Zurdito
10th October 2007, 01:30
Monday Oct 8th march that is. I can't be arsed to write a great deal about the march, but I'm surprised I can't find a mention of it anywhere. There were about 3,000 of us, not a great turnout but a solid, militant, mainly trot crowd (very few anarchists or pacifists, which is encouraging), and we managed to get them to overturn the ban on the march when they saw that there were too many of us gathered in Trafalgar Square to arrest us. Some awful speeches by Tony Benn, some guy from the west wing and a few MP's (one labour one Plaid fucking Cymru), and a reasonably rousing but horribly self-congratulatory speech from Lindsey German. Oh yeah and Mark Thomas hailed the STWC as a success because "who knows where thye'd have bombed if we hadn't marched". Embarrassing stuff that, yeah, the Iraqis must be so grateful to us. Anyway, there was reaosnable solidarity from the crowd int he face of the police trying to divide us, and we blocked a road until they let our comrades pass through a barrier to join us. 4 arrests I think. High police presence. All in all, one of the better marches. Anyone with a different perspective will surely add more info.