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Persecution of Black Block is typical of fake 'left'

Antid Oto | 23.06.2002 00:40

The persecution and betrayal of the Black Block by so called 'socialists', taking place at Genoa and in Seville is no freak phenomenon but exposes the allegiences of these self-declared heirs of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.

The so called 'socialist' organisations who take place in big anti-capitalist mobilisations across Europe and elsewhere are keen to discredit the Black Block and other Anarchists as a small minority who spoil demonstrations for the majority of peaceful demonstrators. This says a lot about groups such as the Cliffite SWP who are more than happy to betray the Black Block and Anarchists to the cops and open them up to state repression, whilst they side with their own bourgeoisies on all manner of issues and show as always that their self-proclaimed 'revolutionary' credentials and statements are an empty and intentionally misleading cover for their reformist and rotten labourite politics. No doubt the 'left' 'workers' press will state that the Seville demonstrations were on the whole successful except for Black Block 'intruders' who 'threatened to sabotage' otherwise peaceful and respectable pseudo-left, reformist hot air....or should I say, lukewarm, simmering at gas point capitalism air?

I'm no Anarchist, but it is Black Block Anarchists not the lackeys who persecute and attack them– who denounced them in Genoa and organised seperate marches on May the 1st, who refuse to defend them from state repression– who are fighting capitalism, however effectively. I challenge to one self-respecting and self-confident, self-proclaimed 'socialist' to tell me why they have no intention of defending the Black Block and the Wombles from state repression, and why they throw them off demonstrations as they did in Seville yesterday.

Prepare for some silence or for paragraphs of labourite, social democratic reformism.

Antid Oto

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  1. Balanced view needed — The Historian
  2. whose side are they on? — alienated
  3. Fuck Off! — jimmer
  4. My rant — George (disillusioned ex-revolutionary)
  5. Reply to the Historian — anarkissed
  6. All idealogies, to the wastebins! — Snufkin
  7. Direct Action in Sevilla — Sevilla protestor
  8. oh that Jerry rubin — cynicista
  9. All well and good, but.... — Francisco Ascaso/ historian
  10. Unite(you have nothing to lose but your merc) — Comrade Bootlicknik
  11. . — jimmer
  12. This is why it never works... — DMR, esq
  13. last poinless snipe — Francisco Ascaso
  14. Adressing a couple popular misconceptions — Snufkin
  15. Infiltrating Journos — GR