The New Bristle — it’s shit-brown (not pro-Brown)

The Bris­tle col­lec­tive are delight­ed to announce that issue 24 of our bel­liger­ent & bristling mag­a­zine has been pub­lished, and should be in the usu­al out­lets by the end of this week.

We’ll be cel­e­brat­ing pub­li­ca­tion by host­ing the week­ly veg­an cafe at Kebele social cen­tre ( http://www.kebelecoop.org) on Sun­day 15 April, from 6pm. At 7.30pm we’ll be show­ing the excel­lent film “The day the coun­try died — a his­to­ry of anar­cho-punk 1980–84” dur­ing which you can relive your youth, or find out what your par­ents were up to!

Issue 24 comes in a shit-brown cov­er, because we have a shit gov­ern­ment that con­tin­ues to shit on us all whilst aid­ing & abet­ting the plun­der of the plan­et. Our spe­cial fea­ture this issue is on 10 years of New Labour – we look back to the 10 key pledges of their 1997 man­i­festo and see how they mea­sure up, tak­ing spe­cial note of their impact on Bris­tol.

In addi­tion we’ve got Bristling in Bath, lac­tivism, a look at the Fair­ford tri­als farce, guns in Acadamies, the defence of green spaces, Bristol’s ris­ing tide, news, com­ment, reviews, some dodgy humour, local polit­i­cal art­work, and even a t‑shirt com­pe­ti­tion! In fact you even get an extra four pages for the usu­al price of £1.20.

Bris­tle is the south west’s longest run­ning reg­u­lar, inde­pen­dent, anti-cap­i­tal­ist, think-glob­al-act-local media pub­li­ca­tion. We are a vol­un­teer, non-hier­ar­chi­cal col­lec­tive of activists who believe in the need for alter­na­tive print media – if you like it, come and get involved, we meet bi-week­ly on Sun­days at Kebele social cen­tre, 14 Robert­son Rd, Eas­t­on, BS5 6JY.

Our web­site is being updat­ed over the next few days with a list of out­lets and oth­er info – see http://www.bristle.org.uk

Thanks to all who helped with this issue.
Love & sol­i­dar­i­ty — the bris­tle col­lec­tive
editors@bristle.org.uk