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Established 1979
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These are the back issues of Red Rag. They'll be posted here every (usually) two weeks on or around the anniversary of their original publication. We're currently reissuing 1983; the latest issue is dated September 18th (scan / txt); the next one is due out on October 2nd.

Red Rag, or Reading's only newspaper, had a noble tradition of misspelling, mixed metaphors, wrong facts, confused political judgements and a print run by now of 1250. It printed pretty well everything it got sent ("unless the Collective judged it racist, sexist, right wing, or supportive of oppressive religions"). It aimed to provide a decent alternative coverage of local news and issues from a radical non-aligned position; to promote subversive and creative initiatives; to provide a forum for unorthodox views; to allow some sort of co-existence between a huge variety of interests. And it was free.

In this issue (scan / txt): late September can only mean two things: it's illegal eviction time again - so East Reading landlords can bump the rent - and the Soviet cannabis harvest was as magnificent as ever. And the reason why this issue of the Rag is so small is that nobody seems to have felt like writing anything much. So send in your news, reviews and comments for next time.