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

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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....

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.

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.