Anti-capitalist Students Storm the London Stock Exchange!!!

Anti-capitalist | 10.10.2008 20:34 | London

Earlier this evening, a motley collection of students and trade unionists fought running battles with the rich under the slogan "We Won't Pay for their Crisis"

Reports here:

http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/200-anti-capitalist-students-do-us-proud/

http://leninology.blogspot.com/2008/10/anticapitalista-in-city.html

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/10/business/EU-Britain-Bank-Protest.php

Anti-capitalist

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nobody stormed the stock exchange

10.10.2008 23:51

The Royal Exchange next to bank tube is a posh shopping mall, the London Stock Exchange is a half-mile away in Paternoster Square.

toodumbforthepolice

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This demo was organised by the SWP, how can they be referred to as anti-capitalists? They are (capitalist) Labour party-supporting sectarian and social democratic knobs.

For your info Mr. anti-capitalist, its not 'our money', its 'their money', i.e money stolen from poor and colonised countries over many years by British banks and corporations.

James Taylor

i'm no fan of the SWP, but....

11.10.2008 09:49

Where were we? It is easy to sit here and criticise, but what did we organise. This is the first militant action (hopefully of many) in this crisis and we were no-where to be seen - fair play to those there I say. Also, as an ex SWP member, I can tell you that the party membership are mainly decent people who think they are doing the right thing (and what they are doing is more right than what most are doing) - it is just the party leadership that is manipulative and sly. I would also suggest that the more militant aspects of the action were not the idea of the leadership, and were more sponaneous acts of dissent by pissed off people, as the leadership of the SWP have always weighed in AGAINST militant action.
In short, I see those who took part in the action yesterday, and many others in the SWP as comrades (though i am myself an anarchist) in class struggle, and maybe as dissent broadens, we should struggle alongside rank and file SWPers, while focusing our critiques on those who really deserve it, Callinicos, Harman and the other wankers at the top of the party. Also, most youth SWP (I know from experience) are not marxists, they are anti-capitalists who joined the SWP coz they were the only 'radical' group organising in their uni.

(A) Sab x

behold the final horseman of the apocalypse

12.10.2008 10:31

behold the final sign, cats are eating all of our dogs, the sky is opening up, and anarchists are saluting an SWP march, the credit crunch really has triggered the end of the world.
lol

satan

reply to 'satan'

13.10.2008 14:27

Sorry, but a few stupid phrases with scant explanation do not consitute a response to my post. I am deeply critical of the SWP, their politics, political manipulations and especially their leadership (as made abundantly clear in the post), however, the people on the demo deserve to be credited for a good action, and we need to ask ourselves why we hadnt operganised something similar but along anarchist lines.
I never saluted the SWP, just the young people on the demo, and what should we do about young SWPers? Yell abuse at them? Ignore them and treat them like shit? If it wasn't for anarchists debating with me in a calm, polite and respectful manner, I may still be in the SWP. It is this 'fuck everyone whos not an anarchist' attitude that stops our movement from growing. For the last time - the SWP are a corrupt party - but the membership is largley decent people who are struggling against capitalism in a different way to us, that i personally believe is misguided, but never the less, we should definitly engage these people in dialogue, and we certainly shouldn't be to blunt nosed to be able to say 'yeah, the SWP got something right, and we didn't' and learn from it.

(A) Sab x