Very tenuously P: London marches and revolt

[Joseph Tracy]

Just listened to Tony Benn on DN. The ex British labor  
parliamentarian spoke at this event and has plenty of ideas and  
credibility. The idea is simple anyway- Don't bailout the bankers and  
charge the people. How is it democratic when leaders defy 80-90% of  
the people and serve the billionaires?  Why is capitalist thuggery  
and anarchism ok  and credible, and the angry response not?  The  
problem here is that there is no mechanism for citizens to intervene  
in these large acts of theft.


On Apr 2, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Johnny Marr wrote:

> Felt like something of a non-event, although someone has died as a  
> result of the police cordon so perhaps there was more trouble than  
> I picked up on. There seemed to be the usual gaggle of contumely  
> trouble makers without a coherent message to protest behind. I'm  
> not pleased with the way the world's heading either but too many of  
> the protestors were malcontents looking for a fight and an  
> opportunity for vandalism - there wasn't any particularly lucid  
> attempt to solve the global financial crisis, just a lot of  
> sensationalist placards about Eating The Rich and Fucking The Banks.
>
> Again, there is a genuine and valid sense of discontent with world  
> politics across most of the country, in particular what seems like  
> the blind reward or salvation banks regardless of how well or how  
> poorly they're being run, but we wouldn't want to associate  
> ourselves with basic thuggery, malevolence and inchoate  
> 'anarchism'. Sub-sixth form parades like yesterday's undermine  
> themselves by being so full of hot air and so lacking in ideas and  
> credibility.
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Guy Ian Scott Pursey  
> <g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Was anyone else in London yesterday for the protests?
>
> Interested in hearing what people made of it.
>
> Guy
>
>