Less bad than the marginal counterculture, if not, we would be in the absence of literary journals. In fact, Euskaltzaindia stopped publishing Erlea in 2018. That same year, Revista 111 was paralyzed on paper from Academy 111. A year later, in 2019, the number 57 of Hegats was published, and at the moment it seems that the publication is hosted by the Association of Basque Writers. The bee left, but Barnezomorro arrived with the fanzine Xangre.

The self-managed label published the first issue of Xangre in 2019. He published the second edition in 2021. No surprises: fanzine is crossed by punk.

The translations of the works of the Jamaican-British Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Cinthya Genser proto-punk feminist can be read as if they were punkis. On the other hand, Xangre, instead of the United States and northern Europe, takes us to the global south through reports. Specifically, the Peruvian underground rock “subte” and the Colombian musical scene “punk medallo”. In addition, like Cristina Morales, author of the novel Easy Reading punka, 46 photocopied pages give way to the British industrial sound of the musical group Throbbing Gristle.

Fanzine manages to move all this planetary noise to us. The original literary creation in Euskera and the interview with Edorta Jimenez fond Xangre in Euskal Herria. The cocktail cannot be more suggestive. Why not: Molotov literary cocktail in Basque, side-by-center.

Some cannot obtain 1,700 buyers, others cannot overcome the economic losses, want to dress with the tape of normalcy and the inability to do so reveals again and again the abnormality of the Basque centre. Among so many normalizations, it seems that we must get to do what the institutions cannot do, that is, precarious and radical. In the commercialized reality that we live, less self-management and self-publishing. Thanks to photocopiers, the philosophy “do it yourself” and literary activism.