Bash the Rich - Class War - November '07

[1968]

What do people think of the event? Will you go?


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Class War Site

http://www.londonclasswar.org/newswire_nov.php




Article about it in the Pandora column in The Independent.

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/pando...icle2510875.ece (http://news.independent.co.uk/people/pandora/article2510875.ece)

[1968]

Is this not a tactic that was vaguely succesful in the 80s?



From wikipedia;


Inspired by the Stop the City actions of 1983 and 1984, Class War organised a number of Bash The Rich demonstrations, in which supporters were invited to march through and disrupt wealthier areas of London such as Kensington, and Henley-on-Thames (during the annual Regatta), bearing banners and placards with slogans such as "Behold your future executioners!" (a phrase coined by the anarchist Lucy Parsons).

A third Bash The Rich event, scheduled to march through Hampstead in 1985, was largely prevented by a heavy police presence, and was acknowledged by Class War to have been a failure. This event is seen as many as a major setback for the group, and many members left to form other groups or drifted away

[Forward Union]

I will probably go.

Im not sure what I think of it, I don't know enough about what they (the bash the rich demos) used to be like, or more importantly what this one will be like.

I suspect it'll be all the same faces standing in a police cordon waiting to go to the pub. But maybe not. I mean, I think the idea is good, working class people going to influential rich peoples homes and making a fuss, etc.

But for it to be a real success, Class War would have to attract, and indeed, 'Inspire' ordinary (non-political) working class people to come on the march. I think this generally applies to everything we organise. And is becoming more and more the case.

So good luck to it all.

[Devrim]

Im not sure what I think of it, I don't know enough about what they (the bash the rich demos) used to be like, or more importantly what this one will be like.

History repeats itself, first as a farce, and then as a farce again.

Devrim

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21, 2007 01:30 pm
History repeats itself,
Interesting coming from a Marxist.

[Devrim]

Originally posted by Urban Spirit+May 21, 2007 01:31 pm--> (Urban Spirit @ May 21, 2007 01:31 pm)
Originally posted by [email protected] 21, 2007 01:30 pm
History repeats itself,
Interesting coming from a Marxist. [/b]
It was paraphrasing Marx:

Marx
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
Devrim

[CurlyTheCommunist]

If I can find a way to get to this I would love to protest. Although ultimately I question the worth of rebelling against the party that is not in power.

[silentprotest]

They will be in power soon enough, to me it seems obvious that Labour will lose next year. Perhaps we can nip this in the bud, so to speak.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

I would definately go if I wasn't 3000 miles away

[drain.you]

sounds like a decent plan. i'll be in a better situation to travel by the end of the year so count me in so long as i dont forget.

[luxemburg89]

this sounds interesting, I'll look into going.