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Freedom Firebombed

Fri, 02/01/2013 - 09:18 -- worker

From International Times

FREEDOM BOOKSHOP AND AUTONOMY CLUB has been firebombed.

The attack on the Whitechapel bookshop took place on Friday morning at 5.30am.

The downstairs section of the shop is badly damaged. Electrics are damaged. Many books are burnt or charred. Upstairs is untouched. No one was hurt.

The fire-bomb was projected through a downstairs shop-window.

An emergency meeting is taking place on Friday afternoon at The White Hart pub close to Angel Alley.

No one has claimed responsibility and the general response can be summed up in three letters: WTF?

IT suggests that if it’s a lone nutter with a grudge or a small-time fascist, the perpetrator will appear on CCTV. If it’s an attack by the powers-that-be, the perpetrator may not appear on CCTV.

The Left has a whodunnit to solve. A book-burning is bad enough; a bookshop-burning is a very serious crime.

Also, there is a mess to clean up and a campaign to raise funds.

Publishers, record shops, and magazines have already pledged to donate stock and sales proceeds to help FREEDOM ‘rebuild’ .

People will gather at the shop from 1pm on Saturday Feb 2 to start the work.

Here are some shots of the interior:

 

 

 

 

Photos: FREEDOM BOOKSHOP AND AUTONOMY CLUB

http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/bookshop/

http://www.facebook.com/niall.mcdevitt.5#!/groups/246036957900/?fref=ts

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Highlight:
"A book-burning is bad enough; a bookshop-burning is a very serious crime."

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

i commend the brits and their humour in the face of a very horrible event.

Submitted by This side of th... (not verified) on

you may also like this from the left website called left unity

Andy Meinke, speaking from the pub where the staff have been forced to relocate said, ‘Freedom will carry on in the same haphazard way it always has – the Fascists have just driven us to the pub a little bit earlier in the day than otherwise. "

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

I think I understand why British post-apocalyptic fiction usually ends with everybody dying miserably or killing themselves.

Submitted by This side of th... (not verified) on

For your info Freedom has been an anarchist bookshop / newspaper/ press in this building for well over a hundred years. was set up by Kropotkin amongst others at the turn of the 19/20th century

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Uh yeah... where the fuck is this place? There are multiple "whitechapels"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"Police confirmed officers attended but no further details were immediately available."

Have at it, vultures.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Not saying that they didn't call the police, but I'm pretty sure that with things like suspicious fires, the cops probably get called by the fire department immediately.

Submitted by Enkidu on

"don't talk to the cops" has played out a number of different ways in the past. i was more struck by the surveillance aspect.

Submitted by Unfortunately (not verified) on

Knowing anarchists, it was probably anarchists. I hope not.

Submitted by This side of th... (not verified) on

as i am an anarchist, it was probably fascists. i know your an idiot

Submitted by Mister Grumpy on

Freedom bookshop was attacked by fascists before. The group was called Combat 18, and some of their boneheads tried to burn down the entire building if I remember correctly in the 90s.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Thank God most of their copies of "The Anarchist Quiz Book" remain unscathed.

Submitted by titilated (not verified) on

More information, please. I know this is probably a joke, but I really do want to believe that Engels was a cold-blooded mass murderer. Seriously. Any inkling of it would really make my week.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Did you know that there are gobs of serial killers who are waiting for someone just like you to be their pen pal ? Just wanted to give you a heads up, bc I used to know a lot of not-very-bright skinhead chics who shared many of your interests, and they seemed to derive a lot of pleasure and self-worth from these activities.

Submitted by anonymous on

Freedom bookshop has metal plaques of distinguished anarchists outside it's entrance. One of these depicts the most distinguished anarchist government official of all time, Frederica Montseny.

Submitted by Mister Grumpy on

It might be easier to give your complaint more weight if you hadn't done that stupid "it's" thing plus misspelled Montseny's first name. And maybe add a little context for people who don't know (and/or don't care) what you're talking about.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Oh, Mister Grumpy. Promise you'll never change. No, wait, scratch that, do change, your schtick is deeply tedious.

Submitted by Mister Grumpy on

Nobody is forcing you to read or comment. Crawl back into your anonymous hole.

Submitted by Mister Grumpy on

Crappy and careless writing among named and anonymous anarchoids is precisely WHY I am Mister Grumpy. Don't you know anything?

IGTT 0/10

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