Anti Capitalist Block @ the Wave, London, Dec 5th

[TRS]

Comrades,



On 7th December, world “leaders” will meet in Copenhagen to discus climate
change. The weekend before, and during the summit, protests will happen
worldwide, in solidarity with those in Copenhagen.

But what will this achieve? For too long liberals have held sway in the
ecological movement. They push for “Sustainable, Green Capitalism”, but it
has become obvious that capitalism can NEVER be green. The Capitalist system
is inexorably tied up with environmental destruction, war, and oppression.

Therefore, it’s time to show that the only true solution is REVOLUTION. Come
to the liberal demonstration on December 5th and show the powers that be OUR
solution, the only true solution to environmental chaos!



*DETAILS:*

DATE: 5th December

TIME: 12:45pm

PLACE: London, Berkeley Square (come out of Green Park Tube Station, turn
left, and then left again up Berkeley St. Meet next to the statue in the
middle of the green)

BRING: Banners, flags, signs and a lot of noise!

[ls]

"liberal demonstration"?

[Pogue]

"liberal demonstration"?

Yes, they are calling for revolutionaries to try and radicalise a liberal demonstration.

[ls]

I'm not opposed to going to every liberal demonstration, I just can't see what makes this one so special, indeed if it's pointing out that this needs to be radicalised.. well that just sounds alarm bells in my mind. Climate camp to the casual onlooker, looking ike it's covered in petit-bourgeois scum, actually has mostly working-class people and a lot of AFed people in particular, but yeah I don't know about this.

Who was it called by in the beginning?

[bricolage]

Who was it called by in the beginning?

A coalition of liberal groups and NGO's;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Climate_Chaos#Members

Of course everyone involved in this has no illusions about the origin of the demo or of the politics of the majority of people that will be on it.

However I'd still support involvement in it...

Demos/marches like this are never going to be direct action we all know that so do they serve any purpose? I'd say yes. First of all you get visibility in that, why we may like to criticise marches that end in speeches, they do serve as good representations of mass sentiment on certain issues. So then if this is going to be a big march, which it will, and is going to get coverage and be very visible I can't see why we wouldn't want a large anti-capitalist presence to be equally visible, to show there are people who will not allow the struggle against climate change, real and relevant as it is, to undermine other struggles and the general struggle towards emancipation. Additionally it shows there are people who still rightly place capitalism at the heart of the issue. Furthermore on perhaps a more practical issue, events such as these are also good at gaining support. It is true that for many people their first experience of say anarchist/anti-capitalist politics has been seeing red and black flags at marches, being curious, going over for a chat and subsequently joining movement. At events such as these its entirely possible the same could happen again, and before anyone goes on about 'why would we want to recruit liberals yadda yadda', just because something has liberal politics doesn't make its participants inherently bourgeois or petit-bourgeois, for example the Labour party practice liberal politics but I'm pretty sure most of their members are still working class. So yeah in short I think such a bloc is important and well worth doing, only problem is if it ends up like previous anti-capitalist/autonomous blocs that just fail to emerge, for example at the big Tamil demonstrations over the summer when they were promised but didn't happen.

[TRS]

Well it went well, tbh. We didn't have massive numbers, but we had three banners, lots of flags and shouted ourselves horse. We definatly made a big impression both on the march and at Climate camp. At one memorable point on the march we were opposite the Bus at the front of the demo, where some idiot was giving a speech, and we pulled all the media and onlookers on to us!

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