London Anarchist Bookfair 2023/24

[Magnus McGinty]

If you’re a smoker or vaper then Stepney is better because bigger beer garden. You won’t find that out on the app.

 

[Wilf]

Amid the feverish twists and turns of this thread, I'd forgotten that the Bookfair was today.

Baudrillard has finally won out.

 

[RD2003]

Am I the only person who literally cannot fucking follow what any of this is about?

No.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

ICC and Rebel City papersales outside Rich Mix.

Busy inside. Sparrows Nest selling their dupes for £1 per centimetre.

Seems quite chill all round. There is an incredible mad insurrectionist banner covering one wall. No balaclavas yet alas.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I spotted kenny g but he vanished.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

The punks now look like children to me. WTF.

 

[PTK]

Does no-one remember the aborted debate between Workers Power and the Spartacist League in Birmingham in 1982? It was one of the key events of the age. WP would not let the SL put up a literature table at the back of the hall. SLers tried to forcefully impose their table.

I was condemned in an internal meeting for suggesting that we should have backed down.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

In 1982 I was aged 9.

 

[Wilf]

ICC and Rebel City papersales outside Rich Mix.

Busy inside. Sparrows Nest selling their dupes for £1 per centimetre.

Seems quite chill all round. There is an incredible mad insurrectionist banner covering one wall. No balaclavas yet alas.

Sounds like Neil Gaiman curated Bookfair 2023.

 

[tim]

Waiting in the Whitechapel Gallery for insight into Belarus.

 

[danny la rouge]

In 1982 I was aged 9.

N00b

 

[DaveCinzano]

No, I think the combination of it being the ACG and ACN and about trans and Ukraine (with 'genocide' used which could relate to either) and it's people on Twitter who write in Jabberwocky like sentences makes the whole thing very hard to make head or tails of. That and much of it is all made-up of course.

I think Jabberwocky Jackanory will be my new go-to phrase for these types of shenanigans in future

 

[JimW]

In 1982 I was aged 9.

Old enough to hold your end of a paste table, now get out there.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

lol.

 

[Wilf]

I'm not even pretending to keep up now. I'll just nod and giggle at random points.

 

[Elohim]

Isn’t it traditional for the disinvited to set up stall outside of the book fair?

Disinvited could always have a bit of civil disobedience and squat a place at the book fair.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Am I the only person who literally cannot fucking follow what any of this is about?

I don't know if I could tbh. It doesn't seem worth trying though.

 

[tim]

Disinvited could always have a bit of civil disobedience and squat a place at the book fair.

Bit difficult as it is about to finish.

 

[Elohim]

Bit difficult as it is about to finish.

Maybe next time

 

[Wilf]

I don't know if I could tbh. It doesn't seem worth trying though.

Here's a useful summary of the key ideological differences:

 

[Pickman's model]

Here's a useful summary of the key ideological differences:

Carry on regardless

 

[A380]

Can I be the first to say that I can’t wait for the 2024 Book Fair thread.

 

[tim]

Here's a useful summary of the key ideological differences:

That cunt is a spook.

 

[danny la rouge]

Here's a useful summary of the key ideological differences:

 

[LDC]

Was anyone else at the Ukraine meeting?

 

[hitmouse]

Does no-one remember the aborted debate between Workers Power and the Spartacist League in Birmingham in 1982? It was one of the key events of the age. WP would not let the SL put up a literature table at the back of the hall. SLers tried to forcefully impose their table.

I was condemned in an internal meeting for suggesting that we should have backed down.

Sadly, the only person I know well who was in 80s Workers Power passed away recently, but friend of these boards Paul Mason might well remember it?

I think Jabberwocky Jackanory will be my new go-to phrase for these types of shenanigans in future

Jabberwocky Jackdaw Jackanory, surely?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Jabberwocky Jackdaw Jackanory, surely?

At a push, Jackdaw-y Jabberwocky Jackanory, but I'm not super happy with it

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Was anyone else at the Ukraine meeting?

Anything of note happen there?

 

[muscovyduck]

Tell me more about the anarchist books?

 

[Serge Forward]

Did anyone get a slap?