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~—..-_~:- ;.-'.-- _- September 2080;: having experienced the delights of Section B0 orders in London on the N30 and Mayday 2000 actions, many anti- authoritarians went to Prague with a sense of foreboding. But the explosive power of the diversity, courage and ingenultyof the demonstrators that city galva:r1i;sed a new sense of confidence and faith in themselves.

Throughjoining the battle on the bridge with the white overalls, chasing around the valley below, dodging the blast bombs in the main square and creating effective affinity groups, some questions had to be answered. How to create effective actions in the UK, how to confront increasingly repressive police tactics, how to protect ourselves and each other from state violence. One of the answers was to form the White Overalls .l‘viovemerrt Building Libertarian Effective Struggles.

The idea was simple. A large padded, well organised blockusing protective shields, formed as a barrier on mass actions that could be capable of repelling attacks by police.

The constant challenging of ideas and perceptions and traditions has led us to become la diverse group of individuals involved in many different issues all united through a horizontal organisation, direct action and a desire to fundamentally change society.

-g—-——-——-ii We initially wanted the vvombles to he an anarchistllibertarian communist organisa- tion with new ideas and to continue developing ways on how we could support struggles for social change.

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It movement in Italy as they had created it not to be specific to any tradition.but for .¢..-5% iii}!" _ ','-'-LL‘!.-1.53-;-','.;'-"Vi".-_._._.\:-._.~;;_i,=_£§l£I_l_:_-:9‘;_ '"~ ._-1'“.:_-IrI.-I . ‘ -'=‘=r-1=-=*<:-.;, -.- ‘civil society’ to legitimise civil disobedience against institutions they saw as illegiti- -'-.-L:,,_.1t.-___.-

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J. W ‘legal philosophy’, a people's legality that could communicate to an institutional _ "-‘I“A _.-_-at1'.__;-_ J-1|-I‘ . ;n-__j. legality. This process went hand hand with the particular development of the italian white overallsfYa Basra! movement. To legitimise their actions they continously de- illI-1 _-in....._..._._.-.-_.-___. legitimised their enemies actions, therefore creating a clear form of struggle, mani- V gig: festing itself in most cases in mass demonstrations against detention centres, bio- technological conferences, transnational business conferences essentially the infra- structure and support systems of the new world order of capitalist globalisation. ‘git-.

These were some of the aspects weatternpted to try out here in the UK to varying decrees of success. The tactic, social centres, inclu- sivity. _ *

in italy where there is a strong social ease of radical activity, primary revolving around institutionalised and non-institutionalised ‘social centres’, there was already a culture of resistance that in cases were cross-generational, something in the UK [apart perhaps from old mining communities] we had lost. This proved difficult in terms of mobilising ‘civil society’ due to the lack of connections peole had with radical activity. Q

We therefore attempted to occupy empty ibuilings initially for the purpose of having a space to organise and then to create a social basis and service to the local community. We found that the nature of our actions affected the safety of liberated spaces and have led

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ii creating social centres have proved to he difficult in this current climate. | l

We never had any ‘official’ connection with the white overalls movement in ltaly, nor did we thought it was neccessary to considering our belief in an autonomy of action and that we had developed from our own political culture in the UK. There was also many criti- cisms of Ya Basta! which made up ta lare proportion of the white overalls movement, mainly the hierarchical discipline and authori- l l tarism on actions. This was seen first hand Genoa at the G8 actions where some Ya Bastal stewards attacked anarchists and people i who smashed ta few windows near there march. Whatever view you have of property damage, it is completely unacceptable to physi-

i cally attack other comrades who have other-‘ways of attacking capitalism. There has been a continued dis-association in part with ele- ments of the white overalls ;move ment after Genoa but the aspects which we are trying to develop here in the UK are still as relevant s l as ta year ago. The creation of a social basis connected with radical activity, the do-legitimisation of capitalist institutions “Ii through education and direct action and the self-critical nature, therefore non-dogmatic outlook to’ political and social activity.

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l 1 l 27 April Mayday Convergence Centre opened by SEPTEMBER - ZOOO t’ll.O.llfl.B.L.E.S. underground crew. Over a hundfed people “No one has the right to tell you what to do. if some attend it over the four days that it was Open. Included 28 Sepitlilihi-to Overalls affinity groupjoins-the ~YellowtBloc to Shut down-international Monetary Fund and 0-fie PAS-l?@5 ll@l-l_fll'~<>l-lt?I1- (ll -all flilymhb fll llllllle TB-l"llll*-1'1" talks and workshops from NEFAC [North American liliorld Bank meeting in Pragiue, Czech Republic. Sllailml halill‘-’-'_"fll|l‘-‘Al fill-ill YB"-l illfim ilalllb 5° 9° Federation of Anarchist Communists] who talk about on, fuclung hrt me. l’ll let you.‘fou‘ll get hnackered, and their experiences in Quebec ami_F-[AA actions OCTOBER i’ll get stronger". 14 Oct 1,000 leaflets distributed at Anarchist Bookfair about the “l have lear -ed o e the course of our . . r n ‘J r need for protection on demonstrations. MAY existence that without a social basis or 1 May Mayday Monopoly. Dec-entralised autonomous actions all over the capital. Hundreds of thousands of ll connection with a community, wherever l people decide to stay home for "fear of being impaled by samurai swords, most main streets clear of all traf- that community manifests itself, any DECEMBER l ll fic, £20 million worth of economic damage {i.e. no one bought anythingll. 20 W.O.M.B.l..E.S. along with a altemptalalla-1;!-ting the rnsiwrraas at 20 Dec Mayday 2001 mini-conference at the Button Factory in |. capitalism will result-in~a propagation or - v Brixton, London. Groupsfrom all over London and UK attend to thousand strong crowd attempt to break people out of Section 60 orders. Several hundred escape, most a ghettorzed movement”. 9|-939559 ;Mayday_ don't [oh welll]

JUNE - -wt-'5 lANUARY 2001 —'. ‘a1 L .-.r 2 lune Solidarity with Mayday prisoners called by WAR and ,

l '\— it 31$‘- 9&3. 16 Jan 10th anniversary of bombing of Iraq action at Parliament | O.M.B.l..ES as opposed to the globalise resi liberal fetish | i i Sq with various ‘non-violent’ civil disobedience groups and Samba 1 of sueing the Met police. Banners read “End state repression" and S ' band. Parliament Square blocked for an hour. 12 W.O.M.B.L.E.S. r-: 3|" ‘Q _- _ . : I . -'- __ _ . .. _ _ . :1 *_l'___: ‘E release all prisoners" - '. ._~_.-5 ~ ‘ ls. .*. . -“ . "‘ " . ‘*‘"‘l‘" ' i -—---w-____i._. I -1-? r - form a line and give some protection from police attack. Il r I or I I Y I 2 June Day of workshops. Over 70 people attend a , - -_- MARCH v vari-ety of worltsl1ops on tactics, politics and future actions. ‘ - i. 1 ' , |' -' ‘Ll | __ __ _ . . - _ . l, -‘__ E ll rlhitF r :-_- LI‘: .. 5. I I r _' :_.-:2-' -_ ' , '.,_ ‘.-r I 11 March Invasion of Nike Town, London in solidarity with the -_ .. _ . a _-_ ._ ‘___ I lhunt" -I =2". I.‘ -I-'_ E‘.‘L;1-.‘I. E..._l _.\_._.- . . I-_ - - __ . '1 if E-1*.~“*-.-"~-.;_1.~,-_--__:_'_.*- ..r.-5-:“@;;=i";. _. L:-_,;______I 1;-1;"; ___, , striking Nilte workers in Mexico and the Zapatistas struggle for I '-- ~.__._,,_ '_-r-|_1L_#__§_.,£ _ .. _ Ii‘1.? . i - _ _ - -1 -,.,--.-- _-- ~ ..L,1 5-I_ - -.'..,-I "1- 1,“ __ _ 1_._ ~- __- 4... ;I _.,. :_ __ I . '.-.- I £?3;='.~---._.-.---1'. .1-Jr-'-1:--"" ...--. % . - Slur-re Action against corporate rnedia. Affinity group action to tar- -ii -,1I{.-;.*,--.- * '*-'1-'1"'}¥;»-it-'-. _ -' "i "- _ -C . '-"-.--.'~;\';' ' ' !"' "-""-‘-_._' .1-' -54» -.'.- . |..4"‘ r-'. . - ' .-~. $313‘-Jr? '- - - '.' -' . -.-"'_f-'.;- £11.. '.-.;T_'.1i\'._‘hj-...----." it---",'i15.'-;~"' _' -"_ _-' _'_\,9 __-'11:. --re’_ .- - ' ' ' 11..-r-'- . _- _- -_.;__.3;-.:--_.--."-_._;' 1-l'__' ._;y ,- ' .-_-_;r-. -'-_—'r: ;_|__ --.3, __ 1' 1 , 1 1?-__:, ._.. autonomy. 30 people dressed in white overalls arejoined by 50 - _;-"-_*".-.f1'§-'-‘¢_'_-T-=g‘i-_-?'._-..5%‘.-:;+4, ts? J E; _-:-_ 1,-' * ' -':r.l",.- "-‘?7'_1E" _-.+-" ~ ""1 = - '. - .- . . -_ . _- J,.r.- .\_ _ .L_~ " '- -. get certain corporate media offices is foiled by dozens of police. r F'r:f.'-I-:'I"""'_'l.l'-.-...''-.-__-'-,'.;:'.‘.;"':' activists and other passers-by for the action. Nike Town closed “'-'r*'~"r.-'''--".*i'i".='.fii'-.-=-I-.1’-M-..-@‘E?’;'t'-i.it-.*-'-';''""..'1':'.'1-'-‘r‘-.7".'.‘rt,-a.'5-_.;-.;-:'-,-I-'.-*-"-lg,-:-_-.'.-"*‘-_:‘-'-._.l'-7to-I:-__.'-‘"_,r._.-r"_:,.|-IIIE"f;E-::-.I'1||.:’!ll;__-r"?l|"':1l:_-.-.;-I-.'r-‘f.rrI1.-'‘=.=_-;.-"'.1.'‘xi-'*-.-‘-1-";<'.*.1_-ti-,f"';:'|._a'--.-!;;tI-31..-y-,._4'=."':}§'l'-"fl-3-‘""-‘'-'-'"'-n‘.-“"-'~--v.1--._--"l".'l‘>“‘l.--'... --res.-;=_.-_-:--__---..-_--=..~.i.*-_--..»c-;y1----‘A_ idea of the action was to respond to social criminalisation of dissent on Mayday.

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r spend election day handing out hundreds of Vote Nobody leaflets. rhut down the Global meeting of capitalists and politicians. 30,000 people attend. Mucho rioting! i

l 15 June Anti-Ell action “it's easier for the WOMBLES to define our concerns than it is our politics: a subject !_3-25 March Participation of European PGA meeting, Milan. W.O.M.B.L.E.S. call for a white overalls discus- of perpetual discussion. ion with all interested groups including Ya Bastal Milano, Swedish White Overalls, Finnish Ya Bastal, NYC Ya Gothenburg. White Overalls ‘civiil disobedience’ action to down lastal Collective, w.o.1v1.a.t.r.s., l.@s invisbles-Madrid. Surprisingly most new white overalls groups started in conception and origin, the White Overalls movement distinguished itself from rorn Prague yellow block and are composed of anarchists alienated from ‘traditional’ anarchist politics. EU Pre-emptive strike other movements in electing to abandon ideologies, thereby eschewing the potential by police arrest majority of for restrictiveness, repression and alienation incurred by rigid adherence kto political LPREI-l. Overalls groups and confismte all doctrine and dogma. 11 April Sale of the Century ‘ ‘lprotective -gear. The rest is “My understanding of the Wombles was that it was a simple anarchist organisation, of our friends have now llllhile we do not consider ourselves to be a carbon copy of Tute Blanche, ( and ublic meetin attended by aspects of our social context malce this unrealistic) l consider this feature to be cen- ver 80 people. In the lead however clearly it seems to be more complex then for example the anarchist federation been sentenced to 1 to 2 1f2 years or the SWP. l have noticed that some of the Wombles are perhaps more hardline in their prison. tral to the White Overalls philosophy of inclusivisrn. - 1 Mayday, heavy media expo- anarchism then others. The problem l have is that all Marxist and anarchist organisations _re and various visits from the Llnl other unnamed comrades, we are able to recognise the value of, and neces- tend to become hegemonistic in their discourse thereby promoting some kind of a pure ‘l3 lune Solidarity with szz creates a need for a sity for, a drive towards unity-in-diversity; of approach, strategy, politics and philoso- proletarian culture which is based on class homogeniety thereby ignoring or at least rele- Gothenburg prisoners. Solidari eeting to explain what the gating the reality of cultural, ethnic or religious homogeniety. This can lead to ignorance “White is the sum of all colours" as the ltalians frequently observe. We can be ~ .O.M.B.l..E.S. are and what which is a disease rampant throughout both the left and the right within the framework picket at Swedish enibassy. First of said to epitornise the rich and vibrant spectrum of the global movement for free- oposeto do on Mayday. of Western Orientalist culture. The Zapatistas are challenging this hegemonistic outlook several held comrades are dom and equality, against authority and repression. and are a revolutionary movement which acknowledges the reality of class struggle but being ed. As such, the wouetts are informed, but not bound, by diverse political, philosoph- r April Public Civil does not seek to abolish culture or religion, namely the traditions and customs which for- mulate the basis for the Chiapanecos way of life. Hence the Zapatistas have redefined 29 lune March against ,Ra-cism and ical and ideological influences. Open minded, intuitive, and willing to absorb what- -sobedlience workshop at there cultural and religious traditions in a revolutionary way with regards to Mayan folk- ever is valuable or relevant. rde Park. Film crews, Fonivarrd ty,Tottenham. Sma lore, and Christian liberation theology thereby combining it with revolutionary and anti- contingent of people dressed in -telligence’ Teams iF.l.T.] and Our structure is non-hierarchical, so every individuafs ideas are equally welcome capitalist politics. People are what they are, and with regards to religion, it is clear that ' overalls burn up to the ant burmys attend an open it is important to the Zapatista communities and has provided freedom, liberation and and valid. Our similarities unite us in a common struggle; our differences perpetuate march after bein invited -by sever; orlcshop on tactics. some sense of self realisation. " our evolution, engendering adaptability, spontaneity and creativity.” -all organisations, hearing about Golheniblur and our stance aai.nst police lbrrutal J

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:- ‘ ‘._ -_.-. . . up authority and is essentially a group of people with different desires and . ~." 7 July W.0.M.B.l_.E.S. picnic, Wimbledon. ii st -.- different bacltgrourids who support iLilESrE two ideas, when i put on a white About 50 peopleattend picnic on _- suit (i will only consider inyself a wonible when l wear white), it will only be to support these two ideas and for whatever reason the specific demo Wimbledon Common supported by two happens to be. riot vans with FIT scurrying about. Cops distribute leaflets to local community at The ltalian Whitie Overalls, the Tut-e Blanche ...how do we relate in terms warning of baby-eating anarchists; cg’? of syrnbolisrn and identity? To it is clear: from a historical perspective, WOMBLES welcomed into local pubs! we are based upon draw strongly from them for our inspiration. Yet we are also based upon the Zapatistas and the Ya Basta network - no ‘I9-21 July Direct action against G8, matter that we are not a formal part of their network and we don't sub- Genoa. Mobilisation of people interested scribe or donate financially towards the struggle in Chiapas. There are more ways than one of suhscribling - to ideas, political philosophies, good in the civil disobedience bloc for Genoa. will and healing, peace love. and looking after each othet." 20 people from the W.0.M.B.l_.E.S. go to insult Genoa including Iarrghhh! l] an under- cover Telegraphjourno!

19-21 July Close down detention centres, t;am;psfield.. Solidarity action for Genoa against G8 and Campsfield. Heavy police presence leads to camp being evicted and plans generally beingn buggered. Day of Action turns into a Day of Walking around Dxford. Many heated discussions on what went wrong, what went right; hopefully many lessons leamed. n¢. About 413 people dress in Dveirarlls; many new people {they can't all bejournaiistsll

2? luly lrivasiosn of ltalian fionsulate, Gardiff. Splinter action by white overalls in Cardiff temporary occupy ltallan *Go;nsu-lat. ,

28 iuly invasion of Bennetolri, solidarity with Genoa. An affinity group invades Bennetton at Oxford Circus . others hand miit leaflets and hold a massive ‘fiastrate G8’ banner outside. Much support from people, I. due to heavy media ooverae and natural outrage at what happened in Genoa, who need no explanation on why we are pi'otesti.ri.

SEiPTEM BER 2001 11 S-epte:m;ber Disarrn DSEi ainms exhiibistion, London Docldands. A fiesta for life against d-earth, included a pink and silver carnival, a critical mass cycle action, and actions l “ lt’s easier for the W0iM%BtES to mfine our concerns than it is our politics: a subject of perpetual discussion. " from tendon, Bristol, Cardiff and Slheffield WGMBLES. Even as we defended ourselves from police violence, I the events in New Yorlt the whole issue of arms, state violence and the day-to-day oppression of are we hung up on thisooncept of politics v concerns v tactics. There is no distinction {in my rnind) between our ordinary people to the "fore. The cops get g . " ‘merits’ and our politics Dior politics are that we care! We want everything for everyone! title want the right to choose for ourselves and tor everyone to have complete freedom. Our ‘cone-ems‘ are all those things that getin the way of that freedom. Be that wpitalisin. organised religion. government or any other forrn of illegitimate authority. so September Gatecrash itafbouirls ;Party, Brighton Lash-our party conference. Organised protests and blocados aainst the repir-esentatives of state sponsored iBritisl1 capitalism. a complete cop over-reaction, five The question of being an '.einarchist' group or not and whether we have an ideology is a SElTl3ll[i£ point almost. Even an lili0NlB§l.E$ were arrested for wearing white overalls. anti-ideology is an ideology of sorts. To argue that anardiisrn (or the wornbles) is not an ‘ideology’ (defn. ‘The body of ideas reflecting the social and aspirations of an individual, group, class. or culture’) is wrong. There is clearly a 7 Gctober US and Britissh bombs and missiles start to fall on the wornbles ideology. distinction is that there is no woinbles dogma. We are people that have come togecther around a goal with -a set of aspirations Sonie of us are happy to use the broad terrn ‘anarchist’ to explain .. people ofAfghanistan. with “No War But The Class War", those aspirations, soine are not. it is pretty bloody irrelevant llll0M.BLES took part a series spontaneous actions to remind what label you wear. struggles thing! the state that their violence will not go unopposed. l would like to that the,W"DMrBLES are than a tactic. if we are a tactic we are a reactive force. We need to ‘I3 October Anti-War demo, London. Tens of thousands march be proactive. The least iilrppfifllflifll thing about the WDMBLES to is the WON i'rn more interested the Bl.E_S bit of aainst violence, hate and militarism. in solidarity with the people the acroriyni. tilte sonieone said last night, a wornble 2-417 it isn't a -question of being clack ltent till the suit goes on. P It ,, arrested in -Brighton for wearing white overalls, arid to show that We should be all fronts at all tirnes. A demo, to be honest is mostly the least useful thing we can be doing to mag about gggial qjlaange, §l_»el['s get there pad up and stop that asyluiin sleeker being flown to some shitnole we were not cowe-cl thy their repression {0K, and to wind the cops regizrne. l_et’s defend the council and let‘-s build a social iinovenierit, let's tall: to people our area, build .... -‘I.-1 up} a gang of lltlD;lvll-BLES donned some overalls, dragged surveil-

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