Statement on the 'infiltration' by Telegraph journalist

24/07/01:

We assume that at every meeting there are at least one journalist and one Special Branch officer. Therefore we are shocked but not surprised about the 'infiltration'. Here is some more info on how the Wombles organise.

The Wombles are an open network. We do not have a membership and all meetings are publiclly advertised. This allows us to be more welcoming to people without putting demands on people coming into the movement by asking them to 'join'.

People are Wombles if they take part in the civil disobedience actions and can become part of the organising of them at public meetings. This also allows journalists like "Tom" Thomas Harding {who most of us thought was an OK person} to be part of it. We do not have anything to hide and are open about our intentions on demonstrations and how we are going to react to police attacks.

We do not care about laws. It is not an issue to us. We seek to build a militant movement of anti-authoritarian anti-capitalists that can give support to struggles against capitalism and the state. The tactic we use in this period relies on mass civil disobedience, therefore we believe in self-defence.

We are for confrontation and have said this from the start; we see the best way to involve people in confrontation is by being public, accountable and as visible as possible as we do NOT have anything to hide.

We will spread the information about Thomas Harding to every organisation in the country, with a picture, warning people to expose him whenever he turns up to any demonstrations, pickets, public meetings and social events. Personally I think {and I honestly also think other people in the WOMBLES agree} that a physical reaction is unneccesary. We are here to fight capitalism, not some small parasite journalist.

The W.O.M.B.L.E.S. have faced heavy repression with many people being surveyed by undercover police, undercover journalists, people exposed in the press, people arrested, injured {especially in Genoa} and demonised. But we think we are right and 'they' are wrong. We have come more defiant and confident in what we do: we will never stop until we see the old world destroyed.

Smash Fascism! Smash Capitalism!

W.O.M.B.L.E.S.

La Lucha Sigue!

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