Us
We (Muntjac Collective) are a group of Asian & Black working class [1] and lumpen [2] anarchists [3] in diaspora across the “UK”, we came together after defending ourselves during the fascist pogroms in the summer of 2024, we recognized the shortcomings of the anarchist & global majority [4] abolitionist mediascape(s) and decided to make a publication, publishing house, print shop, blog and network by and for people like us.
We, as individuals, are involved in many branches of the anarchist & abolitionist movement(s) and recognize a need to confront the sexism, racism, political “color blindness” [5], zionism, class reductionism [6], transphobia and pacifism [7] in the anarchist movement and the sexism, authoritarianism, assimilationist politics, nationalism and conservatism in the Asian & Black diaspora “radical” political sphere. Furthermore (as many people have asked this) many of us are disabled and the majority of us are Queer.[8]
As far as we can tell, we are the UK’s only public Global Majority explicitly anarchist organisation, one of two in all of western europe along with POC Bats in the Netherlands being the other one. It’s rough out here. However, we don’t want to give anyone the impression that we’re “the” voice of anti-authoritarian, anti-assimilationist racialized people in this country, there are many, we just want to amplify them!
The Magazine
The anarchist mediascape has lacked a regular publication that has centered around the ideas of global majority people in this country, so we decided to try to change that. Intitally we thought this would be a very small project with a limited amount of input but perhaps the opposite is true. We’ve printed hundreds of copies of the magazine, it’s distributed in several countires and is printed independent of us in others. We took a long time to come out with the first one (a whole season off-schedule) and it’s been a tiny bit easier with the second. For the third we’re going to see how it goes, but from the way it looks we’re gonna transition into doing 1 issue a year in 2026.
The Website
On the right hand side of every page of this website is our sidebar with: our logo, a quote from ancestor Lucy Parsons, Email Address, Signal, Social Media, Newsletter, Distro, Mailing Address, Op/Persec Resources, Counter Info Pages, Police Monitoring Groups, AntiRaids, Prisoner Solidarity links, and archives of our posts by month.
Recent Posts: Articles in a big feed you can slowly crawl through.
Articles: Articles in a list you can quickly go through.
Magazine: Each issue of the magazine, in all its printable formats.
Submissions: Parameters for submitting articles to the magazine, with specific instructions which vary from issue to issue.
Zines & Merch: All of our zines and merch, downloadable and printable.
Stockists: Everyone who stocks the magazine so far, please contact us if you want to join the ranks of these wonderful people.
Fellow Travelers: Other projects we enjoy.
Sudanese Anarchism Archive: Materials on the Sudanese revolution and Sudanese Anarchism.
In The Wild: Photos of muntjac at various events.
About & FAQ: The page you’re on right now.
Current Issue: This page will be the page you fall on when you visit the URL, we post a lot of content and we want to make sure people can easily find and read the most recent issue of the magazine.
P.S. If the website looks a bit awkward and you want it more simplified, press F9 on a computer and you’ll enter the reader view.
Notes / Jargon Buster
[1] Working Class, people in a capitalist society who have to sell their labor for wages from their employer to make ends meet.
[2] Lumpen, a marxist-derived term that we use to refer to the underemployed, sex workers, housing insecure, homeless and other “criminal” people who wouldn’t normally be considered working class by your average trade unionist.
[3] Anarchism is a (anti)political and social movement, lens of analysis and way of life based on the principles of Direct Action, Solidarity, Accountability and Mutual Aid. We share a hatred for this world, its defenders and its false critics. As such we do not support capitalism*, any state**, nor its police, including the peace police. Anarchists (at least, the ones worth speaking to) reject all authority and try to organise their lives in a way that prevents the creation of hierarchical, domineering relationships between people.
[4] Global Majority here refers to the people(s) who make up the majority of the world’s population, i.e. everyone but white people. We use this term as the term POC is too mechanical plus it’s not actually used in this country.
[5] While we recognize that race is a social construct based on colonial nonsense, people are affected by racial dynamics in real life and thus we struggle to support people against state and extra-state racism, with the history of British Unions being outwardly racist, anyone with an even remote interest in antiracism would recognize this, but they don’t…
[6] Many “anarchists” claim that there is no real political ground to fight on besides class struggle which is tripe if you’ve ever had as much racism as we’ve all had from white leftists and anarchists.
[7] Pacifism is a counterinsurgent tactic, constantly forced down the throat of racialized people as the part of the whitewashing of our radical histories, the worst part is that in Britain this logic has penetrated so far that many “anarchists” actually think you’re a cop if you do something “violent” in a protest context.
Further reading: https://www.indigenousaction.org/wp-content/uploads/simple-file-list/smash-pacifism-zine.pdf
[8] Queer, a reclaimed slur for LGBTQIA+ people who reject allocishetropatriachal ideals and norms.
*Capitalism, an economic system in which people are exploited in exchange for access to commodities bought and sold through the doctrines of the market, private property or state ownership. Property being owned by the state is fundamentally the same as property being owned by the ruling class privately as the state then becomes the new ruling class. The logic of Capitalism also seeks to commodity everything, even beyond commodities such as; relationships between people, knowledge and access to
** The State, an organisation with a monopoly on the ‘legitimate’ use of violence over a given territory. In Britain, the state is the Police, Security Apparatus and the Armed Forces.
FAQ
“How Can I Support Muntjac?”
Buy or Subscribe to the magazine. [KO-FI]
Write for us. [SUBMISSIONS PAGE]
Distribute our publications and tell us about it.
Let’s collaborate, if you’re a group of global majority anti-authoritarians and you want support for your project, we’re all ears.
Join us, we can allways use more hands / hooves.
“Why Call It ‘Muntjac’?”
The Muntjac deer is an (adorable) “Invasive Species” of deer to Britain, brought here from the colonies by some rich fuck heads who wanted to shoot them for fun and they escaped, just like us eh’.
“What does ‘4th World’ mean?”
We are still in a friendly debate about how wholeheartedly we embrace the term/concept but “Fourth world” can be defined as “Subpopulations existing in a First World country, but with the living standards of those in a third world, or developing country.” This piece I just ripped off verbatim does a better job of explaining.
“Are you *politically* Black?”
No, we feel that this had its historic use but it is no longer useful and we don’t identify with it. Several of us are, however, actually Black.
“Are you lot fuckin’ maoists or something?”
No, we are anarchists. We’re not nationalists or separatists either.
“Can white people read Muntjac?”
This is a fun one… We don’t care what white people do with the stuff we make, we expect other groups including white ones will want to print zines we make and that’s fine, white people can read or print the magazine too, no issues! Just we’d rather white people don’t make huge loads of money off of selling it and if you do, maybe give us some, as a treat?
“Can we republish content from Muntjac elsewhere?”
Yes, copyright isn’t real! Though please tell us when you do as our work getting shared makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
“Will you come to our event?”
Probably, we’re mostly London (England)-adjacent but we have love and will travel if the event sounds fun enough (or if the price is right and you have somewhere for us to sleep)
We also are intrested in doing stalls remotly, if you’ve got an event you want our stuff at but don’t think we can make it, we can send you a box of gear and a A4 sheet with a QR code and explainer.
“Do you do commissions?”
Yes, for writing it depends on the project so it’s best to email us with the brief first. There are several artists of different mediums in the project, we love doing art for projects we can relate to, get in touch.
“Will you review this book/zine/film?”
Probably, we’re all massive theory / art / culture nerds so we’d love it if people sent in new/unreleased content to us.
“Can we interview you?”
Yes, we love yapping.