It must be Spring cleaning time at The Scoundrel HQ because I’ve decided to say “Fuck it” to the usual format and have a good old rant instead. The April edition is an attempt to start critical analysis of anarchist efforts and suggest possible avenues for the future. Why do our efforts never come even close to disturbing business as usual? Why do anarchists persist in the same old failed methods time and time again? What would genuinely pro-revolutionary anarchists do? Answers on a postcard, please, or maybe in a submission for this website or May’s edition…

For the third issue of The Scoundrel it's time to do something different. Having worked out a formula that could be run with forever, it's time to break up the pattern and develop something new.
For this issue The Scoundrel will be examining the local anarchist milieu and running a critical comb through the findings. This will not be pleasant for some and The Scoundrel expects accusations of uncomradely behaviour, defamation and pessimism to be winging their way here soon.
The aim is not to ‘have a go' or to find some measure of purity that no one could ever live up to, but simply to be honest about the effectiveness of what goes on and to initiate critical debate.
The Scoundrel welcomes responses to this issue and will be using future issues and the blog as spaces to develop new theory and critical reflection.