Take Back The City

dublin | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis Sunday September 25, 2005 18:20 by W

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!