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Anarchy in the Sticks!

Last time it was Boris De Pfeffle Johnson who pulled the plug on our activities. This year we’ve been shut down by the latest of her majesty’s policing agencies – Tom Browns Pub in Dorchester!

We’ve been in talks with this venue for months and had reached an agreement, to the extent of working out where everything was going to be, drawing a floor plan and making arrangements for hire of tables and other equipment. The Fourth Dorset Radical Bookfair was set for the 11th June 2022 and we began promoting the event online. Bands were booked for the afterparty. We had just started sending invitations to our supporters when the venue inexplicably went back on its word and cancelled our booking.

After a little probing we were told that some regulars who identify as “left feminists” objected to content at previous events they considered “extremist”. We seem to have…

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Mid-Feb round-up: rail, university and hospital strikes, and more

Cautiously pessimistic

A few upcoming events and other notes:

To start off with, there’s a few ongoing strikes, including the all-out action at Chep in Manchester, where talks have just started after two solid months of the strike, the Pay the Rate strike by scaffolders at Actavo in Scunthorpe, the six-week strike by security guards organised through the United Voices of the World at Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Coventry bin strike – as sneered at by Sir Keir Starmer – and the ongoing strike by JustEat/Stuart Delivery couriers organised through the IWGB. 

As ever, the RMT have a number of disputes on the trains, including a strike on CrossCountry trains over the role of senior conductors and train managers, that’ll be going ahead on Saturday 19th Feb. TransPennine Express conductors are holding a series of regular weekly strikes on Sundays over pay.

Monday 21st and…

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