Calling All Rebels

Got my sneak-preview copy today – and it looks superb.

Rupert Dreyfus

Hello everyone,

Some of you may know that very soon I’m going to be releasing a collection of 13 short stories called The Rebel’s Sketchbook. I’m set to send it to a number of people as a paperback and a number of people in digital format. However, I want to get this to even more people.

Here is the blurb:

“Maniac world leaders; talentless boybands; Westminster politicians; social media idiots; zero-hour contracts. Rupert’s first collection of short stories uses transgressive fiction, black comedy and satire as a weapon for shooting down all of these and more. Keeping the spirit of rebellion alive, The Rebel’s Sketchbook is set to become one of the most controversial and challenging releases in a generation.”

You’re probably wondering why it’s going to be the most challenging and controversial releases in a generation. I can’t honestly say it will be as it’s all just marketing nonsense. However, I’d be surprised if someone can point me in the…

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Can you really call yourself an activist ?

This is absolutely superb, and sums up my own furious support for DPAC.

TheAccidentalAnarchist

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We all have our pet hates, things that for some reason have struck a chord, a company, a government policy, fracking, housing, cuts, NHS….etc. What ever we have chosen to support it is one of a hundred and one things we could have chosen to take to task. But they are all symptoms of the same capitalist system. We can pick and choose who and what we want to protest against when the fancy takes us. My mates are protesting against fracking, and others about the housing crisis and the gentrification of our neighbourhoods. The range of injustices is so vast you could go protest hopping everyday and some of us do. So we are all activists…….

Day after day I see members of DPAC (Disabled People Against the Cuts) out there blocking the roads, storming Parliament and Locking on. Day after day I hear of how many disabled people are…

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