We predict a riot: Meet the anarchists plotting to overthrow capitalism

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/we-predict-a-riot-meet-the-anarchists-plotting-to-overthrow-capitalism-1654111.html

As the world's grandees jet into London for the G20 summit, they'll be confronted by a mob of incensed anti-capitalists intent on revolution. But since anarchists live by chaos, will they be organised enough to change the world?

By Lena Corner

Sunday, 29 March 2009

Thursday lunch time at the City of London headquarters of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), and at the stroke of one o'clock, 200 people arrive on the pavement outside. Some are wearing red nooses around their necks, others are parading around in top hats and City-boy pinstripes, a few are carrying placards that read, "Storm the banks". A pedal-powered sound system is cranked up and The Fall's anthem to grinding poverty, "F'oldin' Money", blares out across the street.

This is a flash-mob demonstration, mobilised through a Facebook event called "Give us our money back". It's a protest against the Government pouring billions of pounds into the banking industry and the £16.9m pension pot awarded to the former RBS chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin. A man picks up a megaphone. "Congratulations, people," he says. "After the biggest bailout from the poor to the rich that this country has ever seen, this bank now belongs to us. The time has come to claim what is rightfully ours." The protesters applaud wildly. "Whose money?" they chant over and over, "Our money."