Crash-Test Magazinne (May and June 2025)

I came across this zine in a distro in Lille, which is quite close to Brussels where the zine is based. Crash-Test is zine of anarchy and punk, with many contributors. It was one of my best discoveries of tour. Crash-Test has been going since December 2024, steadily putting out an issue every month. Issues are often based on a theme (May was "Sports" and the July issue was "Drugs"). They also put their PDFs online so anyone can print and distribute the zine (as do we here at The Counterforce) following a Print It Yourself principle. And like us, they have an editorial policy against listing Instagram handles in their pages.

I should mention that being based in Brussels, the zine is in French. Here are their principles:

Les balises actuelles (libre d’interprétations et d’évolutions) :
- Punk (quoiqu’on en dise)
- Anar (quoiqu’on en pense)
- Noir et Blanc (quoi qu’il en coûte)
- Format A4 plié (quoique)
- Pas de lien insta individuel (ya pas de quoi)

Translated to my best ability:
- Punk (what we say)
- Anarchy (what we think)
- Black and White (what it takes [to make, since it's a photocopy zine))
- A4 folded (what is it [A4 is the European paper size])
- No instagram links (no worries)

Perfect!!

Most of the content in these issues is in the overlap of the punk and anarchist scenes (a much bigger overlap in Europe). There are record reviews, reportbacks from demos and bookfairs, show and event listings, essays, interviews with punk/political collectives, euh-roscopes, much more from many contributors. If you live in a French-speaking place I encourage you to start printing out and distroing Crash-Test at shows!