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'''Ian David Bone'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199900/cmstand/g/st000120/am/00120s02.htm|title=Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill|publisher=Parliament UK|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=12 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112045816/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199900/cmstand/g/st000120/am/00120s02.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> (born 28 August 1947<ref>{{cite book | last = Bone | first = Ian | title = Bash The Rich | publisher = ] | year = 2006 | pages = | isbn = 0-9544177-7-1 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/bashrich00ianb/page/10 }}</ref> in ]) is an English ] and publisher of anarchist newspapers and tabloids, such as '']'' and ''The Bristolian''.<ref name="guardian"/>
'''Ian Bone''' (born August 28, 1947), is a prominent British ] and an active publisher of anarchist newspapers and tabloids, such as '']'' and '']''. He has been regularly involved in social campaigns since the 1960s, including the 2001 "]" election campaign.


In 1984, British tabloid newspaper '']'' described Bone as "The Most Dangerous Man in Britain".<ref name="guardian">{{cite news |date=20 October 2006 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2006/oct/20/features11.g2 |title=We need to push and shove and throw things |work=The Guardian |access-date=18 December 2006 |location=London |first=Emine |last=Saner |archive-date=24 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724235228/http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2006/oct/20/features11.g2 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title="Most dangerous man in Britain" calls for attack on Boat Race |url=https://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/news/0012335-most-dangerous-man-in-britain-calls-for-attack-on-boat-race.html |access-date=13 September 2018 |work=The Cambridge Student |date=24 November 2011|archive-date=13 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913114123/https://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/news/0012335-most-dangerous-man-in-britain-calls-for-attack-on-boat-race.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 2006 he published his autobiography, ''Bash the Rich'', of which a film version is currently in production.<ref name=BTRfilm>{{cite web |url=http://bashtherichfilm.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/brief-introductions/ |title=Brief Introductions |accessdate=2008-07-03 |author=Hall, Greg |authorlink=Greg Hall (film-maker) |date=2008-03-09 |work=Bash The Rich Film |publisher=WordPress.com |quote=This Blog was set up to keep people informed on the developments of Bash The Rich, Ian Bone's autobiography being adapted into a film by Writer/ Director Greg Hall. }}</ref> He presents a radio show, Anarchy in the UK, on London's ] in which he interviews anarchist activists.

Bone was famously dubbed 'The Most Dangerous Man in Britain' by British tabloid newspaper '']''.<ref>{{cite news |date=2006-10-20 |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1926760,00.html |title= We need to push and shove and throw things |publisher=] |accessdate=2006-12-18 | location=London | first=Emine | last=Saner}}</ref>


==Activities== ==Activities==
Ian Bone came from a ] background with his father working as a ]. He studied politics at ], becoming an active (and self-declared) anarchist throughout the 1960s to early 1990s. Initially he set up the anarchist agit-mag ''Alarm'' in ]. In the 1980s, with others, he set up the anarchist paper '']''. The confrontational style of the paper led to Bone becoming an infamous figure in the politics of the 1980s. His personal stock was at its highest when he appeared on the ] show. following the publication of 'Bash The Rich', Bone rejoined Class War after a long period of distance from the group{{Citation needed|date=February 2009}} Ian Bone is the son of a ], and has said that this background greatly contributed to his later political outlook.<ref>''Bash The Rich'', pp. 2–3</ref> He studied politics at ], becoming an active anarchist throughout the 1960s to early 1990s.<ref name="guardian"/> He set up the anarchist agit-mag ''Alarm'' in ].<ref name="guardian"/> In 1983, with others, he established the anarchist paper '']''. The confrontational style of the paper led to Bone becoming an infamous figure in the politics of the 1980s.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Rich|year=2014|chapter=British anarchism in the era of Thatcherism|editor-first1=Evan|editor-last1=Smith|editor-first2=Matthew|editor-last2=Worley|title=Against the grain: The British far left from 1956|publisher=]|isbn=978-07190-9590-0|pages=141–142}}</ref>


In October 1994, Bone organised the Anarchy in the UK festival.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Home |first1=Stewart |title=Organised chaos |work=The Independent |date=1994-10-25|issn=0951-9467 |id={{ProQuest|313228092}} |quote=The event is the brainchild of Ian Bone ... Among revolutionary anarchists, Anarchy in the UK is derisively referred to as the Bone Show. }}</ref>
Based in ] for most of the 1980s, he moved to ] in the early 1990s, where he became involved in various campaigns, but often keeping a low profile. Ian Bone left the ] federation in 1992, citing "too much dead wood" as the reason for his departure. Along with other members who left with him, including ], Bone tried to set up the rival ]. However this venture did not last more than six months.


In 2001 he revived ''The Bristolian'', which fielded candidates in the 2003 Bristol city council elections and was runner-up for the ] for investigative journalism in 2005.<ref name="bbcbristolian">{{cite news |date=14 October 2005 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/4341090.stm |title=Scurrilious magazine scoops top award |publisher=BBC News |access-date=18 December 2006 |archive-date=30 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030225954/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/4341090.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
In October 1994, Ian Bone organised the ]. Billed as 10 days that shook the world and described in the festival program as an attempt to have the largest gathering of international anarchists, the festival attempted to bring together different strands of anarchists. Amongst events featured were an attempt to levitate parliament, an anarchist picnic, punk gigs and meetings about various aspects of anarchism. The festival received criticism from some anarchist groups (including ]) for being to focused on lifestyle politics and only featuring a small amount of class struggle based events.


Tangent Books published Bone's autobiography, ''Bash the Rich'', in 2006.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Boncza-Tomaszewski |first1=Tom |title=Paperbacks |work=] |page=30 |date=2006-12-24 |id={{ProQuest|336971620}} }}</ref> To promote the book, Bone organised a "Bash the Rich" march through Notting Hill, claiming he would march on ]'s house.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jack |first1=Ian |title=From Henley to Notting Hill: Class War is on the move again |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/oct/06/conservatives.politics |access-date=29 October 2015 |work=The Guardian |date=6 October 2007 |archive-date=26 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926074347/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/oct/06/conservatives.politics |url-status=live}}</ref>
In 1997, Bone helped to set up the ]. With them he helped to organise the biggest Anti-Monarchist march Britain saw in the 20th. century. Around 1500 people were estimated to have attended this march. Ian Bone left the ] in October 2000. In 2001 Bone started the ] campaign which encouraged residents in ], Bristol to turn out for the local election and vote for 'Nobody'. Bone attended the founding meeting of ].{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}}


In September 2018, ] broadcast footage of Bone doorstepping Conservative MP ], shouting "Your daddy is a very horrible person" and "lots of people hate your daddy" at his young children.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=David |title=Your daddy's horrible, say Jacob Rees‑Mogg protesters |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rees-mogg-nanny-puts-flea-in-ear-of-class-warrior-ian-bone-9twd0nnfh |work=The Times |date=12 September 2018|access-date=13 September 2018 |archive-date=13 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913142348/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rees-mogg-nanny-puts-flea-in-ear-of-class-warrior-ian-bone-9twd0nnfh |url-status=live }}</ref> Bone's targeting of Rees-Mogg's children was widely condemned.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Marshall |first1=Francesca |title=Labour MPs attack left wing activists who told Jacob Rees-Mogg's children 'your daddy is a totally horrible person' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/09/12/labour-mps-attack-left-wing-activists-told-jacob-rees-moggs/ |access-date=4 November 2021 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=12 September 2018 |archive-date=4 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104161703/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/09/12/labour-mps-attack-left-wing-activists-told-jacob-rees-moggs/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Jacob Rees-Mogg brushes off protest outside home |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45501004 |access-date=4 November 2021 |publisher=BBC News |date=12 September 2018 |archive-date=4 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104161705/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45501004 |url-status=live }}</ref>
In that same year he started '']'', a ] that purported to give "independent news from Bristol that the other papers won't touch". Freely distributed throughout the bars and pubs of Bristol—and by Bone himself in Bristol's Corn Street—the news-sheet gained a weekly circulation of over 15,000. He wrote much of the paper himself, but was assisted by local journalist ], and by his long-term partner ]. In 2003, the success of ''The Bristolian'' led to the ], which stood in the local elections in an attempt to mobilize widespread discontent with ]'s policies. Bone was criticised by some in the anarchist community for his involvement with this campaign.{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}} On May 1, 2003 a total of 2,560 people voted for the Bristolian Party, which gained an 8% share of the vote within the 12 wards they contested. ''The Bristolian'' was runner-up for the ] for investigative journalism in 2005.<ref>{{cite news|date=2005-10-14 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4341090.stm |title= Scurrilious magazine scoops top award |publisher=] |accessdate=2006-12-18}}</ref> It ceased publication shortly afterwards but has since returned in the same format with occasional double-page issues.


In May 2021, Bone unsuccessfully stood for election in a ].<ref>{{cite news |last1=O'Connor |first1=Tara |title=The 7 candidates standing in Croydon Council's Woodside by-election |url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/7-candidates-standing-croydon-councils-20529308 |access-date=5 November 2021 |work=My London |date=5 May 2021 |archive-date=5 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105135952/https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/7-candidates-standing-croydon-councils-20529308 |url-status=live }}</ref>
On December 6, 2006, Bone appeared on ]'s current affairs discussion show '']'', alongside ] and ], discussing the ]. In it, Bone contended that the solution to the failing war was that British soldiers serving in Iraq should take part in mass ], that ] should be blockaded on ] (]), and that the two speakers beside him, both of whom were pre-war advocates of the Iraq invasion, should be put on trial for ]s.<ref>{{cite news | last =Starkey's Last Word staff | title =Starkey's Last Word, Video: The Iraq Study Group reports | work =] | publisher =] | date =December 6, 2006 | url =http://www.channel4.com/more4/microsites/L/lastword/top-stories/topstories-feature.jsp?id=139 }} (Video broadcast.)</ref>


==Works==
In December 2007, Bone sold the ] to his bestselling book '']'' to ] British film maker ] for £10.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://brokebutmakingfilms.wordpress.com/bash-the-rich/ |title=Broke but making films |accessdate=2012-03-03 |author=Hall, Greg |authorlink=Greg Hall (film-maker) |date=2012-03-03 |work=Bash The Rich Film |publisher=WordPress.com}}</ref> A ] has since been created to follow the film from its conception to release.<ref name=BTRfilm/> To promote the book, Bone organised a "Bash the Rich" march through Notting Hill, claiming he would march on ] house. Ian Bone rejoined ] in order to build support for the march. The "Bash the Rich" March, in November 2007, had about 80 people in it. A further 220 people had turned up with the intention of attending but did not join the march after seeing the event was simply farcical street theatre. The event was heavily policed, with the marchers repeatedly being stopped and forced into a tight group by the police escort. Ten people were arrested. At the end of the march, Ian Bone promised more events in the near future. None were organised and Ian Bone soon left the ] federation again.
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In September 2011, Ian Bone announced he was organising a "March on Eton". With seven other people, Bone walked through the grounds of Eton. On his blog, he claimed this as a victory for ].
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English anarchist and publisher For the Australian author, see Ian Bone (author).

Ian Bone
Ian Bone extolling the virtues of the Fifth Monarchy Men in Wapping, May 2013
BornIan David Bone
(1947-08-28) 28 August 1947 (age 77)
Mere, Wiltshire, England
Known forSocial and political activism

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

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

Activities

Ian Bone is the son of a butler, and has said that this background greatly contributed to his later political outlook. He studied politics at Swansea University, becoming an active anarchist throughout the 1960s to early 1990s. He set up the anarchist agit-mag Alarm in Swansea. 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.

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

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.

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

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. Bone's targeting of Rees-Mogg's children was widely condemned.

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

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. ^ 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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