Dear Comrades,

We have just received the following message from the venue:

“Unfortunately it looks like there are no plans to re-open the Corn Exchange anytime soon, especially early August.

We are looking at bringing forward our repairs to the main roof so rescheduling to next year will seem to be your best option at present.”

The Corn Exchange staff are our friends and their well-being is important to us as is that of our attendees, they also have to labour under a dead weight of politicians and bureaucrats, which doesn’t help.

So with a heavy heart we are calling off Anarchy in the Sticks 2020. Up to last week we were still taking bookings, believing we could run it safely. We were especially excited about hosting Ellen Clifford of DPAC to talk about her new book ‘The War on Disabled People: capitalism, welfare and the making of a human catastrophe’.

We may run smaller events later in the Autumn, in particular we’d like to revive the Love, Anarchy, Solidarity series as soon as possible so keep an eye on the website. If you’ve paid, we can hold it over till next year or pay you back.

We don’t readily admit defeat, we remain revolutionary class struggle anarchists and one day we may call upon you to hold the barricades, to run through fire and take out fascist tanks with home-made explosives – but not today.

Read books, stay angry!

The DRB Collective.