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SWP get police to arrest own side at EDL Newcastle march.

r | 25.05.2013 20:51

Today the EDL took to the streets in Newcastle. In the run up to this, the SWP banned anyone who raised the possibility of employing a diverse range of tactics from attending the 'Newcastle unites against fascism' planning meetings and banned and deleted their comments over facebook. They also threatened that anyone who was deemed aggressive would be seized by their stewards and happened over to the police. What happened today was worse.

Having appointed themselves protest monitors, they decided to take action against anyone who wished to protest independently of them by grassing on them to the police. As a consequence a group of peaceful activists were kettled, handcuffed and then in one case literally dragged along the ground into a police van. The police actually stated that they had been informed by the march organisers, that they were banned from the police approved SWP march as they were troublemakers, hence their arrest. What an underhand, disgusting thing to do.
The SWP have further provided themselves to be authoritarian ideologues. They are just as bad as the EDL.

r

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  1. rubbish — HL
  2. Bullshit to the above comment — Toon Anarchist
  3. march against the EDL newcastle — lidia Tindle
  4. Police agents set up FRFI supporters for arrest in Newcastle — Fight Racism! Fight imperialism!
  5. Sectarianism more importanyt than fighting fascism — Unionworkeruk
  6. Don't make us laugh. — In yer face
  7. @Unionworkeruk — all for one
  8. Video of arrests — normantebbit
  9. in reply to liberals from swp labour council and unions — toon lad
  10. unionworkeruk unity??? — toon lad
  11. You lose. — anonymous
  12. Defence campaign details — Fight Racism! Fight imperialism!
  13. Lol — Dan Factor
  14. your worse — nationalist
  15. What about the Islamic terrorists? — meme
  16. This article and all the comments are bollox — SWP
  17. Correcting for the right-wing distorted vision of reality. — anonymous
  18. To Anonymous — Puzzled
  19. indymedia looks sillier every day — result
  20. To SWP — Angela
  21. Why do you want to be with them? — the eyeball kid
  22. Jealous — Dr. Hans Rhineheart
  23. this would be bad — nice try losers
  24. still laughing! — go home
  25. And with a lst desperate gasp, it was all over. — Agent Starling.
  26. Oh deary me. — anonymous
  27. "million+ easy" — dumbass
  28. half wits — thumper
  29. @ the old dear — quarter wit
  30. Hang yer heads low. — anonymous
  31. The end of the affair. — Rigsby
  32. @Dan Factor — yeah?
  33. @Rigsby — change ye name if yo not down wiv em
  34. SWP have utterly discredited themselves — against police snitches - tar&feather all police snitches!
  35. Blog - collection of articles on the workings & demise of the SWP — same as it ever was SWP is the first line of policing any movement
  36. Down with this sort of thing — Corporate Cocksuckers
  37. To anonymous — m
  38. Speak the truth, and let the lie die. — anonymous
  39. FIFR a small group of wind up merchants-lovers of stalin — Monty Pythons Flying Circus
  40. karma for Heroin dealers — wow
  41. The SWP are not "liberals" — email
  42. To anonymous — m
  43. Knock knock! — anonymous
  44. Silly English people and their Star Spangled Stupidity. — Iggy Popsicle
  45. moderators please sort this nonsense out — remove other comments
  46. SWP rrrrrrrrrrrrevolutionary socialists or liberals? — h
  47. @h — unfounded bull
  48. Knocking on the door of "da feds". — anonymous
  49. SWP class traitors — Papillon
  50. you lose — you lose
  51. Bashed. — anonymous
  52. to anonymous — m
  53. to anonymous — m
  54. Stating the obvious, and other distractions. — And Englishman...in New York.
  55. Good lord! — anonymous
  56. wankers — against police snitches - tar&feather all police snitches
  57. @anonymous — the real anonymous
  58. To anonymous — m
  59. Defanging the cowardly lion. — anonymous
  60. Moral squalor. — anonymous
  61. Yes but — checkmate
  62. to anonymous — m
  63. Wordplay for heroes. — anonymous