anyone ever been to one of these events?
Whats the turnout normally like?
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London anarchist bookfair
LONDON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER 2010 - 10am-7pm Queen Mary, University Of London, Mile End Road, Mile End tube
Paul Mason, Werner Bonefeld and Endnotes debate: 'Will Cameron's Cuts lead to working-class defeat or to a new anti-capitalist movement?' (Paul Mason's writings can be found at his blog at bbc.co.uk and Bonefeld and Endnotes articles are at libcom.org)
Chris Knight and Milan Rai debate Noam Chomsky's science and politics
Plus talks with John Pilger and Michael Albert
Also meetings on: India, Croatia, feminism, Palestine, Zapatistas, Gandhi, Proudhon, pirates, co-ops, prisons, EDL, education, healthworkers, shop stewards and more.
As capitalism collapses around us in the market of ideas the anarchist pound is bouyant and the 28th London Anarchist Bookfair is back at Queen Mary College in London's East End. Last year we had 50 meetings, 100 stalls, an all day cabaret starring assorted ranters, poets, singers and comics; all day film showings and, two kids spaces. We are planning more of the same in 2010.
anarchistbookfair.org.uk
mail [@] anarchistbookfair.org.uk
anyone ever been to one of these events?
Whats the turnout normally like?
I've heard it is a huge event. I would love to go sometime.
Good, but there is a march on in London on the same day this year, so attendance might be slightly lower than normal (in the morning / early afternoon at least).
Until now, the left has only managed capital in various ways; the point, however, is to destroy it.
normally a few thousand turn up in the day. It will be good. Come to the SAC talk if u wanna meet.
"How you cling to your purity, young man! How afraid you are to soil your hands! All right, stay pure! What good will it do? Why did you join us? Purity is an idea for a yogi or a monk. You intellectuals and Bourgeois anarchists use it as a pretext for doing nothing. To do nothing, to remain motionless, arms at your sides, wearing kids gloves. Well, I have dirty hands. Right up to the elbows. I've plunged them in the filth and blood. But what do you hope? Do you think you'll govern innocently?"-Jean-Paul Sartre
There was a stop the war march on the day of the bookfair last year, I don't think many people went.
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
Yeah, but STW marches are a bit different from the march that is going to be held on the 23rd. SolFed and AFed have encouraged members to go, I believe.
Until now, the left has only managed capital in various ways; the point, however, is to destroy it.
I'll be there just look for the guy in combats and a mohawk.
"We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or where will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for war seem to know who did it or where to look for them. This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed--for anyone, and certainly not for a baffled little creep like George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it off." — Hunter S. Thompson on 9/11
managed to get time off to comefirst time i will have ever been so cant wait!
i look forward to it
Whats the talk on?
are there any events in belgium let me now
fuck the system
fuck the cops
fuck politics
I'll be there for sure, looking forward to it!
well last year people called for a radical bloc or something on the stw demo, same as has been called for the rmt one. I think most people are bored of schlepping it from A-B to hear pre-approved slogans at B.
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
True enough, but I still think this march will have a more libertarian / anarchist bent than yer average STW one. I'm willing to be proven wrong.
Anyway, as I previously mentioned it's unlikely to have much of an impact on the book fair as it's going to be over by 1 or so...
Until now, the left has only managed capital in various ways; the point, however, is to destroy it.
Well the march is an RMT one which makes me think it will definitely not, in its official tone, have a libertarian/anarchist bent. It all depends on whether a 'radical workers bloc' happens, and more to the point whether people think such a thing is worthwhile.
This is true. Most other people will probably be asleep until then anyway!
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
For anyone coming to this by tube please note that there is no service on the Hammersmith & City Line between Edgware Road and Barking on the 23rd so use the district line.
I know it looks like I was implying that the official line of the march would be anarchist / libertarian friendly but that wasn't my intention; that would be wishful thinking to put it mildly.
Until now, the left has only managed capital in various ways; the point, however, is to destroy it.
I will definately be attending.
Why don't you wear something that's unusual for the book fair?I'll be there just look for the guy in combats and a mohawk.
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I'll be attending. I'll be wild-eyed weirdo looming over everyone.
Sciences & Environment rocks my bedroom.
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Comrade Wolfie and I will be there. I'm pretty sure most people who see/recognise me are just going to think, hey, that's the girl that always posts drunken rubbish on revleft
I'm not letting you drink.Comrade Wolfie and I will be there. I'm pretty sure most people who see/recognise me are just going to think, hey, that's the girl that always posts drunken rubbish on revleft
