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Around a dozen protesters were in Canary Wharf last night to, "dance on the grave of capitalism."

Dressed in ghoulish costumes the street theatre anti-capitalists travelled from an earlier protest at the Occupy London camp at St Pauls.

The anti-capitalist protests in The City spilled into Canary Wharf this morning when a group of activists held a small rally in Reuters Plaza.

Around 50 campaigners turned out to listen to speeches from economists and to try and engage with the banking community in the Wharf about the economic problems faced by society.

Click here to see The Wharf's pictures of the protests.

Protesters were penned in by riot police for more than eight hours as G20 protests were hit by spasms of violence.

Wine bottles were thrown and an effigy of a banker was burned from a lamppost as frustrations grew at the immovable cordon around Bank station.