1968, the view from outside London: Swansea!

Bash the Rich Film captured Ian's talk on video:

Ian Bone was an anarchist in Swansea in 1968 - a town where you still got beaten up in the street for having long hair - and that was just the women.

Nevertheless we burned a giant mushroom in the centre and got arrested for giving away free money. We occupied the university ... but no one noticed and Croydon and Hornsey got all the glory. We blocked roads and smoke bombed the police station - but do we get a mention in the histories of '68 - do we fuck.

Then news of the Paris events and factory occupations came through. We wanted to contact the workers - but we didn't know any - and they'd be sarky about our long hair - 'are you a boy or a girl'. Then things changed - Danny Cohn-Bendit was coming to Swansea.

Forty years on the truth of that secret visit can at last be told....
http://ianbone.wordpress.com/

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