12:19am Monday 18 Oct 2004 from London
I just spoke with london and I have the following news. A Lawyer member of the forum and the network visited the police station where the guy thwy caught is being held (I belive he is from AK and the arrest was "premtive"). There has been a consulation with the Greek ambassy and the we expect positive results (although we should not have too hight hopes until he is out). Outside the police station there is a presence of comrades from the forum and other spaces.
Now about the incredible and miserable things that happened at the march. The platform was absolutely controled by the SWP with livingston's people and muslim associations. At some point a comrade got on stage so that a different voice is heard. When he came back down livingston's security grabed him and give him to the cops. This is a huge scandal and already some parts of the forum are preparing public condamnations, for this unprecedented miserable situation. Unfortunately the SWP's stalinism has met with the bourgeous-liberalism of livingston and has created a monster.
The european social forum does not belong to them and we will not let them destroy it!
I just spoke with london and I have the following news. A Lawyer member of the forum and the network visited the police station where the guy thwy caught is being held (I belive he is from AK and the arrest was "premtive"). There has been a consulation with the Greek ambassy and the we expect positive results (although we should not have too hight hopes until he is out). Outside the police station there is a presence of comrades from the forum and other spaces.
Now about the incredible and miserable things that happened at the march. The platform was absolutely controled by the SWP with livingston's people and muslim associations. At some point a comrade got on stage so that a different voice is heard. When he came back down livingston's security grabed him and give him to the cops. This is a huge scandal and already some parts of the forum are preparing public condamnations, for this unprecedented miserable situation. Unfortunately the SWP's stalinism has met with the bourgeous-liberalism of livingston and has created a monster.
The european social forum does not belong to them and we will not let them destroy it!
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Dangerous assumptions
18.10.2004 16:22
After an ESF that I feel fundamentally called for increased European and Global solidarity and co-operation it saddens me once again that within 24 hours we start to see the sectarianism again. If this franctionalisation continues we will be letting all our disenfranchised colleagues across the world down just as happened in Germany in the 1930s. The in-fighting has to stop or we give the the Right-wing and early Christmas present and that surely is something we can all agree must not happen.
(For the sake of my subjectivism to be open to scrutiny I am not a member of the SWP, I am however a member of Respect in an attempt to join what I hope will be a coalition of forces to beat the REAL enemy which is capitalism)
Dom Kingsmill
SWP and police
18.10.2004 17:31
...gasp!
squatticus
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looks like you have your own dangerous assumptions
21.10.2004 12:06
el gormo squirrello