abstract:The WOMBLES (White Overalls Movement Building Libertarian Effective Struggles) are a loosely aligned anarchist and anti-capitalist group based in London. They gained prominence in the early 2000s for wearing white overalls with padding and helmets at protests, mimicking the Italian group Tute Bianche.
OBEs also go to Nowhere Boy director and artist Sam Taylor Wood, veteran actor Bernard Cribbins, who narrated The Wombles, and BBC Radio 2 DJ "Whispering" Bob Harris.
He said they wanted to speak to residents, shopkeepers, parents, young people, council workers, youth leaders, faith organisations and the so-called "riot wombles", who cleared up after the disorder.