Wine & Cheese Meetings at Anarchist Bookfair

[Socialist Party Head Office]

Hi there,



we are doing a meeting at the upcoming London Anarchist Bookfair and

Critisticuffs - see https://www.facebook.com/critisticuffs and

https://twitter.com/critisticuffs - are doing two.  We will also be

sharing a stall with Critisticuffs where we plan to distribute Kittens #4

(and our other publications).



# Private Property (12noon - 1.00pm) #



On the one hand, the state imposes the rule of private property on its

society.  This means that its citizens pursue their happiness against

each other.  On the other hand, it demands respect for its common good.

What this contradictory relationship means, what it consists of and how

all this fits together, that we want to discuss.  In particular: what

characterises modern private property as capitalist?  What is the

relation between freedom, rule and property?  What is the common good

and does it provide a reference point for radical politics?  No prior

theoretical knowledge is required.



Organised by: The Wine & Cheese Appreciation Society of Greater London



# Don't Read Marx with Harvey (1.00pm – 2.00pm) #



Following the financial crisis a lot of people turned to Marx for an

explanation.  For a lot of them, David Harvey's lectures serve as a

companion.  We disagree with Harvey's account of capitalism.  In this

workshop we will show what we believe to be Harvey's fundamental mistake

and try to encourage people to pick up Capital.  Everybody welcome, no

prior experience with Marx or Harvey required.



Organised by: Critisticuffs



# Critique of tax justice (3.00pm – 4.00pm) #



UK Uncut claims there are alternatives to austerity: taxing the banks

and clamping down on tax avoidance.  While we agree with opposing the

currently ongoing programme of impoverishment, we reject their proposed

solution.  In this workshop we want to discuss what taxes are and what

they teach us about the nature of the state and this society.  Based on

that we want to present our critique of tax justice campaigns and why

instead of offering a way out of socially produced poverty, their

success depends on it: taxing successful capitalist corporations

presupposes their success.



Organised by: Critisticuffs



# Where & When #



London Anarchist Bookfair

Saturday 19th October (10:00am - 7:00pm)

Queen Mary’s university on Mile End Road

http://anarchistbookfair.org.uk/



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from: The Wine & Cheese Appreciation Society of Greater London

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[jondwhite]

Good find. I will be going to the Bookfair.

[ALB]

Yes, the one on David Harvey promises to be interesting.

[DJP]

When was the last time we tried to get a stall there BTW?

[ALB]

I don't think they'll ever let us have a stall and it's a bit undignified and even unprincipled for us to keep begging them. Better to simply set up a stall outside as we do at other such events organised by other opponents such as the SWP's "Marxism".  Over to the campaigns committee, then.

[Young Master Smeet]

Only fair enough, considering we're not anarchists…

[jondwhite]

Neither are loads of other groups allowed to have stalls inside the bookfair considered properly anarchist. Lots of leftcoms run stalls and meetings there, on the technicality that they say they are not a party.

[ALB]

jondwhite wrote:

Lots of leftcoms run stalls and meetings there, on the technicality that they say they are not a party.

Not yet … and, hopefully, never !

[Anonymous]

Stair will be having a stall at the bookfair and as always will display a number of party publications.

[Author]

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