#Black blocs windows#
James and a fellow protester not called Jason Sands (32), described as a graduate and a council IT worker, says the bloc enjoys the existential "combination of fear and adrenaline" to be had from smashing bank windows and trashing police vans. There's a lot more stuff like this, but you probably get the drift by now. There is not reform, we only seek your abolition," says Not-Robert. "We are sending a clear message to capitalism that we cannot be bargained with. we are not calling for political reform or changes to the tax system. "We should do our utmost to ensure no one is harmed, but we can't guarantee that people will not be shaken up by scenes of disorder. We are the public," said Robert James (not his real name, by the way – the sheer cunning of it – in case you are tempted to say hi on Facebook), a smartly turned out, unemployed anarchist in his mid-20s, according to Rob Booth and Marc Vallee's enjoyable account. "We are not in any way setting out to terrorise the public. Give or take a few fashionable flourishes, it took me straight back to the nonsense being spouted in the 60s, when I was their age and we were all much poorer. Did you spot the Guardian's Saturday interview with self-styled anarchists involved in the black bloc aggro in small pockets of London's West End 10 days ago?