Also, this just in:
Bookmarks bookshop in Bloomsbury, central London, has called on supporters to attend a solidarity event following an attack by far right thugs.
Twelve men invaded the shop last Saturday, destroying displays, wrecking books and chanting Alt-right slogans. One was wearing a Donald Trump mask.
Bookmarks is holding a solidarity event in the shop on Saturday 11 August from 2pm. Throughout the afternoon there will author readings as well as speakers from the trade union and labour movement.
Bookmarks is also calling on supporters to donate funds to help bolster security in the shop and to replace lost stock. Donations can be transferred to: Sort Code: [nope] A/c: [nope]
Bookmarks solidarity event
The Gang's All Here !
Including Figureheads From Counterfire !
Could This Be An 'International Socialists/State Caps. 'Love In' ?
We are gearing up for our Solidarity Day on Saturday.
Speakers who will be joining us at some point during the afternoon include:
--Tariq Ali, campaigner and author of Street Fighting Years
--David Graeber, author of Bullshit Jobs and Debt
--Hsiao-Hung Pai, author of Bordered Lives and Angry White People: Coming Face to Face with the British Far Right
--Robert Verkaik, author of Posh Boys: How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain
**Please note there will be a rolling programme of speakers all afternoon, so don't feel you all have to arrive at 2pm!
The numbers expected are huge, so we have booked extra space at the Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, Shaftesbury Avenue, two minutes' walk from Bookmarks Bookshop, and we will be asking authors and others to speak there as well as visiting the shop.
PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE - SUBJECT TO CHANGE
2pm at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church:
Welcome: David Gilchrist, Bookmarks manager
--Louise Raw, historian and author of Striking A Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History
--Judith Orr, author of Abortion Wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights
--Kerry Abel, chair of the Abortion Rights campaign UK
--John Rees, author of The Leveller Revolution
--Taranjit Chana and Fevzi Hussein from GMB Race – the GMB union’s self-organised Ethnic Minority network
--Brian Richardson, co-author of Say It Loud! Marxism and the fight against Racism and assistant secretary of Unite Against Fascism
3pm
--Ann Mitchell, stage and TV actor known for EastEnders, will read a poem
--Lindsey German, Stop the War Coalition and author of How A Century of War Changed the Lives of Women
--Louise Regan, Equality Officer, National Education Union
--David Rosenberg, author of Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Radical History
--Weyman Bennett, co-convenor of Stand Up to Racism
4pm
--Roger Huddle, one of the founders of Rock Against Racism, will read from Reminiscences of RAR
--Kim Sherwood, author of Testament, a novel about the Holocaust
--Declan Power, London Regional secretary, Public and Commercial Services Union
--Paul Holborow, co-founder of the Anti Nazi League
WE WILL ANNOUNCE FURTHER SPEAKERS AS THEY CONFIRM...
fair play to them for capitalising on it, but to do it so...dishonestly is frustrating. They would still have got a good response if they'd taken more of a "look at these idiots and the damage they've caused, don't worry we'll keep on going, why not donate or buy a book?". Maybe better actually, I might have bought something off them.
Maybe you should tell them! 
