CAPITALISM Bites!CAPITALIsyN BITES! The Characters: ‘nd Buffy: Our young anarcho- 72g | syndicalist hero Giles: A hardened revolutionary who is one of Buffy's closest comrades Carlos: An old wobbly who hasn't forgotten his passion for social justice Jim Orwell: A black activist who has been stirring up trouble amongst Sunnydale's minority workforce Maria: The evil CEO of Blood Red EnterprisesIts Saturday night at Sunnydale Country Club. [77K TT Here, the rich and powerful gather, In safe distance Edé%| from the poor and Vs ‘(| uneducated masses, they feel safe to talk freely. Little do they know that they have a spy in their midst. (Giles, hiding behind dark sunglasses, listen intensly as he verhears a hushed conversation at the neighbouring table, It's all Giles needs to hear. He rises and briskly makes his way out the door. conveniently forgetting to pay for his drinks, Eup SeeNeERnsg SUERTE REESEDid you find out Yes, somebody is planning to attack our friend Jim Orwell tonight. Giles tells We'll his friends ‘. what he 7 ge there has heard, & af once! then he leaves Buffy and Carlos drives around for [ Finally, they park their car on what they hope is the better part of an hour. Orwell's block T think Orwell lives \ Damn you cround here some- } disorganized where, butall the / anarchists! houses look alike _/ When are you here. Going to start writ: ing things down? Buffy thinks back on the first time they met Jim Orwell Tt was at a meeting of the American Fredom low dare you The question is how dare Party, one of the local fascist outfits that they interrupt our} you continue to spread your free citizens J hateful lies around here? were keeping an eye on, meeting? 4m Beried Pace 39 stress We're not going to take aba =) Your shit much longer!Buffy's chain of thou 's broken by the sound of marching boots, Our friends jump out Gar, and star int ff the B [Buffy and Carlos run as fast as they can, but they arrive too late to prevent the kiansmen from torching the Orwell house. mr ia * Despite being far outnumbered, our proletarian heroes don't but charge the racist mob in front of themUsing hard-hitting arguments, || Buffy explodes ina frenzy of | [Withastrength not expected Buffy and Carlos demonstrate righteous revolutionary violence,| {in a man his age, he climbs onto the best way to discuss with ithe burning roof fascists. AIS While she keeps the lynch-mob bus) Carlos goes to save Orwell's family. -iaa/lbts He jumps down with the two kids in his arms, then he turns. Meanwhile, Buffy finishes off the klansmen, who seem to be better at cowardly lynchings, than in ‘ 0 fair fight Kat Oye T'm not going to let them get away with this! ry Jim, won't let the fascist pi take over our townlYT have experience as a secretary, ‘On Monday, after class, Buffy visits the new and type an impressive 90 words headquarter of Blood Red Enterprises | with the pretense o A lapplying for a job J Excelent. Ou™ interviewers will Finally, she is taken to see the "Personnel Buffy job interview Finally, resembles more of an Can you internogation, but she Yes, I think you will be perfect ‘ seems fo give the A Pos the job Per start right right answers. : out a whole stack of forms, You are just what I have been looking for! Buffy is token by surprise by the vampire's sudden attack. Wait aminutel L know WF of the local } ¢ 1 think the boss that face! She is one... might want to binterview" this one herself... seem Interviewing} © A reveltionary? 1 seems our here isin big ‘anew employee? Is that so? trouble this time.In a 200 year old church, an unusual boardmeeting is taking place, chaired by Maria, Vampire Queen and CEO of Blood Red Enterprices... T think it is time for tonights entertainment. "Please 3 welcome our Let me special guest" go, you creeps! T'm sorry to hear that you don't appreciate our hospitallity. Twill let you go. Va CARD i : A igh after I have turned you into @'mindless zombie.ar “ SS fa Miswhile his wife only laughs. Can you still hear me, Buffy? ( 3 ‘My poor feeble husband 4 You have better just You will sleep now, but a) stay asleep. before dawn you will wake ¥/ Jy ae up - es my loyal slave, px ‘make you into living dead, a alien power opposed to you. mindless robot fit only for the lower management). ” me a Feo eG uy eon Your only pleasure in life will be the consumption 3 IS of lifeless commodities TE = which I will sell to you Sarat | with a nice profit : You will die mS alittle bit more "oA leach day, until finally z= z you will become Ms a Like my husband: AQ" Fax i” ZL fore pA Arvegetable, kept half L/S OCYE LAE alive in a dreamlike \~ 1 Tior given a chance ‘stupor, kept forever H/ ={ to live, but neither =< apart from the world. Wee EEA “allowed to die. ‘And this will be the fate for all those of you who resist the rule of capitallBuffy awakes with a splitting headache - and a strange 1¢ to go shopping, ‘The voice of the vampire seem to be coming from far ‘away. Then everything gets silent as the ghoulish pack leave the room. Buffys mind drifts off into a shadowy world where relations between people take the form of relations between things. A SS rT she creams of pears 7 add end diomond earrings si 7 and buying on credit. for you to wake up. Where is 4 everybody? And Wwhere's the nearest shopping mall? 4 Buffy stares straight ahead with empty eyes: ‘an emptyness echoing the one in her head But for now I want to ‘see you growel at my feet. Kneel slave, and worship your new mistress! Twill just put my husband back into his coffin, where he will stay until our next boardmeeting Afterwards, T will teach you ‘your new duties as my slave. For a moment Buffy hesitates, then she shakes off her apathy, and focuses her blurry eyes on the vampire in front of her. WA the only thing I will do, Vampireby the practical class consiousness of a proletariat who has become aware of. do you say cad of Why would T want to work for you? But let's discuss it in my office, away from the rising sun!HF raving no desire to start ¢4 | ~- and procedes to drag the kicking and allife of wage slavery, screaming vampire outside. Buffy ignores the generous offer from the loodthirsty executive Did you really think that T would fall for your, away from the sun! The commodities which you champion lenrich your class, but force us to Not only are we exploited during our How could you think that your working hours, but our free time is lifeless commodities and your petty bourgeois comforts. reduced to the consumption of a never ending series of monotonous and disappointing products, designed to secure our passivity. could compare with the pure joy of being free ‘and being a rebel!‘One day the workers of the world But you will not be there will organize as a class. to experience that day. rrise up to take possession of the earth and its wealth. There could be no torture that would make up for the pain and suffering you have caused the working people oF this world | f But this 4 — and abolish the system of mage slavery. will have ow sti PT PO RIOATUN U py Sry. y fe wt CZ 3 Thereby ending the pre-history of mankind, and entering the realm of freedom. Do you understand now, \ demon, how illusory T just wish all oppressors Of the people could be vanquished as easy as you. But unfortunately r] Tt evaporates like de: {\ in the morning sunI Was A Teenage Popstar! I WAS EIGHTEEN - THIS WAS MY GREAT MOMENT. MY AGENT, MR, SIMMONS, HAD GOTTEN ME SIGNED UP TO A MAJOR RECORD LABEL. MISS MAY, WE FEEL CERTAIN THAT YOUR ALTERNATIVE STYLE WILL ‘SUIT TODAYS MARKED. Y you won'T 8& DISSAPOINTED, MR, RICH fcurenare records] wR simmons... W[vour IT'S LIKE A DREAM COME TRUE! DREAMS THE MEN WHO DECIDED STUDIO POLICY WERE DETERMINED TO MAKE ME A STAR, REHERSALS, BROADCASTS, ETC. WERE THE ORDER OF THE DAY, TWAS YOUNG AND NATVE AND WANTED TO. CHANGE THE WORLD WITH MY SONGS. I STILL DIDN'T KNOW THAT THE IMAGE OF REVOLT COULD BE REDUCED TO MERE COMMODITY, "MY LIFE SEEMED PERFECT ‘THEN ONE DAY, MR. SEMMONS VISITED ME AT HOME, r BUT BOB YOU KNOW THAT I WON'T COMPROMISE WITH MY ART! YOU SILLY LITTLE GOOSEI DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOUR ART TS NOW ‘OWNED BY RECUPERATE RECORDS!TT FINALLY REALISED THAT FOR THE RECORD COMPANY, T TRIED TO CONTINUE AS NORMAL, BUT MY HEART TWAS JUST ANOTHER MEANS OF PRODUCTION, WAS BROKEN. MY WHOLE LIFE SEEMED FALSE. "AND T WHO THOUGHT IT'S TIME YOU WAKE UP TO) ‘YOU REALLY CARED) REALITY, BABY. IN THIS ‘ABOUT MY SONS. INDUSTRY, ONLY PROFIT THE ONLY WAY T MANAGED TO 60 ON WAS BY DOING MORE AND MORE DRUGS. ONE DAY MY BODY JUST. COUDN'T TAKE ANY MORE. "T RECOVERED SLOWLY... MY CAREER WAS IN RUINS, BUT I HAD NOT LOST MY IDEALS. FROM NOW ON T WOULD MAKE NO COMPROMISES! TELL HER TO FUCK OFF ‘MY REBELLION WILL NO LONGER FA) oe A NOVELTY ITEM FOR THE {ET HER HOME] NO WATT. MAKE HER CHECK [THERE IS A REPORTER FROM VANITY FAIR. [ASKING FOR YOU. The Anarchist Yellow Pages 4 Your guide to anarchists and troublemakers around the globe. updated and revised 2004 edition ance) ayp.subvert.info Acknowledgements: Buffy the Anarcho-Syndicalist: artwork by Tom Sutton. I Was a Teenage Popstar: artwork from Realistic Romances 1952. Back cover: artwork by Trina Robbins; text based on a situationist comies from Paris, 1968. Published by Nihil Press - nihil subvert info - nihil@subvert info Nihil Press 2004 - © Copyright Infringement Is Your Best Entertainment ValueTsn't this @ new The maid revolutionary tactic enters to introduced by the Curiously, they just\ | serve the tea...| situationists in the. change the text in the balloons. hese anarchists sure make some funny comics! The detournment of comics, which is a proletarian form of graphic expression,| /“Tdiots! We're just realizes the supercession too lazy to draw the pictures! Nihi nihil.subvert.info Press