Third and final issue of Smash Hits.
Smash Hits: A Discussion Bulletin For Revolutionary Ideas 3 (1998) cover
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Smash Hits: A Discussion Bulletin For Revolutionary Ideas 3 (1998)
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Thanks for these! Don't
Thanks for these! Don't suppose you have any idea what else the "Bash Street Kids" did - did they ever have their own paper or anything?
You are welcome! I think the
You are welcome!
I think the Bash Street Kids were from Brighton.
A quick google has turned up this text about squatting co-authored by them: http://www.academia.edu/9706086/Ebb_and_Flow_-_Autonomy_and_Squatting_in_Brighton
Also a letter from them about "Give Up Activism" here:
http://www.doordie.org.uk/issues/issue-10/20-10-last-pages/57-lettuce-to-the-cabbage.html
Oh! And this from "Reflections on May Day":
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bash-street-kids-a-mayday-over-mayday
I remember reading the latter two (and the Smash Hits text) at the time and thinking they were very good.
Impressed by your google
Impressed by your google skills there, I thought it was pretty much one of those ungoogleable names. In some ways they seem reminscent of Antagonism stuff I've read, but I guess maybe that's just due to similar era/similar reference points rather than any more direct connections?
That letter from the elephant below theirs is quite something too.
Well I am a massive nerd,
Well I am a massive nerd, which has its uses ;-)
I think it is a bit of a generational thing, the people who passed through anarchopunk/squatting and emerged still having decent politics.
"White Punks on Bordiga" in Communist Headache and the stuff in the Aufheben piece about the Criminal Justice Bill about punk also...
Yeah, and also the Free
Yeah, and also the Free Assocation (who I imagine may well've been published in Smash Hits at some point/under some name or other too?) ...And, just like that, I feel myself being sent down an uncarved.org rabbithole as well.
Yes I would guess that too.
Yes I would guess that too. Enjoy the site ;-)
Here's a link to the White
Here's a link to the White Punks on Bordiga article mentioned above.
Veering off topic a bit but, on the subject of the anarcho-punk scene, there are a couple of articles worth taking a look at:
“There Is No Authority But Yourself ”: The Individual and the Collective in British Anarcho-Punk
The kids was just crass
And another one more about the first wave:
When two sevens clash: punk and autonomia
I mean...
I mean...