Beating the Fascists: The authorised history of Anti-Fascist Action

[hitmouse]

Not an AFA member, but couldn't find a 43 Group thread so might as well go here:

One of the last survivors of legendary anti-fascist fighters the 43 Group dies

Jules Konopinski, who was 93, came to Britain with his mother in 1939, escaping the Nazis “by the skin of my teeth”.

www.jewishnews.co.uk

z”l (that's a Jew thing, I've not just had a cat walk on my keyboard)

 

[JimW]

Just read that, long life well lived! He's interviewed in these podcasts: E35-37: The 43 Group

 

[hitmouse]

The 1983 Special Branch report mentioned over on the RCP thread also has a brief mention of Red Action as the cops saw them in 1983:

 

[Fedayn]

The 1983 Special Branch report mentioned over on the RCP thread also has a brief mention of Red Action as the cops saw them in 1983:
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Rather reminds me of the time revol68, from this parish, called me a 'red action bulldog chewing a wasp skinhead because I called him and his pals out on an anti-war demo in Edinburgh 20 years ago..... I was a skinhead back then....

 

[The39thStep]

Rather reminds me of the time revol68, from this parish, called me a 'red action bulldog chewing a wasp skinhead because I called him and his pals out on an anti-war demo in Edinburgh 20 years ago..... I was a skinhead back then....

Wonder what he is upto these days , and that Nigel Irritable?

 

[Rob Ray]

He's still about, his movie hot takes occasionally show up on my feed.

On a thread-related note, we're nearly out of the damn thing, 13 years on.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

He's still about, his movie hot takes occasionally show up on my feed.

On a thread-related note, we're nearly out of the damn thing, 13 years on.

Time for a reprint! With a new cover perhaps!

Surely 13 years is pretty quick compared to… The Raven?

 

[Rob Ray]

We've got another idea, hopefully not a 13/25-year Odyssey this time.

 

[DaveCinzano]

We've got another idea, hopefully not a 13/25-year Odyssey this time.

Longer than the actual Odyssey, then

 

[Fedayn]

Wonder what he is upto these days , and that Nigel Irritable?

Nigel will be taking part in the split in the CWI and revol will be telling all about how his dad,, a former screw in jails in the North, was not a legitimate target.

 

[The39thStep]

Nigel will be taking part in the split in the CWI and revol will be telling all about how his dad,, a former screw in jails in the North, was not a legitimate target.

Wasnt Ireland's leading anarchist once a victim of an attack by cider swilling anarchists at the book fair ?

 

[Fedayn]

Wasnt Ireland's leading anarchist once a victim of an attack by cider swilling anarchists at the book fair ?

I do recall something similar yes.

 

[Larry O'Hara]

Rather reminds me of the time revol68, from this parish, called me a 'red action bulldog chewing a wasp skinhead because I called him and his pals out on an anti-war demo in Edinburgh 20 years ago..... I was a skinhead back then....

Revol68 has probably taken up his position in the family firm by now, his income supplemented by Pater’s Trust Fund….

 

[hitmouse]

If I recall my ancient history correctly, wasn't it that people went looking for him but couldn't find him so they hit one of his mates instead? Or was it vice versa? Hopefully Freedom will publish a comprehensive history of bookfair beef that we can rely on to sort these kinds of questions out in future.

 

[The39thStep]

If I recall my ancient history correctly, wasn't it that people went looking for him but couldn't find him so they hit one of his mates instead? Or was it vice versa? Hopefully Freedom will publish a comprehensive history of bookfair beef that we can rely on to sort these kinds of questions out in future.

Beating The Anarchists

 

[Rob Ray]

If I recall my ancient history correctly, wasn't it that people went looking for him but couldn't find him so they hit one of his mates instead? Or was it vice versa? Hopefully Freedom will publish a comprehensive history of bookfair beef that we can rely on to sort these kinds of questions out in future.

Yes it was a certain well-known ABC solidarity activist from the time who punched revol's taller, thinner friend. Iirc it was because of an argument over the campaign to release a controversial prisoner.

 

[LDC]

Yes it was a certain well-known ABC solidarity activist from the time who punched revol's taller, thinner friend. Iirc it was because of an argument over the campaign to release a controversial prisoner.

I remember that debacle. Not anarchism's finest hour.

 

[Rob Ray]

In fairness it's not even close to our worst. The Saga of Mr Drury and Michael Schmidt's Zabalaza Extravaganza both beat it for sheer face palm.

 

[Dom Traynor]

I wonder what Michael Schmidt is doing now?

 

[TopCat]

I recollect some twat getting a slap at the spoons after the bookfair. I thought it was some complete wanker from that website. Jack something? Was he revols pal? I was a bit pissed. Same year as beating the fash was published.

 

[Pickman's model]

I recollect some twat getting a slap at the spoons after the bookfair. I thought it was some complete wanker from that website. Jack something? Was he revols pal? I was a bit pissed. Same year as beating the fash was published.

there's always some twat gets a slap at the spoons after - and sometimes during - the bookfair.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

there's always some twat gets a slap at the spoons after - and sometimes during - the bookfair.

Sounds like a cracking day out!

 

[The39thStep]

Wasn't some mate ( deceased now I think) of The Blackhands and Dave Douglass chastised and tomato ketchup thrown at him? Northern bloke who wrote something about the decline of anarchist agitation within the working class and trade unions.

 

[The39thStep]

Sounds like a cracking day out!

Anarchist equivalent of falling out of a window

 

[Dom Traynor]

The Accidental Slap of an Anarchist

 

[DaveCinzano]

Four slappings in a Spoons hall

 

[Serge Forward]

Wasn't some mate ( deceased now I think) of The Blackhands and Dave Douglass chastised and tomato ketchup thrown at him? Northern bloke who wrote something about the decline of anarchist agitation within the working class and trade unions.

Brian Bamford of Northern Voices got a strong telling off with summat like ketchup coffee chucked on his stall. He'd published a vicious poison pen article against a friend and comrade in Manchester (Bob Miller) who had recently died. Bamford didn't get battered on account of his age, but he did get told to fuck off from the bookfair.

 

[The39thStep]

Brian Bamford of Northern Voices got a strong telling off with summat like ketchup coffee chucked on his stall. He'd published a vicious poison pen article against a friend and comrade in Manchester (Bob Miller) who had recently died. Bamford didn't get battered on account of his age, but he did get told to fuck off from the bookfair.

That's him, Bamford. Wrote an interesting piece on anarchism and trade union intervention that popped up on my timeline on Twitter I think a while ago.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Brian Bam(ford)

Apt name

 

[The39thStep]

Peace News ( not a regular journal I read tbh) had an article on this incident which reveals the disturbing news that salad cream was involved, doesn't specify whether it was vegan or non.

Anarchists barred from bookfair | Peace News

peacenews.info