barcelona: a combative may day regained

[bcbm]

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/14546

[DDR]

The police arrest several comrades and infiltrate the demo as radical elements to provoque them to charge against the demonstrators.

[bcbm]

"Before long, a small crew broke out of the march and attacked a bank with hammers. Except for a few Stalinists, everyone in the crowd cheered, from students to grandparents."

[DDR]

Those were police in disguise!

[bcbm]

the whole march was actually police

[DDR]

WTF are you talking about????????????????

[bcbm]

same thing as you

[DDR]

No, the whole demo was not of police, that crew where actually undercover police that attack the bank so the police could charge and arrest people.

[bcbm]

did you read the article? the march continued for hours and hundreds of people trashed hundreds of shops and banks with the crowd of thousands staying with them and supporting it, with even the anarchosyndicalist union holding banners to protect the march. so either all of those people were cops, or maybe it was just regular people marching and attacking? which seems more likely to you?

[DDR]

So the sanish alternative media also have no idea of what happened or what?

http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/comunicat-sobre-manifestacio-alternativa-l1-maig-barcelona

http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/mas-fotos-manifestacion-alternativa-1-mayo-agentes-provocadores-deteni

http://www.cjc.es/?p=6522

I bet that the ones that wrote the article that you posted have never set foot on Barna...

[DDR]

And I guess that the CGT (Then only anrcho sydicalist union in the demo had also no clue)

Barcelona, manifestació alternativa unitària 1r de maig
La tarda del 1r de Maig unes 6000 de persones de col·lectius anticapitalistes, d’esquerra independentista, llibertaris, moviments socials, i sindicats combatius s’han manifestat per Barcelona contra les retallades socials sota el lema “Ara ens toca a nosaltres”.

La manifestació ha partit dels Jardinets de Gràcia i ha recorregut la part alta de la ciutat, on s’han fet accions davant els domicilis del president de la Generalitat i de Fèlix Millet, i també davant la seu del Departament d’Ensenyament i l’Hospital Clínic, on ha conclòs amb la lectura del manifest unitari i la secció sindical de CGT ha desplegat una pancarta.

Durant tot el recorregut els manifestants han cridat consignes denunciant la banca, les grans empreses i els polítics al seu servei, així com les polítiques de precarietat i de retallades socials que s’apliquen en el seu benefici. La denúncia també s’ha dirigit contra els sindicats “majoritaris” per la seva política desmobilitzadora i de complicitat directa en les retallades de drets. Pintades i accions contra entitats bancàries i vinculades amb el capitalisme han sovintejat durant tot el recorregut

La manifestació ha comptat amb la presència de nombroses organitzacions i col·lectius tant de l’esquerra anticapitalista com de la sindical, així com amb moviments socials (immigrants, habitatge…) i col·lectius de treballadors/es en lluita, com els de Telefònica i sanitat. La presència de la CGT ha estat formada per alguns centenars de manifestants escampats pel mig de la manifestació, pertanyents a diverses federacions, sindicats i seccions sindicals, amb especial rellevància de les companyes de sanitat.

Al final de la manifestació s’han produït diversos incidents i la intervenció repressiva de la policia ha acabat amb una quinzena de detingudes.

Kaos en la Red i Redacció.

[nuisance]

you're a cop

[bcbm]

i had to use google translate, so perhaps i missed something but


So the sanish alternative media also have no idea of what happened or what?

http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/comunicat-sobre-manifestacio-alternativa-l1-maig-barcelona

condemns the police, not any of the rioters that i can tell


http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/mas-fotos-manifestacion-alternativa-1-mayo-agentes-provocadores-deteni


has some photos of undercovers. they were there... ok, they are always there, that does not make all people who engage in actions cops, nor is there evidence here of the cops carrying out actions besides arrests



http://www.cjc.es/?p=6522


marxists-leninists calling anarchists cops for direct action? hardly new, and even they don't try to paint the whole thing as cop orchestrated to attack the march

the other article you posted is a report back that says basically the same as the op, with less detail- there were lots of people, some actions and some arrests.

[DDR]

So nobody knows who this crew was, everybody had confirmed that it was full of undercoer police and regular police, that no organization have decided to make these actions, hammering banks and so on. Everybody sais that because these uncontrolled people (out of the blue they came) the police charged, and the undercovers and regular policemen arrest people. Dunno, but for me is, like we said in spain, blanco y en en botella...


Aquesta marxa alternativa del primer de maig, es realitza des de ja fa més de 7 anys i mai havia transcorregut amb enfrontaments com els succeïts ahir. Prenem per sostenir-ho les mateixes declaracions del mateix Conseller: ni el Departament d’Interior ni l’activa Divisió d’Informació van alertar en cap moment que això pogués succeir. Els organitzadors vam ser els primers sorpresos.

7 years had the march took place and never had this happened.


De fet, a la reunió preparatòria es va acordar que la manifestació seria pacífica. Cal afegir, a més, que els organitzadors ens desmarquen absolutament d’aquests fets i que no hi tenen res a veure

The organization said in previous assemblies that the march was pacific and that they have nothing to do with the actions


L’actitud dels agents de paisà va tornar a ser, malauradament, reiteradament provocativa i xulesca, amb cops i agressions amb porres extensibles injustificades i injustificables. Els agents van ser detectats des de primera hora en el si de la mobilització i van arribar a participar dels aldarulls. Finalitzada la manifestació, les càrregues van prosseguir en una autèntica cacera indiscriminada dels manifestants no implicats en els aldarulls.

The undercover police took part in the riots.

[bcbm]

according to the first article there were actions (paint against buildings) occuring almost from the start and the police did not charge until much later, after much more than a bank had been attacked. so did none of this happen? or did the undercover cops cause thousands of dollars worth of damage to arrest 15 people?

[DDR]

The attack was because some containers that the people where pussing, and in spain is common to paint stuff in the demos.

[Ravachol]

It's hilarious how some people on this board believe it's necessary for 'actions to happen' for the police and undercover cops to assault a march and arrest people.

This year's first of May in the Netherlands hadn't even moved 100 meters (literally) before being boxed-in and assaulted by riot cops and undercovers, resulting in several people with broken bones and concussions. And this was because of banners that were 'too long', people wearing sunglasses, which counts as 'face protection' somehow and there being a bucket of glue for wheatpasting in the march. All must have been 'agents provocateurs' I guess :rolleyes:

I mean the march was boxed in like this from the start:

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/1464/img908401.jpg

And got this:

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4407/61719898.jpg

Anyone who believes the police need an excuse other than 'suspicion' to assault or arrest is a clown.

[twenty percent tip]

people are angry andfthey express it. thats good. but you wanna pray at the church of riots?hget your helmety off and take some hits and youll really see god. and just like religious after a lifeof worship youll end up with the same: nothing but dirt in the ground. and worms.:drool: