Saturday 24 November 2012

'No Cocks Please, We're British!'

THIS week, the OK cafe in Manchester banned the 'Cock O' the North' (Vol.2 No.1) after a complaint came in from a customer.   Under the curious libertarian/ totalitarian rules of the cafe, it only takes one complaint to get a publication kicked out.  It's no wonder then that after the recent trouble at the London Anarchist Bookfair in which the 'Northern Voices' stall was attacked by a group of protesters from a body called the Anarchist Federation, that Donald Rooum, the anarchist cartoonist who creates the character 'Wilcat', said that 'If you scratch a libertarian you'll find an authoritarian underneath!'

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