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red snapper | 31.03.2010 11:42 | History | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

Poll Tax riot London.

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red snapper
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Trafalgar square 3pm

31.03.2010 13:19

Trafalgar square 3pm today be there

Trafalgar square 3pm


missing pieces

31.03.2010 14:35

All the focus on Trafalgar Square is the mainstream, acceptable, version of events.

Where's the focus on areas like Piccadily circus, where the riot spilled out into as Trafalgar square was cleared. People poured out of restaurants, shops, drop their shopping bags and joined in the riot, took it over even, and then rioted through the night, as the majority in the square scrambled to get on their coaches home.

In Piccadily Circus a double decker bus was commandered, and used to block police passage.

Where's the mention of the calls of 'Ceausescu's Dead, Thatchers Next' that rang out repeatedly in that area, after a group of people also using that call were battered out of the main square, while everyone else stuck to the tame mantra of 'No Poll Tax'?

Trafalgar Square is only part of the story.

Trafalgar Square is largely the part which wasn't censored, while so much still remains untold! Untold by activists too, who mistake the Tralfalgar Square part of the riot, as ferocious as it was, for the riot proper that subsequently occurred beyond the Square itself.

missing piece


shit!

31.03.2010 14:49

i woke up late! i doubt I'd get there for 3pm!

cunts!


God Bless 'Em!

31.03.2010 22:29

The rioters not the filth...

Jeremy K