The main theme of this number of the anarchist review Existence is a bit untraditional: Anarchist tabloid.
It aims in three directions – to grab attention, to entertain a bit and foremost to pose some questions to think about. We follow which are the most popular themes in anarchist magazines and websites, which print formats are the most successful. We kind of compare our observations with the practice of mainstream media. But our motivations and goals are very different from theirs. We obviously have to strive for reader friendliness but can’t be a goal in and of itself and we need to avoid such traps. We ask: How to use humour and satire? What can ties to culture bring? Can marketing methods be used for our needs? Should we try and aim at the public or give up this broad term and concentrate on particular groups? To what extent should we use simplified rhetoric and a certain kind of populism? Isn’t it against our principles to try and get into mainstream media? How to work with language in order to be comprehensible?
The theme is supplemented by the experience of the British group and magazine Class War or the Belorussian newspaper Navinky. We look to different uses of humour and satire in the anarchist movement, a hundred years ago and just a few decades ago, with a particular emphasis on the art of making fun of ourselves. This is followed by two pages of fictive news and an untraditional column – one of them is about the relationship between anarchism and the detective genre.
Pomáhat privilegovaným a chránit kapitál, takové je celé znění slavného policejního hesla. Stahujte, tiskněte, lepte červencové číslo nástěnných novin A3!
Po ostudně dlouhé odmlce, která byla zapříčiněna o mnoho řádů ostudnější razií v rámci policejní akce Fénix zaměřené proti anarchistickému hnutí, můžeme s úlevou oznámit, že opět spouštíme webové stránky Nakladatelství Anarchistické federace.