading "Worship at the church of your choice" appeared instead as "Make blood sacrifices at the coven of your choice"! Sample copies are $1. WE ARE THE WEIRD Vol.9,#2\Jan. 25,'93 (POB 2002, Dallas, TX. 75221) 16pp. "America's only weekly fanzine" of weird movies and drive-ins. Sample copy free; subscriptions are $65/year (26 is- sues). SEATTLE COMMUNITY CATALYST Vol.3, #8/Dec.'92, #9/Jan. & #3/Feb.'93 (5031 University Way NE, Rm.2, Seattle, WA. 98105) is a 16-page eco-peace-community tabloid. Subscriptions are $15/year (12 issues). ANT EYE BALL #4/undated (Stephen Hren, POB 33327, Raleigh, NC. 27636) 2-sheet mimeo "antireality magazine...about my personal life." Copies available for an SASE. THIRD WORLD RESOURCES Vol.9,#1/ Jan.-Mar.'93 (Data Center, 464 19th St., Oakland, CA. 94612) 24pp. informative "quarterly review of resources from & about the Third World." Subscriptions are $35/2 years. VAGINA unnumbered/undated (c/o Allie, 292 Elm St., 2nd Flr., Northampton, MA. 01060) 12pp. non-linear mini-zine, "part of the Information Panic series." Send an SASE for a copy. GLOBAL MAIL #4/Jan.'93 (POB 597996, Chicago, IL. 60659) 4pp. listing of mail-art shows, projects, zines, etc. Subscriptions are $6 (? issues) - checks to Soapbox Junc. FEH! #14/undated (147 Second Ave. #603, New York, NY. 10003) 54pp. unbelievably huge & humorous "Journal of Odious Poetry." Subscriptions are $5/3 issues. GREAT FULL CIRCLE SOCIAL CLUB unnumbered/Summer '92 (POB 6512, Station D, London, Ontario, N5W 5S5, Canada) 14pp. newsletter of arts/cultural club by the same name with free membership. Cover price is $2. PELICAN BAY PRISON EXPRESS #2/undated (2489 Mission St. #28, San Francisco, CA. 94110) 8pp. prisoner support/human rights newsletter. Send a donation for a sample copy. CAMPUS REVIEW Vol.8,#7/Dec. & Vol.9,#1/Feb.'93 (336 S. Clinton, Suite 16, Iowa City, IA. 52240) 16pp. homophobic, authoritarian conservative student tabloid. Subscriptions are $5/year (? is- sues). TOUCHPOINT Vol.6,#1/Jan.'93 (POB 408, Chloride, AZ. 86431) is a 10-page non-monogamous contact service newsletter. Single issues are $4. WASHINGTON REPORT Vol.14,#3/Mar. '93 (Editors Release Service, POB 10309, St. Petersburg, FL. 33733) 4pp. news shorts on Washington "greed, corruption, self-indulgence." Subscriptions are $25/year (? issues). KATžAH JOURNAL #37/Winter '92-93 (POB 638, Leicester, NC. Kat£ah Province 28748) 36pp. bioregional tabloid for the Kat£ah region of Appalachia. Subscriptions are $10/year (4 issues). APAEROS #42/1992 (John & Kathe Burt, 960 SW Jefferson Ave., Corvallis, OR. 97333) 32pp. "unedited reader-written forum about sex, erotica and relationships of all kinds: het, lesbian, gay, bi." Always recommended. Subscriptions are $2/issue, but you must also send an age statement (that you are over 18). MESHUGGAH #6/Dec.'92 (Feh! Press, 147 Second Ave. #603, New York, NY. 10003) 16pp. entertaining "Journal of Oddball Fiction and Subversive Thought." Subscriptions are $5/5 issues (checks to Feh!). UTNE READER #55/Jan.-Feb. & #56/Mar.-April '93 (Box 1974, Marion, OH. 43305) 160pp. Readers' Digest of the left-liberals. Subscriptions are $18/ year (6 issues). THE AMERICAN RATIONALIST Vol.37, #5/Jan.-Feb.'93 (POB 994, St. Louis, MO. 63188) 16pp. newsletter subtitled "The alternative to religious superstition." Subscriptions are $6/year (6 issues). PRISON NEWS SERVICE #38/Nov.-Dec.'92 (POB 5052, Stn. A, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5W 1W4) 12pp. tabloid covering North American prison issues. Cover price is $1.50; the suggested subscription rate is $10/year (6 issues). SLUG & LETTUCE #28/Nov.-Dec.'92 (Christine, POB 2067, Peter Stuy. Stn., NYC, NY. 10009) 8pp.contact tabloid providing free classifieds, along with punk gig photos and reviews. Send an SASE or 2 IRCs for a copy. DIALOGUE #94/Nov.-Dec.'92 & #95/Jan.-Feb.'93 (POB 71221, New Or- leans, LA. 70172) 16-20pp. "Progressive Community Journal" fo- cusing on local news. Subscriptions are $5/year (4 issues). INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ECOLOGY Newsletter Vol.11,#3/Autumn '92 (POB 89, Plainfield, VT. 05667) 12pp. bulletin of the Institute for Social Ecology and general green organizational news. Send a contribution for a sample copy. THE ALTERNATIVE ORANGE Vol.1,#3/ Dec.'91-Jan.'92, #5/April-May, Vol.2, #2/Nov.'92 & #3/Jan.'93 (126T Schine Center, Syracuse Univ., Syracuse, NY. 13244) 12-24pp. well-produced "Alternative Student Newspaper." Subscriptions are $20/year (8 issues). CAMEL'S EYE #1/Nov.'92 (Dr. Norman Ackerman, 354 Hunter St., Ossining, NY. 10562) 4pp. prisoner zine. Send a contribution for a copy. FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PERIODICALS: KLEINTJE MUURKRANT #256/13 Nov.'92 (Postbus 703, 5201 AS, 's- Hertogenbosch, Netherlands) 8pp. left-activist newspaper. Sub- scriptions are 25 guilders/year (? issues). CARAMBA! #1/Dec.'92 (POB 11100, 5200 EC Den Bosch, Netherlands) 32pp. Dutch-language, "new independent music and culture magazine that brings articles from alternative forms of art, music, media and culture." Write for information concerning subscriptions. MERLIN'S MUSIC BOX #15/Dek.'92 (Yiannis Kastanaras, Argiroupoleos 27, Athens 114 71, Greece) is a slick, colorful, 64-page Greek- language punk music zine. Price is 500 drachmas. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Call for submissions to a book of essays on the topic of Practical Anarchy The editorial collective is dedicated to elaborating the fullest range of possibilities under anarchy, and to investigating new ways to invigorate the anarchist presence in North America. It hopes to collect essays, bibliographies, addresses and other resources which detail an array of practical strategies and tactics and sensibilities that include but are not limited to: * Food production and consumption (horticulture, community sponsored agriculture, communal farming, gardening collectives, etc.) * Housing (squatting, urban and rural co-ops, etc.) * Neighborhood and campus organizing, integrated strategies for local political organization * DIY art, music, and beautification (stencilling, wheatpasting, alteration, zine production, publication, etc.) * How-to ideas on putting together a people's bank of goods & services, pirate radio stations, anarchist hostels, reading rooms, study groups, bicycle repair collectives, a free university, an anti-racist action network, etc. * Women's health and self-defense, menstrual extraction and other issues of specific concern to women * Send submissions, ideas, graphics, hate mail to: Joseph Average, c/o B@U, POB 3207, Bloomington, IN.47402-3207 or: Chuck Munson, c/o Practical Anarchy, POB 173, Madison, WI. 53701- 0173 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN LEFT Reviewed by Manolo Gonzalez-Barandiaran Encyclopedia of the American Left edited by Mari J. Buhle et al (University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL., 1992) 962pp. $29.95 paper & 928pp. $95.00 hardcover. Encyclopedias awaken in most of us a childish curiosity. They represent our desire for knowledge, for well-organized information provided in concise entries written by authorities of zoology, ancient Greece, the pyramids, sex and other wonders. Important subjects are usually profusely illustrated, except for sex, which proves to be rather boring in its medical dryness. Encyclopedias have the patina of time, the pedigree of the French Revolution, the assertive voice of science and reason. All very useful for solving the Sunday crossword puzzle. So I approached this new edition of the Encyclopedia of the American Left with great interest, anxious to learn of the adventures of my comrades in this, my adoptive country. The thick volume has a spartan, proletarian cover in bellicose red and black (a good omen) and small reproductions of appeals and posters of past struggles. It is fascinating to note the graphic artists' skill and diversity of vision as they express the ideals and concerns of the American left. And it is nice to observe that in the '20s and '30s the American left had a sense of humor. The rostrum of collaborators and writers is impressive: college professors, historians and the usual coterie of leftist intel- lectuals who still sing "We Shall Overcome" and listen to Joan Baez. But the visual charm and nostalgia soon gives way to a nagging question, "What's wrong with this righteous book?" Then I notice that all the entries have the same slant. Everything that happened before 1919 is nothing more than a preparation for the most wondrous of events, the foundation of the American Communist Party, one of its last subdivisions is called today the CPUSA. Like one of the books from the Bible, the `Wobblies' and other union radicals are nothing more than prophets here to announce the coming of the real historical event. It is true, the entries about American anarchists are fair and abundant. Berkman, the Flores Magon brothers, Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman and several other agitators are given clear, concise reviews. The Sacco-Vanzetti case is given a long emotional entry, with sympathetic editorial comments for the two victims of the state and capitalism. But back to the CPUSA. Under seven different headings, the entry starts this way, "The CPUSA was the most important radical move- ment...from 1919 to 1950." This generalization will find exception with hundreds of historians. We can forget the Marcus Garvey organization, a significant movement by Afro-Americans that introduced black consciousness to American politics. We can forget the Socialist-Populist alliances in the Midwest. So what if, for many years, they elected progressive mayors, influenced local politics and advanced the cause of poor farmers? These samples of grass roots American radicalism were not small sects; they were vast movements that involved millions of Americans. The Anti- Imperialist League is mentioned only because some Communist functionary participated early in the century; the opposition to the War in the Philippines is not mentioned. The Encyclopedia follows with meticulous interest all the curves, backtracking and ideological jokes of the CPUSA, to the point of irritation. The entry on the Black Panther Party is treated with a similar lack of understanding, not only of its extensive work for mutual aid in Oakland, but of its organizing methods. The Panthers never positioned themselves at the doors of factories, because it was not a part of their ideology to look for the workers with a Marxist- Leninist model. They sought, instead, to recruit housewives, church self-help groups, alienated Blacks and unemployed youth. The Panthers created schools and food cooperatives and confronted police brutality more effectively than any of the CPUSA's legalistic maneuvers. But where the Encyclopedia really turns sectarian and tries to whitewash the ideological collapse of the CPUSA is in the individual entries of the Communists who left the party. Nothing of the bitter struggle of Dorothy Healey; nothing about Langston Hughes being shunned out of the party because he was gay. And some names are omitted, probably out of embarrassment; names like Steve Nelson, organizer of the party in the Midwest, commander of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in Spain, jailed on charges of the Smith Act. He left the party, denouncing the aging Stalinists of the Central Committee. But the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, composed of volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War, is presented with precision and clear understanding of the times, and the entry acknowledges that most of the veterans of Spain left the CPUSA, many in anger. There is no mention of the long and exasperating genuflexive attitude of the CPUSA toward the Soviet Union, but this sad part of the history of the American left has been given full treatment by Theodore Draper in The American Communist Party and the Soviet Union (New York, 1960). I am afraid the history of American radical political movements still awaits historians who can eliminate the sectarian stench of the Marxists' tribes and see America's political evolution towards a non-ideological, practical populism with deep roots in a libertarian federalism. The failure of the American left up to this moment is basically the failure of European ideology. For the Afro-American, Garvey was more important than Engels. For Mexican-Americans, Flores Magon evokes their struggle for self-determination. For Anglo-Saxon Americans, the Minutemen of 1776 are more revolutionary than the Red Guards of Petrograd. The fast decline of capitalism, with militarism as its only solution, calls for us to clarify that there is a future in the simple refusal of the people of the world to participate in another competitive fight for markets. The consumerist ideology has already reached its most vulgar goal: Reagan, Thatcher. The kingdom of market selfishness is collapsing. There is no longer an ever expanding economy. The destruction of the earth has reached the limit. The era for social responsibility has arrived. The Europeans call not for a market economy but for a social economy. The Encyclopedia? Nostalgia...red flags waving on the horizon...old songs...a few tears. If that is what you want, the Encyclopedia is great. As history? Well, it does give us dates of events, and it is a big, heavy book. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ PANEGYRIC Panegyric, Volume 1 by Guy Debord (Verso Press, 29 W 35th St., New York, NY. 10001-2291, 1991) 79pp. $14.95 paper. All my life, I have seen only troubled times, extreme divisions in society, and immense destruction: I have joined in these troubles." So begins this short book, which is evidently the first instalment of Debord's autobiography. It is written in the compact style of classical French that Racine perfected; I found its rare combination of precision and poetry very moving. Some may consider it somewhat immodest or even pompous; Panegyric is not, however, without humor. My favorite example: "Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink." Rare is the book without serious failing, rarer still the life that does not adjust to the dominant malignancy or seek to rationalize its accommodations. Debord has apparently never sought or valued outside approval for his life and thus can risk honesty in describing its main features. Greatly overpriced, this thin volume should be shoplifted wherever possible, honoring its author appropriately. -J.Z. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ NEOLITHIC DOMESTICATION In the Spirit of the Earth by Calvin Luther Martin (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, MD., 1992) 157pp. $19.95 hardcover. It just may be a sign that the wind is turning when a Rutgers professor of history writes a book (and gets it published) debunking historical time and civilization. Martin seconds the virtual revolution in the way pre-domesticated humans have come to be seen over the past twenty years or so. He sees gatherer-hunter life in its wholeness, bounty and non-domination of nature, and thus locates the roots of the present mega-crisis not in "human nature." As he puts it, "the problem, flatly stated, lies not with Homo sapiens but with neolithic Homo: farming, urban-based, and ultimately industrial societies." In this fairly short, well-written work, Martin takes issue with the deepest of culture's categories, in an effort to fathom the impulses of the terrible progress of progress. He finds, in neolithic time consciousness, a key ingredient in the control of the natural world, and locates the "ideological origins of human bondage" in animal domestication. There are a few places that are a bit soft-core to my taste, and the ending is somewhat slippery (though far from a complete cop- out); nonetheless, In the Spirit of the Earth is very far-reaching, and lives up to its name. -J.Z. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ SELF-HEALING Anarcho-Healthcare by S. Colman (Dawn Press, POB 02936, Detroit, MI. 48202, undated) 112pp. $15.00 8«x11 loose-leaf in binder. f you're interested in self-healing without drugs, needles or other invasive therapies, S. Colman's Anarcho-Healthcare is a possible source. I have much sympathy for natural health mainte- nance, however, Colman's book is not as well-documented or convincing as it could be. I also find the book repetitive at points, and Colman's style, especially in the mini-dramas with which s/he opens the book, is so idiosyncratic that I fear many people may avoid the information presented. This would be unfortu- nate since Colman's intentions are good, and, at root, his/her critique of modern medicine, while neither flawless nor exhaustive, has merit. But perhaps some readers will respond differently to Colman's style than I do. In any case, what is Colman's content? Though Colman does not provide bibliography or footnotes, s/he cites the following sources at various places in the text: Eleanor McBean's The Poisoned Needle, Herbert Shelton's Fasting Can Save Your Life, Robert Mendelssohn's Confessions of a Medical Heretic, S. Colman's own No More Medical Bills, and the works of I. Jennings and R.T. Trall. In short, while Colman has problems with the puritanical, sterile overtones of the word `hygiene', his views on healthcare are similar to those of the "Natural Hygiene" school of thought. The basis of natural hygiene, or Colman's anarcho-healthcare, is that the human body is self-healing if properly maintained. The natural dynamic of homo sapiens is good health, but this dynamic is dependent upon various factors, which include: 1) natural foods, eaten in proper combination, 2) adequate rest, 3) appropriate exercise, 4) fresh air and sunshine, 5) healthy general environ- ment, 6) emotional poise or balance, and 7) careful use of fasting to heal, cleanse, and rejuvenate. In this brief review I shall not discuss the finer points of natural hygiene. Readers interested in further inquiry may go to Colman's primary sources, or related sources. Two other works not cited by Colman are Leon Chaitow's Vaccination and Immunization: Dangers, Delusions and Alternatives and Hans Ruesch's Naked Empress. Is the Natural Hygiene organization still active and publishing, perhaps in some reorganized form these days? If so, I invite them to write Anarchy and inform readers of their activities and whereabouts. -T.O. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ENCLOSURES The New Enclosures by Midnight Notes (Midnight Notes, Box 204, Jamaica Plain, MA. 02130, 1990). 100pp. $6.00 (postpaid from publisher) paper. The essays in this collection are arranged around the theme of `enclosures'. The "Old Enclosures were a counter-revolutionary pro- cess whereby, after a century of high wages and breakdown of feudal authority, beginning in the late 1400's, farmers in England were expropriated from their land and commons by state officials and landlords. They were turned into paupers, vagabonds and beggars, and later into waged workers, while the land was put to work to feed the incipient international market for agricultural commodities." (p.1) The "new enclosures" are similar to the old. "In Nigeria, for example, people currently are being thrown off communally-owned land by troops to make way for plantations owned and managed by the World Bank." (p.1) The Midnight Notes Collective maintains that "for every factory in a free-trade zone in China privatized and sold to a New York commercial bank, or for every acre enclosed by a World Bank development project in Africa or Asia a corresponding enclosure must occur in the U.S. or Western Europe" (p.2), and that "only if Filipinos thrown off the land could be used in `free enterprise zones' in Manila or as `shit' workers in Italy could capital reduce real wages in the U.S. or sustain chronically high unemployment in Europe." (p.3) My favorite article in some regards is Peter Linebaugh's "Jubilat- ing; or how the Atlantic Working Class Used the Biblical Jubilee Against Capitalism, with Some Success." The author of bolo' bolo, p.m., contributes "Current Land Struggles in Zurich or Ideas to Transform a Neighborhood." A quite informative essay is Silvia Federici's "The Debt Crisis, Africa, and the New Enclosures" which is complemented by Harry Cleaver, Jr.'s "Notes on the Origin of the Debt Crisis." David Riker has done a thorough study of the 1987-88 strike against International Paper, "The Struggle Against Enclo- sures in Jay, Maine." There are also essays on Palestine/Israel, New York's Lower East Side, China, and options for the black community in Boston. -T.O. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ANARCHIST PRESS REVIEW Compiled by Jason McQuinn NO FUTURE #1 & #2/undated (Anthony Melder, 21a Warley Hill, Brent- wood, Essex CM14 5HR, England) is a relentlessly harsh and at times incisive 24-page rant-zine. Slogans like "Break the law," "Life is a crisis," "We've all been betrayed," "Profit is blood," and "How much money would buy you" line the tops and bottoms of each page. Check this out. Send a contribution for a sample copy. FREE SOCIETY #3/Summer & #4/Fall '92 (POB 7293, Minneapolis, MN. 55407) is now a 30-page "Journal of the Youth Greens (in transition)." Issue #3 includes "The fight against nuclear power in Minnesota" by Paul O'Bannion, "Contemplating anarchy in the city of angels" by Jay, a report on a Midwest Eco-Anarchist Network (MEAN) regional conference, and Patty Melt's "Dine struggle for autonomy." Issue #4 includes "A vision of resistance: A speech by Winona LaDuke," "Green gathering '92: That's it, I quit!" by Prof. A. Lactiv, and "Crushing Columbus: A guide to the literature of native resistance" by Pavlos. These folks are on their way out of the green orbit and on to more radical practice -- a group to keep an eye on! Subscriptions are $10/4 issues. ORGANIZE! #27/July-Sept. & #28/ Oct.-Dec.'92 (ACF, c/o 84b White- chapel High St., London E1 7QX, England) is the very well-written, 16 to 20-page "Magazine of the Anarchist Communist Federation" subtitled "For class struggle anarchism." Issue #27 includes pieces on the L.A. riots and "Yugo-barbarism." Issue #28 includes articles on "The Rostock riots: Bashing the fash?" and "Reading the detectives." Whether or not you agree with their politics, this zine is definitely worth checking out. The cover price is 50p & subscriptions are œ4/4 issues. ALSO RECEIVED: LOVE AND RAGE/AMOR Y RABIA Vol.3,#7/Sept.-Nov.'92 & Vol.4,#1/ Feb.-Mar.'93 (Box 3, Prince St. Station, New York, NY. 10012) is now a 20-page left anarchist news-bimonthly published in English & Spanish. Issue #7 has an interesting unattributed account of the relative failure of the autonomen to confront the fascist resur- gence in Germany. "Confronting Fascism" is the cover story for issue #1, including the Mayday Skins' "Real skinheads aren't racist," and "Resources for anti-facist organizing," along with Jess Grant's "Go union! IWW" page. Subscriptions are now $9.00/year (6 issues). FATUOUS TIMES #3/undated (POB 406, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 4RN, Eng- land) is an entertaining 32-page zine, this time with a theme on "Maps and Mapping." This issue includes "Fatuous joyriders," "All the lonely people...armed," "Fragments from Against Amnesia," "The travelling salesman problem," and "An immediatist potlach." Copies are available for œ2 postpaid. MOTHER ANARCHY AND LOAFERS WORLD #1/undated (Laure Akai, PO Box 500, Moscow ž/61, C.I.S.) is a 22-page "of random anarchistic thought produced in Moscow, the slack capitol." This issue includes "The abolition of work in Russia and other matters," a couple pages of "Stupid Russian jokes," "Individualism vs. individualism," and "Who the hell is Jerry Rubin?" Send a donation for a sample copy. MORAL PURITY #3/Samhain 9992 (General Delivery, Lasqueti Island, B.C., Canada) is a 54-page zine (with a great cover graphic) that includes news clippings of protest actions from the mainstream press, as well as articles like "Body politics: Killing ourselves with food" by Zabaglione, and a reprint from Front Line News titled "Animal liberation and native rights" by Freebird. Send $3.50 for a sample copy; subscriptions are $20/year (4-6 issues). LIBERTARIAN LABOR REVIEW #14/ Winter '92-'93 (Box 2824, Champaign, IL. 61825) is a 38-page magazine of "Anarchosyndicalist Ideas and Discussion." This issue includes articles on "Russian syndicalism in transition," and an interview titled "Syndicalism in Norway." Subscriptions are now $12.00/2 years (4 issues). BAYOU LA ROSE #40/Winter '93 (POB 5464, Tacoma, WA. 98415-0464) is a 24-page tabloid mixing news of workplace, ecological and indigenous activism. This issue includes "An outline of Western Shoshone history," and "Breaking unions and contract: Re- structuring labour relations in Mexico" by E. Martinez, F. Herrera & G. Sanchez. Single copies are $2.50; subscriptions remain $7.50/4 issues. KICK IT OVER #30/Nov.'92 (POB 5811, Station A, Toronto, Canada M5W 1P2) is a 48-page quarterly zine. This issue's theme is "Did You Vote? An Anarchist Debate," including Joe Peacott's "Voting anarchists: An oxymoron or what?" Also included are short pieces on "Anarchism and history: The example of the SDS" by Peter Barker and "SUPA: The peace movement on campus" by Gary Moffatt. Subscriptions are $9.00/4 issues. WIND CHILL FACTOR #8/Nov.-Dec.'92 (POB 81961, Chicago, IL. 60681) is a fat and fun-filled, "freeform journal of ideas, action, news, creativity and more." This issue includes a growing letters column, an interview with Shariff of United for Peace (which advocates gang unity in Minneapolis), "Fear the shivers of freedom" (reprinted from Clash #6), and a hundred short fragments, clippings, graphics, etc. Single copies are $1.50 cash or stamps; subscriptions are $8 cash/5 issues. PROFANE EXISTENCE #18/Dec.'92-Jan.'93 (POB 8722, Mpls, MN. 55408) is a 24-page anarcho-punkzine. This issue includes a reprint of Kuwasi Balagoon's "Anarchy can't fight alone" (from Bulldozer #6), and an interview with members of the collectively-run English music venue called "The 1 in 12 Club." Single copies are now $2 postpaid; subscriptions are $9/6 issues. MADWORLD SURVIVAL GUIDE #8/undated (POB 791377, New Orleans, LA. 70179-1377) is now a 44-page direct-action zine, bigger and better than ever. This issue includes an account of the "Houston Anarchist Gathering" by G. Netwerker, and C. Kutalik's right-too-the-point "Straight up against the pigs! The refusal of development in L.A." Send $1 cash + 52› postage for a sample; subscriptions are $5/4 is- sues. MASSIVE LOVE #1/Sept.'91 (Resistance Prod, POB 426, 8026 Zrich, Swizterland) is a 20-page family zine for punk parents in microscopic type! This issue includes an interview with punk parents in Holland, "Christmass, kiss my ass," and "Vegan diet during pregnancy & lactation." Send a contribution for a copy. MISCREANCE #2/Winter '92-93 (UCSC, College Eight #178, 200 Heller Drive, Santa Cruz, CA. 95064) is a 40-page zine "dedicated to anti- establishment subculture...and anarchist revolution." This issue features "Modern anti-warfare," and Dave Metro's "Blah, blah, blah: Mumble, mumble, mumble" (critical of "the obsolete left" and calling for a "nonauthoritarian front"). Unfortunately, much, if not most of the writing is difficult to impossible to read. Send $1 for a copy. INSTEAD OF A MAGAZINE #55-56/Winter '92-93 (POB 76, Shingletown, CA. 96088) is a very breezy, 74-page reader-written journal. This issue focuses on "Education and Anarchy," along with other pieces like Sue Sturgis' "Queer Nation vs. Queer Action." Samples are $3; subscriptions are $8/4 issues. ALPHABET THREAT #1 & #2/undated (3018 J St. #140, Sacramento, CA. 95816) is a new 16-page tabloid with plenty of energy and humor. The first issue is subtitled "The revolution will not be alphabetized!" It includes Algebra P. on "Making love to myself," and "Why I am not an anarchist" by Abeyant Aborigines. Issue #2 is titled Bicycle Threat, subtitled "The revolution will not be motorized," and including pieces like "Sex threat," "My first orgasm," and "Family's values." Send 50› or more in postage for a sample copy. OTHER PERIODICALS RECEIVED: ARTEST #6/undated (1876 Garden Drive, Vancouver, BC. V5N 4W7, Canada) is a 16-page tabloid "youth arts activism paper." This issue includes a piece on Indian activist John Trudell. Send a contribution for a sample copy. ARTFLUX #2/undated (c/o Profane Existence, POB 8722, Mpls., MN. 55408) is an entertaining 28-page comix zine. This issue includes a band interview with "Cop Shoot Cop." Send $1 for a copy. NO #6 & #7/undated (POB 175, Liverpool, L69 8DX, U.K.) is the 14- page successor to Anti Clock Wise, billed as "A Project of the Museum of Modern Alienation." Issue #7, with a cover urging "Kill your idols," includes a rant against black nationalism titled "Who gives a XXXX for Malcolm." No price listed; send at least $1 or $2 for a sample copy. COUNTER INFORMATION #35/Nov-Jan.'92-93 (Pigeonhole CI, c/o 11 Forth St., Edinburgh EH1, Scotland) is a 4-page direct action news- sheet. Send a contribution for a sample copy. THE THOUGHT Vol.12,#8/Nov., #9/ Dec.'92 & Vol.13,#1/Jan.'93 (POB 3092, Orange, CA. 92665) is the 24-page, photocopied publication of the Philosophers Guild. Issue #8 includes part 3 of Ben Price's "Quantum gravity: The geometry of grand unification." Subscriptions are $11/12 issues. ANARCHIST AGE MONTHLY REVIEW #24/Dec.'92 (Mutual Aid, POB 20, Parkville 3052, Melbourne, Australia) is a 40-page newsletter consisting of photocopied reprints from other sources, along with reprints of the Anarchist Age Weekly Review. Subscriptions are $24/12 issues. A INFOS #26/Sept. & #27/Oct.'92 (Humeurs Noires [F.A.], BP 79, 59370 Mons en Baroeul, France) is the informative 6-page French edition (in the English language) of the A-Infos international "Bulletins d'information" -- meant for spreading news for publica- tion in anarchist periodicals. Send a contribution for a sample copy; subscriptions are $6/year (IMO payable to ALDIR). F unnumbered/Nov. & Jan.'92 (1800 Market St. #249, San Francisco, CA. 94102) is a 10-page newsletter publishing news that is "embar- rassing to the state," "thought-provoking," or "inspiring." Send $1.50 in cash or stamps for a sample; subscriptions are $7/5 issues. THE HYPERBOREAN Vol.2,#6/Nov. E.M.392 (Richard Gaska, 2024 N. Man- or Dr., Erie, PA. 16505) is a photocopied zine "Dedicated to Free- thought and Anarchism." Subscriptions are $11/ year (6 issues). ANTI-COPYRIGHT @NARCHY Art #1/ undated (POB 666, Oxford, OH. 45056) unpaginated collection of anarchist and leftist clip art reprinted without permission. Send $1.50 for copy. WORKERS SOLIDARITY #4/Dec.'92-Jan.'93 (POB 40440, San Francisco, CA. 94140) 8pp. newsletter of the Workers Solidarity Alliance. Sub- scriptions are $7.50/6 issues (plus one issue of Ideas & Action). A INFOS #9/July-Sept.'92 (c/o Int. Secr. LAS, POB 61523, 2506 am Den Haag, Netherlands) is a 3-page photocopied information bulletin covering recent events in the Netherlands. Send a contribution for a sample copy. ACTION #3/July '92 (FAM c/o Antonio Grozdev, 18 Nikola Slakov St., ET.1, AP.6, Sofia 1463, Bulgaria) is the 4-page "Information Newsletter" of the Federation of Anarchistic Youth in Bulgaria (FAM). FAM is actively seeking to establish contacts and periodical exchanges. Send a contribution for a sample copy. NO NATION BULLETIN #13/Summer '92 (People to People Friendship Ass., c/o S”ren Groth, ždalen, Salt† Arb. Skola, 15 300 J„rna, Sweden) is a photocopied 16-page exchange of short letters and an- nouncements from people living on different continents. Subscrip- tions are U.S.$5/year (4 issues). STEAL THE FIRE 2 unnumbered/undated issues (Acts of Resistance, 537 Jones #1584, San Francisco, CA. 94102) is a 12-page newsletter subtitled "A Journal of Absolute Rage," focusing on direct-action resistance activities in the S.F. Bay Area. This first issue's cover message is "Nazi scum fuck off!!" It includes a piece on the fall of the GDR by Will Firth and an anonymous piece titled "Anarchists fight a Fourth Reich." The second issue has a cover story titled "Anarchist railroaded," on the trial of Mike Lee. Send a contribution for a sample. @-NEWS #1/Nov.'92-Jan.'93 (POB 30557, 10033 Athens, Greece) is a new 4-page "Informative Bulletin by `Anarchic Intervention'." This issue contains a chronology of the recent strike by Athens bus drivers which many anarchists supported. Send a contribution for a sample. AUTONOMOUS FEMINIST PROJECT unnumbered/Spring '92 (c/o Institute for Social Ecology, POB 89, Plainfield, VT. 05667) is a 6-page Youth Green feminist zine. Send an SASE for a sample. MUSELETTER #11/Nov.'92 (Richard Heinberg, 1433 Olivet Rd., Santa Rosa, CA. 95401) is a 4-page monthly comment zine. This issue covers "The anarchist tradition." Subscriptions are $12/ year. PRACTICAL ANARCHY #6/Winter '93 (Chuck Munson, 16 N. Butler St. #2, Madison, WI. 53703) is a 22-page zine. This issue is on "Women and Anarchy," including several short reprints from other anarchist publications. Send $1 for a sample copy; subscriptions are $5/4 is- sues. SHIP OF FOOLS #2/July-Sept.'92 (POB 2062, Westminster, MD. 21158) is a 24-page alternative news tabloid. This issue includes the story of the publisher's recent arrest and harassment, and numerous news and comment reprints from the anarchist press. Copies are $2 each. DISCUSSION BULLETIN #57/Jan.-Feb. '93 (POB 1564, Grand Rapids, MI. 49501) is a 32-page assortment of letters and reprinted articles primarily from the anti-market, non-statist radical milieu. Sub- scriptions are $3/year (6 issues). MEDIA BLITZ #3/Winter '93 (POB 20420, London Terrace Station, New York, NY. 10011) is a 24-page zine featuring a piece titled "Television the opiate of the people: A guide to TV worship." Send $2 for a sample copy. ANIM@DVERSE #5/undated (POB 57464, Jackson Stn., Hamilton, Ontario L8P 4X3, Canada) is an 8-page zine featuring a cover piece on Mumia Abu-Jamal and an essay titled "Fear of a gay planet." Send a contribution for a sample copy. VENUS ENVY unnumbered/undated (POB 3542, Terre Haute, IN. 47803) is a nicely-done 24-page comix zine on fat prejudice, which occasionally quotes from Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth. Send 2 stamps for a copy. HARMFUL MATTER #2/undated (POB 3642, Terre Haute, IN. 47803) is a breezy 20-page zine. Send 2 stamps for a sample copy. MUTINY #1/undated (5221 Gullen Mall, Student Center Bldg. Rm.211, Box 99, Detroit, MI. 48202) is a new 28-page zine by the folks at the 404 Willis space in Detroit. This issue starts off with a discussion of "Community? autonomy? or community for autonomy," and finishes up with "A brief history of anarchism in the Southern Ukraine, 1917-1921." Send a contribution. FAU-IAA INTERNATIONAL NEWS FLASH #1/Nov.-Dec.'92 & #2/Winter- Spring '93 (c/o Frank Richardson-Sch„fer, Karlstrasse 11, D-3501 Fuldatal 2, Simmershausen, W. Germany) is a well-written, new 6- page news bulletin. Send a contribution for a copy. NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PERIODICALS RECEIVED: TRAFIK #35 (Eduardstrasse 40, D-4330 Mlheim 1, Germany) is a well-produced 84-page, German-language "International Journal for Libertarian Culture and Politics." This issue's theme is "Kulturschock: Libert„re Literatur." Single copies are 10DM plus postage. A.N.A. unnumbered/Agos-Out.'92 (Mo‚sio Rebou‡as, Caixa Postal 78, 11510-970 Cubatžo -- SP, Brasil) is a 6-page Portuguese-language newsletter subtitled "Informativo da Agˆncia de Not”cias Anarquis- tas." Send a contribution for a copy. UMANITA' NOVA Vol.72,#28/18 Ott., #29/11 Ott., #31/25 Ott.'92 to Vol 73,#1/10 Gen. & #4/31 Gen.'93 (c/o G.C.A. Pinelli, via Roma 48, 87019 Spezzano Albanese (CS), Italy) is the 8-page, Italian- language weekly newspaper of the Federazione Anarchica Italiana. Issue #32 includes the first of a series of 4 to 8-page supplements titled UN Lavoratori Notizie. Subscriptions are US $55.00/year. DISTURB@NCE #9/undated (POB 31261, 10035 Athens, Greece) is an 8- page, Greek-language tabloid, with more news of current struggles in Greece. Cover price is 150 drachmas. EKINTZA ZUZENA: Revista Libertaria #11/Invierno '92 (Ediciones EZ Argitaraldiak, Apdo. 235, Postakutxa, 48080 Bilbo, Bizkaia, Spain) is a slick, 60-page Spanish-language "libertarian review" from the Basque country. This issue includes a humorous 8-page insert of the LSD Herald Tribune. Subscriptions are 800 ptas/year (4 issues). OBSCHINA #48/žžžžžž '92 (129642, Moscow, a/ž 16, KAC-KOP, C.I.S.) is the nicely-produced, 24-page Russian-language magazine of the KAC (Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists), back after a two-year hiatus in publication. This issue features a piece on the anarchists at the barricades during the August '91 coup attempt (who now "feel that they were deceived"), and includes an English- language summary of articles. Send a contribution for a copy. LE LIBERTAIRE; REVUE DE SYNTHESE ANARCHISTE #130/Nov. thru #133/F‚v. '93 (25 rue Dum‚ d'Aplemont, 76600 Le Havre, France) is a 4-page, monthly, French-language "review of synthetic anarchism" published by the Union des anarchistes. International subscriptions are 80F/year (10 issues). SCHWARZER FADEN #45/Jan.'93 (Postfach 1159, 7043 Grafenau-1, Ger- many) is a well-produced 72-page, German-language magazine, subtitled "Vierteljahresschrift Fr Lust und Freiheit." This issue includes Jim Campbell's "AntirassistInnen erschttern Toronto." Subscriptions are 50.-DM/8 issues. EL LIBERT@RIO #24/Set.-Oct.'92 (Brasil 1551, 1154 Buenos Aires, Argentina) is the 4-page, Spanish-language newspaper of the Federa- cion Libertaria Argentina. Send a contribution for a sample copy. LE POØNT D'INTERROGATIONS unnumbered/Automne '92 (HŠme c/o I.S., B.P. 243, 75564 Paris Cedex 12, France [don't mention the publication name in the address]) is an 18-page, French-language, radical anti-tech journal. This issue includes HŠme's interesting "Une critique du radicalisme … la petite semaine," along with translations of (extracts from) Feral Faun's "Les racines bourgeoises de l'anarcho-syndicalisme" (from Demolition Derby) and of a response to Faun by the Italian journal Comidad. Makes me wish I was better at reading French. No price listed; send a contribu- tion. SOLIDARIDAD OBRERA #231/Sept., #232/Oct.-Nov. & #233/Nov.-Dic.'92 (Ronda de San Antonio, 13 pral 08001-Barcelona, Spain) is the 12 to 16-page, Spanish-language regional newspaper of the anarcho-- syndicalist C.N.T. in Catalonia. Issue #31 announces the Certamen Anarquista Mundail planned for Aug. 21-23, '93 in Barcelona. Issue #232 features a cover story on "La crisis y la CNT." Sample copies are 75ptas plus 20ptas postage. GUžNGARA LIBERTARIA #52/Oto¤o '92 (ISHSS, POB 1516, Riverside Sta- tion, Miami, FL. 33135) is a 32-page Spanish-language journal produced by Cuban anarchist exiles & subtitled "A la Libertad Por la Libertad." Send a donation for a sample copy. ROJO Y NEGRO #38/Oct. & #39/Nov.'92 (Sagunto 15, pral., 28010 Ma- drid, Spain) is the 16-page, Spanish-language newspaper of the reformist anarcho-syndicalist C.G.T. (Confederacion General del Trabajo -- a split from the more traditionally anarcho-syndicalist C.N.T. in Spain). Subscriptions are 1,000ptas/ year (12 issues). PERSPECTIEF #28/Juli-Sept.'92 (Libertaire Studiegroep, Dracenastraat 21, 9000 Gent, Belgium) is a 58-page Dutch-language journal of libertarian perspectives. This issue opens with Thom Holterman's "Een vrij verenigd Europa." Single copies are 80Fr. plus postage. TELEGRAPH Vol.3,#10/Okt., #11/ Nov. & #12/Dez.'92 (Schliemannstr. 22, Berlin O-1058, Germany) is a 52-page German-language publica- tion from East Berlin covering the current situation in Germany. Issue #10 includes "Der Krieg Hat Meine Seele Zerst”rt: Interview mit Vedrana Rudann entlassene Journalistin von Radio- Rijeka/Kroatien." Subscriptions are 34DM/year. DE NAR #75/Dec.'92 & #77/Feb.'93 (V.Z.W. De Nar, Postbus 104, B- 1210, Brussels 21, Belgium) is the "only Dutch[-language] monthly anti-authoritarian newspaper," whose name translates as "The Fool." Send a contribution for a sample copy. LE MONDE LIBERTAIRE #860/27 F‚v. thru #891/3 D‚c.'92 (145 rue Amelot, 75011 Paris, France) is the 8-page, French-language weekly of the anarcho-syndicalist Federation Anarchiste Fran‡aise. Sub- scriptions are 400F/year. CNT #144/Dic.'92, #145/Enero & #146/Feb.'93 (CNT-Peri¢dico, Apar- tado, n.§ 282, 48080 Bilbao, Spain) is the 24-page, Spanish-lan- guage newspaper of the anarcho-syndicalist Confederaci¢n Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Workers union). Issue #145 includes "La guerra de los agricultores europeos contra U.S.A" by Abraham Guill‚n, and a translation of "The day before yuppifi- cation" by Piotr Tymarczyk (from Anarchy). Subscriptions are 2,500- ptas./year (12 issues). BRAND #52/Sept. & #53/Nov.'92 (Box 150 15, S-104 65 Stockholm, Sweden) is an always-lively, 32-page Swedish-language magazine, with the best photography of the anarchist press, back after after going broke and losing its office. Cover price is 20KR. ZERO IN CONDOTTA: STUDENTI ANARCHICI & LIBERTARI #1/Dic.'93 (c/o Biblioteca F. Serantini, CP 247, 56100 Pisa, Italy) is a new 16- page Italian-language student magazine. Single copies are 1500 lira. CORRE@ #21/ENERO '93 (N. M‚ndez, Casilla 25, Fac. Ingenier”a, UCV, Ciudad Universitaria, Caracas 1040, Venezuela) is a 20-page Spanish-language libertarian socialist quarterly -- "the only libertarian publication in Venezuela," founded in 1987. LIBERA VOLO #45/Dec.'92 & #46/Jan.'93 (A.R.P., PO Box 57, Sakyo Yubinkyoku, J-606 Kyoto, Japan) is the 6-page Japanese-language newsletter (with Esperanto headlines) of the Federacio Anarkiista of Japan, soon to have an English-language summary included with each issue. Send a contribution for a sample copy. SIN FRONTERAS Special issue/1992 (Ronda de San Antonio, 13 pral 08001-Barcelona, Spain) is a slick, 80-page magazine "Editado por la Fundacio d'Estudis Libertaris i Anarchosindicalistes y Solidaridad Obrera portavoz de la CNT de Catalunya." This issue in- cludes coverage of the "Quinto centenario del "descubrimiento." Cover price is 400 ptas. ANARES INFO #36 & #37/undated (Postfach 229, CH-3000 Bern 8, Swit- zerland) is the 24-page German-language newsletter of this archive and library. Write for more information. Guest review by Michael William: HORS D'ORDRE: BULLETIN DE REFLEXIONS LIBERTAIRES #2/Dec.'92 (Collectif Hors d'Ordre, 407 rue Lavigeur, Qu‚bec, Qu‚bec G1R 1B6, Canada) is a new French-language publication from Qu‚bec City, with a special issue on nationalism including an introduction by Nicolas Calv‚ and articles by Serge Roy and R‚jean Lemoine. Send $2 for a sample copy.