Kick It Over is packed with text and is a substantial bargain, but it suffers from the lack of a Toronto anarchist movement to fill its pages with energy and debate. In an earlier incarnation, in better times, KIO was smaller but feistier and more intellectually rigorous. Now it feels ivory-tower duffer-driven. Still, there are a lot of news updates, letters, book reviews, etc., good but not quite enough graphics, and critiques of work, anti-work, syndicalism, technology, the labour movement, the threat to the labour movement, theft, morality and postmodernism, information, feminist politics… Also interviews with New York squatter Rick Van Savage and MIT linguopolitical blah blah blah guru Noam Chomsky. Plenty food for thought — it’s just that it doesn’t feel like there’s anyone there to spit it back at. Perhaps Mike Harris will change all that by the time of the next issue.
magazine / #35, summer 1995, 76 pages / Publisher: Kick It Over / Main creator: bob melcombe (editor) & many others / $3 / PO Box 5811, Station A, Toronto, Ont. M5W 1P2