Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair
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Saturday 12th July
10am-6pm
at Showroom Workstation
15 Paternoster Row,Sheffield,
South Yorkshire S1 2BX
A report relating to the fairhttp://itisiwhowillit.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/sheffield-anarchist-bookfair-or-why-anarchism-needs-to-sort-itsfuckingself-out/A Libcom user (http://libcom.org/forums/announcements/sheffield-anarchist-bookfair-july-12th-09072014) compares this to Sam Ambreen who shouted "kill all men".
A CWO speaker who has debated the SPGB appears to have airbrushed the SPGB opposition to the First World War from labour history in their talk 'The only war worth fighting is the class war.' at the anarchist bookfair.At 8:21 the CWO speaker John states "I won't go into the various british ones today but the only group and it was a group rather than an organisation that can claim to have had any real anti-war policy was completely was the Socialist Labour Party."This is the same CWO speaker who accused the SPGB of being "schooled in Stalinism" in Part 6 at 10:30 of 'Can a Majority of Workers Develop Socialist Conciousness Under Capitalism?' available under audio.http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/audio/can-majority-workers-develop-socialist-conciousness-under-capitalism
Shameful and dishonest and inaccurateI have heard similar because we didn't offer ourselves up as sacrificial lambs to jingoism. Surely the fact that as a PARTY we had an agreed position to oppose the war should have at least been mentioned, rather than, as the speaker acknowledged, the others were divided and only groups within them opposed the war from the outset. The BSP split eventually, for instance. Hopefully we can counter such omissions in the upcoming anniversary of the war.
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