After the far-right flops of Walthamstow rounds 1 and 2, another British fascist group has been humiliated, this time in Liverpool...
Pitiful far-right 'national mobilisation' in Liverpool
With NWI calling a national callout ‘against IRA marches in Liverpool’ (code name for spreading anti-irish racism, especially since February) various antifascist groups set about organising counter demos, fash facebook pages and blogs kept pumping out about people coming from far and wide to the demo and keeping meeting places secret.
On the day however only roughly 20 of the fash turned up, this was met by a joint mobilisation of antifascists who outnumbered them 3-1, as the fash settled comfortably into their police protected protest area near the town hall another 20 antifascists turned up and stood amongst the fash, the fash then backed off and stood looking uncomfortable until police moved into to move the antifascists to their proper place.
Unsurprisingly the fash became suddenly more vocal once the police safety was reinforced, but this just further added to their humiliation, one fascist was keen to remind antifascists that ‘the police are on our side not yours’ roughly translated and taking the events into consideration i believe this meant ‘These police wont let you get us’ the police had several attempts at kettling antifascists, which didn’t seem too effective and many managed to break the line.
Far right poster boy and jail bird Liam Pinkham bumped into a group of militant antifascists and recieved a taste of his own medicine, for his first demo since his release from prison this should really make him question his involvement in politics all together.
Last night was a really successful night for antifascism in Liverpool, everyone played to their strengths, there was a counter demonstration that massively outnumbered the fascist mobilisation, and sizeable groups were scouting and looking for fash outside of the demo.
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On the day however only roughly 20 of the fash turned up, this was met by a joint mobilisation of antifascists who outnumbered them 3-1, as the fash settled comfortably into their police protected protest area near the town hall another 20 antifascists turned up and stood amongst the fash, the fash then backed off and stood looking uncomfortable until police moved into to move the antifascists to their proper place.
Unsurprisingly the fash became suddenly more vocal once the police safety was reinforced, but this just further added to their humiliation, one fascist was keen to remind antifascists that ‘the police are on our side not yours’ roughly translated and taking the events into consideration i believe this meant ‘These police wont let you get us’ the police had several attempts at kettling antifascists, which didn’t seem too effective and many managed to break the line.
Far right poster boy and jail bird Liam Pinkham bumped into a group of militant antifascists and recieved a taste of his own medicine, for his first demo since his release from prison this should really make him question his involvement in politics all together.
Last night was a really successful night for antifascism in Liverpool, everyone played to their strengths, there was a counter demonstration that massively outnumbered the fascist mobilisation, and sizeable groups were scouting and looking for fash outside of the demo.
- Originally posted at
http://alertaantifasciste.wordpress.com/ -
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For East London comrades
04.11.2012 17:49
Sub-commandante Lill Burn
Code name for spreading anti-irish racism?
04.11.2012 22:06
Keith Moon
Liverpool Anti-Fascists and class politics?
04.11.2012 23:52
On the negative side, a report that Searchlight claim was "written by Liverpool Anti-Fascists" says that "Anti-fascism is a class issue" (which is patently bollocks) and says that "Liverpool Antifascists are critical of those who fight the far-right on the basis of cross-class alliances" (no wonder the Liverpool AF group is so small). How strange that the Searchlight article was not the same report that was published on Liverpool Antifascists' own website!
The L-AF website does say that "the only long term solution to the problem of fascism is a strong working class movement, fighting for people’s livelihoods" (which I pretty much agree with), however if you want to preach to the converted, if you want to isolate antifascism to a tiny ghetto of ultra-leftists and militant anarchists, at the expense of engaging aspirational migrants who are on the front-line of racist violence (ie - Asian shop keepers etc), being "critical of those who fight the far-right on the basis of cross-class alliances" seems a pretty good way to dig yourself into that hole.
Maybe if what you're really promoting is class war politics, then maybe L-AF should chose a name that describes their actual politics - a name like "Class War"?! And if you're more interested in class struggle than in antifascism, you shouldn't call yourself Liverpool "Anti-Fascists", just in case any non-hard-lefties and non-anarchos get the wrong idea and think you give a fuck about such racism as they experience?!
Creamfields
@Creamfields
05.11.2012 00:19
seriously
So is now protesting against the IRA is racist?
05.11.2012 11:35
Ex anti-fascist activist of the 1980s
@ 'Ex anti-fascist'
05.11.2012 12:49
Check out some of the folk behind it. Pino (as mentioned in the article) for example has been weaving his way around fascist circles for a few years now; Autonomous Nationalists UK, British Freed Fighters, National Front etc. All with openly racist and even neo-Nazi affiliations and beliefs. Not racist? Pffft.
Anti-fascist
Remember this criticism of the EDL?
05.11.2012 13:14
"The EDL are hypocrites, if they want to demonstrate against terrorism then why don't they protest against the IRA who have killed far more people in Britain than Islamic terrorists ever had".
Then when they do decide to protest against the IRA they still get slagged off, well you can't have it both ways. And by the way just to remind you how bad the IRA were
You can't have it both ways
Can All The
05.11.2012 22:38
Fuck Off Back To Stormfront! Fuckin' Pricks!!! Grrrrr!
It was not an anti-Irish demo just anti-IRA!
06.11.2012 13:53
reporter
@seriously
06.11.2012 19:27
When you wake up, any chance of you and/or L-AF answering the point?!
Creamfields