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Last Hours #16 - radical culture magazine

Last Hours | 01.10.2007 09:22 | Analysis | Culture | Other Press | London

The new issue of Last Hours is back from the printers; it's 116 pages packed full of articles, interviews, columns, comics and reviews about DIY culture, revolution, punk rock and autonomy.

Last Hours issue 16 cover
Last Hours issue 16 cover


The new issue of Last Hours is the best yet. It's a round up of the past six months of radical ideas and events. It features interviews and articles about the following:

Clifford Harper
Anarchist illustrator discusses how he got involved in politics, starting creating art, and German expressionist woodcuts

Home education ... Raising the next generation of free thinkers
A series of interviews with people who are involved in home education from children and teenagers through to their parents

We're not finished yet - the changing face of zines in the USA
The closure of Punk Planet, and the bankrupcy of the Independent Press Association makes it look like the zine community in the USA must be in crisis, not necessarily argues the article, which looks at what happened to Punk Planet and other publications that have closed down, the IPA and how others have reacted to it.

Social change AND lifestyle change ... Climate Camp 2007
What was good and bad about 2007's Climate Change and how people can move forward from it. Including photos, and chronology of what happened during the week.

The surprising success of the German anti-G8 mobilisation
What happened to blockade the G8 during June 2007 in North-east Germany.

Two, three, many apocalypses: Modern Ecologism and its prospects
Examing how the state is co-opting discontent and protest against Climate chaos to give government and state more power

Blair's backlash: A critical introduction to possession of 'extreme pornography'
An article briefly exploring the repurcussions of one of the Labour government's many pieces of legislation.

Also featuring other articles on:
* London Coalition against poverty
* The Camberwell squatted social centre - Black Frog - can never die

DIY Guides ... Learn how to do stuff yourself
* Autumn foraging - collecting wild food during autumn (and recipes to cook them with!)
* Stick and poke tatooing - the punx way of getting inked

Also other interviews:
Household Name Records
One of the UK's most important punk record label; Lil & Kafren, the label founders, talk about why they started the label, the incredible adventure they've travelled along and what the future holds.

Home made punk rock ... Bring the house down with home made DIY music: all from your sitting room
An article, with a series of interviews, about why people play house shows & parties, or let a series of random strangers into their home for a gig. Including interviews with Russ Substance, Adam Homestead, 3 Chord Craig, PJ & Gaby, James J Barrett and Tommy Comstock.

There's a launch gig on October 8th in London with all the bands interviewed for the Home made Punk Rock article.

More information on the gig, and to purchase a copy of #16, can be found at  http://www.lasthours.org.uk

Last Hours
- Homepage: http://www.lasthours.org.uk

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that looks like the best yet

02.10.2007 12:57

edd and the team, well done. LH has been getting better and better, i don't really follow zines but yours is a fucking pleasure to get hold of. The production values alone gives me a woody. This is a zine i happily stack next to my graphic novels and re read regularly.

nice one.

: )

sandy