Dancing on the Grave of Capitalism Protest London 31 Oct Canary Wharf

[EpicSlug]

What idiots these people are, if you dont like capitalism go and live in china.

[ISMEY]

@EpicSlug china is a capitalist system pal

[spikedawg71]

I hope the protests go well for you guys over there. I hope it stays peaceful, and some good will come from it.

[plitterplatter]

This was only a very small protest of a couple of hundred people. But a massive anti-capitalist protest is planned for central London for Wednesday April the first. It will probably have tens of thousands of people on it.

[carmenlee87]

i recon there is a lot of this going on, but news are not reprting it.

[LordImmolation]

Ah gutted I missed this one - looks like it was good. How were the other events over the weekend? I think one of my comrades from our SWSS went down.

[idy224]

First of all adycousins, where you there? suggest you ask the organisers about who they employed before making a comment!

They did employer security,this i know for fact because one of my colleges done the search on the bus when it entered the estate. The head of the security team was called Danny he was with a very mean looking dog. Look I am not interested in a slagging match; just want to make a point.If you doubt that I was there, thats up to you but I am in the video towards the end.

[adycousins]

I was there. I'm holding the camera dozy. The fact that someone claiming to be a security guard had a mean looking dog is irrelevant. Its our legitimate right to protest about whats happening to our cash [and yes I am a taxpayer]. If you're not interested in a slagging match don't come on here slagging off 300 people just cos some eejit threw a bottle at you.

[mcvet89]

If you read my first comment i was not slagging off 300 people, just the young middle class student types who's mummy and daddy have paid for their education, and for who this period of political protest is just a phase. Those of you who truely beleive in what you are doing, i take my hat off to. I am a working class immirgrants son and am all for workers rights.

[adycousins]

I'd rather the "the young middle class student types" protested about the government handing our cash to overpaid city bankers than just sitting on their arses looking not giving a fuck about anyone else.

[adycousins]

These banks are cleaned and guarded by people who get paid a pittance and run by people who get paid huge salaries and bonuses. Our government is now paying these bonuses with OUR cash, instead they should be sacking the bosses and paying the cleaners and security guards a proper living wage.. Many of the students on this demo have campaigned over shit pay for agency staff in the colleges and have helped win the London Living Wage in some places.

[theunlikelymc]

I was also at this demo, I'm a student type, but my type is lower working class two job holding studying my bollocks off and trying to have a laugh whilst trying to change a system that oppresses me through studying political science and engaging in political activism in the swp. I do feel the sentiment though bre, my uni is full of these middle class types of which you speak. when i look at the student body as one mass i am also filled with cynicism, yet it is not one mass, we are out there!

[idy224]

Think about that next time you throw a bottle and one of us.

P.S can I have my hat back please!

[adycousins]

There is no evidence of any violence directed at the police from any of the video footage I have or have seen. You lost your hat, that's all, maybe one person threw a bottle, I didn't see it. You're full of shit idy224 and I doubt you are a security guard or that you were even there at all.

[idy224]

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I also lost all respect for the organisers when I clapped eyes on the scumbag security guards they employed, what a load of crack head thugs they were. All facts that became blindingly obviously, when most of them were arrested for carrying weapons.

something for the protesters to think about, a lot of the security team there are ex army, fresh from active service in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they were fighting for the way of life that gives you the right to voice you protest.

[adycousins]

There were two arrests, nobody was carrying weapons, The organisers employed no security guards and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not to defend our rights to freedom to protest. How many lies can you pack into one comment?

[idy224]

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I found the fact that these young boys and girls with upper-class, plumy accents, wearing Nike trainers, shouting at the only truly working class people at the rally (the Canary wharf guards) about workers rights, highly ironic.

[adycousins]

Not true

[victorbarovsky]

Workers scabbing on the strike are working class too. So what's your point?

[idy224]

I was one of the canary wharf security team at this demo. While I have no doubt that the majority of the participants of the demo genuinely believed in what they were doing, I cant help but feel that some of the younger protesters were there because of peer pressure and thats what you do when you go to uni.

[adycousins]

Displaying your silly tory predjudices

[matiozim53]

Are there any more clips from this demo??

[taxamo]

Cheers for the vid, hoped there would be a lot more pics and vids out there by now - were a lot of snappers out but only seen 3 sets of pix so far.

[neptuneey]

Our world, our streets.

Love it.

[joni9780]

Nice video, the anarcho samba band look absolutely shit hot.Reminds of the one that led J18,amazing.

Heres to a cooperative economy& war on climate change, not a command or capitalist economy for oil.

Lets go beyond the state, we need universal democracy,a universal federation. Jeez the police who follow orders to the T are sad bunch, why arent you arresting war criminals & organised crime bosses instead of decent people?

[sal64lon]

Thanks for sharing this video with us.

[matiozim53]

fuck the police!!