Attack: The Voice of Respectable Moderation (1987)

Got this paper and really liked it as it was well written eloquent and tackled important issues like Mental illness.Far better than Class War and some of the stereotypical negative Anarchist texts.

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aye, hundreds were given away free everywhere at the time, just good to have it scanned ( we only have an a4 scanner)
Attack Int also did some good pamphlets too + the tin tin book

we also have a slightly earlier newspaper in a similar vein called Flamethrower

ps , hope u dont mind but weve stolen your pdf for a future post on.........

https://tynesideanarchistarchive.wordpress.com/

:)

Fozzie

Thanks! I was 18 when I got my copy of this. A bunch of the anarchopunks in the town I lived had organised a gig in a church hall.

One of them had a few of these and dished them out - made quite an impression on me at the time, especially the graphics. (I was reading punk zines and stuff like Vague around then too, and the punks had also sold me a copy of Meltzer’s Q&As about anarchism).

Yet more evidence(as if any was needed), that for all of it’s many defects and shortcomings, Anarcho Punk was fucking ace!

Tyneside: do you still have the Flamethrower anywhere? Would be interested to see it.

Noah: had been thinking of posting a link to this somewhere or other, but Crimethinc recently did an interesting piece on "Music as a Weapon: The Contentious Symbiosis of Punk Rock and Anarchism", which is worth a read. Very focused on the 90s/2000s US scene, but still got some thoughtprovoking stuff in.

R Totale

Tyneside: do you still have the Flamethrower anywhere? Would be interested to see it.

Noah: had been thinking of posting a link to this somewhere or other, but Crimethinc recently did an interesting piece on "Music as a Weapon: The Contentious Symbiosis of Punk Rock and Anarchism", which is worth a read. Very focused on the 90s/2000s US scene, but still got some thoughtprovoking stuff in.

Thanks RT, I’ll have a look after work tomorrow.

Tyneside!,An in accurate one liner is hardly worthy of comment.What I said was correct-try backing up your banal remark or it’s pointless

Noah - well anarchopunk was a mixed bag certainly but it's amusing to see former punks overcompensating with their workerist critiques of it. It was what we had and it was more fun than a lot of other things on offer despite the dour apocalyptics.

Haha, yes! Show me a anarchist condemning anarcho punk and I’ll show you an embarrassed former anarcho punk or a Westbourne Grove trendy fan of lefty faker clothes horses The Clash!

Fair enough, think I'd only ever heard of it from the mention in Death of a Paper Tiger: https://libcom.org/library/paper-tiger-class-war-aufheben-6 which made it sound pretty interesting, but at the same time I don't think it'll kill me to not read one more critique of 80s Class War.

Ah, turns out the Tyneside Anarchist Archive have now scanned it: https://tynesideanarchistarchive.wordpress.com/2020/07/26/flame-thrower/

As opposed to nice, respectable stuff like Attack/Xtra/Wolverine? ;)

freemind

Got this paper and really liked it as it was well written eloquent and tackled important issues like Mental illness.Far better than Class War and some of the stereotypical negative Anarchist texts.

As I understand it, Attack International was founded by a person, let's call them TS, who used to edit Class War as well (incidentally, on this, a former CW member told me that TS would deliberately leave spelling mistakes in the newspaper, to make it look more "working class"…).

Fozzie

Now a Non-Fungible Token, whatever that is:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/unikz-an-nft-could-reveal-a-little-more-about-the-past-of-banksy-301414396.html?fbclid=IwAR0DwBcZbkhlHdvi02rNXO4jsYrAsl5enZdtOiXnGKNncJXNenqD0GndNm8

...good lord. I bet the situs would have something to say about that.