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Take Back The City

dublin | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis

Sunday September 25, 2005 18:20

by W

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The Party is over

Post Match analysis..

Yesterdays take back the city action, turned into the one thing we promised it would not be - Just another street party.
Although fun was had and it was a great laugh when things eventually fell together you would have to have had a fair amount
of cider inside you before you could convince yourself that it was the "working example of autonomy" that we had promised.
To be honest, as one of the people involved in organising, I feel that we fucked up.

There should have been open meetings and we should have been honest about what the plan was from the start.
People showed up to a party they had no part in organising and as such expected to be entertained,
to be spectators, how did we expect them to feel empowered? How did we expect them to be interested?
When we didn't even feel it necessary to ask them what they would like to do. What we were left with
yesterday was just a bunch of teenagers getting drunk and having a laugh in the street, it wasn't a threat to
the state, it wasn't pushing new ideas, it wasn't really doing anything.. it was about as radical as a goldfish.

"Take back the city" and "reclaim the streets" need to have some serious discussion about what they're actually
trying to achieve and really question if they're taking the right course of action. I really feel they're not. Instead of
building a real struggle, that is relevant to ourselves and the people all around us that deals with the oppressive nature of the state
and capitalism are we just going to continue dancing in the streets and having stand off's with the cops?

I propose that we call an open meeting to discuss yesterdays action and the tactics of R.T.S.

The party is over, let's start playing for real.

Solidarity!

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Comments (57 of 57)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Don't be too hard on yourselves	woh	Sun Sep 25, 2005 18:44
2	Interesting Observation....	Damien	Sun Sep 25, 2005 18:56
3	Yep...	('',)	Sun Sep 25, 2005 19:29
4	What?	df	Sun Sep 25, 2005 19:38
5	good idea	gramsci fan	Sun Sep 25, 2005 19:38
6	Interesting...	('',)	Sun Sep 25, 2005 19:48
7	the kids?	Disko Kid	Sun Sep 25, 2005 19:50
8		tom	Sun Sep 25, 2005 20:07
9	oi	('',)	Sun Sep 25, 2005 20:35
10	Ainrialach	rinagaeilge	Sun Sep 25, 2005 20:48
11	And my own petty perspective is...	Paul Baynes	Sun Sep 25, 2005 21:53
12	Taking a breather	D'other	Sun Sep 25, 2005 22:35
13	ah here	Neil Mooney	Sun Sep 25, 2005 22:49
14	Video Blurring Faces, etc.	Paul Ryan	Mon Sep 26, 2005 02:40
15	Goldfish anarchists and RTS	unburial	Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:46
16	'P'olitics vs 'p'olitics	woh	Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:11
17	Critical Mass to Cloverhill Prison	anarchaeologist	Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:14
18	a protest you say	missed that one	Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:49
19	4 days of car free stuff- and a whole lot more -	dunk	Mon Sep 26, 2005 13:02
20	i had fun!	nes	Mon Sep 26, 2005 13:42
21	public reaction	damian	Mon Sep 26, 2005 20:03
22	pics..	Aikon	Tue Sep 27, 2005 00:14
23	Being entertained and getting drunk in the streets	Bill	Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:06
24	Bill's comment is spot on	Michael	Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:14
25	Tom: can you clarify "inspiration"?	E	Tue Sep 27, 2005 17:31
26		---	Wed Sep 28, 2005 01:33
27		guydebordisdead	Wed Sep 28, 2005 02:05
28	nes:	anarchobot	Wed Sep 28, 2005 02:53
29	so what anarchobot	sleepless bot	Wed Sep 28, 2005 05:09
30	meeting	robo-bot	Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:07
31		W	Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:32
32	"Dancing against the State and Capital is just as valid as marching against the State and Capital."	E	Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:33
33		W	Wed Sep 28, 2005 13:06
34	-	E	Wed Sep 28, 2005 13:17
35	erm...	nes	Wed Sep 28, 2005 16:18
36	hooray for indymedia.	nooly	Wed Sep 28, 2005 19:00
37	mistakes	d	Wed Sep 28, 2005 19:13
38	Putting Socialism On The Agenda	Miss Strap On Anarchista USA	Thu Sep 29, 2005 00:14
39	of particular concern...	anarcho-beor	Thu Sep 29, 2005 01:23
40	mistake	anarcho-beor	Thu Sep 29, 2005 01:25
41	RTS	Emma	Thu Sep 29, 2005 17:14
42	comments	Gerro	Thu Sep 29, 2005 18:28
43	lack of any sort of foundation	barry	Thu Sep 29, 2005 19:22
44	we are for 4u the you that u are for us	triggery	Thu Sep 29, 2005 23:58
45	Debate not happening.	picasso	Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:01
46	answers?	E	Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:25
47		W	Fri Sep 30, 2005 12:32
48	Bring ideas!	grassrootsdissenter	Fri Sep 30, 2005 16:00
49	abstract distractions and makin you mind up (Bucks Fizz, 1982)	triggery	Fri Sep 30, 2005 16:59
50	overtime?	E	Fri Sep 30, 2005 17:17
51	one simple point	triggery	Mon Oct 03, 2005 14:16
52	Some more comments and musings......	C	Mon Oct 03, 2005 19:40
53	As regards secrecy	R. Isible	Mon Oct 03, 2005 23:14
54	?	braeburn	Wed Oct 05, 2005 19:51
55	age and gender balance	d	Sun Oct 09, 2005 20:38
56	slightly off the point	jack white	Mon Oct 10, 2005 14:50
57	i saw last month (what was) city arts centre is still sitting there derelict	dunk	Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:55

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