ZINES!!!

I thought I'd do an entry of stuff that's important to me and isn't music. The easy answer? Zines! The difficult part? Which zines? I dug through my bookshelf and the "Books, Zines, & PDFs" folder on my computer and came up with these ones.

I'll probably post four or five more zines I like tomorrow. I'll also try to make the content a vary a little bit, so you're just reading critiques of critiques of past articles, books, and zines. Or something.


Eternal War On The Hitler Youth is a zine about the Edelweiss Pirates (Edelweißpiraten), a loose organization made up of working class youth all over Germany during Nazi rule. All the members were under the age of 17, and were fierce as fuck. The zine doesn't go too terribly deep into the history of the Edelweiss Pirates, but in fall 2008, I went through every book about Nazi-era Germany in the Baltimore library and found out that they were basically beatniks, or hippies, or crust punks before any of those things existed. Oh, and they tried to kill SS officials. Pretty cool.

Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/790082206edeb5fb/


This book was talked about by Glenn Beck. He claims it will encourage the working classes and "disenfranchised people" to use terrorism to overthrow the United States government and global capitalism. What he doesn't realize is that the book had been out in the United States in zine form for years before MIT put out the book version which you can get at Barnes & Noble. Anyways, The Coming Insurrection was written anonymously by the Invisible Committee in France and currently nine people are on trial as the accused authors and for allegedly "having ties with a terrorist enterprise".

Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/7900746553b1391e/


The Institute For Experimental Freedom (IEF) put out Politics Is Not A Banana, an obnoxiously pink book full of various contributions about insurrection, orgies, hating the world, destroying shit, and other stuff awhile ago. Definitely worth a read, cause as Liam Sionnach says, "... nothing is too beautiful [not even the grotesque] for the unwanted children of capital."

Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/7900749953e64e0d/


I first read Give Up Activism during the weekend of the disastrous and stressful Bash Back! convergence 2009. It kind of sang to me, which is a stupid, silly way to say "this zine makes sense, yo!" Read it.

Download: http://www.zshare.net/download/79007342be3e480e/