CluelessI'm not sure who you'd ask from an anarchist perspective though. There aren't any groups or individuals that spring to mind who aren't from the region I'd be particularly interested in hearing discuss it. And the Skateboarders Against The War never turned up
I reckon London Makhnovists would be worth hearing from? Fwiw, this event looked pretty worthwhile, maybe you'd have to swap out the AWL for one of the assorted leftcom groups to make it more bookfair-friendly though:I'm not sure who you'd ask from an anarchist perspective though. There aren't any groups or individuals that spring to mind who aren't from the region I'd be particularly interested in hearing discuss it. And the Skateboarders Against The War never turned up
It's the not allowing a meeting rather than not having one that concerns me.
I was as disappointed as you were with SATW ( In Ukraine) tbh. I heard they didn't show up as someone on the organising committee, probably that bloke with the yellow fluorescent jacket, pointed out that legally they should be called Skateboarders Against The Special Operation ( SATSO-In Ukraine) and that would require re-registering for the stall. Hopefully, they will be on next year though.I'm not sure who you'd ask from an anarchist perspective though. There aren't any groups or individuals that spring to mind who aren't from the region I'd be particularly interested in hearing discuss it. And the Skateboarders Against The War never turned up
Exactly. And Sick of It All is a good example of that. When I was in the ACG, we had an education workers’ section that I was part of, as well as other industry specific sections. Especifismo and social insertion, to use the horrible (and potentially slightly misleading) jargon.
The general rule on the left is the further away it is the easier it is to support which is one of the reasons so few groups have had any focus on Ireland North or south in the past 50 years
I managed to watch/listen to this ,off and on , which at 3 hours long is no mean feat tbh. Great pity there wasn't better planning around the length of contributions because in a sea of words there were the occasional sightings of land worth exploring further, mainly from Plan C and Angry Workers. The latter at least had a go at exploring workers self activity and made an interesting point that the activity by some workers organisations in some countries against NATO couldn't just be dismissed as Stalinism although there was a legacy of the CP in trade union action. The AWL veered between all gloss and no substance to hectoring, Sotsialnyi Rukh came across as some form of monopoly gatekeepers to independent unions and were full of their own self importance not on the basis of anything more concrete than they were Ukrainian tbh and the discussion at the end was very disappointing. Better than a lot of the stuff on these boards and worth listening to in small batches IMO
This mention of Trades Councils prompted a thought (generally, not specifically about the bookfair or indeed this post). I would largely agree with the above, at least up until fairly recently.
Cor, you've got a better attention span than I do - I'd also been meaning to get around to watching the whole thing, but my attempts at watching it have been a bit more off than on so far.
The dogs woke me up at 5 so I thought might as well start listening. Did it in shifts. Tbh an hour would have been quite sufficient if the subject matter/ discussion had been more focussed
You are nothing if not stakhanovite
Yes, we were there. Well not me, but AnarCom Net comrades.Did anyone do Manchester at the weekend? Sheffield date set for Feb 2023:
Good reports anyway.
