Dancing on the Grave of Capitalism! - Canary Wharf - Halloween (Fri 31 Oct 08)
Oct 25 2008
An Anti-Capitalist Peaceful Halloween Street Party
• In the Heart of the Evil Empire, slap bang in the middle of the Finance Capital District
• A Stones' Throw from Canary Wharf Tube Station (though NO stones will be thrown – only our voices, spells, music, songs, poetry and laughter)
• On the pavement outside Lehman Brothers European Headquarters
• See our Location+PublicTransport Map for precise spacetme details
• Address:
25 Bank Street
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5LE
What if the rotting corpses of Reclaim the Streets, the Liverpool Dockers' Dispute, and numerous Anti-Roads Protests arose to celebrate the Death of Capitalism with a Ghoulish, Trick or Treat, Family-Friendly, Sambasista, Mass Street Party? What if the Four Horsefolk of the Anti-Capitalist Apocalypse - Anarchist, Communist, EcoWarrior and Revolution and - rode out to join in the chaotic mayhem fun?
INVITATION
This is a formal invitation to all you witches and wizards to be with us in full costume for a solemn mortuary ritual.
Dancing on the Grave of Capitalism!
Hallowe'en, Fri 31 Oct 08 17:00 – midnight.
Bring magic wands. Ceremony starts on first appearance of new moon.
LINKS
• Website – your source for all DotGoC! info & a work-in-progress
• Location+PublicTransport Map – where & when, plus getting there & back again while minimising our event's carbon footprint
• Facebook group – join up, tell your friends...
• Facebook event – ...& invite 'em along too
Oct 25 2008
#2
lol spells, ecowarriors...fucktards.
Oct 25 2008
#3
As a square, I am well and truly freaked out by this outrageousness.
Quote:
the Four Horsefolk of the Anti-Capitalist Apocalypse - Anarchist, Communist, EcoWarrior and Revolution
The four horsefolk eh? It's PCism gone made I tells ya! So what'd the four stand for, anarchist=war, communist (marxist-leninist)=famine, eco-warrior=pestilence and revolution=death?
Oct 25 2008
#4
Of the top of my head, I think an evil empire is the worst kind of empire that there is.
Oct 25 2008
#5
Quote:
This is a formal invitation to all you witches and wizards to be with us in full costume for a solemn mortuary ritual.
Elitist bastards.
Oct 25 2008
#6
if capitalism can't be defeated by fun then it can't be defeated by anything
Oct 25 2008
#7
etc... etc.....
Oct 26 2008
#8
The ICC's new london section
Fairly endearing website though, even if the action is a little clueless.
Oct 26 2008
#9
I'm so fuckin sick of this "celebration" of credit crisis...looks like I will be there though.
Oct 26 2008
#10
anyone who goes to this is out of communism forever
Oct 31 2008
#11
I went to the first hour or so then got bored - it was very SWPish
http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/dancing-on-the-grave-of-capitalism-demo/
Nov 1 2008
#12
So you didn't see the red and black flags and a banner that said DON'T PANIC, ORGANISE?
Nov 1 2008
#13
Indeed I did, hence I commented in the report that I saw people from AFed + Class War. However, drowned out by SWP chants/placards/members.
Nov 1 2008
#14
(Sorry, were the red and black flags and banner in fact from some other group - SolFed? I put down AFed and Class War because I saw people from each whom I recognised, none were selling papers or distributing leaflets though so it was hard to tell...)
Nov 1 2008
#15
Nah it was a new group based outta my uni...no AF or Class War members with us, although I guess there may have been a couple in the ridiculous street theatre. We got attacked by anarchists for hanging out with the Trots and then (all too predictably), a paper-seller (LITERALLY!! As in, he was holding a bunch of SWs) stood in front of the police and helped them push us back. I hate demonstrations so I managed to convince everyone else to leave at like 6.30 thinking a Section 60 was almost inevitable.
Nov 1 2008
#16
Someone points out on in the comments on Ian Bone's blog that "Don't panic, organise" might be a more suitable banner in a working class area rather than addressing the passing City types working in Canary Wharf...
http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/dancing-on-the-graveor-maybe-not/
Nov 1 2008
#17
Y'all actually tried to make that into a serious political event? With chants and banners?
It should have been pure dada, Épater la bourgeoisie, shits n giggles. Ffs, if you're going to do stunts, make them stunts, the kind of thing you walk away from saying "well that was dumb but we had fun" not "well that was dumb and boring"
Jenni wrote:
make up your mind like, is it going to be chaotic mayhem fun or a solemn mortuary ritual?
What she said!
Nov 1 2008
#18
davidbroder wrote:
Someone points out on in the comments on Ian Bone's blog that "Don't panic, organise" might be a more suitable banner in a working class area rather than addressing the passing City types working in Canary Wharf...
http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/dancing-on-the-graveor-maybe-not/
Yeah well that's the kinda crude class analysis you'd expect of a Bonist.
EDIT: Also the commenter is apparently from Class War's Youth Death Brigade, only for the writeup on his blog to attack "empty sloganeering"... 
http://classisms.wordpress.com/
EDIT 2: and I wasn't entirely convinced of the worthiness of the demo but went along anyway cos it was the first activity of our new group and basically it'd be good for bonding. As it happened we managed to piss off the anarchists doing their bizarre street theatre (which kinda looked like a post-zombie infestation Burning Man) and the Trots who tried to subordinate us. I consider that some sort of mitigated success. 
make up your mind like, is it going to be chaotic mayhem fun or a solemn mortuary ritual?