Invitation to Dorset Radical Bookfair 2024

Dorset’s Fifth Radical Bookfair will take place on Saturday 5th October 2024 at Bad Hand Coffee Roasters: The Roastery, 7 Norwich Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH2 5QZ.

Set up is from 10:00, open to the public 11:00, close at 17:00.

Our e-mail for enquiries              dorsetbookfair@riseup.net

Our website (here)                      http://www.dorsetbookfair.wordpress.com

Stalls

We invite applications for stalls from individuals, non-hierarchical groups and campaigns, grassroots unions, independent and non-commercial booksellers, artists, publishers and distributors. Priority will be given to those active in class struggle, antifascism, anti-oppression, environmentalism and mutual aid. No political parties please.

Stalls are £20 each, space is limited and so is the number of tables, so we can’t guarantee extra space, if we find ourselves oversubscribed we may have to ration the tables. In the unlikely event that we have any spare tables we’ll do our best to share them out on the basis of need.

Meetings

We’d appreciate suggestions for talks, discussions, presentations, workshops and films. Please send us a brief description of what you’d like to do, anything you would need, and a summary for the programme.

Other facilities

We aim to provide vegan food, snacks and drinks for donations. There will be a kids’ area – supervised play not crèche, guardians to remain in sight of their charges. Toilets are gender neutral. There are no parking spaces at the venue, so after drop-off we’ll direct you to the nearest public parking.

Afterparty

To be confirmed.

We ask participants to endorse our statement of common principles

We want everyone attending this event to feel safe, comfortable and included. We reject hierarchy and coercion, we do not use or tolerate oppressive language: ableism, homophobia, racism, transphobia, sexism, snobbery or otherwise. We do not make excuses for sexual abuse or authoritarian regimes. We respect each other’s boundaries. We may ask people to modify their behaviour or take it elsewhere.

Payment

Payment can be made by bank transfer to:

‘Dorset Bookfair’, Account number 84669314, Sort code 51-81-18,

Cheque  payable to ‘Dorset Bookfair’, to: Dorset Bookfair Collective, Flat 43, St Mary’s Court, 59 Belle Vue Rd, Bournemouth, Dorset BH6 3DF.

Behold Ye Ramblers a new play by Neil Gore

Townsend Theatre Productions

‘Behold Ye Ramblers’ is the story of the beginnings of the struggle for the right to roam freely across open moors on ancient paths and enjoy the benefits of outdoor activities and pursuits. It’s a history based in the Clarion movement that in the 1890s onwards encouraged and celebrated healthy community activity such as cycling, music and choral singing, drama groups, handicrafts, whilst collectively building Clarion Houses as rural community centres to enable people to escape the daily grind of work and cramped city living. There are active Clarion Cycling Clubs and Choirs to this day!

This is a highly entertaining celebration through Music Hall, poetry and song of the birth of The Clarion newspaper and the movement that grew in its name; of its founder Robert Blatchford and his self-styled journalism influenced by William Morris and Edward Carpenter; of his ability to convert hundreds of thousands to his collective vision, including some of the richest in society, such as the Countess of Warwick; and of the heroic working class disciples such as GHB Ward and his fellow activists from the Sheffield Clarion Ramblers that campaigned and trespassed for public access across Derbyshire’s moorlands.

Find out how this happened, who fought for our Right to Roam and be entertained at the same time. A show for all to see and to be determined to be able to walk alone and with others! TOURING SPRING/SUMMER 2024

MAY 14 – 7.30PM – ALMA TAVERN THEATRE BRISTOL, ALMA TAVERN AND THEATRE, BS82HY TICKETS

MAY 16 – 7.30PM – DORCHESTER ARTS HIGH EAST STREET, DORCHESTER, DORSET DT1 1HF BOX OFFICE: 01305 266926 / WEBSITE

MAY 18 – 8 PM – LIGHTHOUSE POOLE 21 KINGLAND RD, POOLE BH15 1UG BOX OFFICE: 01202 280000 / WEBSITE / TICKETS

An Appeal to Reason [leaflet, 1909]

An Appeal to Reason [leaflet, 1909]

The Cass Review (updated)

If you are affected by gender issues you’ll probably want to study this, there’s a lot of it.

Media coverage is warped and lots of opinions are being expressed by people who could not possibly have read it all yet.

Three more statements are linked below.

Independent review of gender identity services for children and young people: Final report April 2024

Stonewall statement on the Cass Review

The Cass Review: Mermaids’ response

TSN statement on Cass Review Final Report

TransActual Briefing on Cass Review.

Therapists Against Conversion Therapy and Transphobia (TACTT) interim response.

Photo exhibition: The Council of Aragon 02 – 15 April. CNT Valladolid

CNT Valladolid

• Photo Exhibition The Council of Aragon. The Libertarian Revolution in Aragon (1936-1937) from 2 to 15 April in La Pizpireta. C. de Ebanistería, 1, 47002 Valladolid
• Presentation by Armando Ramos, April 2nd at the Juan Bravo union site 10

The origins of the Regional Defense Council of Aragon are found in the anarcho-syndicalist tradition of the Aragonese peasantry and the influence that CNT enjoyed in this territory.

After the military coup of July 18, a dividing line from north to south of Aragon was set that marked the so-called “Frente de Aragón”; the western side was occupied by the uprisings and the eastern by Republicans and anarchists. In areas that theoretically fell under the jurisdiction of the Republic, those who actually had power were the militias that protected the Revolutionary Committees, dominated almost all of them by anarchists outside the Republican state.

Following the proposals of September 15, 1936 in Madrid by the National Plenary of Regionals of the National Confederation of Labour, libertarian communism is implemented with the support of the militias that had left Barcelona and Valencia.

450 collectivities were formed by the CNT, with little presence of UGT, and the people of Fraga became the international capital of anarchism.The Council of Aragon meant the creation of a new society that disrupted a caciquil and exploitative model. It was the first episode of political and social organization based on libertarian communism, ending a centralist and rigid administrative organization by a decentralized and participatory one.

Literacy brigades will be launched by building schools and conducting reading campaigns with trucks touring villages as street libraries.

The economy was based on solidarity and exchange between different peoples and regions. Prices will be controlled by avoiding speculation; new commercial circuits allowing export to Catalonia and Levante; production increased by 20% (aspects recognized by the Francoist ranks when they occupied the area in 1938 whose testimonies speak of important stored grain and oil reserves).

The independence with which the Council of Aragon had acted always irritated the republican authorities (republicans, socialists and communists) and their intention was always to dissolve this entity. Thus, on August 10, 1937, the 11th Division of the army under command Enrique Lister began the “maniobras” to dissolve a unique revolutionary experience in the world as was the Council of Aragon.

Bristol Radical History Festival Saturday 13th April to Sunday 21st April, 2024.

Bristol Radical History Festival

Any movement which is ignorant of its own history is a prisoner of other people’s history. We can’t possibly win the future unless we keep our hands on our own past. (Gwyn Alf Williams)

We are delighted to announce the 6th annual Bristol Radical History Festival. This year, due to popular demand, the festival has expanded to two days over the weekend of 20-21 April. The festival is hosted by two excellent Bristol venues, M Shed, the social history museum on the city’s historic harbourside and the Cube Microplex the volunteer-run Arts centre and cinema. Across two days and four themes, we can promise talks, walks, exhibitions, stalls, the never less than uplifting Red Notes choir and, on Sunday night, a special film screening. Watch this space too for details of our pre-festival aperitif, Opening the Archives, on Saturday 13 April. We warmly invite you to join us…

At M Shed – Saturday 20 April – 10.30am-4.30pm

Read more

You can download and print a Bristol Radical History Festival poster (pdf) by clicking on the image below…

New Issue of Haringey Solidarity Group Paper

Anarchist Communist Group.

This issue has loads of interesting articles about struggles in Haringey and beyond. The front page focuses on the new campaign for Free London Transport with the protest outside City Hall, supported by the ACG.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/web_newsletter_doublespread-1.pdf

March – April Punk Bulletin

Pompey Punx collective
The new Pompey Punk Bulletin is here featuring all the punk and punk adjacent gig listings from Brighton to Bournemouth and as far north as Guildford.

Make sure to subscribe to get monthly listings straight to your email so you never miss out on a gig again!

Hard Skin / Uncivilised is sold out.

Pubs to avoid: Chaplins Cellar Bar, Bournemouth.

Pubs to avoid: Chaplins Cellar Bar, Bournemouth.

Heaven, Hell, Hierarchy & Hazbin Hotel

Heaven, Hell, Hierarchy & Hazbin Hotel