Ian Bone & Martin Wright Class War Conference 1985

[Wobbothe3rd]

I love Class was, and the bash the rich campaign, but I always disagreed with the first part of this video. Social workers and welfare officers directly offer services to the working class, and usually are working class themselves. Why alienate them?

[oneforengland]

I'm a nationalist but I can certainly sympathise with the idea of people ruling their own lives, a stateless society and so on but I certainly can't buy the idea of a borderless world. Any body that actually lives a working class life can see that immigration puts nothing but stress on the native workers amongst causing other problems.

By the way Ian, saying "fuck" everyother word doesn't prove your working class credentials.

[axisofevolution]

minaees, comradegonzo, wouldn't expect a couple of cowards only too happy to criticise from the sidelines to question the style & substance of this particular couple of flaming stars. Power to the elbow who those who dare to stand up and raise their voice against exploitation and class division

[comradegonzo]

Ooh, yeh, very radical. There's more to anarchism than saying 'fuck' a lot. No wonder there is no working-class anarchist movement in this country.

[SLCThunk]

They are full of shit to some extent but they are not advocating running around killing anyone. They are more worried about what people are actually doing rather than what class people come from, so it's clearly not that simple.

[dortyhoor]

I was dragged to a C.W meeting in summer 84 at a pub in kings cross by my then girlfriend, there was I.bone and M.wright arguing about smashing up Oxford street or not while a drunk punk snored in the corner, there was only about 7 there including me..

[dortyhoor]

If there are rich kids in class war good, they can help the less well educated ones out there. Yes (yawn) i am working class.

[minaees]

What a priceless pair of clowns!

[dmj481]

Priceless...yes! Clowns...Anything you say is right...to you!

[cruekid2001]

I met Ian many times when I was active with Class War and I never liked him, this video just reminded me of the bollocks he spoke. Class War is dead....long live Class War.

[KafkaCrow]

I met Ian Bone (albeit only briefly) at a book signing in Swansea last year. He's a top bloke, I won't have a bad word said against him.

[RockAndRollMassacre]

The rich are a bunch of alcoholic drug taking paedophiles.

[Buggsy61]

What a sad bunch of tosspots. They blame the system and anyone else when their real problem is their own bone idleness and fecklessness. There are opprtunities in this country if they got off their arses instead of sitting around smoking spliffs and talking shyte. Most come from rich backgrounds anyway , living off daddies trust fund - FUCKING WANKERS

[richardrichard07]

I don't think you'll find many rich kids in these sorts of groups.

[adminius1]

You would be surprised how many rich kids there are in these groups.

[dmj481]

And you'd be surprised at the amount of working-class kids lol there are in these groups...didn't you hear Ian Bone at the beginning...it doesn't matter about your backgorund what matters are your actions now ;) And before you start I know what you are saying in a way...and im working-class and proud ;)

[arthurwhittle]

i've got an idea for you jumped up self loathing cocks. If you hate our country so much then go fuck off to a shitpit like Iraq and then you spoilt little runts might just grow some balls.

[majorMcpharter]

If you sell your labour power to an employer you are a working class wage slave.Its time to abolish the slavery of the wages system.Lets build a Stateless Classless Moneyless Society.

[richardrichard07]

Good stuff. We should burn Buckingham palace down with the royal family inside.

You wanna talk about scroungers never mind the poor on the dole what about the royal family they are the biggest waste of tax money ever. Amazing how far accident of birth will get you in the life. We need a bit more democracy and meritocracy and if we need to employ the use of iron bars and moltov cocktails, as the speaker in this video suggests, then so be it.

John McCain 08.

[majorMcpharter]

Let us keep the old palace it was built by highly skilled workers.Let turn it into a lovely rest home for retired workers.

[richardrichard07]

Good call comrade. What should we turn windsor castle into?

[Buggsy61]

Rubbish - what about all the money in tourism they bring in???(all those camera heavy japs outside Buck Pal ain't here for the beaches!! - Billions of £ plus the export contracts they've swung for the UK.

The Queen is one of the few good things we have left in a country thats been raped by Blair and Brown.

[bazdentube]

ian and martin come across like ben elton with street cred, anarchism was an utopian 80s mindwank for confused crass fans and year by year the fact is that reality kicks in and it maybe an asylum but a wake up too, pie in the sky when you die... anarchy in care homes for the aging rebels of yesteryear

I'll stick to a working class lad who want s to be stinking fucking rich

[einunbekanntertyp]

ich hab noch nie in einem vortrag so oft das wort FUCK gehört - wahnsinn XD

[StonefieldJim4]

Some of us ex-RCPers had a bit of a soft spot for Class War. Why? Because they weren't weighed down with the baggage of Labourism - or variants of it (SWP etc.). At least they were libertarians.