For those of you not on Facebook, Twitter etc, 200+ anti fascists got kettled and mass arrested onto buses yesterday during the counter-EDL demo in Tower Hamlets. This went completely unreported by the mainstream news, UAF etc. For sources, see for example GBC Legal:  https://twitter.com/GBCLegal or South London AF:  https://twitter.com/SouthLondonAF for news.

Arrestees were kept on buses for many hours and were taken to stations all over London, as far south as Sutton and Croydon, where they were met throughout the night by much solidarity in the form of beer, chocolate and hugs.

This follows similar mass arrests of 58 anti-BNP activists in June. Now, as then, most arrestees have been given bail conditions not to participate in demos against the EDL, BNP or EVF within the boundaries of the M25.

Quite a few cases from the June arrests have now been dropped. The pre-booked London buses (in one case at least, driven by a guy in an Arriva shirt), blatantly discriminatory policing, and identical bail conditions show policing of EDL demos in recent times has been increasingly about removing the opposition.

Got to  http://londonantifascists.wordpress.com/ or other grassroots anti fash sites for reports soon to come no doubt.