Singled Out And Suppressed At Birmigham Anti-Tory March

On 3 october 2010 during the demonstration in Birmingham against Tory party cuts, the comrade holding the red flag in the photos was singled out by the police in a sinister fashion and brutally set upon on by over 6 policemen, after been thrown onto the ground.

Whilst on the ground, the cop leading supervising this was clearly heard by witnesses to have shouted at the other policemen to “get into him!”. The comrade afterwards, was then thrown into a police riot van, searched and questioned, then released without charge. The pretext for the brutal police action was in the words of the cops “the person was suspected of being in possession of a weapon”. The activist was holding a red flag and in an area where the police nearby were at the same time “kettling” and suppressing a number of protestors in the black bloc that had broken away from the main body of the march a little earlier. Police attack dogs were used to disperse protestors that the police “saw” as being “in the way”. After suffering injuries as a result of the police wading in and wresting the red flag from the activist by now on the ground and under attack by over six policemen, he was sent to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Indeed, being singled out in a sinister fashion for attack by police for holding a red flag, clearly shows the aims and nature of capitalist rule – to suppress progressive forces and frighten young people away from fighting capitalism. Capitalism is in a systemic crisis, therefore methods of suppressing progressive forces will become even more brutal.

Therefore, For Bolshevism-AUCPB and its supporters in the UK and around the world denounce, and at the same time express their deep hatred and indignation at the UK police who committed the outrageous attack on the comrade in the photos, and extend militant solidarity and sincere wishes for his speedy recovery from the incident.

The atrocious actions of the police against the comrade on that day is an act of intolerable violence, an inhumane act and a despicable suppression after designating him to be stopped and searched.

Though the suppression of the progressive force by the authorities gets more vicious and despicable, they cannot quell his revolutionary courage and spirit, we believe.

REVOLUTION!
SMASH CAPITALISM!

For Bolshevism –AUCPB

From Indymedia UK - A repost in solidarity with those who recently carried out the following attacks against the police!

ATTACKS AGAINST POLICE TARGETS IN BRISTOL

@ | 10.10.2010 14:08 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements
Anti-police actions on the nights of the 8th and 9th October.

1. Avonmouth police garage was a soft target with 30 rocks thrown over the fence at vehicles.

2. CID regional HQ, Kenneth Steele House, Feeder rd. Plainclothes vehicles, including one sports car, smashed with rocks.

3. Fishing line strung up at 9ft for the mounted police of Bower Ashton mounted police and dog section.

Pick your moment, your terrain. Ambush.

Some angry people are not content to stagnate in silence. We recognise our brains as weapons. Wouldn't it be nice if more people broke away from the British tradition of sitting back and taking shit from cops in the U.K and actually fought back for a change?

Solidarity with all those inside and outside the prison who fight the system.

This is for all those beaten, abused and murdered by police.
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Comment to above statement

Good on em! Enough of shit from the cops! Time to go on the offensive! Fuck the police!

IN SOLIDARITY!

FB-AUCPB
B.R.G.
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f-off

13.10.2010 09:00

"Bolsheviks" shouldn't be welcomed on any anarchist marches, piss off you!

anarchist bb

Begin the fight!

13.10.2010 09:50

Tactical unity! The state wants to divide and rule - Solidarity with all reds who fight!

anarchist-communist

Hmmm

13.10.2010 10:00

A hooded man, his facial features and identity concealed by a mask, dressed all over in black and aggressively brandishing an unnecessarily oversized flagpole with sharpened ends? Sounds like intelligent policing to me...
I'm sure the mystery comrade will be able to take legal action against the police, as long as he is able to prove his identity - ah but wait ...

Muppetwatch

Come the revolution...

13.10.2010 10:17

... you'll be first against the wall.

@Muppetwatch

tactical unity - don't make me laugh

13.10.2010 10:49

he makes us look even worst than we ever did! Marching with a flag of a party that killed hundreds of thousands of workers, peasants and anarchists!

the fight fascism begins with the fight against bolshevism

reds under the bed

13.10.2010 11:26

true to all above, fuck bolsheviks. but hes fighting for the right cause, being sectarian has literally got us no where in the past. hes probably just some kid who doesnt know better.

anony mouse

i was there,

13.10.2010 11:43

and i saw all 'types' of revolutionaries on the solidarity 'demos' near the kettle. to me, that was the best part of the day (except the kettled comrades being released, of course) and shows that as a 'solidarity mass' we can kick the state in the nuts, but we also know to avoid any 'overtly integrated' groupings with the 'reds', as history shows us they have mown us down and shot us and imprisoned us. at the moment, i'm happy to be on the front line alongside the 'reds', because the situation is now drastic, something has to be done, just watch our backs comrades when they turn against us!

but for fucks sake, there's a fight to be had right now and we need all the solidarity we can muster......

fran

@anarchist bb

13.10.2010 14:26

'"Bolsheviks" shouldn't be welcomed on any anarchist marches, piss off you! '

Oh, so this was an anarchist march then? Could have fooled me, I could swear it was organised by the usual gaggle of trots and trade unionists who get slated constantly on Indy. Folks like this have just as much to do with the demo as you do, like it or not.

I can't help but be reminded of the torrent of abuse directed at other marchers for not stepping in to help the black bloc when it got cordoned. Now you're slating one of the few non-anarchos who *did* want to take part in it...

Sigh. Hardly surprising but still disappointing. To be honest, whatever value BB tactics might have had back in the day, at the moment it's little more than identity politics, a desperate attempt to take part in the same demos as everybody else while still being "different" (read: standoffish, elitist, aggressive and rude.)

anon

@Fran

13.10.2010 21:10

"and i saw all 'types' of revolutionaries on the solidarity 'demos' near the kettle. to me, that was the best part of the day (except the kettled comrades being released, of course) and shows that as a 'solidarity mass' we can kick the state in the nuts"

In all fairness the kettle was a farce and was only implemented by police when a small group decided it would be good to run up to a roundabout instead of under a tunnel and back onto the buses. The breakaway was made more out of boredom than any practical measure and was a complete waste of time. The fact that the whole group had been marching away from the Symphony Hall for a good 15 minutes before the kettle should tell yuo how poorly organised the demo was. If anyone wanted a to test the polices resolve the bets place to have done it would've been at the barricade on Broad Street.

Nevermind though, it's early days and the Tories have barely started cutting a slicing, lets hope tactics on demos like this become a little more organised as the general feeling of antipathy towards the government become smore palpable.

BruisedShins

I'm with the cops on this one...

13.10.2010 23:40

"The All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (AUCPB), inheriting Bolsheviks' principles of R.S.D.W.P. - R.S.D.W.P.(b) - R.C.P.(b) - AUCP.(b) - of Lenin's course in CPSU, is the highest form of proletarian class organization, advanced detachment of working class acting in union with peasantry and labor intelligentsia, standing on the Party's positions, for: - the gain of political power - overthrowing the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and establishment of the dictatorship of proletariat, - the destruction of private property over the instruments and means of production, - the revival of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, - the further strengthening of the proletarian dictatorship in interests of complete victory of socialism and gradual transition to communism. The ideological and the theoretical basis of the AUCPB is made by Marx - Engels - Lenin - Stalin, is their doctrine in its creative application and development in modern conditions. The AUCPB is a component of the global communist movement with the goal of communism triumphing over all the planet."

Grey Blockers

solidarity

14.10.2010 00:10

By all means let's remember and acknowledge our differences, but when someone is being laid into by the cops, that's not the time to be sectarian.

What I'm saying is, I'm not a fan of bolshevik politics, but I have a hell of a lot more in common with a communist of this sort than any bloody cop!

Solidarity works both ways. If we want non-anarchists to stick up for us when we're being kettled, we need to stick up for them too! Otherwise we're just being hypocritical...

solidarity pixy

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