Lets just nuke London. No more bankers, politicians or protestors. Everyone's a winner!

@CMISO: Yes, but protest from people who know exactly what they want. An "Anti-G20" protest that consist of 50% of people who don't exactly know that the G20 is and what they do is a bit useless.

I think they are barking at the wrong tree...

Maybe they should protest against Gordon Brown first of all? He is representing the UK in the G20 after all...

No it isn't.

Are you sure? I don't know...but I would also not be surprised either.....

by the way, there is a really good documentary, called "let's make money".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD_i4tDqZCk&feature=related

The protesters are not just turning up to protest. This is an action against the capitalist system itself. The long term aim is to destroy the capitalist system and replace it with a system based on production for need not profit.

If you want to learn more about the alternative to capitalism then there are tons of left wing bookshops in London as well as left wing websites where you can go to find out it in depth.

But basically what the alternative to capitalism would be would be the placing off all the means of production, distribution and exchange under democratic workers control.

By the way the anarchist protesters have their own news and information website here where the weeks events in London can be followed:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk

democratic workers control??? what/who's this?
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As far as I’m aware, most businesses that provide ‘production, distribution or exchange’ are privately owned. Assuming that my business fell into a ‘production, distribution or exchange’ category (which it doesn’t, I provide a service), I wonder exactly which ‘democratic workers’ would come and place my business under their control? I think I might have something to say about that ..... I think most people who had worked hard to build up their ‘production, distribution or exchange’ enterprise would object to someone walking in and telling them that so-called ‘democratic workers’ were now going to control their business. With this in mind, forcing people to do something that they don’t want to do is not anarchy or enforcing communist ideals, it is basically a dictatorship (i.e. we want this to happen, and it’s going to happen whether you want it to or not).

Don't the Co-Op already do that?

I don't know. But some companies do this - they either share the revenue amongst all - or at least invest it into the company to create new jobs.

Some companies have to give all the revenue to the owners - who spend it...or save it in order to rank higher on the Forbes list - such as Wallmart, Ikea, Aldi....

So we will end up like early 20th C Russia? Great. Basically its a motion to make everyone more equal in theory, but in practice everyone wants to be better off. To remove hegemony and competition is to remove human nature from the equation. Communism assumes that society can act like a machine.