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Amsterdam anti-fascists call out for resistance against EDL demonstration

Antifa!-Amsterdam & AFA-netherlands | 15.10.2010 12:00 | Anti-racism

Press release: Amsterdam anti-fascists call out for resistance against pro-Wilders EDL demonstration.

On the 30th of October the notorious racist hooligans from the English Defence League (EDL) are planning a demonstrative gathering on the Museumplein in Amsterdam.
They do this to express their support for Geert Wilders while he awaits the verdict in his prosecution for hate incitement en discrimination. They also want to use this event to launch an pan-european movement with new divisions formed in the Netherlands and France.
The EDL are an mixed collection of racists, neo-Nazi’s and hefty hooligans who in Great-Britain organise regular demonstration that most of the times end in brutal violence against random members of the public, cops and counter protestors.


Only last weekend 1500 cops in Leicester couldn’t prevent that boozed up and drugged out EDL members broke out of their demonstration and vandalised multiple shops, attempted to storm an mosque, attacked journalists en assaulted migrants.
At a previous solidarity demonstration with Wilders masked EDL members chanted repeatedly racist abuse.
Prominent figures in the EDL are several members of the fascist BNP party, lots of hooligans convicted for serious violence and the notorious Northern-Irish terrorist Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair.
Also within the recently launched Dutch branch, the “Dutch Defence League” you can find very controversial figures. A prominent role seems to be reserved for the extreme-rightwing professional activist Ben van der Kooi, an regular member on anything between Pim Fortuijn remembrances too all out neo-Nazi demonstrations who in 2006 only on a technicality got cleared of arson in an Rotterdam mosque.
Like Wilders the EDL/DDL offer no solution for the very real problems facing our society but only spread their poison of hate and intolerance.
 
Because of this, Antifa!-Amsterdam and AFA (AntiFascist Action)-Netherlands call out everybody to come to the Museumplein on the 30th of October in resistance against this racist scum.
They appeal to anyone fed up with the tsunami of hate, discrimination and intolerance that is engulfing the Netherlands at the moment. An appeal to anyone who no longer wants to see how people are oppressed and pitted against each other. They call out for everybody too, each in their own way but loud and clear, show that day that enough is more than enough.
Because like someone recently said at an information evening organised by AFA “If the EDL are an indication for what awaits us if Wilders gets his wished for paramilitary’s then broad but uncompromising resistance is an bitter necessity”.
 
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EDL - Prepare to get your arses kicked

15.10.2010 14:42

The UK cops have let the EDL wankers do whatever they want while simultaneously coming down hard on antifascists. Fascists are not welcome in Amsterdam and there are some excellent antifascists there who would kick the arses of the posing EDL wankers with ease. Hope at least one of these fascist tourists gets shipped back in a fucking box. Happy hunting comrades.

635er

The only good fascist is a dead one

15.10.2010 20:38

Ditto to the previous comment. The paradox of confronting fascism is that it cannot be fought with 'liberal democratic' means. We know who the leaders of the EDL are. We all know what fate they deserve.

Buenaventura

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635 MIDDLE CLASS WANKERS

15.10.2010 22:14

Ha!, we ran not just your Jihad mates, but had you on your toes at several demos,
Yes your hard, when your 20 on to 1.
The moment numbers are equal you run like fuck.
Fuck off back to your midddle class suburbs.

635 MIDDLE CLASS WANKERS

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Yeah, Yeah

15.10.2010 23:45

Had a few lines of charlie and some lager have you brave man? You're good at terrorizing mothers with pushchairs and frightening children you fucking cowards. It'll only be a matter of time before one of you gets caught away from the cops and who needs odds to deal with spotty-faced cowards and a few steroid queens?

Antifascist

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All big man talk

16.10.2010 10:49

Aint you the hardmen.

Sound like a bunch of fascist hooligans to me.

Bodie

EDL ask Nazi to steward Geert Wilder demo

16.10.2010 12:52

EDL ask Nazi to steward Geert Wilder demo...
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0JpZB3avXo

Give 'em hell

UK Fightback Onderduikers

EDL NAZIS

16.10.2010 13:07



Photo 1 - EDL Birmingham Division activist Wayne Baldwin
Photo 2 - Wayne Baldwin in Swastika T-shirt with Welsh Defence League activist Earl Turner wearing BFF T-shirt

Forklift

EDL in Bradford

16.10.2010 13:56


EDL in Bradford

The All-Seeing Eye

I wonder.....

17.10.2010 15:40

....how many EDL will actually turn up to this. In Bradford where it was made clear that they would face stiff opposition they bottled it, with only a few hundred turning up and Joe Marsh hiding behind his arrest record etc. not to make it, yet in Leicester where no real opposition was organised they turned up in droves, ditto Stoke where there is strong support for the BNP - the party of choice for the facists of the EDL.

Holland has a strong history of anti-facism as mentioned above, so will the EDL prove they are willing to turn up to a demo in force where the odds are stacked against them and police support will be less favourable or will they mumble excuses into their pints like in Bradford scared of getting a proper kicking?

IHTF

JEFF Marsh

18.10.2010 17:25

BTW IHTF the EDL organiser you're talking about is JEFF Marsh (not Joe Marsh)

Star

Antifa - hound these edl gutter rats all day

19.10.2010 12:16

As a Leicester local I ask all mainland Europe antifa to ruthlessly go after the edl and kick the fuckers back into the sea. They are expecting some recreation in Amsterdam, so there will also be night time opportunities....

In Leicester the edl took advantage of the lack of local organisation and went on a bullying rampage, attacking and abusing ethnic minority residents and smashing up shops. As a result they are now full of confidence and believe they are unstoppable across the UK. This is a mistake, they have no real understanding of the shit storm they have created. But we have no chance to get at them for a few weeks. Time is critical here, they are growing daily.

A demonstration of their weakness in Europe will slow down their recruitment of 'winning side' gutter rats. It will also depress their army of facebook keyboard warriors, whose racial supremacist rants become more extreme and open by the day.

After seeing them up close and reading their shit for some time, I'm convinced that they are 90% concerned with physical dominance and 'taking the streets'. They need a big lesson that it goes two ways and that they are at risk by using this strategy.

If European antifa can do this you'll be celebrated in Leicester for many years to come. I thank you all.

Leicester payback

Viva Antifa and Ajax

31.10.2010 11:15

Thanks from the human beings of Leicester. I really think the edl might cry..........

Ajax, don't be intimidated by these muppets , if you come to England in numbers they'll shout and rage on their keyboards but they'll do nothing. You have shocked them badly.

Leicester old school

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