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Sir Paul Stephenson is right – the game has changed. Here’s some coments the DailMail has been eavesdropping on on Facebook from kids………..
‘My mum said I can’t rebel but i don’t care. I’m an anarchist, down with Thatcher’ ‘I feel another rush of Milbank Tower coming on’
On the train home last night there were some very pissed young black girls out celebrating a birthday. They had glasses and wine bottles which they handed out to allcomers for a toast. I expected a birthday toast but instead we got ‘WE HATEDAVID CAMERON – HE’S A WANKER’ and further cries amidst laughter of ‘Storm parliament’. Yes Sir Paul – the game has changed. Quite where this visceral hatred by 15 year olds of the Tories has come from I can’t quite fathom but it’s real enough. The key is still MOMENTUM MOMENTUM MOMENTUM and the calling of another walk-out day next Tuesday will keep this momentum going. Many on the Left are predicting not such a big turn out acoss the country on Tuesday. They are wrong – I think it will be bigger. Past rules have been torn up – condemnation of smashed windows no longer has the expected deterrent effect – INSTEAD IT EXCITES AND ENERGISES. I have to say the www.anticuts.org.uk website is doing sterling work in prmoting what’s going on and the social networking sites are proving their place in our armoury. It’s all to play for.The time is now. It’s no good contemplating the book you are going to write in the Spring ‘Ten Days in November that shook Britain’………fuck that for a lark……get of yer arse and onto the streets Tuesday or shut the fuck up forever.November 30th – the third wave.
Ian Bone 
In case you haven’t seen it.
Glasgow girl with Class War poster:
http://cryptome.org/info/students-fight/students-fight.htm
(top right picture)
Love, solidarity and rage from Ireland.
Why do the BBC keep saying that these protests are being organised by the NUS and trotting out that turncoat MI5 put-in-his-place-for-a-purpose cunt Aaron Porter; the NUS do not represent students. period.
November 30th? Hmm! N30, eleven years to the day since the introduction of the current police tactic of kettling.
Very appropriate.
and also the current police tactic of leaving unattended police vans to be smashed up as an excuse for kettling
You have to admit though that the area around central London looks almost purpose-built for kettling.
To a great extent, yes. But if people were more dispersed, like at J18, then the police would have a much harder time of controlling the situation. It’s when people stop and dither, like at Bank at the G20 or Oxford Circus in 2001, that the police find it easy to kettle people. If on the 24th people had gone down the Embankment, down Whitehall and round through St James Park, the police would have had a much harder time of it.
The only real way to get out of a kettle is for the protesters to join together in a coordinated action and charge through the kettle; but they never seem to do that; they just wait around like bookends until the police get round to taking their details, photographing them, bagging and tagging them.
Via le Revolution
As in medicine, so in public order situations – the best cure is prevention. And the only way you prevent the cops forming a cordon is moving about and keeping the initiative. If people stand still and all the police to gain the advantage of surprise, then it becomes all but impossible to successfully extricate more than a minority of the crowd. People outside a kettle can play their part, massing outside it and putting the cops in a potential ‘Blakelock sandwich’: but I’ve seen even large numbers of people congregating outside a cordon failing to achieve their aim.
Instead of fetishising one objective and moving towards it in one block, doing the unexpected really changes the rules of the game. Don’t mill about aimlessly by a cop line in Whitehall, do head back up towards Trafalgar Square, using all available side streets so there’s no longer one mass of people. In fact, don’t bother with Whitehall, go round down Pall Mall from Trafalgar Square and down into St James Park, or down the Embankment or even up into the West End.
Is the point of the protest to impress people who aren’t listening (politicians) or to get through to people who are more amenable to reason, the general public? If it’s the latter, then up through Charing Cross Road or down the Strand and into Covent Garden or through Leicester Square and into Soho…
Doing the same thing time and again is bloody stupid. Let’s try something different next time and see what happens.
We all need to learn something about tactics from the police.
The very effective use of arbitrary detention to contain protesters and keep them separate from the press (just in case live media feeds portray the police in a bad light before they’re edited to show the usual ‘violent protesters/good cops’ bollocks 😉 ), combined with the tactical creation of hot spots (an unguarded empty bank, a riot stationary abandoned van, etc.) has allowed them to control and diffuse a lot of righteous anger.
AFA had some of the best and most frequently tested tactical skills. Which makes ‘Beating the Fascists’ a very educational read*…
http://beatingthefascists.org/
*For entertainment purposes only of course 😉
Yes, key is MOMENTUM, MOMENTUM, MOMENTUM. But it must also be SPREAD, SPREAD, SPREAD…. and EXPAND, EXPAND, EXPAND. What is being done to realise this? I think anarchists can play a positive role in this.
I walk into my local it was only one pint, turned into 5 and not one bought, come the revolution here will be run by a workers coop.. This is the mood people those f-ing students are sparking..
I posted a link to this
Get The Lap Top out for other reasons, and i find this has become front page news power of social networks my friends, we have a lot to gain and the left know it is us anarchist that are playing a part they said as much in Sheffield on Wed..
We take now or stay the same..
“get of yer arse and onto the streets Tuesday or shut the fuck up forever”
yup.
This is a great photo taken in Nottingham (school students):
It’s happening all over.
Source:
http://nottingham.indymedia.org.uk/articles/711
More goings on in Nottingham:
http://nottssos.org.uk
I think tuesday will be bigger. Theres even protests where iam and its a pretty small place.
This an excellent point, albeit from the BBC:
If protest marching is ever going to be a useful political tactic again, those who put one foot in front of another are going to have be willing to take a bit more risk.
Civil disobedience would be the next step, with jail time a possible consequence of one’s actions. How many students protesting tuition rises would risk that?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11849259