ANTI-CAPITALIST RIOTS

When you are pissed off with the way the world's run, what do you do? Riot.

Waving placards and planting flowers in Parliament Square is all well and good but if you really want to get the world to notice, you need to cause mayhem and bring whole cities to a standstill.

The anti-globalisation movement is a vast conglomeration of pressure groups across the world and while there is continual friction in it between the pros an a cons of violent and non-violent protest, it seems that the advocators of violence are winning.

From the destruction of the City of London to the Battle for Seattle, the violence has been ferocious. And the authorities response has been brutal - the army, tanks, tear gas and the shooting of protestors.


Spurred by a big enough injustice today's apathetic youth can still ruck as well as their '60s counterparts. And today, the tactics are far more sophisticated - new technology, including the internet, is used to remarkable effect.

As thousands are massing to bring down the evils of capitalism, plenty more are beating each other up in a frenzy of materialistic urges.

Events:
J 18 City of London July 99.
Reclaim the Streets / Battle of Euston Road Nov 1999.
Battle for Seattle Nov 1999.
Reclaim the Streets - May Day - London 2000.
Gothenburg June 16 2001 - European summit.
(Three people are shot and wounded, one seriously, by Swedish police.
First time live firearms are used at an anti-capitalism demonstration.)
Genoa 2001.