Freedom’s annual roundup of events from radical booksellers around Britain and Ireland.
The 2023 Anarchist Bookfairs List
Tag: Peterborough
The 2022 Anarchist Bookfairs list
Last year saw the first tentative efforts to restart physical anarchist bookfairs amid the Covid crisis, with some success in places like Bradford, London, Manchester and even Stonehenge, and this year it looks like the revival is in full swing. Doing this feature in March, when enough bookfairs have been announced to make a proper
Peterborough Mayor bans public from meetings over spycop councillor protests
Having suspended a chaotic council meeting last week amid noisy protests demanding the resignation of former spycop (and current councillor) Andy Coles, Peterborough Mayor John Fox closed today’s planned meeting to the public entirely today fearing “equally disruptive” actions. Mayor Fox, who was himself a former police officer with the Cambridge force for 23 years
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