HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS EVENTS NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2012

25 October 2012 — Housmans Books

NEWS
1. Housmans Peace Diary 2013
012 – A Tribute

EVENTS
3. ‘Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain’s Far Right’ with Daniel Trilling
4. Play session of Guy Debord’s ‘Game of War’
5. ‘Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord’s The Game of War’ with Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett
6. ‘Fortress Europe’ with Matt Carr and Liz Fekete
7. ‘Freedom Through Football: The Story of the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls’ with Will Simpson
8. ‘The Legacy of Allen Ginsberg’ with Steve Finbow
9. ‘1839: The Chartist Insurrection’ with Chris Ford
10. ‘Play as Protest in Modern Art’ with Hannah Hull
11. ‘Savage Messiah’ with Laura Oldfield Ford
12. ‘Public Service on the Brink’ with Mark Serwotka and David Wiggins
13. ‘Street Music: Poems’ with Mike Marqusee

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NEWS

1. Housmans Peace Diary 2013

The 60^th edition of the world-renowned Housmans Peace Diary is now available. To place and order, and for more information please visit http://www.housmans.com/diary.php .

012 – A Tribute

Sad news has reached us that our friend and comrade Alan Woodward has died. You may have gotten advice from him on a book to buy at Housmans as Alan had been volunteering with us on Saturdays in recent times, but his tireless activism and writing over many years meant that he was well known to many, in both socialist and anarchist circles – and beyond. Alan was a font of knowledge, an inspiration in his tireless activism, and above all a warm and humble man. We shall miss him dearly. His friend Dave Morris has written the following tribute, and we thank him for letting us reproduce it. Please click here to read it on our blog.

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EVENTS

3. ‘Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain’s Far Right’ with Daniel Trilling

Friday 26th October, 7pm
PRE-ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR SPECIAL – FREE ENTRYTrilling discusses how the far right entered Britain’s mainstream through the front door.

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4. Play session of Guy Debord’s ‘Game of War’
Sunday 28th October, 2pm
POST-ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR SPECIAL – FREE ENTRY

An informal chance to play and learn about the Marxist board game created by the French theorist and founding member of the Situationist International.

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5. ‘Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord’s The Game of War’ with Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett

Wednesday 31st October, 7pm
£3, redeemable against any purchase

Launch of a booklet considering Debord’s ‘Game of War’, an insurrectionary manual for those struggling to build a truly human civilisation. At 5pm Richard and Fabian will be playing and introducing the 1791 Haitian Revolution version of Richard Borg’s Command & Colors Napoleonics wargame – this section of the event is free, and all welcome.

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6. ‘Fortress Europe’
with Matt Carr and Liz Fekete

Wednesday 7th November, 7pm
£3, redeemable against any purchase

A discussion of the politics and consequences of Europe’s heavily militarised ‘hard’ borders.

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7. ‘Freedom Through Football: The Story of the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls’

with Will Simpson

Wednesday 14th November, 7pm