Richard Hunt (editor)

Richard Hunt was a green anarchist activist, and editor of various environmentalist magazines, most notably Green Anarchist and Alternative Green. He also contributed to early editions of Green Line.
Hunt 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.
From Green Anarchist to Green Alternative
Green Anarchist was founded in 1984 after the Stop the City protests in London, with an editorial collective consisting of Hunt, Alan Albon, and Marcus Christo. Albon had been an editor of Freedom whilst Hunt had become frustrated with the more mainstream green magazine Green Line for which he had been writing. The younger Christo had come from a more anarcho-punk background - he was also a member of Green CND, and had been involved in the blockade of Ronald Reagan's car at the 1984 Lancaster House summit meeting.
During the 1984-1985 United Kingdom miners' strike, Hunt advocated the Thatcherite policy of "cutting taxes", on the grounds that it "redistributes wealth from the rich to the poor" and allows small business to prosper.
Within the editorial collective, there was a divergence between the essentially pacifist approach of Albon and Christo, and the advocacy of violent confrontation with the state favoured by Hunt. Albon and Christo left Green Anarchist, and the magazine saw a succession of editorial collectives, although Hunt remained in overall control. During this period he published articles which were increasingly alienating much of the magazine's readership. Matters came to a head after Hunt wrote an editorial which expressed support for British troops in the Gulf War and extolled the virtues of patriotism. Hunt has stated that the rest of the editorial collective wished to bring to Green Anarchist a more left-wing political approach, while Hunt wanted it to remain non-aligned. Shortly afterwards he left to start another magazine Alternative Green, which continued to promote his own particular view of green anarchism, and eventually became closely linked to the far right National-Anarchist movement from the mid-90s onwards.
Written works
* To End Poverty: The Starvation of the Periphery by the Core
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* Who's Starving Them?
* The Theory of Alternative Green
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