Reports that Helen Steel and another woman were surrounded and physically dragged out of (another) anarchist bookfair for wrongthink

[PimmsnLemonade]

twitter.com/toddybann/status/1068940732214452227

[arranbubonicplague]

Good grief - I'd ask what sort of anarchists are these but I remember the trouble/danger a friend ran into when she was part of the Occupy camp in St Paul's, London.

[Socrates11]

Do we know where this bookfair was? It absolutely stinks that this happened.

Helen Steel is bloody awesome a real-life, 100% shero. Not only did she spend years of her life fighting against MacDonalds bullshit in court and winning she also had run ins with spycops. What a woman.

What disgusting bullying treatment by a bunch of cowardly, science-denying MRA idiots...this much is obvious from just one tweet!

Helen and friend

[arranbubonicplague]

Judging by this calendar, it would seem to have been Manchester & Salford?

freedomnews.org.uk/anarchist-bookfairs-in-2018/

[PimmsnLemonade]

Yes, Jen Issacson is tweeting about it:

twitter.com/isacsohn

[RetiredNotExpired]

Saw this from Doc Stock. @stratiscue's second tweet has since been deleted.

[arranbubonicplague]

I'm so glad that there's not really a war on women or a tacitly-endorsed political and social endorsement of what is deemed to be morally-justified violence by SJWs or I'd be alarmed, disheartened and very angry about this.

[SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed]

I've just seen something about this on Twitter saying they were dragged out.

Apparently, @stratiscue has deleted tweets they posted crowing about it.

[uglyandlovingit]

The fact that it's Helen Steel just shows the complete lack of respect and knowledge that these TRAs have.

I hope they press charges if they were carried out.

[arranbubonicplague]

Do we think any of them will have Esther Bett's like damascene revelations once they reflect on what it must have looked like - to be cheering on or actually dragging out women for having feminist, women-centered thoughts...

[SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed]

I can't see any of them claiming to have seen the error of their ways. The best we can hope for is something along the lines of' sorry, but not sorry, terfs made me do it'.

These people are nothing but men's rights activists who get a kick out of inflicting violence on women. They are absolute scum.

[Terfing]

On the Twitter thread, someone just posted that one of the women had their arm broken?!?

[AspieAndProud]

‘Anarchists’ called the cops to keep women out of the pub after the Tara Wolf trial.

They’re doing this in defence of a change in law proposed by the Tories and supported by the entire political establishment.

They really need to reflect on their understanding of the word anarchism.

Emma Goldman they ain’t.

[arranbubonicplague]

UPDATE: Helen Steel’s arm was injured by the men who assaulted her at the Manchester Anarchist Bookfare.

There is always attempted justification for men causing women pain. Injuring a woman through using force will be attempted to be justified politically.

twitter.com/isacsohn/status/1068996734792151041

[LikeDust]

I reckon there's some undercover in Class War / Antifa ringleading this bunch of gullible thugs and targeting Helen Steel because of her refusal to back down over the Spy Cops stuff.

[NotMeOhNo]

Solidarity to you, Helen and friend.

[hipsterfun]

The fact that it's Helen Steel just shows the complete lack of respect and knowledge that these TRAs have.

Too right.

When your side is targetting Helen Steel and Linda Bellos, ffs, it’s time to take a long, hard look at yourself and what you believe in.

[Coyoacan]

Totally agree with AspieAndProud

I've always loved anarchist thinkers, but here in Mexico anarchism tends to be the cloak that government agents use, along with some thugs that take it as an excuse to do whatever they want.

These thugs really are tearing the left apart.

[DioneTheDiabolist]

I've always thought that anarchism was most attractive to MRA types before I knew what MRAs were.

[ChattyLion]

The fact that it's Helen Steel just shows the complete lack of respect and knowledge that these TRAs have.

Exactly.
Helen is an amazing absolute legend of a woman and she is clever and brave in a way that hose shameful bullies could only ever dream of.

[SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed]

Yes, when they are attacking women like Helen Steel and Linda Bellos it seems perfectly obvious that they are misogynistic bullies who do not have the faintest idea about or interest in left wing politics.

[Beagadorsrock]

When the 'conversation' is taken over by the 'anarchists' you know it's a stalemate and there's bound to be state infiltration - see the whole of the 1970s (Red/Black Brigades in Italy, RAF dismantling in Germany, etc).

Unfortunately Helen Steel was always one of the targets of that kind of treatment, she must feel so much deja vu.

[SophoclesTheFox]

When your side is targetting Helen Steel and Linda Bellos, ffs, it’s time to take a long, hard look at yourself and what you believe in

Absolutely this. What the ever loving FUCK do they imagine they're achieving?

"You can't be at this anarchist bookfair. Your ideas are too dangerous".

Is Helen OK?

[ChattyLion]

Hope she’s OK. Her Twitter handle is HelenSteel12 and she is tweeting so that’s something.

[madmum5811]

Something similar happened last year.

www.socfem.net/2017/11/helen-steel-labf

[Ereshkigal]

It sounds like these horrible misogynistic little fuckers don't understand that "carrying" a woman out of a space against her will is legally assault.