Hundreds of demonstrators brought the centre of Leamington Spa to a standstill today, their numbers swelled by a large number of schoolkids who had bravely bunked school, most of them having been told that they would be expelled or suspended for it. The main shopping area was blocked three times in different places for a number of hours - the union jack and stars & stripes were burned like the shitrags they really are (almost provoking violence from passing morons), and the day came to a fantastic end when the local Shell garage was blockaded for a good long time into the bargain! The most exiting thing about the demo was the militancy of the schoolchildren - hundreds of them bunked off school and got in shit for it (letter-writing campaigns and demos at their schools will follow) and it was them who drove the action on the demo. We at Leamington Stop the War Coalition had been planning civil disobedience, but the kids took it much further and for much longer than we were planning - for most of the demo it was us following them, rather than the other way around! They even wanted to storm mcdonalds (there were too many police). They put us to shame - the police had clearly decided to let us have our little tantrum against the war without arrests but we ended up just taking the piss and they had to get vanloads of police in from surrounding towns to eventually arrest people. I had been really depressed what with the war & that but the demo today was just so uplifting it was incredible. middle england - we have your children! If all these kids stay this hardcore this country will see a revolution in about seven years - no shit. The children of Britain can see through the lies of this genocidal government & the State is sowing the seeds of its own destruction.