This is a timely post, huh?
We're days away from MayDay, from theh anniversary of Haymarket and standing ones ground in a telephone exchange.
Thinking over our history, the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centruies was full of bombs bursting in air.
Where are the bombs now?
Will they come back?
Now we have riots, which I take nothing away from.
But where is the Angry Brigade? I'm pretty sure they aren't still sat next to me on the tube. But I know that I'm still angry.
Where are the Bonnot Gang and the BLA (I know they weren't Anarchists, not the point) raiding the banks to fund the revolution?
Where are Ravachol and Leon Czolgosz?
Is there even a place for this sort of action nowadays?
Is it plausible?
Should it be discussed on a public forum?
(hello coppers! )
Propaganda by deed was never a good idea. There wasn't actually that much of it and a lot of what was blamed on anarchists wasn't anarchist at all. A bit like the witch hunts.
Collective action is the way to achieve things, not some individual deciding that they know best.