The blogosphere has begun to react to Smash EDO's Brighton Mayday protest. Here are some of the first posts.

Dan Wilson calls for the protesters to apologise:

"This protest wasn't peaceful. Paint. Flares. Windows smashed. Graffiti. Vandalism. Police. Inconvenience. Traffic chaos. Customers discouraged. Shut streets. Thousands of businesses in Brighton were adversely affected. And yet the one company you didn't inconvenience was EDO. Any rational person calls that failure. It's time to take responsibility and apologise to the people of Brighton."

A blog written by an anonymous police officer, Sheepdogs and Wolves, who argues the protesters should have been left to get on with it, to demonstrate the importance of police containment of protests:

"Because of the massive amount of negative press surrounding the G20 and police tactics, a more low key and standoff approach seems to have been adopted in deference to containing from the outset. It didn't work, and it kicked off.

"The lack of assertive action in containing a crowd that had violent intent has made the Op Commanders in Brighton look likes dicks and has caused the guys and girls on the ground to get more grief and suffer attack for the SMT's fear of looking bad on YouTube and on Newsnight."

Indymedia's report of the protest:

"From then on, the protest became a game of cat-and-mouse - although it was sometimes hard to tell who was the cat and who the mouse. Protesters managed to force back mounted police several times, while police hastily re-grouped around the protest as it moved into residential districts and through Preston Park. However, neither protesters nor police seemed to have a plan as such, and after much walking and a few minor scuffles - including the arrest of one man by riot police - the protest moved back into the town centre."

Jon Silver says it was the police rather than the protesters who sparked fear in Brighton yesterday:

"Literally scores of vans driving in at speed, disgorging vast crowds of police with helmets, batons and shields - that's what people find scary. I witnessed one cyclist being physically, bodily stopped by a motorcycle policeman. It's all so physical, rather too paramilitary, and wholly disproportionate. I also wonder what would have happened if the protest hadn't been policed at all; would we end up with massive criminal damage in the town, or a largely peaceful protest? Do the police contain violence, or provoke it?"

Superlative says the protesters have achieved the opposite of what they set out to do:

I really don't get it. If people care about the cause of their protest they would already be attending it; if they don't, then getting in their way is just going to make them hate you and hate your cause by association. I now feel compelled to campaign for the presence of the arms factory in Brighton just because I'm so cross. Have you seen a blog reporting or commenting on the day's events? Email Jo Wadsworth