Will Barnes

Submitted by Hieronymous on March 2, 2012

He staged his disappearance and actually didn't die.

ElusiveElla

12 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by ElusiveElla on March 2, 2012

RIP :cry:

Steven.

12 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on March 2, 2012

Hieronymous, I am so sorry for your loss, and that of Will's other friends, family and comrades. This must be a terrible shock.

Thank you for your offer of putting his texts in our library. We have only a couple of his articles at the moment: http://libcom.org/tags/will-barnes

jonthom

12 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by jonthom on March 2, 2012

Sorry to hear this :( hope you have people who can give you the support you need right now.

wojtek

12 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by wojtek on March 2, 2012

So sorry to hear about Will's passing. My sincere condolences to yourself Hieronymous and to his family and friends. May I ask what he was like as a person? x

syndicalist

12 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalist on March 2, 2012

Condolences, comrade.

Tart

12 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by Tart on March 2, 2012

So sorry to hear of the loss of your friend and comrade.

Schwarz

12 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by Schwarz on March 3, 2012

Condolences, Hiero.

gram negative

12 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by gram negative on March 3, 2012

i'm sorry to hear about the loss of will barnes. he wrote some fascinating texts that i hope will live on.

rat

12 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by rat on March 3, 2012

Hieronymous,
I hope this comes over right, I genuinely found that self-introduction text of Will Barnes engaging, and I can imagine him as a decent comrade.
In solidarity,
Dan.

Hieronymous

5 years 5 months ago

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Submitted by Hieronymous on June 14, 2019

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Spikymike

12 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by Spikymike on March 17, 2012

Heironymous,

Sorry for your loss and thanks for the personal and political background information.

I only came accross Will Barnes in his challenging debate with comrades in Internationalist Perspectives and others arising out of the Wisconsin struggle a while back (see: http://internationalist-perspective.org/IP/ip-discussions/unions-1.html) but I have clearly missed out on a lot more of his contributions so will look forward to more of these being posted to this site.

S. Artesian

12 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by S. Artesian on March 18, 2012

I had a couple of very brief communications with Will. That was enough to convince me that here was an extraordinary person, one whoseknowledge, commitment and integrity ran equally deep.

Wish I had known about him sooner. Wish I had known him longer.

sa

Valeriano Orob…

12 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by Valeriano Orob… on March 20, 2012

Sorry, mate. I know it's very hard and he definitely seems like a sound guy. Besides, i have never heard before of karel kosik, thanks.

Hieronymous

5 years 5 months ago

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Submitted by Hieronymous on June 14, 2019

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Craftwork

5 years 5 months ago

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Submitted by Craftwork on June 14, 2019

Barnes faked his death in 2012. In 2018 he published an article in Insurgent Notes under the name 'Floris D'Aalst'. He then wrote a response to his 2018 article under the name 'Guillaume Destiche'.

Juan Conatz

5 years 5 months ago

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Submitted by Juan Conatz on June 14, 2019

Bizarre.

Khawaga

5 years 5 months ago

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Submitted by Khawaga on June 15, 2019

WTF?

Spikymike

5 years 5 months ago

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Submitted by Spikymike on June 15, 2019

Explains removal of RIP from original heading to this thread then. Found the referenced Insurgent Notes text a bit long winded and not sure how valuable it proved even with the short comments from others - so decided not to link it to the libcom threads on efforts to understand the Post Trump political scene in the USA.

Szamuely Tibor

4 years 9 months ago

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Submitted by Szamuely Tibor on February 18, 2020

Fucking hilarious.

Hieronymous

4 years 9 months ago

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Submitted by Hieronymous on February 25, 2020

Szamuely Tibor

Fucking hilarious.

EDIT:

Why would someone come trolling on here, using one of his most well-known sockpuppets?

Working Class …

4 years 9 months ago

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Submitted by Working Class … on February 24, 2020

So why did he do this?

Steven.

4 years 9 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on February 24, 2020

So why did he do this?

Craftwork

4 years 9 months ago

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Submitted by Craftwork on February 26, 2020

Steven.

So why did he do this?

To escape the "cruel polemicists". No idea what that means.