London Anarchist bookfair 2020

[brogdale]

"I'm not addressing certain things for certain reasons."

Draws you in, doesn't it?

 

[danny la rouge]

"I'm not addressing certain things for certain reasons."

Draws you in, doesn't it?

“But stop speculating”.

 

[Rhyddical]

6) Revolutionaries or fucked-up weirdos; your difficult questions answered.

Actually a great name for a session.

 

[charlie mowbray]

If you're implying anyone from the ACG doxed you on social media, then you are mistaken. As to AF members letting us wend our merry way, well that's not totally accurate either with at least 3 AF members coming on to our FB pages and hurling insults at us like, for example, "The only thing you do is print pamphlets".

 

[chilango]

...coming on to our FB pages and hurling insults at us like, for example, "The only thing you do is print pamphlets".

In some contexts that could be seen as a compliment.

 

[brogdale]

In some contexts that could be seen as a compliment.

Have to admit that it sounded like the sort of anarchism that I might be able to get involved with!

 

[hitmouse]

Oh that's fantastic from someone involved in a project that seemingly cannot reply to emails or answer simple questions.

Workshops needed at this year's bookfair:

Nearly a decade old now, but I still have a lot of love for this old blogpost:

Summer 2012 Free Skool Classes

A website for anarchist communication, coordination, and information in New Orleans, LA.

nolaanarcha.blogspot.com

 

[charlie mowbray]

"Far as I can tell, gossiping about us, cussing us out to anyone and everyone, kind of lost steam a couple years back and everyone moved on.
So please, on a personal level here, for the love of fuck, move on."
Sure thing, soon as you tell us why you're not letting the ACG have a stall.

 

[nogojones]

If you're implying anyone from the ACG doxed you on social media, then you are mistaken. As to AF members letting us wend our merry way, well that's not totally accurate either with at least 3 AF members coming on to our FB pages and hurling insults at us like, for example, "The only thing you do is print pamphlets".

They're tapping their fingers waiting for the pdf

 

[Wilf]

They're tapping their fingers waiting for the pdf

Nah, I think Rhyddical's got an Arts Council Grant. Long soliloquies, a bit of capering, the hand of friendship swapped for a raspberry, a bit of street dance, all capped off with 'NOT TELLIN' YA'.

 

[The39thStep]

Have to admit that it sounded like the sort of anarchism that I might be able to get involved with!

Are you involved with anything at the moment or recently?

 

[brogdale]

Are you involved with anything at the moment or recently?

Not really, no.

 

[Wilf]

Is there a performance space at the bookfair? Perhaps ACG members could symbolically erect an invisible stall.

Provisional title: If I can't dance put up a stall, I don't want to be part of your revolution Bookfair.

 

[danny la rouge]

I’ll symbolically erect a stall here in Glasgow G20. In that I’ll not do anything of the sort.

 

[LDN Bookfair]

Just wanted to say, Rhyddical in their comments here do not represent the Anarchist Bookfair in London collective and it talking in a personal capacity only. In fact, this admin thinks that Rhyddical, while being generally a good comrade, is making a total arse of themselves here. But that's their choice really.

This is the first and the last time I will be commenting here. This is also the last time I am bothering to even look at this forum. Have fun throwing bile at each other and everyone in the vicinity.

 

[Athos]

Lol

 

[ska invita]

I’m interested in the ideas and praxis underlying anarchism but seeing factions have all this small-p politics with each other makes me want to stay a million miles from the people and groups involved. Who has the time or emotional bandwidth for this shit?

I dont think theres anything happening here that's unique to anarchism, i think this is (potentially) prevalent across all groupings working to be trans-friendly, big or small. TERF related discussions are an area that are proving divisive everywhere. Sian Berry just quit the leadership of the Green Party over this, for example.

 

[Athos]

Just wanted to say, Rhyddical in their comments here do not represent the Anarchist Bookfair in London collective and it talking in a personal capacity only. In fact, this admin thinks that Rhyddical, while being generally a good comrade, is making a total arse of themselves here. But that's their choice really.

This is the first and the last time I will be commenting here. This is also the last time I am bothering to even look at this forum. Have fun throwing bile at each other and everyone in the vicinity.

Perhaps you, or someone who is empowered to speak on behalf of the collective, could explain the decision to deny the ACG a stall (and the failure to communicate with them), please?

 

[Athos]

Rhyddical... is making a total arse of themselves here.

Finally an idea the whole movement can unite behind.

 

[hitmouse]

I dont think theres anything happening here that's unique to anarchism, i think this is (potentially) prevalent across all groupings working to be trans-friendly, big or small. TERF related discussions are an area that are proving divisive everywhere. Sian Berry just quit the leadership of the Green Party over this, for example.

Aye, as has been mentioned above this is still a relatively a fluffy love-in compared to how our esteemed friends in the Labour Party manage their rows.

 

[ska invita]

Aye, as has been mentioned above this is still a relatively a fluffy love-in compared to how our esteemed friends in the Labour Party manage their rows.

...including on Trans issues. There was a case of a CLP on the south coast a while back, I forget the details now, but carnage and wilful ignorance (ie ignoring the thorny issue) abounded as I remember it

 

[danny la rouge]

If you want to see good and proper bile, have a look at Scottish pro independence Twitter. There’s a group called “women won’t wheesht” mostly in the Alba Party now, who are total conspiracy nuts. Nicola Sturgeon is part of a huge plot to let naked men into children’s changing rooms and all sorts of other unfounded nuttiness.

 

[Wilf]

Well, this is a thread that somehow manages to have everything... and nothing.

 

[brogdale]

danny la rouge do you think that your comrades might pitch up with a 'pop-up' stall with their pamphlets outside of the book fair?

 

[chilango]

Well, this is a thread that somehow manages to have everything... and nothing.

Mumbles something about negative dialectics before shuffling away.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Welcome to the boards LDN Bookfair

 

[Wilf]

Welcome to the boards LDN Bookfair

Yes, it's always great to get the official 'we're not telling you' than the ersatz 'reasons, not telling you, reasons'. I always knew it could be cleared up.

 

[DaveCinzano]

In fact, this admin thinks that Rhyddical, while being generally a good comrade, is making a total arse of themselves here.

That's how splits start

 

[Wilf]

I went to a union conference in Newcastle and went in what I thought was the building and had an extended conversation with reception and porters trying to find the training session. 10 minutes later I found I was in the wrong building. This thread.

 

[Wilf]

That's how splits start

'The renegade running dog'.