It's a pity the demonstrations at Nice are published as if the main target of them are the police and not the EU policies. Personally I don't care a damn about the Nice police but I am quite worried about EU. And I am also worried about a political athmosphere that pictures popular protesters as hooligans that just want some streetfighting. And I would be even more worried if the picture was true. And the more the picture is published the more true it will be, I think, since such pictures are largely self-fulfilling. Take care, do't let it be so.

Jan Wiklund

Obviously the demonstrations are not against the Nice Police, do you think everyone came there to demonstrate against cops?!!! You fail to understand that the police are there PROTECTING corporate interest, and what can the protesters do other then protest this? As for squeamishness in regards to the "violence" of protesters, I went to the Seattle WTO 99 protests, and the MEDIA (another protector of corporate interest, boasting at least 60% ad space) DEMONIFIED about 30 protesters who were dressed in black and breaking things. What is 30 in comparison to 50,000 which was the number of people PARTICIPATING AS A WHOLE IN PEACEFUL protests?

They instead should have thanked their lucky stars it didn't turn into the LA riots. Stop whining, after all, the media wouldn't give a shit if protesters just sat around in the space allotted to them and then went home. Protest does not mean conform to the rules, my friend. Stop being so PC and let everyone fight the 'battle of nice' VIVE LA FRANCE!!!!!!!!

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Little worried about where the movement is going. The Hague climate change protests, which I attended, as well as Seattle and Prague, seemed a lot more focussed on issues of the third world and the enviroment. Whats going on at Nice, as characterised by not only the corporate press but also in the article above, seems to be dominated by militant ideologues. (Worried particularly by the coalition building going on with nationalists like ETA. Are we going to see Trotskyists and Anarchists joining up with the National Front next?) Plus needs to be clearer pronunciation of principles as regards the EU rather than just ranting on about Seattle, WTO, globalisation and the police as we can convince everyone that they'll all the same thing. We have to be more sophisticated than that otherwise are going to lose.

My article above was a reportage of what went on in the part of the attempted blockade I was on, not a political analysis.

As it was there have been a number of meetings addressing the bosses strategy of the EU which in turn lies behind the need to make the world work for Capital.

The real problem in Nice as in the rest of the anti-capitalist demos is how we link the power of working people which you could quite clearly see on Wednesday - and believe me there were well over 100 000 people not the 70 000 that the police estimate- to the more radical activists, it's happening a bit the COBRAS union were on the blockade as were the spanish CGT and Unison from the UK, but it's not enough to beat the police.

But I think Nice was generally good, very few arrests, and a good mobilisation, now lets see if we can take it further.