This is what putting people in a pressure cooker of $8/hr minimum wage, state violence and $1500/mo rents yields.
Also, whatever you think of this action (I happen to be against it because it’s illegal.), acknowledge that mobilizing this many people is the result of invisible forms of organizing, not neccesarily legible to the “left” whose traditions cross-polinate with the professionalized activism of ngos, labor unions and political parties.
It’s just a shame that it was expressed this way. We need major social democratic reforms and avenues for disenfranchised people to exercise political power so these kinds of desperate actions don’t disrupt our lives.
The provocative title is a way to call attention to the ways that overseas reporting and domestic reporting on social conflict differ. A detournament of imperialist propaganda if you will.
I don’t care if anarchists organized this or local teens organized it. Either way it’s working class self activity. We aren’t some special group floating above the working class and directing it, we’re workers fighting for our own interests.
This kind of thinking about the left as separate from the class comes from the professionalization of politics and while it’s sometimes neccesary to pay staff, we should not do it uncritically.