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)
Mere, Wiltshire, England
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]

Works

References

  1. ↑ "Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill". Parliament UK. Archived from the original on 12 November 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Bone, Ian (2006). Bash The Rich . Tangent Books. pp.  10. ISBN   0-9544177-7-1.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Saner, Emine (20 October 2006). "We need to push and shove and throw things". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 24 July 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2006.
  4. ↑ ""Most dangerous man in Britain" calls for attack on Boat Race". The Cambridge Student. 24 November 2011. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  5. ↑ Bash The Rich, pp. 2–3
  6. ↑ Cross, Rich (2014). "British anarchism in the era of Thatcherism". In Smith, Evan; Worley, Matthew (eds.). Against the grain: The British far left from 1956. Manchester University Press. pp. 141–142. ISBN   978-07190-9590-0.
  7. ↑ Home, Stewart (25 October 1994). "Organised chaos". The Independent. ISSN   0951-9467. ProQuest   313228092. The event is the brainchild of Ian Bone ... Among revolutionary anarchists, Anarchy in the UK is derisively referred to as the Bone Show.
  8. ↑ "Scurrilious magazine scoops top award". BBC News. 14 October 2005. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2006.
  9. ↑ Boncza-Tomaszewski, Tom (24 December 2006). "Paperbacks". The Independent on Sunday . p. 30. ProQuest   336971620.
  10. ↑ Jack, Ian (6 October 2007). "From Henley to Notting Hill: Class War is on the move again". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  11. ↑ Brown, David (12 September 2018). "Your daddy's horrible, say Jacob Rees‑Mogg protesters". The Times . Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  12. ↑ Marshall, Francesca (12 September 2018). "Labour MPs attack left wing activists who told Jacob Rees-Mogg's children 'your daddy is a totally horrible person'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  13. ↑ "Jacob Rees-Mogg brushes off protest outside home". BBC News. 12 September 2018. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  14. ↑ O'Connor, Tara (5 May 2021). "The 7 candidates standing in Croydon Council's Woodside by-election". My London. Archived from the original on 5 November 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
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