How is it that the English can be so overtly political in zines and not sound nearly as ridiculous as Americans do in politically oriented print? Maybe their problems are somehow more real than ours, and maybe we’ve taken too much whiny influence from hippies. Negative Reaction is a working class punk zine that reminds me a lot of ClassWar, only it’s concerned with music and the humor is genuine if a little less vicious. This issue includes interviews with Violators, the Warriors, the Tights, Conflict, and the Blood. Some of the features in here, such as “Negative Reaction vs. the Modern World,” seem like they should be really entertaining, but it’s so steeped in a specifically English working-class context that many of the references are lost on me. Still, I like this a bunch. –The Lord Kveldulfr (Trev Howarth, 20 New Front St., T/Lea, Stanley, Co. DurhamDH9 9LY, England)