London Calling
October 1999
The Bulletin of London Class War
Anarchist Bookfair Edition
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Security Alert
Recently Sunday Times journalists have made underhand approaches to members
of London Class War. Other anarchist groups should take note that in the
aftermath of June 18 the forces of the crown are targetting the anarcho
community for vengeance; the media's free lunches are at stake! The Sunday
Times suspect hacks are:
Mark Batt (e-mail macaroni@line1.net)
Mark Macaskill
Justin Rigby.
Watch out for dodgy journalists at the Bookfair.
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Princess Di, die, die!!
All of four grief-stricken/sad arse people of Ramsgate laid wreathes to the
doxy Diana, now interred on her own Isle of Dogs (See previous London
Callings). The Windsor whore seems to have faded from the public stage and
retired to the cupboard of the yesterdays, where the world's least favourite
grandmother should join her soon.
Also, some sad arse named Hazel Courtenay claims to be possessed by Princess
Di! Having consulted our resident demonologist, we are assured that the only
type of possession is demonic possession. If Diana was a demon, what's that
make Harry and Wills?
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Red Herring Police Raid
The police raid caught Steve Hayden, landlord of the Stable Inn, unawares.
Three uniformed filth stormed into his kitchen and began ransacking the
fridge and rifling his freezer.
'What's all this about?' asked Mr Hayden. One of the scum said: 'We are
looking for the carcasses or the reamins of wild herons.'
The copper warned the publican that the birds were a protected specis and
it was illegal to kill them, let alone serve them as pub lunches.
The the penny dropped. Mr Hayden told them that it was not marinated heron
in dill sauce available for a bargain £4.50, but marinated herring.
'Someone must have overheard that we serve herring and thought it was heron,'
said Mr Hayden. He added that herons often flew over his pub in Burton,
Pembrokeshire.
A police spokesman admitted their informant was mistaken. 'We were acting
in good faith on information from a wildlife lover.'
If they were intelligent they'd be dangerous!
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Crocodile Dundee exposed as Copkiller shock!
William Ansell, a top Aussie buffalo-catcher, and the original 'Crocodile
Dundee', shot and killed a police sergeant in Australia's Northern Territories
in August. Unsurprisingly, the filth claimed they had no idea what prompted
his public spirited action! (Although we at CW can suggest a couple of
motives!) On the downside, Ansell was gunned down himself just moments later
by the sergeant's partner. We send our condolences to Mr Ansell's family and
friends, and we will remember him as a man who died in the line of duty.
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Outfoxed by the Sea
On 28 September, a gallant band of about 250 anti-hunt demonstrators opposed
about 16000 hunt scum from all over the country. The bleating of these inbred
parasites was pitiful to hear as they marched toward the abbatoir Adolf Blair
is preparing for them. Without a decent chant among them, they mewed 'Listen
to us!' with all the vigour of a puling consumptive cat. The vocal 'antis'
reminded them that while they were at the seaside, class conscious burglars
might be paying their homes a visit. Their imminent redundancy was also
brought forcefully to their attention, as they were told 'Your P45's in the
post!'
After these social losers went to be harangued by some semi-inebriated parasite,
we retired to the nearest Wetherspoon's, where we bumped into some hunt types.
They appeared to be one-song wonders, terrifying the locals with repeated
choruses of 'D'ye ken John Peel'. We responded with a rousing chorus of
'Yellow Submarine', but before a full and frank discussion could take place,
the peelers intervened. Moving to a more salubrious establishment, we were
given an honour guard of police.
It seems that some hunters had a longer journey home than others; one group
seemed to have difficulty starting a car which had received attention from
some of us 'antis'!
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Diary Dates
Wednesday, 13 October: May Day 2000 A series of demos and rallies are planned
in the west end of London for the weekend April 29-May 1
next year. Planning meeting 7.30 Conway Hall, near
Holborn tube. Contact BM Mayday, London WC1N 3XX to go
on their mailing list.
Also on the thirteenth: Hackney Solidarity Group
meeting. 7.30pm, The Old Fire Station, Leswin Road,
Stoke Newington, N16.
Thursday, 14 October: Anti-McDonald's Day of Action. Protest outside McCrap's
euro hq from 4.30 to 7.30pm. East Finchley tube.
Also, Lobby Hackney's Police Consultative Committee
Meeting. Hackney Town Hall, 6.30pm. The relatives of
Harry Stanley, the Hackney man murdered by the police
near Victoria Park, have called a lobby of this
committee's meeting. A march through the borough is
also likely to be called soon.
Saturday, 16 October: Anarchist Bookfair! 10am till (very) late. Largest
anarchist gathering in the dis-United Kingdom, etc.
Usual goodies on sale. Both CW and MA'M have meetings
booked.
Sunday, 7 November: Bumpkin Alert! Inbred Countryside Alliance members
plan to march through Reading! Although they had a
lively first leg in Bournemouth, it's time to increase
the pressure on the about-to-be signing-on vermin.
Meeting place to be confirmed; next London Calling due
out 30 October will carry full details (+map!).
Wednesday, 10 November: Hackney Solidarity Group meeting. Details as for
October 13.
Sunday, 14 November: Benefit Gig for Mark Barnsley. On his 1,999th day in
prison. Al-dayer (4pm-11pm) at the Golden Shoe, 47
Meeson St, Kingsmead Estate, Homerton, E9. North London
Line: Homerton, bus 236. Bands include Robb Johnson,
Scurvy, Knuckleduster and The Doleclaimers.
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Merchandise
The new paper, Dave Douglass' book, and an exciting new pamphlet - '21st Century
Class War' - will all be available by the time of the bookfair (hopefully!).
Please note Dave's book will be £5, not £3.50 as erroneously stated previously.
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South Yorkshire Class War
SYCW have an e-mail address, syclasswar@hotmail.com. Any readers from the South
Yorkshire area are encouraged to get in touch with them.
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Flavour of the Month
This month, we reccomend you get in touch with the London Socialist Film Co-op.
They have a blinding season of films lined up. Get in touch with them by
writing to: The Secretary, LSFC, 13 Foundling Court, Brunswick Centre, London
WC1N 1QE. To join is £5 waged, £3 concs.
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Remembering the Past
Compiled by the Class War Historian
October 2: 1869-Gandhi born.
1890-Groucho Marx born.
1966-Guatemalan guerrilla leader Turcios Lima dies in an apprent
car accident.
1965-Peruvian guerrillas clash with army at Shoenti. 11 killed.
1974-Hiss! First McDonald's opens in Britain.
October 3: 1896-William Morris died.
1967-Woody Guthrie died.
1984-14-week occupation of Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead
ends with the workers surrendering to police and then being
jailed.
October 4: 1866-Insurrection in Canada; several lives lost.
October 5: 1936-The march of unemployed shipyard workers from Jarrow to
London started.
October 6: 1848-Insurrection in Vienna and killing of War Minister Count
Latour.
1891-Death of Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Nationalist leader.
October 7: 1956-Clarence Birdseye, US inventor of quick-freezing, died.
1970-BOAC Air terminal at Victoria, booby-trapped hand grenade
found.
October 8: 1965-The Post Office Tower, London, opened.
1970-Attorney General Sir Peter Rawlinson's house in Chelsea
bombed again (it had been bombed just one month before.
October 9: 1779-The first Luddite riots began in Manchester against the
introduction of machinery for spinning cotton.
1967-Che Guevara captured and shot in Bolivia.
1970-Italian Trade Centre, London, bombed. Italian State
buildings in Manchester, Birmingham and Paris bombed
simultaneously. Attacks claimed on behalf of Italian
anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, murdered by the Italian
police in 1969.
October 10: 1649-Cromwell massacres 2,000 soldiers and civilians at Wexford
City.
October 11: 1871-Fenian raid into Canada under General O'Neill.
October 12: 1846-Rebellion in Portugal: provincial government esatblished in
Oporto.
1962-Venezuelan guerrilla leader Fabricio Ojeda captured. He is
later sent down for 18 years.
1984-Hurrah! IRA bombs Grand Hotel, Brighton, nearly killing
entire British Cabinet.
October 13: 1881-Parnell arrested for inciting to intimidation.
1977-Guerrillas from the Red Army Faction and Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine hijack Lufthansa flight 181 to
try and get all political prisoners in West Germany released.
October 14: 1815-Great strike of soldiers and sailors at Newcastle and Sunderland.
1887-Parliament Hill purchased for public.
October 15: 1840-Attempted assassination of Louis Phillipe of Darmés.
1968-Imperial War Museum gutted by an incendiary device.
October 16: 1793-Hurrah! Marie Antoinette guillotined.
1834-Houses of Parliament destroyed by fire.
1890-Michael Collins born.
1985-Hurrah! Broadwater Farm explodes in the Tottenham Riot.
PC Blakelock chop, chop, chopped!
October 17: 1891-Waterlow Park, Highgate, opened to public.
1977-Mogadishu: Flight 181 stormed by German shock troops of GSG9.
They capture the plane.
October 18: 1977-Andrers Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe murdered
in Stammheim top security prison, Stuttgart.
October 19: 1887-'Collision' between unemployed and police in Piccadilly.
1977-Hanns Martin Schleyer's body found. He was executed after
being an RAF prisoner for 45 days.
October 20: 1957-Elections in Guatemala. The dictator Ydigoras declares
them void, leading to rise of guerrillas.
1990-Brixton Poll Tax Riot.
October 22: 1852-Arch-toady Mr J Camden Neild leaves £250,000 to Queen
Victoria.
1862-Insurrection in Greece against King Otho. (He flees the
country on 24 October.)
1867-Insurrectionary movement in Rome; Sarristori Barracks blown up.
October 23: 1956-The Hungarian revolt against Soviet leadership began.
1965-Peruvian guerrillas under Del la Puente clash with army near
Aymaybamba. Guerrillas either captured or killled.
October 24: 1945-Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian fascist, executed.
1929-Start of Wall Street Crash.
1966-Anti-government riots in Caracas, Venezuela. The filth kill
one person.
October 25: 1878-Attempt on life of Alfonso XII of Spain by Moncasi.
October 26: 1917-October Revolution took place in Russia. (Reckoned by New
Style Calendar, 7 November.)
1970-Barclays Bank, Stokey, firebombed.
1973-Berlin Supreme Court, Superior Court and Lower Court buildings
firebombed. Lots of damage done!
October 27: 1831-Riots at Bristol (in connection with Reform Bill); 500 (yes,
500) killed by military.
1962-Saboteurs in Venezuela destroy 4 power stations of the
US-controlled Creole Petroleum Corporation.
October 30: 1881-Irish Land League suppressed.
1971-Angry Brigade bomb the Post Office Tower.
October 31: 1870-Riotous outbreak in Paris; members of the government imprisoned
until 'order' is restored. Also, All Hallow's Eve.
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