Online archive of this mid-1980s Class War adjacent newsletter produced in Greater Manchester.
Timperley Village Anarchist / TV-AM
Timperley is a small village in the suburbs of Manchester.
"The people (sic) who produce this paper do not live in Timperley Village, the name is just a bit of a wind up for the petty bourgoise bastions of respectability who do inhabit this deranged quarter."
- Editorial from issue 2
The group producing the paper called themselves Timperley Village Anarchist Militia aka TV-AM. This was a play on "TV-am", the name of the UK's first breakfast television programme, which commenced in 1983.
It is possible that the newsletter was the inspiration for local personality Frank Sidebottom's various cover versions of the Sex Pistols song "Anarchy In The UK", which included the phrase "Anarchy in Timperley".
There are some interesting reflections by a former member of Timperley Village Anarchist Militia from 2005 at the Counago & Spaves blog.
Timperley Village Anarchist #1 (1984)
Including: editorial with background to the collective, overview of the British anarchist scene, heroin, state propaganda article from Freedom, religon, Class War, "scumbag Scargill", collages, feminism, trainspotting, etc.
Timperley Village Anarchist #2 (1985)
Including: how the other half survives (Workers Playtime reprint), the miners' strike in retrospect, Band Aid and global famine, punk is a rotting corpse by Chris Low, intro to Anarchism, graphics, etc.
With thanks to Kate Sharpley Library for providing a copy to be scanned.
Files
timperley-village-anarchist-2.pdf
(3.07 MB)
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TV-AM #3 (1985)
Including: Sex and morality, anti-students, anarchism and crime, Class War's Bash The Rich campaign, etc.
With thanks to Kate Sharpley Library for providing a copy to be scanned.
Probably the final issue?
Files
TVAM-3.pdf
(2.68 MB)
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