Agro. "Pilot Issue" Dec. 1969 (all published)

Folded poster-pamphlet with texts and images printed in black ink on cream paper stock, opens to large color poster on verso. 4to [opens to 17.5 x 22.5 in] Near fine ; old central crease. Loose folded sheet. [1319]

A delightfully riotous publication with texts attributed to former King Mob member Phil Cohen and associates in the London Streeet Commune. The poster illustration on the pamphlet's verso depicts a youth with a huge erection being sentenced to correction bu authorities at a "Penal Institution." Our expert source informs us that Agro was printed in an attempt to organize London's hippie, greaser, and skinhead youth cultures to work together against ruling class oppression, rather than antagonize one another. "At the end of 1969 the pilot – and only! – issue of Agro tried to mobilize the skinhead opinion. The paper ('printed by the Gutter Press'), bore the stamp of the [London Street] Commune and most of it in fact consisted of an abridged version of 'Project Free London', a small booklet to which I shall refer again. An editorial claimed that Agro would be produced and distributed, not from an office, but through an informal network of 'skinheads, greasers, heads; in pubs, caffs, clubs and on the streets'. The Commune was worried because skinheads and greasers had mobilized against each other instead of against straight society, and they saw Agro as a way of combining forces as a 'single subcultural front.'" Extremely rare. We can find no copies in OCLC or online.

ref.

https://standupandspit.wordpress.com/2019/11/19/agro/

https://www.wussu.com/squatting/144_piccadilly_supercrew.htm