A New Era . . .

. . . was the name of a Maoist bookshop on Seven Sisters Road in North London that I visited a few times in the late 80s/early 90s. Not that great a left-wing bookshop, tbh, but I do remember picking up a copy of Harry McShane's 'No Mean Fighter' for a couple of kid.

This post is a 'New Era' 'cos I've now hit more 180s in 2020 than I did in the whole of 2019.

18/50

'Is St Marks Bookshop that way?'

Where?: The East Village

When?: Now

Why?: The July Socialist Standard is now available at St Marks Bookshop.

"Make haste boys, I think St Marks Bookshop is that way."

My sitemeter tells me that I have one reader in New York City, so this post is especially for the Anglophile looking in.

If you so desire, you can now get the whole tactile experience of handling - nah, buying - the Socialist Standard at St Marks Bookshop in the East Village. The May and June issues are currently available for the jacked up price of three dollars.

Yep, more expensive than a slice but, on the other hand, cheaper than a small jar of marmite from that wee deli on Second Avenue.

With a copy of the Standard under your arm, and a Marie Lloyd retro T shirt wrapped around your torso, you could be the ultimate Lower East Side hipster . . . 1904 vintage.

Actually, now that I think about it, my sitemeter may be trying to deceive me. My solitary NYC reader was probably me wandering into a Internet Cafe one time to check out my blog when I was half-drunk. What else would I look at under the influence?