"An EDL activist has been jailed after attempting to set fire to a Rhyl mosque following the murder of soldier Lee Rigby. John Parkin, from Towyn, North Wales was jailed for 18 months at Mold Crown Court after he admitted threatening to burn down the mosque and a charge of religiously aggravated disorderly behaviour in May. The would be arsonist was also handed an indefinite criminal anti-social behaviour order banning him from every mosque in the country.

This isn't the first time Parkin has threatened the Muslim community in Rhyl. In January 2012 Parkin was found guilty after he threatened to blow up a mosque in the town. Parkin was jailed for 10 months for being in breach of an earlier suspended sentence, and two charges of religiously aggravated public order offences. He was reported to the police after one witness overheard him say "I have got guns. I want to shoot Muslims in the head." He also spoke about blowing up the local mosque. After his arrest he told police "Muslims are taking over the country. They need to go back to their own country." He later told police: "I am a racist. I hate Muslims", adding that he was a member of the English Defence League.

The offences put him in breach of a 52 week suspended sentence, which he received following an attack on his then partner. Parkin was also a member of The Combined Ex Forces (CXF) an EDL splinter group and told anyone who was prepared to listen that he was an ex serviceman who had served in Bosnia and Iraq. But, in reality Parkin had never left the country or seen active service after he was thrown out of the army in disgrace after an incident with drugs."

 http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/2786/edl-man-jailed-for-attempted-mosque-arson
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-22989321
 http://www.itv.com/news/wales/update/2013-06-20/ex-soldier-banned-from-every-mosque-in-wales/

Just to make sure everything goes according to plan, representatives of South London Anti-Fascists will be on hand at strategic points throughout the route, requiring potential protestors to fill-in a 20-point questionnaire - asking questions about accent, lifestyle, dress, place of birth and current residence, income, dietary habits, family history, sporting allegiances, employment and housing status and educational background, just to make sure that any middle-class people who hate the fucking EDL aren't allowed to lend their support to this mobilisation

A post on South London AF's Facebook is entitled "Lest we forget anti-fascists of yesteryear" (and it's worth reading the whole post, even though it's a bit long-winded) -

"Today we mark the anniversary of Frank Ryan (1902-1944) – A journalist and member of the Irish Republican Army, Frank Ryan led Irish Volunteers against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Frank Ryan was born in County Limerick, in 1902. After leaving university he became an active member of the Irish Republican Army and fought in the Irish Civil War. In 1929 Ryan was appointed editor of An Phoblacht, the IRA newspaper. He was imprisoned several times over the following years for publishing seditious articles and for contempt of court. In 1931 Ryan helped to organise the radical Saor-Eire (Free Ireland) movement. He was aware of the growing wave of fascism in Europe and wanted to build up a united front in Ireland against it. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Frank Ryan devoted himself to publicising the Spanish Republican cause in their fight against Fascism and its leader in Spain, General Franco. Ryan led a contingent of almost 200 Irishmen to Spain to fight in the 15th International Brigade for the Republic against Franco. He was captured by Italian forces fighting for the nationalists in March 1938 and was sentenced to death. In July 1940, following negotiations between the Spanish and German governments Ryan was released and brought to Berlin. Frank Ryan died on the 10th June 1944 in Germany. In 1979 he remains were repatriated to Ireland and buried in Glasnevin cemetery."

 https://www.facebook.com/SouthLondonAF

It's wonderful that Frank Ryan fought that murdering scumbag General Franco, but let's emphasise the point whose significance South London AF seem to have overlooked - FRANK RYAN WAS BROUGHT TO BERLIN IN 1940... BERLIN IN 1940 WAS PART OF NAZI GERMANY. The reason Ryan was brought to Berlin in 1940 was because of the deals the IRA struck with HITLER'S NAZIS, and when Ryan arrived in Berlin his main contact was SS Colonel Edmund Veesenmayer...

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ryan_(Irish_republican)

What Frank Ryan organising for Saor Eire during the Irish Civil War means is that he was involved an brutal feud within Irish Republicanism which involved killing fellow Irish Nationalists, but what's most relevant to the politics of Lee Rigby's murder is that on the 7th Nov 1974 the IRA blew up The Kings Arms pub in WOOLWICH, killing Gunner Richard Dunne of the Royal Artillery and murdering a 20 year old civilian sales-clerk called Alan Horsley.

The following was a complex debate, and to understand it you'll have to read all the comments on several different Indymedia threads, but it's well-documented on Indymedia how Liverpool AF damaged not just the Anti-Fascist movement, but the entire cause of radical politics in Liverpool, with the ill-informed, naive, reckless and dishonest bullshit they came out with about their relationship with terrorist sympathisers, and South London AF seem to have learned nothing from that shameful episode -

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/07/498142.html?c=on
 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/07/497944.html?c=on

By way of context, if you want a genuinely Anti-Fascist perspective on the question of whether or not, overall, the IRA were or are a mostly left-wing (as opposed to mostly Catholic and Nationalist) movement, read the article "A Second Chance" by Gary Otterburn in Red Action magazine (issue 38, Jan 1988). Despite Red Action being militantly Anti-Fascist and (sadly) pro-IRA, Red Action freely admits to the "rejection of the socialistic element" by the majority in Irish Republicanism, admits the IRA were "politically conservative", that the majority opposed what was seen as "alien and Godless communism", and that (according to Red Action) even Provisional IRA prisoners burned copies of Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto in Long Kesh prison in the 1970s. As the Red Action article says "Irish history is littered with the skeletons of organisations and programmes, like Saor Eire... which sought to unite the Labour and Republican movements, and... the Nationalist and Loyalist working class, under an anti-capitalist banner. With just one plaintive wail of "Godless Communism" and the pointing of an accusatory figure by the Bishops, these embryonic organisations were effortlessly crushed" [*], the awful irony being that even some elements in the IRA who considered themselves to be genuinely left-wing weren't averse to collaborating with Hitler's SS.

*  http://www.redactionarchive.org/2012/03/red-action-bulletin-volumes-one-and-two.html

Rather than using their Facebook to remind folks about the links between Fascism and modern terrorism - the influence that the BNP had on London nail-bomber David Copeland, the influence that the EDL had on Anders Breivik etc, instead South London Anti-Fascists use their Facebook pages to try to create the impression it's Anti-Fascists who support not just terrorists, but terrorists who killed innocent members of the public, and in Woolwich!!!!!

Even worse, far, far worse, the terrorist they use to try to prove create this impression is someone who waged civil war against Irish Republicans, and who spent nearly the whole of WW2 collaborating with the SS