Class Battle Protest ‘Fascist Architect’: At lunchtime on Wednesday thirtieth November 2016 a small group of anarchists and communists protested outdoors Zaha Hadid Architects in Clerkenwell in opposition to their director Patrik Schumaker.
The protest got here after Schumaker had given a lecture in Berlin on the London Housing Disaster wherein he had apparently mentioned “We should destroy inexpensive housing and take away the unproductive from the capital to make approach for my individuals who generate worth.”
A Class Battle poster for the occasion put this citation above photos of Schumacher and Nazi architect Albert Speer with the query “Who mentioned this?”.
Different posters have been headed with the slogan “ARBEIT MACH FREI” a lot utilized by the Nazi get together and greatest recognized for its use above the doorway of Auschwitz and different Nazi dying camps and included photos of the architect with minor variations on the quote.
Class conflict had additionally introduced their banner with and picture of US Anarchist Lucy Parsons (1853-1942) who voiced a reasonably totally different view on structure, “We should devastate the avenues the place the rich reside“. Ian Bone condemned Scuumaker’s suggestion that London ought to turn out to be a non-public enclave for the ultra-rich, with the remainder of us pressured out.
Different teams participating within the protest included the Revolutionary Communist Group who labelled Schumaker as an enemy of the working class and known as for social housing not social cleaning’ and two folks from the London Anarchist Federation had include their banner ‘Make London the Insurgent Metropolis’.
There have been a lot of quick speeches which amongst different issues identified the “class-based absurdity of his neo-conservative proposals which might produce a London which was merely a playground for the ultra-wealthy, however would socially cleanse it of all the employees important to its operating.”
Schumaker’s Berlin lecture had been greeting with boos from the viewers and had been extensively disowned by architects and politicians together with in an open letter from Zaha Hadid Architects.
Class Battle had additionally acquired a letter from one of many employees at Zaha Hadid Architects, the place many are mentioned to hate their boss. The letter instructed that Class Battle ought to protest outdoors his £2m residence near Highbury & Islington and gave the handle, however they’d determined as an alternative to protest outdoors the observe.
They surrounded the doorway with “CRIME SCENE – DO NOT ENTER’ tape, and each Ian Bone and Lisa McKenzie tried to get an appointment to see Patrik Schumaker with out success. In keeping with his e-mails he was away within the Far East.
After an hour of peacefully making their level the protesters left, and I went with a few of them to the close by Betsey Trotwood earlier than leaving for residence.
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