Ian Bone

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Ian Bone
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Ian Bone extolling the virtues of the Fifth Monarchy Men in Wapping, May 2013
Born
Ian David Bone

(1947-08-28) 28 August 1947 (age 77)
Known forSocial and political activism

Ian David Bone [1] (born 28 August 1947 [2] in Mere, Wiltshire) is an English anarchist and publisher of anarchist newspapers and tabloids, such as Class War and The Bristolian. [3]

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In 1984, British tabloid newspaper The Sunday People described Bone as "The Most Dangerous Man in Britain". [3] [4]

Activities

Ian Bone is the son of a butler, and has said that this background greatly contributed to his later political outlook. [5] He studied politics at Swansea University, becoming an active anarchist throughout the 1960s to early 1990s. [3] He set up the anarchist agit-mag Alarm in Swansea. [3] In 1983, with others, he established the anarchist paper Class War . The confrontational style of the paper led to Bone becoming an infamous figure in the politics of the 1980s. [6]

In October 1994, Bone organised the Anarchy in the UK festival. [7]

In 2001 he revived The Bristolian, which fielded candidates in the 2003 Bristol city council elections and was runner-up for the Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism in 2005. [8]

Tangent Books published Bone's autobiography, Bash the Rich, in 2006. [9] To promote the book, Bone organised a "Bash the Rich" march through Notting Hill, claiming he would march on David Cameron's house. [10]

In September 2018, Russia Today broadcast footage of Bone doorstepping Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, shouting "Your daddy is a very horrible person" and "lots of people hate your daddy" at his young children. [11] Bone's targeting of Rees-Mogg's children was widely condemned. [12] [13]

In May 2021, Bone unsuccessfully stood for election in a council by-election in Croydon. [14]

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