Gays In The News: Murray Healy

THE leader of an anti-capitalist attack on a “yuppie” cafe used profits he made on a nearby flat to buy a £600,000 property.

Murray Healy joined burning torch-waving anarchists as they surrounded the Cereal Killer Cafe in East London’s Brick Lane last weekend.

He is part of the Class War group who claim the brothers behind the diner draw in well-off “hipsters” from outside the area who are forcing up property prices and driving locals out.

But when The Sun on Sunday approached Healy, who was born in West Sussex, about buying and selling a flat for a £35,000 profit he threatened to throw urine on our reporter.

We confronted him at his £580,000 home in Kennington, South London, which was built by developers on the site of an ex-council block, the type of development Class War opposes.

Fashion mag editor Healy, 46, pulled out a bottle of yellow liquid and said: “This is a bottle of p*** and I’m going to pour it on you.” ...

The Sun On Sunday.

Fagburn's close personal showbiz pal Murray, there.

Respec'!
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PS Here's an interview with the fash mag slag - which omits his tenure at Boyz, surely a career zenith.

PPS Mr Healy's sublime book, Gay Skins: Class, masculinity and queer appropriation, was re-printed last year.

Question Time: Yanis Varoufakis

Question Time.

Well said sexy Greek Marxist dude!

Noam Chomsky: Austerity Is Class War

Democracy Now interview.

General Election 2015: Vote For Adam Clifford!

Adam Clifford was on The Daily Politics today - you can watch it here (50 min in).

Our Adam will be outside Buckingham Palace at 12 noon tomorrow to launch the Class War manifesto.

PS 'Promoted by Murray Healy'! Who he??? etc etc.

Owen Jones: The Establishment

The Guardian today publish an exclusive extract from our Owen's latest book, The Establishment, about how the political, social and business elites have a stranglehold on the country.

Sounds good, Jonesy. 

Thankfully, it seems Penguin are not going with the original front cover quote from that ridiculous berk Russell Brand, a man with the political acumen of the Chuckle Brothers, who dubbed OJ; 'Our generation's Orwell'!

This is about 

In his weekly Guardian column, Owen writes; 'The confines of acceptable political opinion are narrow and zealously guarded, and those presented as outsiders are actually the establishment in undiluted form.'

How true, Owen, how true...

PS Did 38% of Guardian journalists go to Oxbridge? Were half of leading newspaper journalists privately educated? Press Gazette.

Some people are so childish...

PS Is Ed Miliband protecting and courting Owen Jones? Dan Hodges' Telegraph blog.

Dan - Glenda Jackson's son, incidentally - once famously called Owen 'The Justin Bieber Of The British Left'.

Update: Statistics should provoke Britain's media into prolonged period of self-reflection. They probably won't, since 54% of top 100 media professionals went to private schools, Owen writes in Thursday's Guardian.

Owen neglects to mention that the new Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission's report also says that 47% of newspaper columnists went to Oxbridge.

BBQGate: Middle Class Problems

Argus, click to enlarge or read here.

The ludicrous Sussex Plod Vs Brighton Pride Beach BBQ farce rumbles on...

Beth 'I have a professional job in digital marketing. I am not an anarchist living in a squat' Granter, pictured recently.

And that's an actual quote from the above.

SMELLY UNWASHED ANARCHISTS - BOO!
'They phoned and asked me a routine, mundane question about a beach barbecue!'

'THIS IS JUST LIKE LIVING IN NORTH KOREA!!!'

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what now passes for 'radical queer activism' in Brighton!

In no way way has our utopian movement and all our anarchist dreams been hijacked by the boring bourgeoisie and routinely pissed on.

PS Though 'the 31-year-old believes she was “singled-out”' - presumably from all the other activists and campaigners who are less keen on getting their face in the Argus - our Beth's last state-power-quaking political action was inviting people to go and say BOO! to a Coca-Cola Santa Christmas truck in Churchill Square. Cause Russia/Sochi. Yah? Good job you don't let right-wing propaganda and service to empire dictate your political agenda, Beth!

No More Austerity: Solidarity

Fagburn is in solidarity with everyone on today's People's Assembly No More Austerity demonstration.

I would be there, but as a victim of austerity can't afford to get to London.

The photo above shows some supporters of Class War carrying a banner with a photo of the star speaker, our own Owen Jones, beside the legend; 'Fuck off back to Oxford!'

Solidarity!

No illusions in the mainstream media, but not covering tens of thousands marching in London? Seriously? Were they covering Farage sneezing?
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) June 21, 2014

Owen love, you are the mainstream media. And if radical protest has been reduced to some people walking from one place to another place in the hope of getting on the telly, then it's no wonder this country's fucked.

Owen Jones: Homophobia

Our Owen in The Guardian.

There's barely a sentence here that could not be answered with; 'You really have no idea what you're talking about, do you love?'

I could go through them one-by-one, but let's pause for a moment and ponder Mr Jones' premiss that gay men have a problem with camp.

Okay.

And relax...

Or maybe it's you, dear.

He concludes...

It is much harder – but still necessary – to recognise the homophobia that dwells within the ranks of gay men themselves.

Like in this othering article about all those dreadful gays, dolly?

Maybe we're all too busy sexually assaulting each other at chemsex parties to care.

Or maybe all bisexuals are secretly homophobes 'according to recent made-up research'.

The distance between some gay commentators and ordinary gay men is a gaping chasm.

WE IZ OURS OWN WURST ENEMEEZ!!!

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PS Owen Jones once wrote a book with the title 'Chavs. The Demonisation Of The Working Class'. Can any regular viewers see any contradiction here? You know, about the demonisation of gay men and that.

Update: Our Owen's response...

It seems to be quite a big club... x

Blame: Them!

Little bit of politics there...

Equality Law: Now You're Just Being "Ridiculous"

The Tories class war continues apace.
'Fury as Theresa May scraps equality law' - The Daily Mirror.
"Home Secretary Theresa May was accused of a shocking attack on the poor yesterday after scrapping an equality law.
"Councils will no longer need to consider disadvantages and inequalities in their policy decisions."
Of course this has pleased those on the right.
'Theresa May will today scrap a ‘ridiculous’ Harriet Harman equality law dubbed ‘socialism in one clause’' - The Daily Mail
May's speech about ending "Harman's law" was "leaked" to the Mail.
Reading between the lines, more worryingly the Conservatives seem to be abandoning any commitment to equality - now they will talk of "fairness".
The Home Office press release announced;
"Controversial rules that would have forced all public bodies to focus spending and services on poorer areas at the expense of better-off communities were today scrapped."
But in a piece of spin as obvious as an iceberg it adds;
"The speech also underlined the government’s ongoing commitment to equality and fairness."
Really? Do go on...
"This included the Home Secretary announcing that a measure in the Freedom Bill will allow people who were prosecuted for having consensual gay sex at a time when this was illegal to apply to have their convictions deleted from criminal records."
May also said in her speech; "...we will give schools the power to take tough action to tackle bullying, including homophobic and transphobic bullying."
Verily, the Conservatives giveth and the Conservatives take away.
Even if they don't say how they will giveth in practical terms.
Would anyone fall for this?
"Minister for Women and Equalities Theresa May has spoken out on a new equalities strategy, announcing that those harboring convictions for consensual gay sex should soon be able to apply to have their records cleared," Jamie Tabberer writes on PinkPaper.com.
"She added: “We will give schools the power to take tough action to tackle bullying, including homophobic and transphobic bullying."
"May will however scrap an inequality measure that would have called for public bodies to address class inequalities introduced by Harriet Harman, labeling it 'ridiculous'."
Pink News' headline reads; ''May scraps ‘ridiculous’ equality duty but promises new action on anti-gay bullying'
Ridiculous innit?