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Anarchists Smashed the Windows of East London's Crappy New Jack the Ripper Museum

  • Posted on: 10 August 2015
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)
Anarchists Smashed the Windows of East London's Crappy New Jack the Ripper Museum

Via VICE:

Last week VICE reported that a new museum that promised to celebrate the Suffragete movement and the women of East London had opened—but turned out to be a museum about Jack the Ripper, a man who is famous for mutilating and murdering women.

This week the understandable outrage has boiled over into public protest. On Tuesday the Greens, Lib Dems, Communist Party, and other left-wing groups held a demo outside the proposed museum. On Wednesday night it was the turn of anarchist rabble-rousers Class War and a bunch of their rowdy friends to voice their hostilities.

This Confidential Police Log Shows How Cops Lost the Streets of London to Anarchists During the Poll Tax Riots

  • Posted on: 2 April 2015
  • By: Anonymous (not verified)

From Vice - By Solomon Hughes

Twenty-five years ago, on March 31, 1990, a massive demonstration against Margaret Thatcher's poll tax turned into a huge riot that spread across central London—shop windows were smashed, cars were set ablaze and people were hurt.