by Barry Woodling
ANARCHISTS
within Campaign against the Blacklist found themselves
blacklisted by Manchester Anarchist Bookfair. An incredible
happening took place at Saturday's bookfair.
A meeting at the
event on the blacklist was refused by the authoritarian clique in
charge. When two Unite members and Northern Anarchist Network (NAN)
supporters Brian Bamford and Barry Woodling attended they were
forcibly removed by one of the organisers Veg and several of his
henchmen. Remarkably both are citizen journalists on
Northern Voices, indeed Brian is the editor and the magazine received
an invitation to attend. Spurious and bizarre reasons
were given for their ejection ranging from anti-Semitism to Health
and Safety.
The resort to violence, bans and proscriptions is
taken right out of the Stalinist textbook and seriously damages the
credibility of the wider anarchist movement and therefore should be
condemned unreservedly.
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Many thanks for this. I have been saying for a couple of years that it seems UK anarchism is spiralling into a crisis from which it may never recover.
Three links you may be interested in.
Someone has just posted a short piece on Anarchist News linking to Milan Rai's editorial on the London Anarchist Bookfair and Dissident Island radio's interview with one of the bookfair organisers.
https://anarchistnews.org/content/how-destroy-our-own-movements
The driving force behind the Anarchist News website also has a particular podcast episode which may be of interest. Andy Robinson, a UK anarchist who recently written for AJODA basically does a State of Britain analysis.
http://thebrilliant.org/podcast/episode-58-exclusion-iv/
Also you should really consider cross-posting some of your anarchist related content on AnarchistNews.org as your writing far better than almost everywhere else on the anarchosphere. Freedom Press have recently started posting content there but don't let that put you off.
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