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Saturday May 1st Parliament Square - Mayday festival

London Mayday 2010 | 09.03.2010 13:23 | Workers' Movements

On Saturday the first of May 2010 there will be a massive Mayday festival right in the middle of Parliament Square. This is to mark ten years since the first Mayday anti-capitalist day of action which also took place in Parliament Square. Only this time we will be there in even greater numbers!
This years Mayday event also coincides with the forthcoming general election which takes place just a few days later.

Our plan is to hold the square until the day of the election. We will be there to tell the politicians that they have betrayed us - all parties time and time again. Mayday is also international workers day, but instead of joining the left in their traditional annual Mayday march which achieves nothing we will be taking real action!
See the link below for full details and to get involved:
 http://meltdown.uk.net/election/The_Plan_Mayday.html

London Mayday 2010

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Not Mayday but Beltaine

09.03.2010 13:59

...yet more plastic shammanic theft and perversion of Mother Earth grounded pagan ritual by the modern western ritual abuse paradigm...in its various guises.

The Corn King

memories

09.03.2010 15:44

you seriously want to remind everyone of the disaster that was mayday in parliament square last time? seriously? wow. people really are strange. every activist i know that was involved in that debacle would really rather forget it or at least only look at it to learn from it, certainly not commemorate or celebrate it in any way. i thought i knew most of the people involved, maybe not maybe you've been hiding out in the maudsley sharing your version of what happened wth your fellow nut nuts. have fun.

elepant

really?

09.03.2010 16:04

"real action! " Oh yeah, what real action? Real actions is getting involved in your community and workplace, and escalating the class struggle there. Real action is not one off stunts.

Please don't do this - it's embarassing for many anarchists to be frank.

(A)

Diversity of tactics

09.03.2010 16:18

The last Mayday in Parliment square was nearly a decade ago, this isn't a repeat just happens to be on the same date and at the same place. But parliment and Mayday and pretty obvious choices. Hopefully lessons have been learnt from the past and the logistics and tactics on the day will reflect this.

Community and workplace organising is highly important and constitutes real action for sure but it is also important to gather toghther and show our stregnth, when we are so often few and far between in our communities. Getting together in large(er) numbers can give us all a moral boost to go back to our community for the rest of the year.

Whats embarassing is us always taking shots at each other. If you don't agree with this action don't go. Or try and make suggestions and encourgae people to come so it can be an impressive display.

Mayday is 1 day a year (Or 6 if this comes off) when we can gather together and show our collective power, the rest of the year can be used to build strong and vibrant communities in resistance.

another (A)

memories

09.03.2010 16:18

Well, maybe it wasn't a very successful action, but it was certainly symbolic. And kicked up a right old fuss. The mohecan on Churchill was almost worth it in itself. Can't go this time, but good luck to those who try.

10 years ago?

from the makers of G20 meltdown

09.03.2010 20:59

comes yet another strange event. Follow four horsemen into parliament square and spend the day in a police kettle getting bored and frustrated. Maybe their will be the same level of preparation as last year with the (now tried and tested) way of breaking kettles, tea.

I wont be there and I doubt many others will. If this is the same group I.E. all two of them that organised the G20 meltdown, I wont be going anywhere near it. Hopefully we will have learnt from the G20 and not be letting publicity mad, pseudo-radical jokers anywhere near a position to represent the anti-capitalist movement here in the UK.

sigh....

Thomas of Munster

like it or not

10.03.2010 00:10

Anarchism is both a theory and a means of conducting oneself ethnically and practically - and organising and carrying out actions is a great way for people to put anarchist theory into practice.

Some of the comments on the threads on this site saying "real anarchists don't do demos" - well it sounds bloody stupid. People, particularly young people, are angry at the system; if they turn up and see the state crack-down on a perfectly legitimate protest it radicalises them, and enables them to see how power is preserved in a 'parliamentary democracy'. They'll probably have some fun, and hopefully get issues we care about spoken about.

I'm sorry, but comments by people like Thomas of Munster, sound more like the police trying to stop people getting involved by pretending that 'real anarchism' is sitting on a PC or a MAC, slagging off others trying to do something - regardless of how effective or ineffective that action may be.

One thing anarchists all agree on is that inaction, and sitting around doing nothing, is certainly NOT anarchism. Another thing most anarchists would agree with is that anarchists rarely have a prescription of exactly how to get from the current situation to the next (both it's strategic weakness, and its tactical strength - and also rather humble, considering nobody can possibly know exactly how events and situation pan out, nor all of situations that different social groupings find themselves in) - so again, sitting around decrying action, without 1) postulating an alternative, 2) acknowledging that there may be other perfectly valid alternatives, is altogether pretty lame.

Anyway, my two penneth.

Krop

Beltane

10.03.2010 11:56

May the 1st, also known as International Workers Day coincides with the ancient Pagan ritual of Beltane.

This ritual evolved around the release of the overwintered flocks into the pasture land and recognized the subtle shift in power between land owner and flock herder - the herder would ritually light the fire in an open space and expect to return at night to rekindle the fire from the embers - hence the word derives from the Celtic words for re-light.

This has always been a day where we can tell the bosses to stuff it and as an anarchist, there can be no better place to do it other than in parliament square - in yer face crown and state.

If that is what you feel like doing, do it. It is important to let the rest of us see and imprint the ritual reversed - whereby the bosses seem to weld disproportionate power over the puny demonstrators ... but if thousands of us showed up ...?

Ah no, listen to the naysayers, the 'proper' anarchists, the armchair huggers and the spooks here and forget about it.

jackslucid

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@ jackslucid, ANARCHISM AND ANTISEMITISM ARE NOT THE SAME THING

10.03.2010 16:15

Now fuck off back to the sewer you crawled in from you little turd...

@narchist

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correct oh high n wise @rchist

11.03.2010 12:40

... anarchism is a form of self correcting autonous political identity etc etc)
... anti-semitism is a last refuge for zio-bots who cannot understand the opposition to their religiously inspired xenophobic human sub-classifications

You are sooo amusing ... but why are you bothering with me? I'm sure your axe could be better ground elsewhere. Perhaps one day we can have that testosterone/big boots contest that you so earnestly desire, until then keep dragging the knuckles and crayoning crude zio-bot propagander

jackslucid

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jackslucid you are just a moronic jew hater and everybody knows that..

11.03.2010 19:12

and its an insult and a major delusionary issue with you that you would define yourself as having anarchist principles when you are just a nerdy keyboard jew hating pillock. Fuck off to stormfront or some more suitable site where you can wank off to your pathetic views. And another thing, you better hope we never meet up because nothing would give me more pleasure than to rearrange your fascist face....

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listen up little man

12.03.2010 10:48

... you have to come to terms with the fact that very few people here either know what the hell you are talking about or would recognize these 'anarchist principles' that you claim to represent in your vulgar zionist inspired diatribe [against me].

They are welcome to compare my words against yours and see which set of principles they prefer ...

... those of a violent macho supporter of a racist religious state

or

... those of thoughtful opponent of any political or philosophical creed that artificially divides people into heirachical groups?

Yes, I hope that we never meet up, you are probably bigger than me and seem to want to violently assault me.

It's funny how you seem to want to reduce me to the sub-human level of 'jew hater' - a thing you think is described by the heavily laden phrase 'anti-semite' - and to do it so comprehensively. You have 'followed' me around here and elsewhere with your loud mouthed crass insults and I, for the life of me, can not find a scrape of difference between your outbursts and those of your average zionist keyboard warrior.

The more you bleat, the more it seems like that you and yours are terrified of the prospect that reasoned intelligent opposition [to the racism that is zionism] is gaining ground. I have observed that you and yours [the zionist 'thought police'] reserve a special and intensely violent opposition to those who don't fit the 'terrorist'/nazi mold (yes yes, I know you think that because you disagree with the things that I say and believe that you can easily shut down my voice by shouting loudly and making vulgar idiotic and meaningless comparisons and references to 'stormfront')

The truth is, that you are either a moral coward and know it - hence your desire to deflect and project your weakness onto others - or you are in fact a hasbra-bot, or zio-bot or, to use the correct terminology, a racist death cult supremacist that supports occupation, oppression and the slow genocide that the Palestinian people face everyday.

Of course, you could just be a drunken violent comic book anarchist with no finer understanding of any of the things you weigh into with yer balaclava, big black boots, special brew and starving dog on string ... now please, have the last word old boy ... I have wasted enough of my time or your infantile doodling.

jackslucid

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