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30th November 2005, 12:39 PM
I should point out that I now like Country AND Western, live in a converted farm in sussex and vote conservative
Isn't that crass?
Anyhow, I think that some of us may have been lured into a fascist trap by showing our anarcho roots....ooops...
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30th November 2005, 01:51 PM
Sistern.... Brethern..... Come the revolution, we must wear appropriate PPE
Another day another WSI?
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30th November 2005, 02:12 PM
Keep the hi-vi flying...
(with apologies to James Connell)
The archaeo's flag is a yellow hi-vi
Comrades always have to question why;
And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold
Their life-blood ebbed beneath its fold.
CHORUS:
Then raise the yellow standard high;
Beneath its folds we'll live and die,
Though builders flinch and engineers sneer,
We'll keep the hi-vi flying here.
Look 'round, Wessex folk love its blaze,
The sturdy Oxonian chants its praise;
In Brummies vaults its hymns are sung,
Sheffield swells its surging song.
It waved around our sorry plight
When all around seemed dark as night;
It witnessed growing IFA,
It will no longer go away.
With heads uncovered, at risk we all,
Lest something on our heads do fall;
Come trenches dark, or features grim,
This song shall be our parting hymn!
If anyone wants to improve on this then please go for it, I have to go back to work now!
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30th November 2005, 02:13 PM
What, you think hosty might be a bit of a 'blagger'?
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30th November 2005, 02:25 PM
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30th November 2005, 02:28 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by BAJR Host
Sistern.... Brethern..... Come the revolution, we must wear appropriate PPE
Ah memories!! Right to Work March, 1982, Railway Tavern, Brixton:
An aside from one exasperated member of Lambeth Labour Party (Militant section) to another as their pub is overrun by unwashed, hi-vi clad, unemployed marchers:
'That's all we need in Brixton. The f-----g flourescent Left!!'
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30th November 2005, 02:36 PM
Rat, what do you mean 'must wear appropriate PPE'? Touch too authoritarian for me
Your Oi Polloi admission took me back a bit! I also had anarchist leanings in me youth. Something changed in the early 90s. This wasn't the Rubicon, but it did sort of contribute...
Me and my girl-friend were on the anti-poll tax march in Brixton (MoLAS had a dedicated group!!). There was a strong police presence and feelings were high after the police thuggery at the previous showing. We marched along, a great feeling that we were making Thatcher listen. It felt good. A group of Spanish anarchists joined some English chaps. I smiled at girlfriend - she was pretty socialist and we'd debated anarchism several times. There was a mood swing as we approached Brixton prison. The anarchos prepared for action, hoods on, scarves up. I still smiled, sort of proud of the continuing International. Then chaos, bricks, blood, screams. The anarchos were one side, the police the other. The crowd were being used as protection by the anarchos. Long story....but finished up huddled up in a side street with girlfriend and a petrified girl in a wheelchair. Girlfriend looked at me, asking the question - how did that bl**dy well help? Arguably, it did, but I stopped calling myself an anarchist. She even got me voting, but that took a while
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30th November 2005, 02:45 PM
Ah.. why did I only ever end up with semi hominid skinhead girls...
the Miners Strike... Thatcher.... the Falklands... it all comes back now....
what we need is the passion of youth politics and the sense of old age... (that and a memo not to hit policemen with bricks!)
remember one spectacular concert in Edinburgh where 200 army were drafted in to aid a few hundred police.. closed off Grassmarket, Cowgate and Bridges... we lost big time... B)
Another day another WSI?
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30th November 2005, 03:33 PM
ahhh....Stonehenge...free festivals...dirty squats...dirty buses...dirty girls...whatever happened to them?
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30th November 2005, 03:44 PM
At the Criminal Justice Bill demo in 1994, some the anarchists didproduce a memo (well, a leaflet) showing how to throw bricks. However that one was about how to hit the police with them, rather than hitting other protesters (I think it was titled 'Keep it spikey!').... But it didn't work and the same thing that Aching Knees described happened on a smaller scale when the cops barricaded everyone into Hyde Park.
BAJR is full of Anarchist Idiots!
