'Return Fire' Update: Supplement Series, End of Magazine, & New Book

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Return Fire supplements for vol.6 chap.7 & 8 – winter 2024-2025 releases, part iii (plus website & PGP updates)

As we celebrate our final magazine chapters (vol.6 chap.7 & vol.6 chap.8), here we present the supplement series to accompany them: featuring a variety of themes relevant to the current volume of Return Fire, from new transcriptions, to short stories, to the expanded zine version of our open letter last year.

Return Fire for vol.6 chap.7 & 8 – winter 2024-2025 releases, plus more

From Return Fire

As we celebrate our final magazine chapters (vol.6 chap.7 & vol.6 chap.8), here we present the supplement series to accompany them: featuring a variety of themes relevant to the current volume of Return Fire, from new transcriptions, to short stories, to the expanded zine version of our open letter last year.

Return Fire vol.6 chap.7 – winter 2024-2025, part i

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Well, it took us considerably longer to get this ready than we’d hoped: adaptation to design advice meant a re-haul of what we’d prepared as the promised forthcoming double-release at the point we printed Return Fire vol.6 chap.6 last year, then additional life events added delays…

Open letter from Return Fire magazine

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Original title: Open letter from Return Fire magazine to the 2024.03.29-31 International Anti-Prison / Anti-Repression Gathering

We welcome this initiative, and send our love and gratitude to all gathering in Brighton with the aim of together building a more durable and combative struggle against the authoritarian nightmare of the present-day. From the limits of our own capacity, we’d like to offer some thoughts; reflections that have been born from decades of shared struggle and over 10 years of publishing our magazines with a strong presence of anti-repression/anti-prison documentation and agitation.

“A Web of Relations & Tensions” — interview with Return Fire

These questions were completed, as requested, for the first release of No Path[1] – a project aiming to make more links between the ‘anti-civilisation’ and ‘anti-speciesist’ strands in the anarchist world. The invitation to participate was very welcome, and it seemed a good opportunity to offer critical engagement with these tendencies, as well as talk about the upcoming Return Fire book which No Path had taken interest in. However, when the ‘zine went to print, No Path wrote to say that the fifth question and answer (the one relating to the focus of their project) had been cut, citing lack of space. Here is the unabridged version of the interview. For copies of No Path #1 (which will otherwise be offline only), email them at nopath[at]riseup.net

Capitalism & Electrification

From Return Fire by Anonymous

For at least thirty years the dominant narrative has fobbed us with “the end of ideologies”. According to the “thinkers” of the palace, the collapse of countries under State Capitalism would have inaugurated a new era, the one that the philosopher Francis Fukuyama (1992) calls “the end of history”. Therefore history would be to be intended as a linear development where the democratic and liberal State represents its telos, the ultimate Goal of evolution beyond which it is impossible to go. It is the principles of liberalism that dictate evolution, marked and pushed by the force of rationality.

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