JimW
支那暗杀团
I think it was him who very kindly mentored me on my few youthful anti-fascist turnouts, top bloke.
Beating the Fascists: The authorised history of Anti-Fascist Action
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Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Aye, he was good lad.
Kate Sharpley
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There are a few pieces on our site:
Kate Sharpley Library: Direct Action Movement DAM
You could check out A history of Anarcho-syndicalism (though that's much broader and DAM only get a couple of mentions). No book-length tomes, yet. The Sparrow's nest (archive in Nottingham) have stuff scanned: https://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/search.php?query=direct+action+movement&logic=and&digital=0&digital=0 - you could see history as it happens if you read through Direct Action...
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Including the one published by the Hull renegades, which included articles sympathetic to CNT-R?
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
My mum's first opinion of it was that any NFers drinking in there would probably be on the well-heeled and less scary side, but then she remembered it was also next to a council estate where apparently one of the Sex Pistols lived for a bit, which also hosted some considerably rougher NFers? I thought she'd remember it because my mum seems to have drunk in a surprising number of the same pubs as Webster.
Ah, I wasn't nerdy enough to recognise the name but do know what that description's about - they produced the heretical issue 32 of Direct Action that had an article in saying that the CNT-Reno/CGT were alright, followed up by the official issue 32 that had to apologise for the previous one.
"The EL-DAM family?"Probly summat like that "your mother is your sister" one, to the tune of the Addams Family
Good question, as someone who's read a few history things from Solfed they seem to have published more about the history of A-S in other countries or at the very start of the c20th than here. There's some old documents up on libcom:
Winning the class war - An anarcho-syndicalist strategy
The Direct Action Movement's 1991 pamphlet on strategy, setting out a vision of networks of militant workers seeking to create explicitly revolutionary workplace and community based groups capable of initiating collective direct action - revolutionary unions. The DAM became Solidarity Federation...
"No Poll Tax Here": DAM pamphlet against Poll Tax
This is a short pamphlet put out by the DAM in around 1988, as interest was growing in England and Wales against the Poll Tax, which was already well advanced in Scotland.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Snap - yes, that's the issue 32, or at least one of the issue 32s.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Have a wade through the SDS reports at the Undercover Policing Inquiry: Official Website - it functions better as a FriendsReunited for political activists than it does as a public inquiry
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Quite a big lad but very shortsighted. He put his glasses in his pocket when we spotted some fash scurrying around a Manchester Martyrs march and when he waded into action punched one of our own.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
That's embarrassing
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
from p5 of32a
i hope to fuck he didn't fire that rocket while his mates were behind him
Fozzie Bear
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The Log Books is a podcast that uses the logbooks of London's Gay Switchboard to do LGBT history. It's good!
Latest episode looks at the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho - and threats against Switchboard by Combat 18:
www.thelogbooks.org
(There is a brief mention of AFA as being one of the organsations that they should keep posted about C18 threats).
Latest episode looks at the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho - and threats against Switchboard by Combat 18:
Home | The Log Books
(There is a brief mention of AFA as being one of the organsations that they should keep posted about C18 threats).
An overview of Anti-Fascist Action and the shifts in focus that led to its demise, by an ex-Liverpool AFA member. Written for Black Flag magazine in 2005.
Kate Sharpley
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Or the pamphlet/ full version: http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/PAR0090.pdf
Thanks. I am not sure how I never read this before. I think I got it confused with the 'Bash the Fash' pamphlet.
Fozzie Bear
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Fozzie Bear
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I was never an Upstarts fan, but always held Mensi in high esteem.
Mainly because he came to to speak at my students union in the late 80s. I was at the Polytechnic of Central London and Blood & Honour had opened up a shop called Cutdown nearby in Riding House Street. Mensi was part of an AFA contingent who came to speak to us about what needed to be done. He had a presence and directness that was in stark contrast to the posturing student politics that was the norm in the supposedly radical college. It wasn't a road to damascus thing or anything, but it did reinforce some ideas that were already in my head.
There is a straight line from that to me and some mates turning out to make up the numbers at some protests against the shop and the "main event" do at Hyde Park. And my approach to things subsequently. His intro to the AFA "open space" TV programme is iconic:
Mainly because he came to to speak at my students union in the late 80s. I was at the Polytechnic of Central London and Blood & Honour had opened up a shop called Cutdown nearby in Riding House Street. Mensi was part of an AFA contingent who came to speak to us about what needed to be done. He had a presence and directness that was in stark contrast to the posturing student politics that was the norm in the supposedly radical college. It wasn't a road to damascus thing or anything, but it did reinforce some ideas that were already in my head.
There is a straight line from that to me and some mates turning out to make up the numbers at some protests against the shop and the "main event" do at Hyde Park. And my approach to things subsequently. His intro to the AFA "open space" TV programme is iconic:
krink
I'll do it this afternoon
Crazy day in South Shields. Tom and his mate had just fronted the whole EDL mob who were hassling a woman photographer and his mate had just floored their leader with one punch. The brave EDL shit themselves
Cops appeared from nowhere and lifted Tom and S. That's me behind him with green hoodie and cap. I wanted the Upstarts to use this photo for the album they recorded shortly after this so I could have a claim to fame - needless to say I remain without. Great memories though.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Some people learn about class politics and fair play to them but with Mensi he was born with it in his gut. Total respect to him.
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Thomas ‘Mensi’ Mensforth obituary
Charismatic, outspoken frontman of the punk band Angelic Upstarts, pioneers of raw and raucous Oi music
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Bumping this thread with news of the death of a certain other musician that I imagine some posters on here may have encountered:
www.sundayworld.com
Infamous neo-Nazi skinhead band member dies of 'Covid complications' in Co Antrim hospital
One of Ulster's most infamous far-right activists has been laid to rest after passing away on New Year's Day with what was reported as "Covid complications."
www.sundayworld.com
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
how humiliating for him that in his obit they spell skrewdriver wrongBumping this thread with news of the death of a certain other musician that I imagine some posters on here may have encountered:
Infamous neo-Nazi skinhead band member dies of 'Covid complications' in Co Antrim hospital
One of Ulster's most infamous far-right activists has been laid to rest after passing away on New Year's Day with what was reported as "Covid complications."
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
anyway, turned out nice againBumping this thread with news of the death of a certain other musician that I imagine some posters on here may have encountered:
Infamous neo-Nazi skinhead band member dies of 'Covid complications' in Co Antrim hospital
One of Ulster's most infamous far-right activists has been laid to rest after passing away on New Year's Day with what was reported as "Covid complications."
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