Pics: Militant Workers Bloc at G20 Demo

Here there are a few pics from the Militant Workers Bloc at the G20 'Put People First' demonstration of Saturday 28th April:

Bloc forming at the Enbankment ...

... and a variety of anarchist groups from all over the UK.

.. the Anarchist Federation ...

... No Borders network groups ...

... more antifa ...

... Antifa Britain ...

... the Whitechapel Anarchists group ...

.... the IWW union ...

The bloc included a small group of the CNT spanish union ...

Passing in front of Britain's center of political power.

... including the G20's Meltdown contingent.

... the front banner starting to march ...

Ending with an open mic rally at Speakers Corner.

The bloc formed at Victoria Embankment and marched all the way to Hyde Park. For the first part of the demo the workers bloc - which included a variety of anarchist, anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian and social centres groups and individuals - was joined by the G20 Meltdown's "Horsefolk of the Apocalypse", and it was up to 1000 people strong.

But later on, the G20 Meltdown contingent somehow stayed behind and a big gap was created, which effectively separated the demonstration in two large marches. I am not sure how this happened, but from that moment on, the bloc was reduced to some 400 people with a clear anarchist flavour all the way to Hyde park's speakers corner. At 3pm, a small sound system with an open mic was set up away from the main rally for people to make their speeches which went on until around 5pm.

Contrary to mainstream and corporate media unsubstantiated scaremongering campaign claiming the usual "anarchist groups bound for violence", the demo passed completely peacefully, and with a quite low key police operation. Having said that, the ever present FIT teams and a couple of riot police vans followed the bloc throughout the day, and there are reports of one arrest at Speakers Corner