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Steve Booth first became involved with the UK Green Anarchist magazine in 1990, and published a novel, City-Death explaining his idea of green anarchism. In the mid 1990s he wrote 'Politics And The Ethical Void'.

Booth contributed controversial articles to Green Anarchist which appeared to laud indiscriminate violence against members of the public (such as the Aum Shinrikyo sarin attacks on the Tokyo Tube) as 'liberatory'.

Starting in 1995, the Hampshire Police under 'Operation Washington' began a series of at least 56 raids, which eventually resulted in the August to November 1997 Portsmouth trial of Green Anarchist editors Booth, Saxon Wood , Noel Molland and Paul Rodgers , as well as Animal Liberation Front Press Officer Robin Webb and Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group newsletter editor Simon Russell . The defendants organised the GANDALF Defence campaign. Three of the editors of Green Anarchist, Noel Molland, Saxon Wood and Booth were jailed for 'conspiracy to incite'. Eventually, all three were released on appeal [1]

In early 2001, Steve Booth broke with Paul Rodgers [2]. He then began taking his version of 'Green Anarchist' magazine in a different political direction, trying to take the magazine back to what Booth saw as its roots and undo the harm he considered done to it by Richard Hunt and Paul Rodgers.

At present [March 2005] the GreenAnarchist website is down.

However, from 2002 Steve began to contribute to the BlueGreenEarth website. One of the most interesting pieces there is The Primitivist Illusion, see http://www.bluegreenearth.us/archive/article/2003/booth2.html. He is still writing for BlueGreenEarth on a semi-regular basis.

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