London Anarchist Bookfair 2022

[redsquirrel]

I'm planning on brining a piece of paper to the Bookfair, with 'I am not a gate keeper' on, to gain admittance. Then, if I'm really brave, I'll turn it over to make it an arrestable royal funeral offence,

More FORCE required Wilf

 

[Wilf]

More FORCE required Wilf

Ooh, no, I'll leave that to the NEXT GENERATION OF UNRULY YOUTH!

 

[TopCat]

wasn’t that social work lecturer that used to post on here one of them ?

Who was that? I would have homed in if I knew. Why does not one tell me stuff!

 

[danny la rouge]

that social work lecturer that used to post on here

Or you could narrow it down…

 

[danny la rouge]

I know, it was that amateur dj!

 

[Wilf]

The little splatter of blood at the bottom does look like a threat to the dreadful old outdated fake anarchist gate-keepers blah blah...

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By the way, JHE , where did you find this particular revolutionary communique?

 

[The39thStep]

Wasn’t Montevideo anyway

 

[danny la rouge]

By the way, JHE , where did you find this particular revolutionary communique?

I did ask that also, but I added satire and an historical allusion to the reformation, so my question was perhaps lost in the smartarsery.

 

[hitmouse]

By the way, JHE , where did you find this particular revolutionary communique?

I was intrigued by that, doing a reverse image search I mostly found terfs making fun of it, but eventually tracked it down to this fb page that appeared to be sharing it unironically?

 

[LDC]

I was intrigued by that, doing a reverse image search I mostly found terfs making fun of it, but eventually tracked it down to this fb page that appeared to be sharing it unironically?

The page is also sharing Enough is Enough rally details. I think they're slightly confused in their politics the loons.

 

[redsquirrel]

The page is also sharing Enough is Enough rally details. I think they're slightly confused in their politics the loons.

Including one with a video of Eddie Dempsey. And then having a go at the Don't Pay campaign because of Russel Brand?
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer

 

[danny la rouge]

On the other hand, they’re against capitalist action, and I am too.

 

[Rob Ray]

Ah the new generation, seasons turn etc etc ...

Crack Fix Propaganda: A work of fan fiction

Fan fiction about a day in the life misanthropic animal rights nutter "anarchist" punk, Crack Fix Propaganda.

libcom.org

(though if they are who I suspect, they're really getting on a bit to be making that claim).

 

[JHE]

By the way, JHE , where did you find this particular revolutionary communique?

Leftist Trainspotters, a group on Facebook

 

[hitmouse]

For what it's worth, shared this image with a gen-z anarchist friend (yes, I definitely have friends, hundreds of PMs of support, etc), who comments "How are they hoping to call out “outdated politics” with that font? I feel like I’m back in the 2010s."

 

[danny la rouge]

My kids say things like that. “Oh, you can tell that was made in the 2010s”. Dude, that decade only ended less than two years ago.

 

[Rob Ray]

If they're meaning mid-2010s they're probably right, tbf. People who came of age just after the student riot generation so think they're the new wave, and reckon movement "gatekeepers" are from the 80s (ie. their parents' generation or a bit older).

 

[danny la rouge]

Anyway, people who set up “generations” against each other are silly cunts.

 

[steeplejack]

The little splatter of blood at the bottom does look like a threat to the dreadful old outdated fake anarchist gate-keepers blah blah...

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would the person that wrote this pish not just have been better meeting the three others who cared in the pub, or online?

 

[danny la rouge]

would the person that wrote this pish not just have been better meeting the three others who cared in the pub, or online?

“Other three”.

 

[steeplejack]

“Other three”.

^^ 80s authoritarian policing use of language

 

[danny la rouge]

^^ 80s authoritarian policing use of language

Look, I’ve lived in other decades too! I didn’t even like the 80s!

 

[steeplejack]

Look, I’ve lived in other decades too! I didn’t even like the 80s!

The dusty pamphleteer doth protest too much, methinks

 

[danny la rouge]

The dusty pamphleteer doth protest too much, methinks

I can do pdfs ffs.

 

[charlie mowbray]

Hmm, if they're planning on disrupting the meeting at LARC with Martin Wright and Lisa McKenzie they might be in for a rough ride. Martin may be getting older but he's still tough.

 

[TopCat]

People have attacked the LARC before. They did not do well. One got a crease in his head that makes me smile to this day.
Anyway, where are people thinking for a few beers? A split site do does not make it obvious.

 

[Pickman's model]

People have attacked the LARC before. They did not do well. One got a crease in his head that makes me smile to this day.
Anyway, where are people thinking for a few beers? A split site do does not make it obvious.

Take outs ftw

 

[Pickman's model]

Hmm, if they're planning on disrupting the meeting at LARC with Martin Wright and Lisa McKenzie they might be in for a rough ride. Martin may be getting older but he's still tough.

He will relish the opportunity to dub someone eg sir fabian

 

[nogojones]

I was intrigued by that, doing a reverse image search I mostly found terfs making fun of it, but eventually tracked it down to this fb page that appeared to be sharing it unironically?

Interesting page. Three of my FB friends "like" it. None of those three I'd consider in any way political.

 

[hitmouse]

If they're meaning mid-2010s they're probably right, tbf. People who came of age just after the student riot generation so think they're the new wave, and reckon movement "gatekeepers" are from the 80s (ie. their parents' generation or a bit older).

Yeah, and the peak of Impact as a font must've been early 2010s, it's a bit more trollface rage comics than it is wojak? Anyway, my guess would've been a bit younger, but then again the mention of friends lists suggests they prefer to waste time on facebook rather than insta or tiktok, which is pretty boomer of them?

Anyway, people who set up “generations” against each other are silly cunts.

I once again reminded of that bit from Floodgates of Anarchy:

Driven to admit that there is, perhaps, some tension in society, when perhaps overwhelming pressure brings industry to a standstill or barricades to the streets years after the liberals had dismissed the notion as “dated romanticism”, the journalist invents the theory that this constitutes a clash of generations. Youth, after all, is not a permanent condition, and a clash of generations is not so fundamentally dangerous to the art of government as would be a clash between rulers and ruled.

But then again, I suppose Christie and Meltzer would say that, the fucking boomers. (Not that that term's really accurate in Meltzer's case.)

The dusty pamphleteer doth protest too much, methinks

Oh, is The Dusty Pamphleteer where everyone's meeting for drinks after the bookfair?

Hmm, if they're planning on disrupting the meeting at LARC with Martin Wright and Lisa McKenzie they might be in for a rough ride. Martin may be getting older but he's still tough.

You're giving them a bit more credit than I would if you reckon they're actually going to do anything in real life. I could be wrong, but my prediction would be for them to do fuckall on the day, then put out a statement complaining how everyone else's failure to disrupt the meeting for them proves once again that they're the only real anarchists and everyone else is counterrevolutionary gatekeepers.

Interesting page. Three of my FB friends "like" it. None of those three I'd consider in any way political.

WE SEE YOU WITH ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO LIKE THAT PAGE ON YOUR FRIENDS LIST.


Anyway, going back to that original image, I think them signing it off with "working class unity" has been under-rated so far, that detail is a fantastic comic touch.