Far-right planning Manchester protest
The Mule | 10.08.2009 12:33 | Anti-racism
Far-right organisations the English Defence League and Casuals United have announced they will be holding an ‘anti-Islamic extremism’ protest in Manchester this October.
Yesterday 150 EDL supporters held a protest in Birmingham, which was successfully disrupted by an anti-fascist counter-demonstration. In total 35 people were arrested after clashes in the city centre.
The casuals have stated on their website that their next protests “will be bigger [and] will arrive unannounced and neither the police or the scum [anti-fascists] will know any details.”
The two groups have strong links to a variety of far-right and militant fascist organisations, and were established following demonstrations against returning British troops in Luton earlier this year. Both have attempted (despite links among their members) to distance themselves from the British National Party. Speculation among anti-fascists interprets the groups as a re-emergence of more militant fascism as the BNP becomes more institutionalised.
Their stated purpose is to “stop the enemy within,” namely “these people, whose [sic] agenda is to dominate Britain, and make it an Islamic State,” and the “politically correct traitors … who have brought us to this terrible state of affairs.”
How will Manchester respond?
The casuals have stated on their website that their next protests “will be bigger [and] will arrive unannounced and neither the police or the scum [anti-fascists] will know any details.”
The two groups have strong links to a variety of far-right and militant fascist organisations, and were established following demonstrations against returning British troops in Luton earlier this year. Both have attempted (despite links among their members) to distance themselves from the British National Party. Speculation among anti-fascists interprets the groups as a re-emergence of more militant fascism as the BNP becomes more institutionalised.
Their stated purpose is to “stop the enemy within,” namely “these people, whose [sic] agenda is to dominate Britain, and make it an Islamic State,” and the “politically correct traitors … who have brought us to this terrible state of affairs.”
How will Manchester respond?
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