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… So the remainder of this winter will be the one to see the updated double-issue we will be ending the life of this magazine on, brought to you here in its first installment, Return Fire vol.6 chap.7 (with a separate version of the covers if you’re printing yourself). Here’s the main contents:

A Philosophy for Anarchism

(considerations on this winding path)

‘The Utopia we Dream of Becomes Most Visible in the Dark’

& Hurricane Helene Disrupts Critical Chip Mining in North Carolina

‘Mobilising Disaster Relief’

(how can people save each other and not their rulers?)

Death is a Master from Germany

(on not letting our struggles be separated)

TEN-T, Military Logistics, and Availability

(infrastructure and the expanding logic of ‘preparedness’)

The Revolutionary Importance of Celebration and Cyclical Time

& ‘You Are the Good Cause’

The Cryptoliberal Creep

& The Far Right, the Far Left, and the Trap of Electoral Politics

Memory as a Weapon

(re-telling how we’ve played fiercely and bashed back)

Lies of the Land

(review: Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘The Lie of the Land’)

Poems for Love, Loss and War

Unruly Edges

(of mushrooms and empires)

Cybernetic Mommy Milkers

(the psychology of 21st Century subjugation)

Another Way Out

(an ode to one who returned fire)

…and more!

(With the following chapter hot on its heels, we have reserved the material for our usual Rebels Behind Bars column for that chapter, to be most up-to-date with developments in repression and resistance.)

This chapter is dedicated to Tortuga, recently departed.

More to follow.

R.F., Imbolc 2025