When blacks truly riot violently on their own as in Cincinnati, white anarchists, many of whom relish the mystique of street battles with the police, are nowhere to be found in the riot.
White anarchists don't have enough numbers to riot by themselves either. (Also, a significant number of anarchists are pacifist communitarian types, more in favor of Food Not Bombs and like activities than confronting the police.)
Folks in the black bloc appear to show up at demos mainly populated by others who don't share their ideology and use the crowds as cover for their vandalizing, maneuvering themselves so they won't (hopefully) get arrested, leaving the crowds to fend for themselves when the police riot. It's the non-anarchist crowds who are left holding the bag. The boy who was killed in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, was not a member of the black bloc. Lots of Italians and others who went to and wrote about the G8 protests were saying that the black bloc was infiltrated by the police or the police masqueraded as the black bloc, though Chuck0 insisted that there was a real black bloc at the G8 protests also. Whichever was the case, the black bloc (if the authentic one was in Genoa then) was a minor element, though it certainly didn't help. -- Yoshie
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