it #35 July 12 - 25 1968. VERY GOOD.

Black Panthers and the trial of Huey P Newton; Revolutionary Politics in France; John Osborne; Letter from John Lennon to Coventry Cathedral; LSD; John Peel’s Perfumed Garden; A pamphlet by Salvador Dali, distributed on the streets of Paris during the May ’68 revolution; Nude Demos; Message of the Pyramids; Politics of the Imagination; Midsummer Raga; Review of Jean Luc Godard’s film ‘Weekend’ by Joel W. Finler; review of John Lennon exhibition ‘To Yoko’; Long poem (centre spread) ‘Paradise Now’ by Julian Beck, Living Theatre; Tribe Time part 3; Lumpy Gravy – Zappa review.

International Times [IT] was an underground countercultural newspaper that ran from October 1966 until 1978. Published every two weeks and edited by Barry Miles, David Mairowitz, and John “Hoppy” Hopkins, the Times became the leading British underground paper, with a circulation of 40,000 in 1968. The paper’s launch party was the first event at the Roundhouse–a pillar of the ‘60s British cultural revolution–and featured one of the earliest performances by Soft Machine and Pink Floyd, respectively. From 1967 onwards, the police surveilled and raided the offices of International Times. In 1972, the Times temporarily closed down after being convicted of conspiracy to corrupt public morals for printing gay personals. Contributors to the paper included feminist critic Germaine Greer, DJ John Peel, and leading countercultural writers Alexander Trocchi, William Burroughs, Abbie Hoffman, and Allen Ginsberg.