ANARCHO MEETS APOCALYPSE PUNK -- A COLLISON COURSE IN FRONT PAGE COVERAGE.
PIC INFO: Spotlight on DISCHARGE meets CRASS front page cover art to UK anarcho punk zine "Guilty of What?" #1, created and published by Chris Low of Scotland.
DIY CONSPIRACY: "What was the importance of zines in the development and evolution of the anarcho-punk scene? Can you talk about your own zines in the early ‘80s and the way you managed to synthesize the ideas of punk and anarchism through zine publishing?"
CHRIS LOW: "Zines were absolutely integral to the evolution of the anarcho-punk scene. They were the very lifeblood and communication network of the movement and the means by which ideas were organically developed and disseminated in the pre-internet age.
I produced three issues of my zine, "Guilty of What?" in 1982 to ‘83 which were probably the halcyon years of anarcho-punk. In terms of “synthesising” anarchism and punk, the name I chose for the zine was an almost unconscious attempt to do this, given “Guilty of What?” was both the slogan on a Sid Vicious badge I had following his arrest for murdering Nancy Spungen and also the title of an article I had seen in a copy of "Black Flag" or "Freedom" magazine about the Persons Unknown trial of anarchists facing imprisonment on bomb-making conspiracy charges.
I must say my zine was fairly typical of anarcho zines back then and by issue three was focusing near exclusively on the scene and its themes—articles about vivisection, the arms race, conscription, apartheid etc., together with interviews with CRASS, CONFLICT, FLUX OF PINK INDIANS, DISCHARGE, and the other big name anarcho bands du jour — including one of NAPALM DEATH’s first ever write-ups as myself and founder members Nick and Miles, who were also similarly aged to me and also producing zines, had started communicating around the time NAPALM DEATH were started as well as THE ALTERNATIVE, a Dunfermline band often described as “The Scottish CRASS.""
-- DIY CONSPIRACY, "Rethinking the Legacy of Anarcho-Punk Zines: An Interview with Chris Low," published August 21, 2021
Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!
Source: https://diyconspiracy.net/chris-low-anarcho-punk.
