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

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PimmsnLemonade · 01/12/2018 19:53

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UpstartCrow · 18/12/2018 10:14

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.

This.
But they chose to go along with him.

Missingstreetlife · 18/12/2018 09:49

The difference is that in London last year people defended helen and stood between her and her abusers, they stopped short of removing them but at least did not remove helen.
There was no London bookfair this year, largely because of this incident and attack on the organisers afterwards. Discussions continue around safe space, ha! And security because some other disruptive behaviour took place

Anlaf · 02/12/2018 18:57

bloody hell again?

A couple of threads from when Helen was mobbed threatened and called a terf cunt by a group of people at ananarchist bookfair last year

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3072429-Two-more-women-attacked-by-trans-activists

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3076773-Helen-Steels-statement-about-being-assaulted-on-Saturday

madmum5811 · 02/12/2018 18:43

Their violent tendencies are very frightening. How many women are strong enough to defend themselves against this type of physical assault.

Ereshkigal · 02/12/2018 18:37

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.

madmum5811 · 02/12/2018 18:21

Something similar happened last year.

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

ChattyLion · 02/12/2018 18:08

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

SophoclesTheFox · 02/12/2018 08:45

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?

Beagadorsrock · 02/12/2018 08:35

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.

SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed · 02/12/2018 08:35

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.

ChattyLion · 02/12/2018 02:47

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. Flowers

DioneTheDiabolist · 02/12/2018 00:48

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

Coyoacan · 02/12/2018 00:35

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.

hipsterfun · 02/12/2018 00:10

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.

NotMeOhNo · 01/12/2018 23:59

Solidarity to you, Helen and friend.

LikeDust · 01/12/2018 23:50

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.

arranbubonicplague · 01/12/2018 23:47

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

AspieAndProud · 01/12/2018 23:44

‘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.

Terfing · 01/12/2018 23:40

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

SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed · 01/12/2018 22:19

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.

arranbubonicplague · 01/12/2018 22:10

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...

uglyandlovingit · 01/12/2018 22:07

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.

SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed · 01/12/2018 22:01

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

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

arranbubonicplague · 01/12/2018 21:53

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.

RetiredNotExpired · 01/12/2018 21:46

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

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