Richard Hunt (editor)

Richard Hunt was a green anarchist activist, and editor of various environmentalist magazines, such as Green Anarchist and Alternative Green. He also contributed to early editions of Green Line. He was widely criticised in the anarchist community for his sympathies for nationalism, and wrote an editorial for Green Anarchist expressing patriotic support for British soldiers serving in the 1991 Gulf War in Iraq. Richard Hunt continued to have political disputes with the other editors of Green Anarchist, and shortly afterwards left the editorial collective to form his own magazine, entitled Alternative Green, of which he edited the first thirty-one issues and to which he contributed articles.

Richard Hunt
Born	(1933-10-08)8 October 1933
Died	2012
Nationality	English
Occupation(s)	Author, philosopher, editor, environmentalism, ecologist
Years active	Unknown–2012

Hunt founded "Alternative Green" after leaving the editorial collective of Green Anarchist. According to the remaining editors of Green Anarchist, he left the collective following a conflict over what was perceived to be his nationalistic tendencies. This came to a head when Green Anarchist published an article of Hunt's that appeared to give patriotic support to Britain's role during the 1991 Gulf War. Hunt himself stated that the conflict arose when other editors wanted to move Green Anarchist's political direction further left, while Hunt wished to remain outside the left-right spectrum.^[1]

Written works

• To End Poverty: The Starvation of the Periphery by the Core
• The Natural Society: A Basis for Green Anarchism.
• Who's Starving Them?
• The Theory of Alternative Green

Further reading

• Fleming, Andy (30 May 2009). "'Co-opting the Counter Culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction' by Graham D. Macklin". slackbastard.
• Macklin, Graham D. (2005). "Co-opting the counter culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction". Patterns of Prejudice. 39 (3). Informa UK: 301–326. doi:10.1080/00313220500198292. ISSN 0031-322X.
• Pepper, David (2005). "Utopianism and Environmentalism". Environmental Politics. 14 (1). Informa UK: 3–22. doi:10.1080/0964401042000310150. ISSN 0964-4016.
• Sunshine, Spencer (2008). "Rebranding fascism: national anarchists" (PDF). The Public Eye. Vol. Winter 2008.

References

1. An Interview with Richard Hunt