Freedom Press bookshop
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Freedom Press bookshop in Whitechapel was hit last night in a suspected firebomb attack.
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news/crime/anarchist-bookshop- in-whitechapel–hit-in- suspected-firebomb-attack- 8477541.html Oh dear, does this mean back to this?Shouldn't do normally as we're in a busy high street with CCTV not down a back alley.
ALB wrote:Oh dear, does this mean back to this?Shouldn't do normally as we're in a busy high street with CCTV not down a back alley.Don't forget also that we have quite a few additional precautions, such as our own elaborate fire alarm system and CCTV, etc. which the Whitechapel premises apparently didn't have…………..
Pictures of the Freedom Press bookshop after the attack:- http://www.demotix.com/news/1764357/britain-s-largest-anarchist-bookshop-gets-firebombed#media-1764312
Freedom Press Bookshop re-opens:-http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2013/02/03/bookshop-re-opens/
Is it a consistent application of principles for Freedom Press to have police investigate the property damage? I can understand going to the police for something like rape.
jondwhite wrote:Is it a consistent application of principles for Freedom Press to have police investigate the property damage? I can understand going to the police for something like rape.Why not? The Party has contacted the police when Head Office has been attacked or burgled in the past and on the occasion when a member sleeping there was confronted by an intruder. In any event a crime report number issued by the police is essential should an insurance claim be contemplated.
Here's a short film with news of the attack and its aftermath.http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/02/286977/britains-oldest-anarchist-bookshop-firebombed/
Someone there likes us:http://thebadolddayswillend.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/i-renew-my-acquaintance-with-spgb.htmlThey seem to be restocking old pamphlets since I don't think we send ordinary enquirers copies of the Questions of the Day pamphlet (last published in 1978). After all, it's selling on Amazon for £95. OK, that's the 1942 edition.
The high prices are explained by computer algorithms to deter customers buying books that the third party sellers do not stockhttp://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110425/03522114026/infinite-loop-algorithmic-pricing-amazon-how-book-flies-cost-2369865593.shtmlif customers buy it anyway, then third party sellers cannot source the book, they simply cancel the sale and refund the money
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