Storming Of The Palace - more distortion from the SWP
Potential Anarchist | 27.10.2004 15:48 | European Social Forum
Spectacularly wrong target
I ATTENDED the ESF session on racism and fascism, and was astonished to find the stage occupied by a bunch of masked people who claimed to be protesting against Ken Livingstone. I
f they had chosen the recent New Labour conference for their egotistical and elitist outburst I would not have been bothered. But to disrupt a unique opportunity for activists from across Europe to discuss and organise against fascism is unacceptable.
The pleas of black people at the meeting were ignored, and the black chair of the event was assaulted and robbed.
Luckily for the middle class anarchists involved in this stunt there were not many black people at the event. Next time there will be.
Gary McFarlane North London
My voice was silenced
I WAS absolutely horrified at what took place in the meeting on fighting fascism at the recent European Social Forum in London.
Many relatives on my mother s side experienced the Nazis at first hand during the Second World War. I now live in an area of Essex where a fascist councillor has been elected so the meeting was of significant importance to me.
Being only five feet tall, I did not havethe stature to get heard from the floor, so I made my way to the stage. Once there I tried to express why I thought that the meeting should be allowed to go ahead. I was physically pushed off the stage by two tall white males and told to "fuck off" because they "didn't care" .
My right to have a voice had been taken away. As a youth worker I brought a group of young people to the ESF who were equally horrified with the events. My union colleagues were shocked that an anti-fascist meeting had been broken up.
Beccy Palmer East London Unite against the BNP
I ATTENDED the ESF session on racism and fascism, and was astonished to find the stage occupied by a bunch of masked people who claimed to be protesting against Ken Livingstone. I
f they had chosen the recent New Labour conference for their egotistical and elitist outburst I would not have been bothered. But to disrupt a unique opportunity for activists from across Europe to discuss and organise against fascism is unacceptable.
The pleas of black people at the meeting were ignored, and the black chair of the event was assaulted and robbed.
Luckily for the middle class anarchists involved in this stunt there were not many black people at the event. Next time there will be.
Gary McFarlane North London
My voice was silenced
I WAS absolutely horrified at what took place in the meeting on fighting fascism at the recent European Social Forum in London.
Many relatives on my mother s side experienced the Nazis at first hand during the Second World War. I now live in an area of Essex where a fascist councillor has been elected so the meeting was of significant importance to me.
Being only five feet tall, I did not havethe stature to get heard from the floor, so I made my way to the stage. Once there I tried to express why I thought that the meeting should be allowed to go ahead. I was physically pushed off the stage by two tall white males and told to "fuck off" because they "didn't care" .
My right to have a voice had been taken away. As a youth worker I brought a group of young people to the ESF who were equally horrified with the events. My union colleagues were shocked that an anti-fascist meeting had been broken up.
Beccy Palmer East London Unite against the BNP
Potential Anarchist
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Surely not ........
27.10.2004 18:22
and Gary MacFarlane the SWaPpie:
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So what..?
27.10.2004 21:00
What difference will it make? Why are you still using the race card?
You dont mean!!!
27.10.2004 22:39
Imagine them thinking that they have a right to a point of view, dont they realise that only anarchists are allowed to have opinions?
sonic
Gosh!!
28.10.2004 08:24
Mr Potential Anarchist we need to discuss our differences in the movement in a comradely way but we also have to unite to take on the far right and the violent assault and robbery of a leading anti fascist at a mass gathering of the ESF is unacceptable and plain boneheaded.
huw
huw
Sonic ......
28.10.2004 10:25
And they're not expressing a "point of view" they're telling hysterical lies.
Its called disinformation.
And no, I don't want a paper thank you very much
ftp
Huw?
28.10.2004 10:32
imc'ista
Yawn
28.10.2004 10:57
Still, if people want to spend their time posting rubbish on Indymedia then why shouldn't we?
I mean if people want real news like what is on BBC and Newsnight with them experts discovering Hobbits and saving the planet with trade and Trevor McDonalds exposures of bad travel experiences perhaps they should get a telly or summat or perhaps a job with the BBC or Jon Snow - I mean lovely fella, nearly killed Idi Amin, apaprently, or summat, he'd probably give us a job as a journalist comrade or something.
Sonic
SWP fudge!
28.10.2004 20:08
So, SWappies, why was there no speaker from the ant-fascist movement in Germany invited to speak? Why was there no connection drawn between the rise of nazis and employers´ attacks? The later would have surely embarrassed "Red" Ken. So, stop shedding those crock tears, SWP! The trots always argued, since Trotzky analized German fascism, that if you want to stop the nazis you need to stop the capitalists as well. But then, the SWP is no longer a trot party!
xe3
where's the unity?
23.11.2006 17:31
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