i think i'm the nearest person to thirsk. i'm with the west yorks solfed local. if you want to meet up or owt, PM me.
might be difficult trying to set up an anarchist group there, with ripon and that being tory country. leeds is probably the nearest place with any sort of anarchist present
High School students struck and marched across Germany yesterday in protest against classroom overcrowding, lack of teachers, and the pressure of examinations.
Murray Bookchin's best-known leaflet, Listen, Marxist! was aimed predominantly at students influenced by the Maoist Progressive Labor Party which was heavily (and highly destructive) active in the mass Students for a Democratic Society movement in 1960s and 70s America. His criticisms of "Marxism" and Marxist terminology are not applicable to Marxism as a whole, but some do apply to the crude politics of the PLP. Despite this significant shortcoming, we reproduce the document here due to its importance in terms of the left and libertarian left in the US
Having just moved to Thirsk it would be good to hear from any Anarchists within the Yorkshire-Ripon-Thirsk area to start networking.