London Anarchist Bookfair 2011
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First the aside as a quiet space and is near the cinema, .. students reminded cabaret and two kids spaces. lndymedia and some of us how it’s done with the occupation of Dissident Island Radio will again have a small studio Millbank, and then kept ahead of the game with and will be interviewing people about this year’s imaginative ways of staying out of “kettles”. Then Bookfair. There will also be a I9 strong French there was the biggest Black Bloc the UK has anarchist brass band - Les judas - playing around probably ever seen on the March 26th anti cuts the venue! demo. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, it was the most Finally, something else new. Footprint, the radical organ’sed Black Bloc I have ever seen. There were workers’ co-operative printers from Leeds, will be . .I_I riots in Bristol and then the summer riots, starti 8 bringing their machinery and making a zine on the in Tottenham because of the killing of yet another day, written by Bookfair punters and stall holders. black man by the Met Police. Outside the UK It's something they've done at zine fairs elsewhere there have been rebellions (some would say to great acclaim, and with the eclectic range of revolutions) in many Arab countries. Quite a full on brains coming through the Bookfair’s doors, our year really, so a lot to chat about. one’s bound to be a corker. Take a sheet of A5 We know we ain t as exciting as taking action, but paper to their stall in room I08 before 3pm and lecture every now and then we have to sit down, discus5, it'll go in a ragbag ideas-collage of a pamphlet and try and work out the best way forward. As that'|I be on sale by about 4.30. Any kind of theatre well as the normal lO0+ stalls, films, and kids contribution - funny, ranty, wordy, cartoons, Stalls spaces we hope there are some very interesting questions, answers, common sense or nonsense - meetings and activities at this year’s Bookfair. it’s up to you. We have moved to a different part of the building We refuse to charge for the event as it just $.- fit 1&3 as the old space is being refurbished. The last few wouIdn’t fit with anarchist principles, but the only “"8 Stall- years we had stuff going on in four different parts way the Bookfair can continue is by you lot making Film C Stalls of the venue. With the new building everything is in contributions. As it has been said before “to each one space and the whole building is much more according to their need, from each according to disability friendly, so hopefully our non able bodied their ability" so give what you can. On that note, refihe Older FIRST FLOOR; PLAN comrades will see a big improvement. we will be raffling two of the Stoke’s Croft riots 2-...‘ We have a number of interesting meetings Banksy posters. These are selling on ebay for £200 including: Professor Pun Ngai from Hong Kong each — you can have a chance to own one for just speaking about the exploitation of Chinese migra fit £l! . @ S I2 noon - l.30pm is a lecturer at Hong Kong University of Science How did we get here and what are the I _,. ' \ '-'-. ' -. Afif’t ‘i Reclaiming the Media & Technology and author of “Made in China: prospects for anti-capitalist revolution? .’_fThis year will be remembered as the Women Factory Workers in a Global A debate with: Selma James (Wages for '2‘i \.-1-. _. 5.-;:-_ ' .. year when Rupert Murdoch got his- iust- Workplace". Housework Campaign; Chris Knight (Radical desserts. 25 years after the Battle of Anthropology Group); Hillel Ticktin (‘Critique, s] W’ Wapping, the UK’s biggest scandal-rag, the News 3pm - 4.30pm a journal of Socialist Theory’) of the World, became a scandal itself and was Four days that shook the world - shut down. But Murdoch isn’t the only problem; Insurrection or a minor disturbance I2 noon - 2pm a handful of corporations own virtually all of The riots in August started in Tottenham, North Primitive Communism and its the media. All run to make huge profits and have London, after the murder of Mark Duggan, yet contemporary relevance been cutting staff and quality for years. Time to another black man killed by the police. As with The chief value of the study of human origins is reclaim the media and build new economic jean Charles de Menezes, Ian Tomlinson, Harry that it nails the myth that ‘no revolution can models. Donnacha DeLong, NU] President, leads Stanley and countless others, the police lied to ever change human nature’. It shows, on the a discussion about how we might do it. cover up their killings. Mark's death may have contrary, that everything distinctively human been the straw that broke the camel's back, but about our nature - our ability to speak, to see l.30pm - 3pm it wasn't the main cause of the riots and looting ourselves as others see us, to aspire to act on Capital Expansion in China - A Case throughout London and other parts of the moral principle - has come to prevail in our Bloc and birth of ALARM. With, amongst other Study of Foxconn Production and the country for nearly a week. A discussion about species thanks precisely to the greatest things the impending Olympics in London and Impacts on its Workers why the riots took place, the aftermath and revolution in history, ‘the revolution which the fiscal cuts kicking in, next year could prove In 20I0, I8 young workers attempted suicide at where we go from here. Speakers include worked’. This ‘human revolution’ that broke out pivotal. Come to cheer or jeer as the two most Foxconn Technology Group's Chinese premises, Darcus Howe and Tony Wood from the in Africa more than IO0,000 years ago gave rise angry veterans of the movement rabble-rouse. attracting worldwide attention. Pun Ngai will Tottenham Defence Campaign. to an egalitarian, essentially anarchist, lifestyle We say it's a straight choice between us or the use the Foxconn example to demonstrate the which lasted in most parts of the world until usual American academic wittering on about start of rapid capital expansion in China and its 4.30pm - 6pm only 3-4,000 years ago. We know we can win “Capitalism”, “Hierarchy" or their next book. impacts on the lives of Chinese workers. She ls Capitalsim destroying itself! the coming revolution because we won it when Not for the faint hearted or “pointy heads". will also look at the role of the state in And can we replace it? language and culture were first established.