Anti-Jubilee
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Sunday 3 June, anti-monarchy protesters will stage a demonstration near City Hall. Speakers including Independent columnist Joan Smith, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, historian Ted Vallance and writer Owen Jones
will address the crowd from 1:30pm.http://www.republic.org.uk/
updates/?p=490 
Sounds great. Pity we can’t get a speaker on the platform. Still cannot believe even the Trots haven’t siezed the opportunity for an anti-monarchy rally…..??
But some anarchist groups appear to be getting fired up!http://www.rt.com/news/uk-anarchists-police-olympics-340/http://325.nostate.net/?p=5341″In the United Kingdom of clockwork control and domestication, we’re some of the ‘unpatriotic ones’ who find the 2012 Olympics, with the ensuing spectacle of wealth (when so many here struggle to feed themselves and their families), harmful developments and escalating police state, frankly offensive. But no union or movement calls our shots, and we have no inhibition to use guerrilla activity to hurt the national image and paralyze the economy however we can. Because simply, we don’t want rich tourists – we want civil war.”
I see these nutters have started the insurrection already in Bristol. The State will smash them in no time. I expect their prison cells are already being prepared.
Ah yes, but no, but yes………”People think they have taken quite an extraordinary bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”- Friedrich EngelsThe 1891 Preface to Marx’s “The Civil War in France”
Two of us braved the patriotic crowds and the weather yesterday to leaflet this. The police had restricted access to the announced meeting place but 200 or so gathered outside the barriers and marched down the street chanting “Monarchy Out, Republic In”. The patriotic crowds were indifferent, presumably regarding it as part of the spectacle. Everybody there must have received either the Queen Capital’s Jubilee and/or the Identity leaflet. They weren’t the usual suspects and seemed a thoughtful lot and I can’t believe that they really think that merely “replacing the monarch with a directly elected, largely ceremonial head of state” (as the leaflet distributed by Republic, the organisers, put it) would make any difference at all, ie they must have other ideas of change too. Anyway our leaflets were well received. We’ll see if they get a response.
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