This from International Times:
The attack on the Whitechapel bookshop took place
on Friday morning at 5.30am.
The downstairs section of the shop is badly
damaged. Electrics are damaged. Many books are burnt or charred.
Upstairs is untouched. No one was hurt. The
fire-bomb was projected through a
downstairs shop-window. An emergency meeting is taking place on
Friday afternoon at The White Hart pub close to Angel Alley.
No one has claimed responsibility and the
general response can be summed up in three letters: WTF? A police
forensic squad have examined the premises. It is also thought that
the perpetrator may have been caught on CCTV.
The Left has a whodunnit to solve. A book-burning
is bad enough; a bookshop-burning is a very serious crime. Also,
there is a mess to clean up and a campaign to raise funds.
Publishers, record shops, and magazines have already pledged to
donate stock and sales proceeds to help FREEDOM rebuild.
A spokeswoman for FREEDOM said: ‘Could you please help
spread the word about donating to rebuild the shop? We are setting up
a donation page. In the meanwhile, anyone who wants to donate can do
so by ordering a book/s through the www.freedompress.org.uk
website, and emailing us at shop@freedompress.org.uk to let us know
that your purchase was a donation. Thanks!’
People will gather at the shop from 1pm on
Saturday Feb 2 to start the work. All welcome.
