I'll be wearing a pink carnation.
London Anarchist bookfair 2020
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Carrying a pdf
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Stormy Petrel samizdat version for this bookfair 
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Decided to go and take MsBedlam too
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Yes
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Martins talking outside about the weirdness of gender politics. Guess he’ll be banned next year.
He's rambling on harmlessly in the corner of the park ..
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
he’s still going.
I look at the women in my life and I don't see any of them having a fraught relationship with transwomen. Where does this idea come from?
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Outside of very particular activist scenes there’s no such fraughtness.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Was late - temperamental washing machine, cancelled trains and a slow bus.
It was nice to be back at Conway Hall. Inside was pretty sparse and sedate compared to the glory / pre-COVID days. There were at least two empty tables I saw.
Usual crowd I guess. A smattering of punky types but no stench, lol.
It seemed pretty well organised,tbf. The use of Red Lion Square as an overflow was a nice touch and the little cafe in the park was open and there were a few stalls with gazebos.
It looked like Rebel London and Haringey Solidarity Group had fly-pitched outside the entrance. I didn’t see ACG or Martin Wright - probably cos I was too late.
I bumped into one current and one former U75 poster in the square.
It was alright. I’m not sure I’d be entirely happy if I’d travelled from outside London to it, but the publicity made it clear it would be smaller this year, so…
It was nice to be back at Conway Hall. Inside was pretty sparse and sedate compared to the glory / pre-COVID days. There were at least two empty tables I saw.
Usual crowd I guess. A smattering of punky types but no stench, lol.
It seemed pretty well organised,tbf. The use of Red Lion Square as an overflow was a nice touch and the little cafe in the park was open and there were a few stalls with gazebos.
It looked like Rebel London and Haringey Solidarity Group had fly-pitched outside the entrance. I didn’t see ACG or Martin Wright - probably cos I was too late.
I bumped into one current and one former U75 poster in the square.
It was alright. I’m not sure I’d be entirely happy if I’d travelled from outside London to it, but the publicity made it clear it would be smaller this year, so…
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Here is my haul.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Informal anarchist actions thread --->
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Much enjoyed Martin's speech so I suppose I'll be banned too
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Ah I should have said hello
JimW
支那暗杀团
Where's the option to download the PDF?
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
The same day? Who do you think we are, International Socialist Alternative?
You didn't even say hello
Think there might be an actual speakers corner next time. Proper free for all.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I should have, sorry
Here's hoping.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Why, what did he say or do?
He was banned this year. Spoke to him briefly and he'd got the same treatment from the organisers as the ACG. I wonder who else they did this to? The absence of AK, Active and PM Press can't be an oversight.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
I dunno, I know 2 women completely outside any political or any counter-cultural scene who've had issues with this. And I've seen an older feminist women consistently given quite nasty grief by 2 younger trans people in a largely apolitical project due to her views on this, which I would say were mildly questioning rather than 'TERF' like. And I don't know that many people! So much as it would be nice it was confined to the weirdness of the activist scene I don't think it's true.
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