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Bookfairs: anarchist, radical, other. (Not the LABF).

They're having one in the southeast suburb of Newport as well at the end of November:
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Bonus points for having cats although the weird face makes me wonder if they might be AI? Apologies to the artist if they're not AI and it's just an artist who can't do cat faces.

They're by Théophile Steinlen, left wing artist who did the famous "Tournée du Chat Noir" poster in the late 19th century.
 
Does anyone know what has happened to the London Radical Bookfair 2024? The 2023 version was pretty good and at Goldsmiths. Can't find any info online.
 
Not so much politically, as economically. They've badly, badly fucked up and are now bankrupt. As a result they raised hire of the hall phenomenally, and so the London Radical Bookfair didn't happen
 
Not so much politically, as economically. They've badly, badly fucked up and are now bankrupt. As a result they raised hire of the hall phenomenally, and so the London Radical Bookfair didn't happen
I'm not sure I follow your post. If you are talking about Goldsmiths and not the book fair, both can be true. The book fair might be considered 'collateral damage'. Bankruptcy is news to me, not a word I've heard even whispered at Goldsmiths. Political turmoil is apparent in many dimensions. YMMV
 
I'm not sure I follow your post. If you are talking about Goldsmiths and not the book fair, both can be true. The book fair might be considered 'collateral damage'. Bankruptcy is news to me, not a word I've heard even whispered at Goldsmiths. Political turmoil is apparent in many dimensions. YMMV
Is the turmoil mainly focused on whether the ACG should have a stall or not?
 
I guess this technically isn't a bookfair but excuse my chutzpah in posting this here.

I wish I was in London to attend this. I'm intrigued in what records SPGBers would be selling? Spooky Tooth LPs, Tom Robinson Band singles and wax cylinders of Marie Lloyd's greatest music hall gems from the 1910s would be my first guess:

Socialist Party book & record fayre 2024 copy.jpg
 
Had to look up Spooky Tooth to check who they were, but respect to them for choosing a really timeless-sounding name, if you told me that they were only the band Pearl Jam could've been or that they'd just dropped the hottest shit-fi bedroom sadcore EP of 2024 I'd find it equally plausible.
 
Had to look up Spooky Tooth to check who they were, but respect to them for choosing a really timeless-sounding name, if you told me that they were only the band Pearl Jam could've been or that they'd just dropped the hottest shit-fi bedroom sadcore EP of 2024 I'd find it equally plausible.

In a possibly similar vein, I'm now thinking 'is that a real genre that actually exists?'
 
Had to look up Spooky Tooth to check who they were, but respect to them for choosing a really timeless-sounding name, if you told me that they were only the band Pearl Jam could've been or that they'd just dropped the hottest shit-fi bedroom sadcore EP of 2024 I'd find it equally plausible.

Is this a roundabout way of you saying that you're one of the few Urban 75ers under the age of 70?
 
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