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Cheers,
but I really did feel the day coming apart at the seems, with no real history-making actions and no public interest.

And the group of ten appeared to be the lucky lot since a lot of us were kettled and couldn't even take a piss without the cops stopping us.

One of our lot managed to accidentally shatter a dead carcas merchants shop window and knock a cop to the floor, but she suffered a minor concussion and had loads of black-outs and missing minutes from that day and had to drink lots of whiskey and smoke a big spliff to feel better.
 
I had a great day out. Notting Hill is well nice, lots of good bars and Portobello Rd was JUMPING with rides.

What march?
 
One of our lot managed to accidentally shatter a dead carcas merchants shop window and knock a cop to the floor.
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Hero of the revolution.

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p.s. I normally call them a butchers.
 
Ive not a clue how many there were, there were defo less than 30 people when my squad legged it, and from that point we weren't going near the Kettled protesters. Class War Fed says 300.
 
Bone again

Well, they said it couldn’t happen … and they were nearly right, but the Class War Bash the Rich march was held in Notting Hil yesterday and has been cautiously considered a success.

Around 2/250 people gathered on Portobello Road whilst confused cops bimbled around trying to spot the evil anarchists. At around 3pm the march left in the direction of Cameron’s house and the scale of the police presence became evident. Undeterred the demonstration continued, despite being flanked on all sides by hyped up, jumpy cops who were quick to resort to violence.

Reaching a stones throw from Cameron’s house, where the chinless one was reportedly hiding under his bed, the demonstration remained in good spirits with occasional chants of ‘we gotta get rid of the rich’, and a rousing ode to good old Harry Roberts.

Fitwatch made a fine job of winding up the FIT team, although there were a handful of arrests, including someone for sitting in the road after the police penned the demonstration in at Ladbroke Grove. Several folk managed to avoid the kettle, some dispersing into the streets (pubs) of Notting Hill with others tailgating the march.

Finally the demonstration arrived at Meanwhile Gardens where the old bill retreated to spend the rest of the evening driving round Notting Hill snarling at people.

One toff passed on the route was Oxbridge twat Rik Mayall, who showed his true colours by giving a nazi salute as the march passed by.

And whilst the Notting Hill bourgeois were hardly choking on their lattes it was all in all a good day out, and very much a new beginning as opposed to a stand alone event.

As one person said at the end of the march, as anarchists, if we aren’t on the street then we aren’t anywhere and was was good to see so many old faces and some new ones.

All in all we counted 5 arrests, at least two of the arrestees were released without charge on Saturday evening.
 
Attica said:
As one person said at the end of the march, as anarchists, if we aren’t on the street then we aren’t anywhere and was was good to see so many old faces and some new ones.
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that one person was Ian Bone.

So Ian Bone is quoting Ian Bone here.

:(
 
"this is fascism"

:rolleyes:

What a cock.

They should have stewards to tell dorks like that guy to shut up or fuck off out the march. Foolishness like that dogs radicalism in Britain like a bit of used toilet-paper stuck on the sole of your show.

Still, nice speach from Paul at the end. Think Bone's being a bit optimistic if he thinks we'll see a return to the housing occupations of 1947 tho.

Half the folk there look like they couldn't organise the occupation of a sleeping-bag.
 
Taxamo Welf said:
Actually no one said it couldn't happen. Lots of people said it would be massively overpoliced and marched around in a cordon.
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes: That's every demo though. For historical interest, actually the first walking kettle was the 5 or 6 deep police cordon that escorted the Class War contingent into Hyde park during the large Miners march into Hyde Park in 1992.

Also, if you took time to see, you would have noticed that I quoted Ian Bone. Those were Ians words...

Finally, aimed at all, according to Autonomous Class War;

The Philosophy of Praxis

If you think you are beaten you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win but think you can't, it's almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost. For out in the world we find, success begins with a fellow's and collective will - it's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are. You've got to think high to rise. You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a struggle.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster, but sooner or later the people who win are the people who think they can.
 
Mate, i know - you were quoting ian, and ian says 'someon on the march said that...'

That someone, was ian himself. So your quote, shows ian quoting ian.

Its a bit confusing. For some reason i can't edit my post to clear it up.
 
invisibleplanet said:
Praxis schmaxis. I just call it action. Why complicate matters?
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I have already said it means MORE than action. I appreciate the desire for simplicity, but the world is not simple. If it was we would have had change by now... I do appreciate the benefits of great easy to understand propaganda, and I always will. However, I also appreciate that this has be hand in hand with the historical generations (this does not mean pensioners, though it does include them), the keepers of the working class memory, who learned their class struggle in practice.

It is the 'organic intellectuals' who I have interest in these days, the potential backbone of a revived working class movement, who have knowledge, passion and commitment, but who use their efforts sparingly. Who are unlikely to be impressed with simplistic and well meaning propaganda, no matter how good it is. And I know we (collective 'we') have produced great propaganda over the years, the Moon Against the Monarchy poster was the best of the last 15 years, or at least amongst the best... The key could be in the connections between the 2 separate groups I have tried to identify...
 
Attica said:
The Philosophy of Praxis

If you think you are beaten you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win but think you can't, it's almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost. For out in the world we find, success begins with a fellow's and collective will - it's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are. You've got to think high to rise. You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a struggle.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster, but sooner or later the people who win are the people who think they can.
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alternatively;

Anyone can fall in love

Anyone can fall in love
That's the easy part you must keep it going
Anyone can fall in love
Over the years it has to keep growing
Sun and rain
Joy and pain
There's highs - there's lows
We've no way of knowing.

Anyone can fall in love
That's not hard to do it isn't so clever
Anyone can fall in love
But you must make the love last forever...
Who can say
Love will stay?
It's up to you
Don't hide what needs showing.


Anyone can fall in love
That's the easy part you must keep it going
Everyone can fall in love
But you must make the love last forever more


How do you keep the music from dying?
Love falls asleep unless you keep trying


Anyone can fall in love
Life's more than that, it's pulling together
Everyone can share the love
Where we come from friends never say never
side by side
satisfied
To stay right here in one square forever.


Anyone can fall in love
That's not hard to do it isn't so clever
Anyone can fall in love
But you must make the love last forever more.


(Lyrics by Don Black. Sung by Anita Dobson)
 
Attica said:
I have already said it means MORE than action. I appreciate the desire for simplicity, but the world is not simple. If it was we would have had change by now... I do appreciate the benefits of great easy to understand propaganda, and I always will. However, I also appreciate that this has be hand in hand with the historical generations (this does not mean pensioners, though it does include them), the keepers of the working class memory, who learned their class struggle in practice.

It is the 'organic intellectuals' who I have interest in these days, the potential backbone of a revived working class movement, who have knowledge, passion and commitment, but who use their efforts sparingly. Who are unlikely to be impressed with simplistic and well meaning propaganda, no matter how good it is. And I know we (collective 'we') have produced great propaganda over the years, the Moon Against the Monarchy poster was the best of the last 15 years, or at least amongst the best... The key could be in the connections between the 2 separate groups I have tried to identify...
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but attica you seem only ever invloved in alienated activist 'praxis' .. do you really think you can subsitute that for the real w/c world?? :confused:
 
durruti02 said:
but attica you seem only ever invloved in alienated activist 'praxis' .. do you really think you can subsitute that for the real w/c world?? :confused:
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I think you are mistaken. I was very involved with the labour movement circa 1992-93 and I also am today. I also have deep problems with the fetishising of a so called/romanticised 'real working class world'... The working class cannot be forced into 'realistic' categories simply because it is way too big and too varied. An homogonised working class consciousness is simply not possible today in the age of the technological revolution and diversity.

I live in a 'traditional' working class community and the working class is not creating any political forms here. I think this is a problem with your almost hierarchical pov - 'localism' is the way forward, when clearly in the vast majority of cases it is just not happening.

I think you have apriori written off other political forms which are still valid - campaign groups, trades councils, unions etc. UCATT is growing nationally and with large building projects on the horizen this will only improve its' situation, around my way too UCATT is useful.
 
Attica said:
I think you are mistaken. I was very involved with the labour movement circa 1992-93 and I also am today. I also have deep problems with the fetishising of a so called/romanticised 'real working class world'... The working class cannot be forced into 'realistic' categories simply because it is way too big and too varied. An homogonised working class consciousness is simply not possible today in the age of the technological revolution and diversity.

I live in a 'traditional' working class community and the working class is not creating any political forms here. I think this is a problem with your almost hierarchical pov - 'localism' is the way forward, when clearly in the vast majority of cases it is just not happening.

I think you have apriori written off other political forms which are still valid - campaign groups, trades councils, unions etc. UCATT is growing nationally and with large building projects on the horizen this will only improve its' situation, around my way too UCATT is useful.
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whoever said i was against unions? or trades councils? or campaigns? i just said that to do this praxis you talk of hs to be based in these .. not on an intelectual level .. just does not work ..
 
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