Bash The Wealthy & Diwali: On Saturday third November 2007 I photographed Class Struggle trying to march to David Cameron’s home in Notting Hill earlier than going to Alperton for the Brent Diwali Parade. Right here I’ll use – with some slight adjustments and a few feedback – what I wrote in 2007 about these occasions on My London Diary.
Bash The Wealthy – Class Struggle – Notting Hill
‘Bash the Wealthy‘ might be nonetheless a preferred slogan [and the title of a highly readable memoir by Ian Bone, subtitled ‘The true-life confessions of an anarchist’ still available], however the anarchist demonstration in Notting Hill which marched to Tory chief David Cameron’s home on Saturday attracted solely round 100 supporters (I feel fairly a couple of determined they might reasonably keep within the pub.)
The have been watched, harassed and escorted by an identical variety of police, with the inevitable police photographer to goad FitWatch into motion.
The police did enable the march to happen, if with plenty of matches and begins, holding it for no obvious purpose at varied locations, and it went alongside Oxford Gardens till it reached the junction with Wallingford Avenue, apparently withing shouting distance of Cameron’s residence, though the Tory chief was sensibly miles away for the weekend.
There have been plenty of minor clashes between demonstrators and police, with three arrests being made, though I perceive all have been later launched with out cost.
A few of the friction was attributable to slightly over-keen encouragement of the marchers to maneuver when the police wished them to maneuver – and I too was pushed on quite a few events, and stopped from leaving the march for a while after I went contained in the cordon.
A few of the police have been additionally handled to appreciable abuse, however most retained their good humour – as did many of the marchers.
Earlier, some had taken a stroll across the space following Tom Imprecise‘s really fascinating ‘Bash the Wealthy Class Struggle Radical Historical past Tour of Notting Hill‘ which had been revealed on-line by Indymedia UK because the memento programme for the occasion.
[Tom Vague is “writer and editor of the post-punk fanzine Vague as well as numerous publications on situationists, psychogeography and West London radical history.” Among these is ‘LondonPsychogeography – Rachman Riots and Rillington Place‘, described “almost as the autobiography of Nothing Hill with him as the inspired mouthpiece, his own biography mixed with that of the subject. He is the place.”
Somewhere I still have my copy of the programme, but it is still online if you sign up for 30 days free to ‘Your Media Publisher’publisher Yumpu where a number of Indymedia ePapers including this can be downloaded. It is no longer available in the Indymedia UK archive.
I left before a final rally at the end of the march to go to Alperton. ]
Extra photos at Bash the Wealthy.
Brent Diwali Parade – Alperton
Diwali. the pageant of lights, is among the primary occasions within the Hindu calendar and hundreds of individuals come to look at and participate within the parade and festivities in Brent.
I arrived in time to look at a few of the preparations and stayed for the beginning of the parade,
However then went residence to look at the fireworks reasonably than ready to see these in Barham Park.
[Brent is the UK’s most diverse borough by country of birth, with just over half of its residents born abroad, including many in India and other Asian countries, the Caribbean, Africa, Ireland and Eastern European countries. Until cuts in local government funding by the Tory-led government after 2010 the council funded a number of festivals including Diwali to bring communities together.
In the 2011 census almost 18% of the population of Brent identified themselves as Hindu, but many from the other communites came to join in and watch the Diwali events.]
Extra photos at Brent Diwali Parade
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