Outdoor political activity is clearly a weapon not to be given away lightly.
Anatole Kagan is 93 and understands this. He told me a week ago that he wants to march on Saturday, September 8. He's going blind but says he can see what "Howard and the authorities" are up to; his wife Dawn reads him the newspapers and his favourite blogs in the morning and he listens to the radio and television. There's no way he is going to be frightened away by talk of terrorism, police searches, water cannon, robocops, emptied prisons, and mobile holding cells.
"The real terrorists are going to be on the other side of the wall," he says. Anatole is a life member of the Labor Party, an old Trotskyist whose father was a St Petersburg Menshevik, expelled with his whole family from the new Soviet republic in 1922. The family settled in Berlin where Anatole's father set up as a publisher – Trotsky and Freud were two of his authors. During his teenage years, Anatole witnessed the rise of the Nazis and left Berlin forever after Kristalnacht in 1938.
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