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Inside G-8 Anarchists

A Scotsman reporter infiltrates the network of anarchists and protestors preparing for the upcoming G-8 summit in Scotland:

It was a world in which neo-hippy mumbo-jumbo met hardline, expert protest technique. Activists met in circles - use of a table was regarded as too corporate - and indicated their approval or disapproval of decisions by waving both their hands in the air, hokey-cokey style (up for agree, down for disagree). But there was a more serious side. Surnames were never used and all talk of the direct actions that are inevitable were quickly closed down due to fears of infiltration.