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The 2013 London Anarchist Bookfair will be on Saturday 19th October!

PJP | 07.10.2013 09:36

Bancroft Building, Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1 4NS

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The 2013 London Anarchist Bookfair will be on
Saturday 19th October. From 10am to 7pm.

Bancroft Building, Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1 4NS.
(Mile End / Stepney Green tube. Buses: 25, 277, D6)
There is full disabled access / Creche available for children 2-8 years./ For older children there is a supervised space and hopefully a youth space.

In the 80s we saw widespread working
class resistance. The militant strikes and
urban uprisings of the mid 80s, and the
defeat of the poll tax. In the 90s Labour
rushed into wars for oil and the Coalition
that replaced them now use the threat
of economic collapse to go to war
against the poor.

No one can seriously think that there
is any future in the charade of parliament
and political parties. Resistance
is growing again on the streets, in
workplaces, on campuses and central
to it is self-organisation as it becomes
clearer that wherever we need to fight
we need to do it for ourselves.

One of last year’s speakers described
the London Anarchist Bookfair as
possibly the biggest annual anarchist
event in the world. We see it as a tiny
part of a movement that seeks to stir
up resistance and solidarity. It’s a space
to set out our ideas, experience and
arguments, to get involved and to show
that whatever the state throws at us
doesn’t isolate or crush us. More than
anything a chance to meet other people
who want to build a new world. It’s proof
that Anarchism doesn’t have to mean
lack of organisation.

Don’t miss out, come and celebrate
30 years of the London Anarchist Bookfair

www.anarchist bookfair.org.uk //  mail@anarchistbookfair.org.uk

PJP

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Yuppies out... and indymedia

07.10.2013 14:49

Ok, I've tried posting an article twice about the Yuppies Out street party in Brixton on Oct 8th... but indymedia doesn't publish it!
why the fuck not?

indymedia will publish info on the anachist book fair, and even poorly written articles which are irrelevant conspiracy rants...
but why nothing on Yuppies Out?

answer me you shit heads!

joe blogs


spekky twats

07.10.2013 20:54

IMC UK is fucking shit and so is the london bookfair

LOL


@ Joe Bloggs

07.10.2013 23:47

The "Yuppies Out" theme tanked nearly 30 years ago mate, and it wasn't even politically successful back then

Is there some kind of time-dimensional worm-hole in Brixton?


Anarchist Bookfair - the blurb says it all

08.10.2013 00:16

Interesting the last time the blurb can refer to as seeing "widespread working class resistance" was "the 80s", because the problem is (and thanks for proving the obvious) the anarchist movement's stuck in a time-warp. In fact, alot of anarchist thinking's barely moved-on since Victorian times, hence the fetishisation of "working class resistance" etc, let alone fully come to terms with the realities of modern consumerism, the globalisation of labour markets or minor details like the welfare state.

Hey, better not wake any anarchists up and tell them, but so far as most working-class people are concerned, the main thing the State "throws" at us are things like water supplies, electricity, roads, education and HOSPITALS for fuck's sake (a certain Monty Python sketch springs to mind). And, yes, 50,000 people did march in defence of State-provided healthcare in Manchester... better not mention that though, Comrade, some of them might have been (shock horror) middle-class?!

As for whoever wrote this blurb, in your OPINION "no one can seriously think that there is any future in the charade of parliament and political parties", but in everybody else's opinion far fewer people think anarchism offers anything remotely resembling viable alternatives. If Anarchism ever changed anything this Bookfair would be illegal.......

Activism without the train-spotters


YOLA

08.10.2013 07:51

Socialismus!

LOLLEZ