“This is the first issue of a magazine being edited and published by some of the former editors of The Fox. Why are we publishing another magazine?

While it is true to say that most of our production and history is appropriated, this process is certainly never air-tight. In any struggle against such appropriation, progressive forces emerge and coalesce. There may be little we can do to stop this magazine from becoming another coffee-table class diversion; there is much we can do to make sure that isn’t all it becomes. Of course the forms this struggle takes are of necessity transitional, as Red-herring is transitional.

We aren’t volunteering here as the “organic intellectuals” of any cultural struggle or movement; nor are we claiming that our activities assume any logical priority in this struggle. In fact, we clearly recognize that what we are doing should, like everything else “made-in-New York,” be regarded in many ways as yet another red-herring.“ - Red-Herring, p. 2.