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.
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
See the link below for full details and to get involved:
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London Mayday 2010
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Not Mayday but Beltaine
09.03.2010 13:59
The Corn King
memories
09.03.2010 15:44
elepant
really?
09.03.2010 16:04
Please don't do this - it's embarassing for many anarchists to be frank.
(A)
Diversity of tactics
09.03.2010 16:18
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
10 years ago?
from the makers of G20 meltdown
09.03.2010 20:59
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
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
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
@ jackslucid, ANARCHISM AND ANTISEMITISM ARE NOT THE SAME THING
10.03.2010 16:15
@narchist
correct oh high n wise @rchist
11.03.2010 12:40
... 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
jackslucid you are just a moronic jew hater and everybody knows that..
11.03.2010 19:12
@narchist
listen up little man
12.03.2010 10:48
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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