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We are excited to share Bad Apple Issue 5 including stories of haunting, an interview with a peace activist turned labour councillor, reflections from the anarchist bookfair in London, poetry and lots of Baaaad apples. Bad Apple Zine is free, independent, and completely DIY. If you’d like to contribute articles or art please get in touch! Peace and Solidarity! Henry, Ghazal, Nora, and Reham x

By Henry Like many, I have scraps of verse, mostly psalms and poems, in the back of my mind, ready to be called on as needed. I quite often forget the order of the lines or change them around so much that when I see them in print they seem all wrong. One of these, ready to be called on in a new enquiring period of life, is the Benedictus. Turning sixty, I discover, brings new struggles, in which I grow to accept things are not as they seem, in which familiar prayers and meditation lose their power and others…

The submissions deadline for Bad Apple Issue 5 is MONDAY 6 NOVEMBER. If you would like to write/draw/create something for Bad Apple, please get in touch. We’re happy to offer support with writing, discuss ideas, give feedback etc. Contact: badapplemagazine@protonmail.com We’re also exploring the possibility of organising a collaborative writing workshop so if you’d be interested in this sort of thing, please let us know. And finally, we’ve started a Patreon in case any of you would like to and are able to support us with a regular donation of £1 per month: patreon.com/badapplemagazine Any money we make goes towards…

By Benji Benji is a member of the Kurdistan Solidarity Network and an occasional attender at hislocal Quaker Meeting with a long-standing interest in both the Quakers and other home-grown radical movements. The Kurdish freedom movement often talks about the ‘two rivers’ of history: the river of Capitalist Modernity and the river of Democratic Modernity. The former refers to the history of state hegemony, capitalist realism and Darwinian competition that forms the only history most are ever exposed to, whilst the latter refers to the far older history of democratic society, communalism and mutual aid that predates it and has…

Henry and M, an interview What is squatting? Squatting is when you occupy empty or unused commercial buildings. In England, legally, it has to be a commercial property. The place that I’m living in now used to be a centre that provided support for people who had come out of the social care system. The building was sold in trust, which means the landlord bought it from the Council for cheap on the promise that he was going to rebuild it as something for the community. But this landlord in particular has been known… there’s other situations where he buys…

By Nora Ziegler Atheism is a part of religious life. People of faith do not believe the same things equally or consistently and some don’t believe at all. Antitheism separates religious faith from atheism and from radical politics. It is tempting to respond to antitheists by invoking the many religious revolutionaries around the world, whose faith informed their politics and helped them to stay strong and committed in the face of violent persecution. However, white Christians should be very careful to appropriate revolutionary Christian legacies for our own religious identities. Christianity has been and is a tool of white supremacy…

By Joyoti Grech Cato I remember standing on the rajbari island, my feet re-rooting my body in the red earth of Where I Come From. My ancestors – warriors, weavers, women, men and all genders- surround me, my cousin and my friend by my side, the wide river below us and Bhante island[i] across it from us. Dada pointed out the vihara on the Bhante island, and told us how Bhante’s goodness is known and respected even by the occupying army. The Commanding Officer overseeing the militarisation of our home, the building of cantonments and human shield villages of enforced…

Bad Apple Magazine is a project of passion and we’d like to invest a bit of time and effort to get the word out! We’re asking for help to cover the costs of printing the zine so we can take it to radical book shops, bookfairs and social centres. Here’s a link to our fundraiser. Also, if you’re able to supports us more consistently, please sign up to our Patreon where you can have the option of receiving a printed zine once its published sent to you by post. Thank you! 😀

We’re excited to share the third issue of Bad Apple Magazine which is now available to download here! This issue features an interview with Mohamed Abdou, the author of ‘Islam and Anarchism’ (2022 Pluto Press), talking about ethics of hospitality, learnings from Tahrir Square, post-structuralism, and the role of personal faith in social justice organising. It also includes a report about interfaith work in North and East Syria, an article about non-binary experience of the Buddhadharma, and a Muslim christmas carol. As always, our zine is free, independent, and completely DIY. If you’d like to contribute articles or art please…