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Video of cops arresting ppl who were sat down outside the bank of england / royal exchange during the Occupy London 'Meet the 1%' protest on the 12M global day of action.
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Why Protest?
Seriously, these people need to catch up with reality.
There were plenty of protests in the recent years. Though it seemed encouraging in 2009 and 2010, today we could see the whole thing has become a theatre. People go "occupy" (a term, that was stolen from class struggle anarchist handbook, but has been turned in to a hippy gathering, hand wringing, non-violent(FFS!!) catwalk for activisty trustafarians), the police comes and removes the non-violent crowd.
Lesson 1:
You do not occupy anything, these actions are called sit-outs, or sit-ins. Nothing inherently wrong with that within the framework of capitalism as we know it. Occupation is an action where a you going to disrupt the economy by expropriate buildings of production, or the management. Squatting is not occupation, sit outs are not occupations, because they do not disrupt anything. Even if you would be able to occupy the BoE building, you know damn right that you won't disrupt the economy. Sure, banks look evil, but on the other hand, banks are built on the capitalist industry and agriculture which must be taken over. We can't use bank offices for feeding people.
Lesson 2:
The Occupy movement just a year ago was sort of a new thing. But for the same reason that it started out as a media event, it dies out as soon as the media attention isn't given. I mean, you can go and protest, but your protests were ignored, and not only by the government but unfortunately, by the wider public too. At the moment you are at the stage where every activist circle tend to end up: all of your actions tries to prolong the life of the movement, instead of finding new ways to get closer to your aims (and as a communist, I respectfully disagree with your aims). The lack of historical perspective of the Occupy movement and its offshoots is the reason why you can't make much of a historical fingerprint. And for the same reason, it is easy to conclude that the Occupy movement was a serious mistake, a deterrent of the (minuscule) radical movement, a mistake that should not be repeated. Looking out to the world and home, one could see that these slogans about the 1%-99% are getting tiring, as any marketing slogan would be tiring after couple of month campaigning. We have more serious things to do, protesting is seemingly futile. If you want to achieve anything, you must rather spend your time with organising a revolution (and under revolution I mean abolish the forces of repression, taking over the production and distribution systems, in short: abolish capitalism), and planning ahead for a world community ran society.