Anarchist bookfair this weekend - but where are all the anarchists?
gty | 24.10.2010 20:40
Went to High street kensington this afternoon to see around 30 people having a counter demo against the edl... but...
...where was everyone from the anarchist bookfair? Alot of people were in London this weekend for the bookfair but why didn't they make the trip to west london today?
There must have been around 300 edl there and a small group of around 30 students with a couple of uaf blokes in the counter demo.
What happened?
There must have been around 300 edl there and a small group of around 30 students with a couple of uaf blokes in the counter demo.
What happened?
gty
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More to the point
24.10.2010 20:53
Long Live Palestine!
allt this hard work...
24.10.2010 21:29
man dem
It's a trust thing
25.10.2010 19:33
Plus the fact that most UAF demos consist of meeting in a pre-arranged place agreed with the police, chanting 'Nazi Nazi Nazi' for half an hour and then going home means that they end up being pretty ineffectual anyway - was this one really going to be any different?
annon
True but...
26.10.2010 11:01
Not an excuse for anarchists doing nothing at all
Definitely not an excuse for UAF not turning up to their own demo! Totally agree about the uselessness of mindlessly chanting 'Nazi' but there weren't even enough forces to do that convincingly!
Long Live Palestine!
Anarchists against anti-Semitism
26.10.2010 15:50
anon
Disinformation.
26.10.2010 19:50
As I said in the original post, the people who were there were very few but very mixed in terms of religion, politics, age etc. There simply weren't enough people there to do anything useful there.
Maybe it's cos the anarchists all had hangovers after the bookfair. Or they've bought this divide and rule stuff about not uniting with Muslims.
Or more poignantly it's maybe cos not only did UAF not really mobilise for its own demo but that in the lil bit of mobilisation it did do it was so busy contorting itself to get 'soft' Zionists to oppose the EDL on the ground they are 'nazis' and repeatedly stated that it (UAF) has 'no position' on Israel/Palestine that it ended up appealing to no-one...
Long Live Palestine!
No to divide and rule
26.10.2010 19:58
No to divide and rule
25.10.2010 11:33
@anarchist
That is shit. Of the few (30 inside the barrier, about another 20 outside) there were a few UAF, a few Palestine activists of various political/religious backgrounds, a couple of FRFI people, some, mainly Bangladeshi, school kids and some Hassidic anti-Zionist Jews. No-one was racist or provocative to anyone else. We put up as good a show as we could but there just weren't enough of us.
Stop trying to divide and rule.
Long Live Palestine!
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Long Live Palestine!
hot air to support own standpoint
27.10.2010 11:55
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