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Bashing the Rich!

riotact | 04.11.2007 17:21 | London

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.

pics at  http://johnnyvoid.blogspot.com

riotact

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"Wat we are trying to achieve is a one party..." etc

04.11.2007 18:22

Thats not anarchy, thats disorder and violence. As I kinda said at the anarchist convention last weekend, if you really wanna see what anarchy is about, go and live with some old school peace convoy for a while...Ireland is cool. The key to it all is basically changing consciousness - this can be done on a community wide level, with the 'group' acting as foculising agent. Its tricky to do this sort of thing as an individual in the west, although much more usual in the east. So you must have a group because the western type states with not only have no respect for you trying to do this sort of thing, but will do anything to prevent auspicious consciosunness from happening in the people. (as will assorted wankers in the alternative etc scene). What you want is the (genuine, no blagging it please) free sharing free type free festival thing of 'bring what you expect to find'.(food music etc), be it at a demo of 70 or 70,000, be you a bunch of anarchos' or Stop the War coalition. This mass change of conscious that could happen this way is the ultimate terror for the blagging war criminal perverts in charge of blighty. Anyone who is a real punk will know the vibe I'm on about. Basically you just need to stop egoising!


King Amdo


check before posting + numbers game

04.11.2007 19:45

there is already a story with photo's on this event:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/385002.html

By the by, you say 200 - 250, the other report says 80 and a few other people say 70 - 80 and Class War say 300.

huh?

Bill Posters


?

04.11.2007 20:01

What where the objectives of this march?

Me


numbers

05.11.2007 08:13

I just read the accounts of this action on Bones blog, some interesting accounts from commentators I thought.
One stated that there were around 100 people attending, another states 200 or 250 people but could not remember if there were 8 or 16 police vans around.

fhlacey
mail e-mail: fhlacey@gmail.com


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