Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
I reckon we can sort this one out, on here, between now and October 2019.
Then the Bookfair can be like a victory rally. For us.
Then the Bookfair can be like a victory rally. For us.
[Sat 28th Oct 2017] London Anarchist Bookfair (London)
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Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
"Right everybody, we've got somebody here who will advise about the pitfalls..."
- TRANSPHOBES!
"Erm, sorry, we just wanted a few ideas about the bookfair and..."
- BIGOTS - NO COMEBACKS!
ska invita
back on the other side
Related
Legal Defence and Monitoring Group Statement on the Hyde Park Case
Cue much angry typing on keyboards on both sides
Legal Defence and Monitoring Group Statement on the Hyde Park Case
Cue much angry typing on keyboards on both sides
It’s a massive headache. I’m not into political differences being sorted by the state but neither would I want to discourage women who’ve been assaulted not to report it to the police if they wanted to. The LDMG are a useful resource and shouldn’t be forced to choose sides in this.
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
From people i have a lot of time and respect for (and it seems they are as of yet unaware of the wider issues around this years bristol bookfair and the PPK-isation of local anarchists)
We won’t be at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair on May 12th
We’re not flip flopping any more. As far as we’re concerned, a toxic, divisive element of identity politics has been allowed too much sway in our movement and we have to start calling time on it. Obviously we want to focus on the class struggle politics and community activism we do out here in Essex away from the activist bubble in London. However, if we feel we can make appropriate interventions in the struggle to put class politics back in a more central place in the anarchist movement, we’ll do so. The cancellation of our stall at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair is not us retreating from a row – it’s us making a tactical decision as to when and where we fight the battles that need to be fought.
We’ve already fallen out with comrades because of differences over identity politics. We recognise that with the stance we’re now taking, we may well fall out with a few more. So be it. Sometimes you have to do what you think is the right thing and deal with the consequences – we’re now prepared to do that.
We won’t be at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair on May 12th
We’re not flip flopping any more. As far as we’re concerned, a toxic, divisive element of identity politics has been allowed too much sway in our movement and we have to start calling time on it. Obviously we want to focus on the class struggle politics and community activism we do out here in Essex away from the activist bubble in London. However, if we feel we can make appropriate interventions in the struggle to put class politics back in a more central place in the anarchist movement, we’ll do so. The cancellation of our stall at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair is not us retreating from a row – it’s us making a tactical decision as to when and where we fight the battles that need to be fought.
We’ve already fallen out with comrades because of differences over identity politics. We recognise that with the stance we’re now taking, we may well fall out with a few more. So be it. Sometimes you have to do what you think is the right thing and deal with the consequences – we’re now prepared to do that.
ska invita
back on the other side
What wider issues of Bristol bf are they?
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Think there's been some 'issues' with the Liverpool Anarchist Bookfair too when the News From Nowhere bookshop was written to asking them not to bring offensive literature to the Bookfair and when they asked what was meant they were told anything that was related to the GRA or that could be considered transphobic. (Details have come second hand and might be be 100% accurate, happy for clarification.)
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
And guess whose been allowed to do the the bristol bookfair - the morning fucking star. Odd that i wasn't allowed to do an IWCA stall a few years ago as the bookfair is for 'explicitly non-electoral anarchists' - now fascist sympathising, holocaust deniers supporters, electoral fetishising tankie pricks are fine - up the PKK, must get my new apo tattoo done asap:
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Not sure which of those is the more depressing. 
I know about the events that have lead up to the Liverpool lot, effectively, censoring materials brought to their bookfair. But the fucking Morningstar???
What kind of political and intellectual pirouettes have lead the Bristol organisers to that weird place?
I know about the events that have lead up to the Liverpool lot, effectively, censoring materials brought to their bookfair. But the fucking Morningstar???
What kind of political and intellectual pirouettes have lead the Bristol organisers to that weird place?butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Assadism and PKKism i expect.Not sure which of those is the more depressing.
I know about the events that have lead up to the Liverpool lot, effectively, censoring materials brought to their bookfair. But the fucking Morningstar???
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Looks like the Bristol Bookfair has been postponed IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT BOOKFAIR 2018 | Bristol Anarchist Bookfair
They do win the competition for the shittest Bookfair poster ever though.
They do win the competition for the shittest Bookfair poster ever though.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
Not postponed, just moved in protest about the venue's connections with Rolls Royce. Rolls Royce supply arms to Turkey + Turkey killed Anna Campbell (YPJ member from Bristol) = Rolls Royce killed Anna Campbell.
I presume they have no objections to the arms supplied by Rolls Royce to the US, who were supporting the YPJ/YPG with airstrikes, who have killed more people in Syria than Turkey, but they were Syrian, so...
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redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Fucking hell.
ska invita
back on the other side
The primary aim of flier design isn’t for it ‘to be noticed’ at all. It’s draw attention to the information it wants you to know in a clear and concise way.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
I'm definitely not going now!
...and i think I'm in Bristol that day too.
Seriously though, the stuff Geri and butchersapron refer to. I'm staying the fuck away from those kindsa people.
...and i think I'm in Bristol that day too.
Seriously though, the stuff Geri and butchersapron refer to. I'm staying the fuck away from those kindsa people.
But you’ll miss the cabaret and cocktails!
That’s what that flyer conveys to me.
That’s what that flyer conveys to me.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
if you're going to post a couplet
- i know you like to do -
please make damn sure
line one rhymes with line two
(
(It wasn’t meant to be one..)
But you’ll miss the cabarat and fine cocktails,
Oh my that flyer completely fails!
(It wasn’t meant to be one..)
But you’ll miss the cabarat and fine cocktails,
Oh my that flyer completely fails!
cantsin
Well-Known Member
Lurdan
old wave
What's the problem with the poster ? Once they'd smoked the plants they obviously had to draw them from memory, and they were feeling a bit peckish by then so the nut allergy warning symbol takes on the form of a candy peanut.
As for all this sour grapes about letting in the wrong kind of electoralists...
As for all this sour grapes about letting in the wrong kind of electoralists...
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You think it's anger at an electoral grouping being allowed rather than anger at a really actually happening realignment around utterly malignant stalinist nationalist politics that's shot through with conspiracy and far right bullshit?
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Seriously?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Seems the Morning St*r has been uninvited.
Now taken down so it obviously attracted interest.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
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