"Kennington Park at the end of Mayday [London, 2000]: a game of protester-football on one side and a line of riot police on horseback on the other. Meanwhile on the street outside, riot police pointlessly charge at the park railings. Behind the railings, protesters pointlessly chuck bottles and stones at the police. [....]
"While the lovers and the football players enjoy themselves, the aimless ritual of police versus protesters continues. Who is there, ripping up tarmac and trees from the park, masked but recognisable? Activists from Earth First! - a body dedicated to protecting the environment - are chucking rocks at the police 'for fun' (their words). And who else is there, shoulder to shoulder with the black block, throwing rocks at the police? The National Front."
<http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n12/grif2212.htm> Jay Griffiths, "At the Mayday Protest" LRB Vol 22, No 12
Apparently, Jason McQuinn provides the ideological support for the above.
The link to his article, the first "Discussion Text" on the infoship.org site fwd'd to the list, is out. However, I found this:
MILITIA FEVER The Fallacy of "Neither Left nor Right" by Janet Biehl <http://www.nwcitizen.com/publicgood/reports/milfev2.html>
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In 1992, [Jason] McQuinn himself minimized the number of Jews murdered by the Nazis to "hundreds of thousands." "It's undeniable," he remarked in an outrageous contribution to Holocaust revisionism, "that 'The Holocaust' has been magnified into a larger than life tale of historical racial persecution." ("Holocaust or Bust?" in Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, no. 34 (Fall 1992), pp. 17. ]
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In addition to Holocaust revisionism, McQuinn advises us not to dismiss conspiracy theories & provides a forum for supporters of the US militia movement. And he tops infoshop.org's list of "post-left" thinkers.
-- Shane
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