Dancing on the Grave of Capitalism! - Canary Wharf - Halloween (Fri 31 Oct 08)

make up your mind like, is it going to be chaotic mayhem fun or a solemn mortuary ritual?

lol spells, ecowarriors...fucktards.

As a square, I am well and truly freaked out by this outrageousness.

The four horsefolk eh? It's PCism gone made I tells ya! So what'd the four stand for, anarchist=war, communist (marxist-leninist)=famine, eco-warrior=pestilence and revolution=death?

Elitist bastards.

if capitalism can't be defeated by fun then it can't be defeated by anything

etc... etc.....

The ICC's new london section

Fairly endearing website though, even if the action is a little clueless.

I'm so fuckin sick of this "celebration" of credit crisis...looks like I will be there though.

I went to the first hour or so then got bored - it was very SWPish

http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/dancing-on-the-grave-of-capitalism-demo/

So you didn't see the red and black flags and a banner that said DON'T PANIC, ORGANISE?

Indeed I did, hence I commented in the report that I saw people from AFed + Class War. However, drowned out by SWP chants/placards/members.

(Sorry, were the red and black flags and banner in fact from some other group - SolFed? I put down AFed and Class War because I saw people from each whom I recognised, none were selling papers or distributing leaflets though so it was hard to tell...)

Nah it was a new group based outta my uni...no AF or Class War members with us, although I guess there may have been a couple in the ridiculous street theatre. We got attacked by anarchists for hanging out with the Trots and then (all too predictably), a paper-seller (LITERALLY!! As in, he was holding a bunch of SWs) stood in front of the police and helped them push us back. I hate demonstrations so I managed to convince everyone else to leave at like 6.30 thinking a Section 60 was almost inevitable.

Someone points out on in the comments on Ian Bone's blog that "Don't panic, organise" might be a more suitable banner in a working class area rather than addressing the passing City types working in Canary Wharf...
http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/dancing-on-the-graveor-maybe-not/

Y'all actually tried to make that into a serious political event? With chants and banners?
It should have been pure dada, Épater la bourgeoisie, shits n giggles. Ffs, if you're going to do stunts, make them stunts, the kind of thing you walk away from saying "well that was dumb but we had fun" not "well that was dumb and boring"

What she said!

Yeah well that's the kinda crude class analysis you'd expect of a Bonist.

EDIT: Also the commenter is apparently from Class War's Youth Death Brigade, only for the writeup on his blog to attack "empty sloganeering"... http://classisms.wordpress.com/

EDIT 2: and I wasn't entirely convinced of the worthiness of the demo but went along anyway cos it was the first activity of our new group and basically it'd be good for bonding. As it happened we managed to piss off the anarchists doing their bizarre street theatre (which kinda looked like a post-zombie infestation Burning Man) and the Trots who tried to subordinate us. I consider that some sort of mitigated success.