There is a lot I find disturbing about the way the new set of bookfair organisers run things. The old lot were. for me, painfully liberal but they did make it open to any group on the libertarian left. The new lot are also painfully liberal but are also imposing their own views on the event. And they're liars. The ACG was not previously banned because of any whiff of transphobia, last year the organisers simply said there wasn't enough space. Which having attended the event was obviously bollocks, and anyway the organisers contacted other people asking if they wanted a stall after they'd said the ACG couldn't have one. The origins of the ban seem much more due to sectarianism. Also that year the CWO weren't allowed to have a NWBTCW meeting, but a support the Ukrainian war effort meeting this year is fine. And really, what the fuck is going on letting a Trot group have a stall? I know someone here's joked about Kronstadt but there's full on partridge shooters participating in the event. Don't think mobbing Helen Steel was a good idea? Fuck off if you think you can have anything to do with the bookfair. Support the massacring of revolutionary workers? Make yourself welcome!
