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Antifacists attacked whilst leafletting in Manchester!

Manchester AF | 20.02.2013 17:06 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles

Today 8 activists from the Manchester area went leafleting to highlight the EDL's upcoming demo in March.

All went well, we handed out over 500 leaflets and got some people saying they would be attending. Whilst out, one of our activists saw a pair of suspicious looking men watching us and talking on their mobiles. When one of our antifascists went to challenge them they both went into a pub.

All went well until after the day of action when four Antifascists had left. We were on the way to where we'd parked the cars when the two fascists we'd seen outside the pubs as well as 6 or 7 other fascists ran up behind us and attacked us. I was hit on the back of the head, my friend had to go to hospital with a broken nose and the other got hit a few times too. It would have gotten nasty were it not for a nearby supermarket's security rushing out to stop them.

We've got another day of action planned in the next couple of days. Please, any antifascists in the Manchester area urgently attend. This was an organised attack, whether it was EDL, NF or NWI we don't know but they waited until our group had split up before attacking.

Everyone is okay, but it was lucky. We were outnumbered by the fascist and need more numbers for leafleting in the future to stop it happening again.

Manchester AF

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