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Leicester will be the death of the EDL

anon@indymedia.org (Leicester Antifascist) | 10.09.2010 20:24

After getting well and truly battered in Bradford the EDL think that they will rally their troops in Leicester. They hope to forge an unlikely alliance of Sikhs, Hindus and white supremacists against the "muzzies". This will fail and Leicester's strong Asian community will make sure they are sent packing.

The EDL reckon they're going to get 3,000 to Leicester. They said they'd have 5,000 in Bradford and that only turned out to be 700 so we'll be expecting about 400 of them this time. They're a dwindling force desperate for new allies.

That's why some of them are trying to stir up tensions between different religious groups within the Asian community in the vain hope that armies of Sikhs and Hindus will join them. Fortunately most of Leicester's Asians realise that the real enemies are the EDL and not their Muslim neighbours. They know that the EDL aren't too discriminate when bashing "Pakis" as seen in their attack on a Hindu temple in Dudley.

Already the most desperate and clueless "antifascist" group, the UAF, are trying to get people to their demonstration. Antifascists in Leicester should not trust the UAF, who have grassed up other antifascists to the police and whose tactics are a diversion from real antifascism. Their demonstrations, miles away from the EDL, have given confidence and room to manoeuvre to our enemies.

The most serious opposition to the EDL has always come from autonomous organisation. In Bradford, when some EDL members broke out of their pen and headed towards Asian areas intent on causing trouble, it was men and women of the local community, joined by white antifascists, who dealt with them in no uncertain terms. The EDL took a good hiding that day.

We need to get people out on the streets to oppose the EDL. We need to protect ourselves from the racists and the police by masking up and working with our friends, making sure we stay outside of police kettles and cordons. We need to make sure that all of Leicester's communities know what is happening and don't stay at home.

Now is the perfect time to finish off the EDL. They were whipped in Bradford and are being torn apart between rival factions. Their leaders crave a respectability they will never get, the Nazis want a race war, and the average member is sick of both. They're not singing any more!

The EDL have bitten off more than they can chew by choosing Leicester. We'll make sure that they are soundly defeated on the streets by finishing off the demolition job that was begun in Bradford.


anon@indymedia.org (Leicester Antifascist)
- http://nottingham.indymedia.org.uk/articles/441