Current Affairs London Protests

[catcherintherye]

They are type who will let the rest down . Tools.

Honestly, why isn't someone clearing them off the demo?

 

[Shevin Keedy]

No it’s by ruptly mate the one I seen

OK cheers.

 

[tsubaki]

Honestly, why isn't someone clearing them off the demo?

TBF in this case there wouldn't be a demo, it would just be a load of blokes sat around the Churchill Box drinking Fosters and slowly drifting away as they realise no-one is trying to break it.

 

[Papa Shango]

Serious question , last week were you calling the Antifa attacking the police And vandalising memorials scum or just the ‘far right’ this week ?

This does not make both sides equal because the "far right" have also got all that racism stuff going on...

Which is pretty scummy.

 

[mill]

In the early 1930's Antifaschistische Aktion (abbreviated to antifa) was founded by the Communist Party in Germany to engage in direct action and street fights with the rising Nazi party and facism.

It has continued as such and though the far left types don't like to admit it, or internet pseudos don't understand, it is the nature of the beast. The far left do want to smash the current world order (capitalist system) meaning that far left and anarchism can be discussed interchangeably by the media etc.

That’s just one facet of a broader movement though.

Anarchism as an idea has existed for centuries. The debate on whether or not there should be a government or state has been around since the early formation of those structures.

there are parallels between communism and anarchism in that both want rid of capitalism. But to say that anarchism was borne out of communism just isn’t true. Communism is anti capitalist.

anarchism (which is a broad brush for lots of different ideas) rejects the notion of any organised structure of government. To most (but not all) fractions within that movement, that includes communism.

anarchism wasn’t borne out of communism. They just both reject capitalism. Anarchism in one form or another has been around for a lot longer.

 

[Lelouch]

Looks like a bunch of hooligans looking for any excuse to stir up trouble.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Hang on. Are the idiots protecting the Churchill statue giving Nazi salutes ...

Oh what a world we live in

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

That’s just one facet of a broader movement though.

Anarchism as an idea has existed for centuries. The debate on whether or not there should be a government or state has been around since the early formation of those structures.

there are parallels between communism and anarchism in that both want rid of capitalism. But to say that anarchism was borne out of communism just isn’t true. Communism is anti capitalist.

anarchism (which is a broad brush for lots of different ideas) rejects the notion of any organised structure of government. To most (but not all) fractions within that movement, that includes communism.

anarchism wasn’t borne out of communism. They just both reject capitalism. Anarchism in one form or another has been around for a lot longer.

Yes mate but Antifa is a communist movement and populated by the far left. They are the facts and all that I am saying.

 

[neil999]

Hope it's not too bad, got all the potential for real trouble.... Good weather, nothing else to do etc

 

[tsubaki]

Hang on. Are the idiots protecting the Churchill statue giving Nazi salutes ...

Oh what a world we live in

if there is an upside to it then at least the usual suspects here might pipe down for a few hours, out of embarassment

 

[JimmyJeffers]

These things always attract rats

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Social distancing gone well out of the window by now I see. Even the police who are just hanging around do not seem to be bothering with it.

 

[Stevie wonder]

This does not make both sides equal because the "far right" have also got all that racism stuff going on...

Which is pretty scummy.

Some in that crowd there are being bell ends totally agree

 

[tsubaki]

In the early 1930's Antifaschistische Aktion (abbreviated to antifa) was founded by the Communist Party in Germany to engage in direct action and street fights with the rising Nazi party and facism.

It has continued as such and though the far left types don't like to admit it, or internet pseudos don't understand, it is the nature of the beast. The far left do want to smash the current world order (capitalist system) meaning that far left and anarchism can be discussed interchangeably by the media etc.

Sorry, are you saying that standing up to the actual Nazis - who had been engaging in direct action, street fights, murders and an actual coup years before "antifa" was set up - was a bad thing to do?

 

[davek]

Hang on. Are the idiots protecting the Churchill statue giving Nazi salutes ...

Oh what a world we live in

Churchill was a 'kin scumbag, so why shouldn't he be saluted by them? His goal was to defend British colonialism, not fight fascism.

It's entirley logical that assembled right wing yahoos seek to defend the icons of slavery and colonialism.