Ignore The Fucking Hipsters Crying Into Their Cornflakes, Long Live The Fucking #FuckParade
Rarely has there been a more open display of arrogant entitlement than the alliance of pampered hipsters and Tory scum who have lined up across the media to attack yesterday’s anti-gentrification protest in Shoreditch. From ‘High Society Darlings’ in The Independent to the usual spittle-flecked tirades in The Telegraph, the establishment are united in their revulsion that working class people could not only organise themselves, but took a step beyond the usual stale political marches and petitions that we are supposed to use to air our grievances.
By all sensible accounts last night’s Fuck Parade – organised by Class War and named after similar anti-gentrification protests in Berlin – was a huge success. Hundreds of people took to the streets for a party and protest that has lit up the debate about gentrifcation in London. At one point an estate agent’s window was shattered, whilst some paint and cornflakes…
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