Mayday Round Up

Mayday is international workers day; a day we celebrate the battles we’ve won and remember those who have fallen in battle, particularly the Haymarket Martyrs.

As part of this historic day Worthing Anarchists travelled to London where, as well as the traditional trade union March, thousands of people occupied Parliament Square and the road outside parliament. Mayday protests took place all over the world and below is a round up of some of these, A special mention goes out to the Anarchists in Greece who look like they’re gonna overthrow a government or two this year!

London:

Video from Indymedia (WARNING: very slow loading)

Photos and short report from Indymedia

Athens and Thessaloniki:

Youtube Video 1

Youtube video 2

Video From ITN news

Article from Libcom.org

Photos from Athens Indymedia

Photos and timeline from Occupied London Blog (a very good place to keep up on happenings in Greece generally)

Article from The Guardian

Article and video from The Vast Minority

Berlin and Hamburg:

Article from Twocircles.net

Photos from Germnay Indymedia

Zurich:

Photos from Flickr

Los Angeles:

Youtube Video

California:

Article from The Vast Minority

Santiago:

Article from Latin American Herald Tribune

Youtube video

Gaza:

Article from National Turk

La Paz, Bolivia:

Article and video from keyc.tv

Kathmandu, Nepal:

Article from Sify

Round the world:

Photos from The Guardian

Photos from Monsters and Critics

Article from Monsters and Critics

Video from BBC

How to organise an insurrection!

SO WHAT does it mean to be an anarchist? What should you be doing, who should you be doing it with and - most importantly, how exactly do you go about organising an insurrection?!
These are some of the themes of an important interview with Greek anarchists published by the CrimethInc Ex-Workers' Collective.
Here's a taste of their advice: "You have to be friends with people you trust 100% to plan anything dangerous, you have to be aware and informed about anything that is happening in this world to decide what the proper course of action is, you have to be crazy and enthusiastic, to feel that you can do incredible things—you have to be ready to give your life, your time, your years in a struggle that will never end.
"It is healthy not to have expectations, because then you don’t get disappointed. You don’t expect to win. You are used to appearing, fighting, and then disappearing again; you know how to become invisible as a person and visible as collective power; you know that you are not the center of the universe, but that any time you can become the center of your society."
The rest of the website is well worth a look as well!