Remembering J18 street protests: a few short vids

[TopCat]

Hey aurora green. This bumped thread needs an update. It's now known RTS was infiltrated by at least one full time copper from the SDS. The impact of this is clearer to see now and lessons should be learnt.
TopCat aka Dougal x

 

[stethoscope]

I missed this thread from 2014 about being infiltrated...
Did an undercover cop help organise the J18 riot?

 

[chilango]

I binned all my crap years ago. And have never missed it.

I did however find a J18 poster & flyer whilst sorting a box the other day. (I also have a Movimento das Forças Armadas flyposter from the revolution in '74 and a few bits of EZLN tat).

 

[Pickman's model]

Hey aurora green. This bumped thread needs an update. It's now known RTS was infiltrated by at least one full time copper from the SDS. The impact of this is clearer to see now and lessons should be learnt.
TopCat aka Dougal x

topcat and friends recently

 

[LDC]

Hey aurora green. This bumped thread needs an update. It's now known RTS was infiltrated by at least one full time copper from the SDS. The impact of this is clearer to see now and lessons should be learnt.
TopCat aka Dougal x

What impact, and what lessons?

Jim Sutton/Boyling was involved for sure, but not in a significant direction/decision making role. He couldn't talk politics beyond tactics and a spot of veganism (his background story was involvement via hunt sabs). To suggest he was in any way responsible for the way J18 turned out is bollocks (if that's what you're suggesting).

 

[chilango]

Aye. What impact we talking about?

 

[Ming]

Can do proper high res scans at some point if anybody was interested.

I had that 'Squaring Up to the Square Mile' booklet! Got it from Corporate Watch in Oxford. I seem to remember it had a list of the pubs different law/finance firms executives generally drank in.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Happy Anniversary all! x

 

[editor]

Twenty years ago!

Twenty Years Ago: J18 anti-capitalism protests in central London, June 1999

 

[Pickman's model]

Twenty years ago!

Twenty Years Ago: J18 anti-capitalism protests in central London, June 1999

surprised you're putting it out two weeks early rather than keeping your powder dry for the day, so to speak

 

[vanya]

Happy 20th anniversary J18!

I remember I was working in a bank back then and a flyer came round warning us all that there was going to be a Carnival against Capitalism the following day. I was thrilled that such things were happening. The Nineties had always seemed politically dead before that.

At the turn of the century there seemed to be a serious movement rising. What happened to it? I suppose 9/11 didn't help.

 

[chilango]

Happy 20th anniversary J18!

I remember I was working in a bank back then and a flyer came round warning us all that there was going to be a Carnival against Capitalism the following day. I was thrilled that such things were happening. The Nineties had always seemed politically dead before that.

At the turn of the century there seemed to be a serious movement rising. What happened to it? I suppose 9/11 didn't help.

I often argue that J18 was more of the end of a phase of struggle than the beginning of one. It was the culmination of stuff that had been building most of the 90s. It couldn't really be pushed much further.

 

[vanya]

Just discovered this fascinating thread about Reclaim the Streets Reclaim the Streets - what happened??