A-Infos (en) MEDIA, Anarchy in the UK - Protesters begin week of action for G20 summit Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Anarchists come out of retirement to organise protests. G20 Protesters, The 4 Horsemen of 
the Apocalypse...  Anarchists from the 1990 Poll Tax riots are coming out of retirement to 
plot mayhem at this week’s G20 summit, police warned last night. ---- Notorious groups 
such as Class War, the Wombles and the Whitechapel Anarchist Group have secretly ganged up 
to plan how best to wreak carnage on London’s streets. ---- Rent-a-mob hooligans from the 
2001 May Day riots as well as French anarchist group Anarcho-Autonomist – notorious for 
their black masks – are also thought be organising violence ahead of the April 2 gathering 
of world leaders. ---- Class War founder Ian Bone bragged on his blog: “We hope to control 
large parts of Central London. Whether it kicks off depends on numbers.

“The Poll Tax riots were all about 50,000 people who wanted a punch-up. This feels like that.”

Meanwhile, the Wombles have urged hooligans to “storm the banks”.

Red phone boxes were yesterday removed from the capital’s streets to prevent them being 
wrecked, while potential targets such as The Ritz hotel were boarded up.

Police have also beefed up security at today’s Oxford-Cambridge university boat race after 
threats on an anarchist website.

Commander Bob Broadhurst – in charge of organising policing of the demonstrations – said: 
“What we are seeing is unprecedented planning among protest groups.

“We’re seeing some of the protesters and groups that we last saw in the late Nineties 
coming back to the fore.

“We’re starting to see new alliances –  they may well be temporary but are coming together 
– of anarchists, anti- globalists and environmentalists plotting and planning what they’re 
going to do on April 1.”

Police fear a repeat of the violence that marred the May Day anti-globalisation protests 
of 2000 and 2001.

Small groups of anarchists broke away from peaceful marches to smash shop windows and 
deface war memorials with graffiti.

More than 3,000 police officers from five different forces will be on duty as politicians 
from the world’s 20 most powerful nations meet this week to discuss the global financial 
crisis.

Even moderate groups that have formed the G20 Meltdown coalition of protest organisations 
are encouraging some form of direct action. Green campaigners Climate Camp have

issued leaflets urging activists to storm the hotels where the world’s leaders will be 
staying to “bang on doors… and deliver a message to the world beyond capitalism”.

But more extremist groups are whipping followers up into a frenzy and urging them to 
battle police.

Bone, who started anarchist mob Class War in the 1980s before it was disbanded in 1997, 
wrote on his blog: “The cops are hyped to f*** and determined to frighten people from 
coming and are likely to behave illegally.

“In our turn we must be determined and resolute to resist such open intimidation. Seize 
the day, comrades!”

And Wombles – who wear white overalls during actions to disguise their identities – are 
also openly inciting unrest.

It urged on its website: “Let’s make this a chance for a fundamental change in society.

“Let’s reclaim the history of working class struggle for a new free world, for a global 
human community fit for all, not the undeserving rich elite who are happy to see our lives 
ruined if it means that they stay in charge and at the top.

“Join thousands of disgruntled, angry, p*****-off people on the streets of the financial 
district.

“As the bankers continue to cream off billions of pounds of our money let’s put the call 
out: Reclaim the money, storm the banks and send them packing.”

Peaceful mainstream activists will also use the protests to get across their political 
message.

Climate Camp activists will gather in London’s financial district to demand that the world 
reverts to more “sustainable living”.

Cyclists’ group Critical Mass, the Campaign Against Climate Change and Plane Stupid, which 
opposes airport expansion, will also demonstrate.

However, anti-climate change campaigners Rising Tide boasted on their website yesterday 
that April 1 would be the “day of resistance” and it would see the group “pull a prank 
that packs a punch”.
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