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This was no accident – everyone knew that at Newbury the state wanted to break the movement. In reply people were determined to break the state’s resolve to build roads beyond Newbury. Glorious defeats for us meant economic defeat for the Department of Transport. This war of attrition had been rolling now for years but at Newbury both sides wanted to put in the death blow. After over a year of building defences, five months of fighting evictions, night after night of sabotage and a lifetime of manic moments, the clearance was finished; but in the aftermath so was the roads programme.
While most were populated by what The Sun described as the ‘tribe of treepeople’, some were almost entirely done by locals – the type of people who before the ‘road wars’ might have simply written to their MP. Direct action was so big in the ‘90s that it was/is seen as a normal tactic for fighting projects. This generalisation of direct action is one of the many hidden but hugely important victories the movement has had. While there were no major technical innovations in camps over this period (Nine Ladies in 2002 looked pretty like Manchester Airport in 1997 – but smaller) there were many victories.
The following months would see an intensification of ‘violence/nonviolence’ discussions around the country. When the Bill became an Act in November everyone understood that the only way to defeat a possible ‘crackdown’ was by defying it. As the EF! ”(36) The day the Act went through on November 4th, activists from No M11 climbed onto the roof of Parliament and unfurled a banner – Defy The Act. Hunt sabs went out in bigger numbers, more road protest camps were established, free parties flourished.
