Much of contemporary anarchism is impossible to distinguish from a soggy leftist workerism and we seemed to have abandoned the libertarian impulses of anarchism. Take the ‘free speech’ issue. Yesterday some anarchists were aligned with the UAF in calling for the banning of Geert Wilders visit.Since when did anarchists call for government bans and prosecriptions? I would no more call for a ban on Wilders visit than I would for Louis Farrakhan or ask the government to ‘ban the burkha’ or ban cartoons offensive to Islam or for that matter ‘ban fox hunting’ or smoking in bus shelters or ban marches of people I disagree with.Yes..free speech is indivisible and is not qualified by a ‘but…’ . And free speech certainly includes blaspheming others holy texts. Tough shit cry babies – live with it. We have left campaigning against political correctness to right wing idiots like Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Littlejohn, bumbling Boris and the Daily Mail and become associated with a killjoy leftist miserabilism. We have abandoned much of our natural political constituency to the right and in doing so have allowed the EDL to pose as the champions of traditional English liberties.

Leave alone libertarian impulses what happened to our hedonistic impulses – where are they in contempoary anarchist propaganda? Actually comrades we are against the state – so we should make no demands of it to discomfort our opponents. Now I’m with the Hunt Sabs every time or anyone who chucks an egg at Farrakhan……but do it yourself comrades – don’t ask for your enemy to do it for you. And while we’re at it comrades …’Who put the ram in the ramma lama dingdong’?