Online archive of Xtra! - an anarchist/autonomist newspaper published in North London from 1979 until 1982. It seems like there were 10 issues?
Xtra's "Structureless Tyrants" included Simon Read (who infamously infiltrated the National Front's HQ Excalibur House in Shoreditch and became a key witness in the inquiry set up to investigate it). Martin Wright (who would later be involved with Class War) was also a contributor.
In 1981 a teenage Chemistry student in Nottingham was sentenced to three years imprisonment for distributing 200 photocopies of issue 8's cover story ("Burn Babylon Burn" on the Brixton riots) - see Black Flag vol 6 #11 p8.
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Xtra was my favourite read,
Xtra was my favourite read, back in the day!
It's a bit subcultural which
It's a bit subcultural which doesn't ever age that well, but the uncompromising snide attitude is pretty refreshing still I reckon.
The stuff in the pilot issue and issue 8 about a member of Xtra! infiltrating the NF HQ and then getting nicked for trying to poison fash hardman Derrick Day is like something out of a TV thriller!
I only started reading it
I only started reading it about issue 4 but was well impressed... "uncompromisingly snide"... that would have been a good slogan :D The Derrick Day stuff was dead good.
Ah, I think that's the same
Ah, I think that's the same NF infiltrator who was profiled/interviewed here: https://invereskstreet.blogspot.com/2012/01/simon-says-by-ian-walker.html
Yup same one.
Yup same one.
A glimpse of the missing…
A glimpse of the missing issue 10 from an ebay auction.
Damn shame we missed it!
Damn shame we missed it!
£150 seems a bit steep…
£150 seems a bit steep though, especially as the auction includes a t-shirt and a bunch of material that is already on Libcom...
Yeah definitely, if we had…
Yeah definitely, if we had seen it we would have sent a message and asked to buy that just by itself
Ah right - good to know if I…
Ah right - good to know if I spot anything similar in future...
Fozzie wrote: Ah right -…
Great, thanks. Even if something is quite expensive potentially we could try to crowdfund it. Back in the day we did that with a bunch of solidarity materials