" Police have warned known activists are planning in an "unprecedented" way and that groups active in the late 1990s are re-emerging and forming new alliances. "

To be fair, it does sound like a threat. I know and you know he's talking about the danger to the movement itself of losing its self-restraint and its constructiveness, but to a naive ear it sounds like he's making a calculated threat of executions. Of course, the bosses almost certainly understand what he means and are just exploiting the rust on his silver tongue to get rid of him...

I'm sorry but I'm not comfortable with the whole Chris Knight thing. I respect what G20 Meltdown are doing and intend on participating in the fun on the 1st and 2nd but I have 2 major problems with this Chris Knight phenomenon:

1. He has become some sort of figurehead. Maybe it's the media that made this happen (latching on to a strong personality to form a narrative) but I'm uncomfortable about the notion of having some sort of 'leader' as well as the cult of personality that has developed.

2. The focus on bankers is a distraction. The problem is not the bankers, it's the system. Lynching Fred the Shred isn't going to change anything. Gordon Brown used derivatives to fund public spending and cover up borrowing, as did many of the Eurozone governments. It is capitalism and the notion of unlimited growth that have gotten us here and an obsession with bankers is not going to help.

I've never heard of this guy before, but thank god someone has the balls to stand up and openly say these kind of things that a lot of people are privately thinking.

On the other hand, it doesn't surprise me that he got the boot from his job - people who stick their necks over the parapet usually do.

Smash the banks! Hell, smash the whole financial system!

yeah, I heard this radio interview and they were still banging on about it today, followed, predictably enough by assurances that the Police would be dealing with it. Ken Livingstone said that where people might be hurt (surely that's any and every circumstance) civil liberties would just have to take a back stand.
This Chris bloke got carried away and forgot he wasn't down the pub and his 'having the balls to talk like this' just gives public support to the filth when they come down really hard. Not that they need the excuse, but you know what I mean. I've got no problems with his politics, but this isn't just about Chris and he should have saved the Big Bloke talk for after the event.

the guy's a fucking dick. He's speaking on behalf of no-one but himself (and his sordid little ego). The guy's a aging academic, and fossiled intellectual, an upbeat middle class lecturer.

He is not an anrchist and london anarchists are more than willing to distance themselves from him. If he is speaking for his class it's the very class we are fighting to eliminate.

If we are being kind it was a kind of johnny rotten moment grasping at the last final moment he will have in the limelight.

As a middle class tosser he makes makes me fucking lucky to be working class.

whilst the working class fight the middle class the ruling class sit back and laugh- very good

I totally agree the system is CORRUPT. The stock market is nothing but another gambling arena. The men and women in smart suits and degrees want to tell the rest of us that the market is complex with complex products that only they understand but we all know that are trying to create something out of nothing and speculation is another word for gambling.

Look at those that have been and are behind the banking system and you will discover why such things were allowed to happen. Look the people behind this and how much influence they have over the governments.

Countries should hold gold, silver and other commodities with an intrinsic value rather than the toilet paper that is the paper currencies.

There is nothing complex about any of this. A gourp of very wealthy powerful people decided they would make stuff up to trade and make rules up fully knowing the flaws and potentional and evrntual collapse. But they do not care they have stashed away their millions by the time all is exposed.

Even as we discuss the situaton the government continues to prop up these banking crooks and in the process every single one of us now carrying more of their debt.

The Government should have let the banks fail. With the money that they have invested so far they could have taken over the assets and liabilities and had a fully nationalised bank. Let those bankers go down!

John Smith said: "Countries should hold gold, silver and other commodities with an intrinsic value rather than the toilet paper that is the paper currencies."

Surely gold and silver have no more intrinsic value than paper? Well, they are more useful for making some things, but not to the extent of the price difference. They only have value because our society puts an artificial desirability on them.

"Countries should hold gold, silver and other commodities with an intrinsic value rather than the toilet paper that is the paper currencies."

Gold and silver have little intrinsic value - what practical value they do have is dwarfed by the essentially arbitrary social prestige which has been assigned to them. And regardless, as capitalism backed by gold is still capitalism, I'm not really sure what difference it makes.

In another note:
- Who is Chris Knight?
- Why should I, or anyone else, care what he thinks?