Anti-cuts 'riots' in the UK

[Walsingham]

Ben Leach reports that there are also clashes outside John Lewis in Oxford St. He writes: "There are ongoing clashes between riot police and a group of around 200 anarchists wearing masks, dressed in black and carrying black and red flags and pro-anarchy banners. So far nobody appears to have been arrested or injured and police are being remarkably subdued in the face of constant provocation.

 

"Same group of anarchists have moved back to BHS and are carrying out a sit- down protest while chanting 'BHS pay your tax'. The shop was being defended at one point by just one police officer, who had to move to one side as protesters started banging on windows."

 

From (obviously) the Daily Telegraph.

 

1. I may be wrong, but isn't there something fundamentally awry with anarchists demanding anyone pays tax?

 

2. It strikes me more and more that ''anarchism' is just football hooliganism for the middle classes. And the relationship between 'anarchists' and politics is exactly the same as that between hooligans and football. They co-occur but don't really have anything to do with one another.