I found it a bit depressing also. Looked very subcultural and I really didn't like the venue. I picked up the book I was after, and got one on Camillo Berneri's stuff I didn't know about so I guess it had its uses. Didn't go to any of the talks apart from my own one. Caught up with a few people and then got pissed at the Pride.
London Anarchist Bookfair 2023/24
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LDC
On est tous des pangolins
I was trying to work out who you might be in the Ukraine meeting!
It was disappointing tbh, about 30 people present, no confrontation really just a lame attempt at an 'intervention' by the ICC, a poor understanding by some of the anarchists of that (called them tankies), and a generally disappointing level of analysis or discussion, although the people running the workshop did make it clear it was just about supporting people. Tech problems with the speaker on Zoom didn't help, nor did the ICC's tone deaf way of doing something.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Let’s see if mastodon links work…
kolektiva.social
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DaN McKee (@Authenticdmckee@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image My big take home from the Anarchist Bookfair yesterday was that most anarchists who don’t teach in conventional schools see the word “teacher” and (perhaps rightly) think “cop” 😂 However there are many of us anarchist teachers out there trying to do better than the school...
kolektiva.social
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Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Good post and glad you had a good time! A bar selling booze in the venue is a 1000% No Way from me though.
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
Can remember the Hereford anarchists selling cider from a box back in the Queen Mary university days and it seemed relatively sane. A couple of taps of something like low strength Hook Norton wouldn't do any harm.
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
Yes. Even bought a book from him (not his). Seemed a good bloke.Let’s see if mastodon links work…
DaN McKee (@Authenticdmckee@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image My big take home from the Anarchist Bookfair yesterday was that most anarchists who don’t teach in conventional schools see the word “teacher” and (perhaps rightly) think “cop” 😂 However there are many of us anarchist teachers out there trying to do better than the school...
Did anyone speak to DaN?
Lurdan
old wave
I've always had the impression - teachers can doubtless correct me about this - that schoolchildren's tastes in fashion and music change by year group to some degree. I assume the same is true of schoolkid 'politics'. I was class of '71 and for some of us that was the year group of school 'radicalism' - Little Red Schoolbook, Schoolkids Action Union etc. Over the years I've met people the same age as me from elsewhere who had similar experiences. However I can honestly say that we didn't see teachers as 'cops'. We saw them as @&#$?&!My big take home from the Anarchist Bookfair yesterday was that most anarchists who don’t teach in conventional schools see the word “teacher” and (perhaps rightly) think “cop”
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kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
Just realised the book is his but an older political thing. Looks interesting.
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Just had a look and seen that not only are they still going, in print and everything, but they seem to have what looks like a pretty complete online archive:
Lurdan
old wave
Indeed - but it's mainly of the textual content. Losing the illustrations and the impact of the design makes a considerable difference IMO. (Lots of FE's graphic elements were reprinted by other journals. The Cienfuegos Press Review comes to mind).Just had a look and seen that not only are they still going, in print and everything, but they seem to have what looks like a pretty complete online archive:
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Just had a look and seen that not only are they still going, in print and everything, but they seem to have what looks like a pretty complete online archive:
I had loads of issues that I donated to the MayDay Rooms archive a few years ago.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Link works for me DannyLet’s see if mastodon links work…
DaN McKee (@Authenticdmckee@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image My big take home from the Anarchist Bookfair yesterday was that most anarchists who don’t teach in conventional schools see the word “teacher” and (perhaps rightly) think “cop” 😂 However there are many of us anarchist teachers out there trying to do better than the school...
Did anyone speak to DaN?
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Fwiw, I've just had a look at the lineup for The World Transformed. Don't want to get too starry-eyed about it, but their programme includes Strike Support Skillshare, Solidarity Across Borders, Mutual Aid: Food Redistribution, How to Organise Your Workplace, How to Win a Strike Ballot with RMT Activists, Policing the Crises: Austerity, Cops and Abolition, The Coming Climate Insurrection: Strategy and Tactics, Resisting the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities, How to do Direct Action in a Trade Union Campaign, Lessons From the Strike Wave, General Strike in France, How to intervene in Stop and Search, How to Stop an Immigration Raid, How to Run a Rent Strike, Your Renting Rights - And How To Use Direct Action To Defend Them, Cost of Living Assembly, etc etc. With anarchists definitely being involved in running a fair few of those sessions. Strange times when that kind of broadly Labour-linked event has so much more of a focus on direct action than the bookfair.
On the other hand, sounds like the Multi-species Perspective to Dismantling Borders talk at the bookfair would probably be a valuable corrective to my small-minded nationalist opinions on whether you should put raccoons on flyers.
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Did you find out what is up with that capital letter?
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
How on earth did I miss that? Absolutely batshit (with apologies to our fellow bat species).
zedr
new but not *that* new
missed his stall but a pal sent me a tweet of his and his banner had some boasting about him being the strictest teacher in his school so not sure he can complain about ppl thinking he's a cop.Let’s see if mastodon links work…
DaN McKee (@Authenticdmckee@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image My big take home from the Anarchist Bookfair yesterday was that most anarchists who don’t teach in conventional schools see the word “teacher” and (perhaps rightly) think “cop” 😂 However there are many of us anarchist teachers out there trying to do better than the school...
Did anyone speak to DaN?
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Oh yeah, speaking of banners, what did the insurrecto one say?
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
And a functional bar:
"Most importantly, you can catch up with old comrades over a cup of tea or a pint in the Black-E, where we'll be running our own bar and kitchen, and giving you proper space to connect, plan and celebrate"
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Just a really long sentence in flowery language about rising up or whatever. I should have taken a photo but also shouldn’t have taken a photo.
ska invita
back on the other side
Tbf TWT is a much better funded and staffed event, whereas I expect at the A Bookfair there is an open invitation to put on events from anyone who wants, rather than looking, booking and paying for them.
It does look good though. I wonder who went to it and how well attended it was, post corbyn
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
But the 'old bookfair' used to have a bunch of events like that, not sure that's an excuse really, although I admit it makes it easier.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Same - it looked pretty good tbf.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
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danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
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