Anarchists received so much coverage in The Daily Mail on June 26th you could be forgiven for thinking maybe the Mail had something to do with it?

We need the press and TV to show images of uniformed NURSES on anti-cuts demos, not uniformed black-bloc (but by all means take scarves, shades, snoods and hoods etc though, umbrellas are also very good for hiding your face)

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/09/485095.html

Not much point covering your face if you are wearing distinctive normal clothing, surely?

The main reason people wear black on demos isn't because they are emos or that black is the colour of anarchy, it's just so you don't stand out compared to other people, so it's less easy for the police to pick you out and target you. And if you aren't doing anything illegal yourself, so you can provider a mass of people for lawbreakers to blend in with.

I guess you might want to cover your face just for your own privacy though.

Not saying it might not be a good tactic to dress "normally", just that it should be one or the other, but not both.

does make you stand out from the rest of the crowd.........you will definitly stick out and will be more likely to be photographed by police and press and more likely to be section 60d, kettled, arrestede etc.
Cover your face, disguise your identity but do so in a clever way. black bloccing will be counterproductive on n9 and n30

2 different sets of NORMAL CLOTHING with a hood and mask/balaclava is the best way to avoid detection. Do your stuff, rip off the top layer, job done.

"dressed totally in black.........does make you stand out from the rest of the crowd..."

not if lots of other people also dress in black it doesn't.

If you dress in clothes that stand out you are making it worse for everyone who is dressed in black.

Thanks for drawing attention to the post about UK Uncut, Dale Farm & March 26 etc :)

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/09/485095.html

For all those concerned about their appearance (and especially the projection that the anarchist bloc organisers demand a certain attire based around black clothing) we will be uploading onto the website our catwalk guide to what to wear on a demonstration.

Don't think black bloc think eastern bloc with a touch of sports casual, footbal casual for the over forties and hipster retro talbot sunbeam for the frankly strange indymedia posters above.

for all the weidos posting above - this one's for you!

 http://n9anarchistbloc.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/protest-chic-a-guide-on-what-to-wear-and-bring-on-a-demonstration/

The black bloc is, of course, a wonderful place to hide Daily Mail journalists and police spies

Be aware that Malet Street is totally dug up and covered in builders fences at the moment - no doubt the black bloc will arrive at the north end of Malet St, have no idea of the lay of the land, march into the fences down the south end and conclude they're being hemmed in by police barriers, just like last time ;)

Seriously though, the advantage of black clobber is the obvious anonymity, the disadvantage is that in black you actually draw attention to yourself as, in effect, a de-facto trouble-maker. I had a life changing experience in about 1985 when I got nicked for hitting a cop who'd punched a teenage girl full in the face on a CND march, when they got me back to the police station they let me go because, on the basis of my being very polite and friendly, and wearing an suit, they bought my story that I was just a Saturday shopper who got scooped-up by mistake, while the punks in the van beside me all went down

Greek activism is amazing, but that doesn't mean it works here -

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/09/485142.html

The Evening Standard are already hyping the Anarcho-Extremism they're praying will justify police use of BATON ROUNDS..... let's apply some common-sense here and not walk right into a right-wing propaganda trap please

 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24007007-police-on-alert-for-anarchists-at-fees-demo.do

That jacket is standard for (lol) "the casuals" oh and their mate "Tommy robinson" ... yes and other weirdos, they all hang out on facebook :D

Activism is not working anywhere. It is a child ill for the revolutionary movements.

The gap between rich and poor has reached levels of the Victorian era, unemployment levels is the highest in the last tenth, repression upgraded - see the confrontation of August and the emergency court-martial that followed - and if I'm not mistaken the coalition government is the most reactionary, far- right-wing government that has ever existed in England in the last decade.

The wrong that you do, all you the small leftists is that you stay adhering to bourgeois/civil legitimacy and end up autistic without be able to understand that the riots is not political but social. The social contract is broken for some time and this is not the result of any political space but a natural consequence of stronger and massive repression taking place lately.

My dear you have to learn that the work of the anti-capitalist/revolutionary movement is not to caress ears but begets consciousness and the street is a privileged area of birth consciences. We can understand this from the first lines from the text you cited. We should not be trapped in a sterile activism of course. Action without speech is meaningless. Each action should be accompanied by our speech/sentences or to get derive from our projects. (political anti-violence or self organization some examples of projects.)

The components or even more the form of a protest or a movement is decided by the protesters/ participants and from no other. The dogmatism of the type that the movement should be only peaceful or militant only do harm. The movement should be polymorphic.

What do you suggest from the education struggle?

After the 9th December and the marginal validation of the county monstrosity, the big heads decided to suspend the actions and they decided for a protest 10 months later. You do not feel a sucker at all? I believe, if the protests escalated without dogmatism they will withdraw the law. - see what happened in France in 2006. This can not happen though without a serious movement something that currently does not exist in England.

At this time in indymedia there is not even for sample one text which refers to the dirty role of the student-fathers (Aaron Porter and friends). Not even a text which refers to the oligarchic structure of the universities - neither the teachers nor the students decide on the course content but the only responsible for that is the Holy Manager - which get derive from the liberal oligarchy that exists in the West societies at this time. Not even one which makes clear the laid out trick with the student loans, a trick which mainly purpose is to increase the turnover of the banks and to prepare armies of slave. Who will dare to respond to his boss with such a debt to his head? Not even a reference at the end of independent research and the human sciences because now the universities are funded by grants and is known that the customer is always right. What do we need philosophy and sociology now. Not even one fucking article for the end of education as a field for growing people with critical thinking.

Instead of that, dress code comments and the known comments from the idiots who believe that the people are afraid to go to a protest because of the "violence" or because the bad comments from the media and the classic small leftists who wants to lead the rage of the people for their own advantages.

Ladies and Gentleman,lovely nationals of England our collective promise that would condemn the violence wherever it comes from because such situations do not match with the royal England , and please in return we ask a savoir-vivre guide about the presence on the protests.

Honestly now whoever believes that the nationals of the West societies are afraid of the metropolitan violence in the protests , those that back up with their votes and their apathy the massacres in Srebrenica, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. etc., those that they see people sleeping in the streets and begging for money and they continue their shopping like nothing is going on, those that are exposed to tones of violence and sexism through t.v and newspaper, at least they are jerks and whoever believes that the majority of the people who participate in the riots are anarchists or that an anarchist has a holy task to take place in the riots therefore all the anarchists are participate in the riots is leaving in a parallel universe or mislead for his own purposes.

"Ladies and Gentleman,lovely nationals of England our collective promise that would condemn the violence wherever it comes from because such situations do not match with the royal England , and please in return we ask a savoir-vivre guide about the presence on the protests"?!

Firstly this "analysis" is just stream-of-consciousness typing, as badly thought-out and illogical as it is badly expressed. Second if whoever wrote it think that anarchists are advocating peaceful protest, not because of strategic and tactical considerations, but because violence does "not match with the royal England" (sic) then they're as delusional as they are inarticulate.

Finally no I wouldn't "condemn the violence wherever it comes from" (sic) as even I think the trashing of the Tory Party HQ was pure music, and protestors are perfectly entitled to defend themselves against the cops who murdered Ian Tomlinson and Smiley Culture, what I don't want to see however is the Insane Clown Posse kicking-off at the first available and creating a right-wing press bonanza that wrecks the protest movement and leaving hundreds of protestors in hospital and/or in jail

Does anyone got any ideas on how education will be free without a government and companies interfering?

again my comment to understand what I am writing and about the sentence you isolated i was just making a joke, an irony.

"I think the trashing of the Tory Party HQ was pure music"

I think you are missing the symbolism of the act.

"and protestors are perfectly entitled to defend themselves against the cops who murdered Ian Tomlinson and Smiley Culture"

What about the cops who pop in and out the protest,bullying and arresting people whenever they feel to? What about for those who turned the protest into a kettle today? I do not if you get it but today practically the protest did not happen. The body of the protest had no contact at all with people outside of the protest.

"what I don't want to see however is the Insane Clown Posse kicking-off at the first available"

I do not understand exactly what you mean,can you become more clear?

"and creating a right-wing press bonanza that wrecks the protest movement"

Yes, sure you are right. The press as a body in England are facing protests and anything is contrary to reason of profit with right-wing terms at its best and far far right-wing terms at its worst, "wearing a democratic mask always" (sic). You do not have to expect something better from the media. If your movement though can be wrecked by right-wing propaganda I am sorry mate to inform you that you do not have a movement but.......

"and leaving hundreds of protestors in hospital and/or in jail "

A movement is a living organism that evolves with time or remains stagnant and inevitably dies. In this process of evolution unfortunately you will make errors as well and because it is not a game in your play station but real life you will have losses too. The point is these people do not feel alone at all; besides solidarity is our weapon.