Carl Steele
Well-Known Member
I rather enjoyed 1980s Radio Albania I must admit.
So this what you're like when you're relaxed. Ever considered the Spartacist League?
London Anarchist Bookfair 2022
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I rather enjoyed 1980s Radio Albania I must admit.
So this what you're like when you're relaxed. Ever considered the Spartacist League?
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
Tbh I'm wondering what clean-livin' bit of the internet you usually frequent that you think I'm being notably aggy.
Carl Steele
Well-Known Member
I have never been to an anarchist book fair but I'm led to believe they sometimes end in fist fights. Is this true and if so why do you think it happens?
Lurdan
old wave
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
Usually it's because a feud has been building up for the last year between people who don't usually see each other in person. Why do you ask?
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
That and the prize money.
Carl Steele
Well-Known Member
I'm just trying to get a feel for the culture. On the Trot left physical violence is officially frowned upon (not to say it never happens but when it does it's a big deal).
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
to be sadly fair few of the scraps can really be honestly described as fist fights. much more often they're what other people might refer to as handbags at six paces. although there was some violence at the battle of holloway road it was really nothing more than you'd see on a quiet saturday night in north finchley. so don't get your hopes up about these fist fights, they're really not all that much to see.
It’s not always between anarchists, there’s sometimes undesirable interlopers. That list appears to grow by the year though.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
It's like a picnic compared to that time the Amersham and District Green Party and the Three Rivers Liberal Democrats' conferences were double booked at the Watersmeet centre in 2015. Herts police had to call in seven Met TSGs on mutual aid to get a grip of that one...
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Did they not get a stall?
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Are we in uncharted waters yet a fucking ‘gen?
TopCat
Putin fanboy
More often really rubbish scuffles with shouting and rushing about.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
but we like to call them fist fights so it sounds more exciting
Carl Steele
Well-Known Member
okay, that's clear, sometimes people get upset with each other but nobody really gets hurt. The only act of violence I saw in my time on the left was when a woman member of Workers Power smashed a beer glass over the head of a Spart. She was a medical doctor and very lucky to be protected by the refusal of the left to use the courts - she could have lost her job.
charlie mowbray
The Enforcer
Jeezus, you never came across the Socialist Labour League/Workers Revolutionary Party and their regular use of violence against dissidents. And that was their fucking leader Gerry Healy who administered it himself on occasions
Carl Steele
Well-Known Member
Take a look at the thread:
Are you a marxist but not a member of a marxist organisation?
I am well aware of Healy's thuggery and worse but I didn't witness any of it. Hence I said "The only act of violence I saw"
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
who are they?
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
A what, rather than a who. London Action Resource Centre (LARC)
A space owned by
I don't know how it's funded but you can't knock it really. It was often a place of free digs during the bookfair that folk I know took advantage of.
Carl Steele
Well-Known Member
If you had any personal integrity Charlie you would have admitted you were wrong in your implication here. The evidence is clear. But you, like your buddy Pickman's model, are agenda driven. Truth doesn't interest you. Honest exchange of ideas is foreign to you. Anarchism is a posture, an affectation, something to make you feel good about yourself.
And you’re asking why there’s beef?
To me an anarchist communist society is the rightful destination of the working class.
Anyone calling themselves a communist disagreeing with that doesn’t understand communism.
Anyone calling themselves a communist disagreeing with that doesn’t understand communism.
Carl Steele
Well-Known Member
I'm just saying it as I see it. I'm not punching anybody.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Everyone has an agenda
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Never mind Winnie-the-Pooh, surely a Marxist critique of Eeyore would be more helpful here?
Well, that's a good deal more helpful than they've been previously. And a fairly reasonably-written email. Line breaks are a bit fucked but that might not be their fault. I see they did go for the old "Kind regards" at the end there though.
Glad to know they're still going, I wasn't totally sure if they were.
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