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Leeds English Defence League March - Sat 31 Oct

Stop The EDL | 29.10.2009 11:53 | Anti-racism | Policing | Sheffield

On the 31st of October, football hooligans, far right extremists and Islamophobes from the English Defence League (EDL) plan on invading Leeds with one simple goal - to whip up fear, religious tension and violence. But we can stop this happening.

We need to get as many people as possible to Leeds on Saturday to send a clear message to the EDL that their brand of noxious racism has no place in Yorkshire either. On every previous occasion where the EDL has tried to march it has been blocked by a much larger contingent of anti-racists. The presence of a multi-racial crowd standing in solidarity with Muslims against the EDL is the most powerful force stopping them from growing further.

Last week a similar march in Birmingham ended in violence - we can't let this happen on the streets of Leeds.

Assemble 12 noon, Saturday 31 October
Leeds Art Gallery

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29.10.2009 14:21

Kevin Greaves - EDL
Kevin Greaves - EDL

Liam Pinker
Liam Pinker

Mike Heaton - BFF
Mike Heaton - BFF

Tony White
Tony White

Tony Foy
Tony Foy

Eddy Morrisson - NF
Eddy Morrisson - NF

There is no march, only a static demo at City Square (opposite the train station) starting at 1.00pm and schedualed to last until 3.00pm (for those going to the Leeds game coaches are then leaving from the Dark Arches under the station.) As the square is mostly surrounded by busy roads and a wall, it's going to be easy for the cops to protect the EDL, who they'll probably kettle-up in a nearby pub first, most likely Wetherspoons in the station as they arrive there. There will undoubtedly be EDL supporters elsewhere in the city centre though, as well as active fascists (a few pics of local and not so local 'faces' are posted here.) The city centre will be heavily policed, so antifascists need to be aware of this. They also need to be aware that the UAF will collaborate with the cops to kettle-in demonstrators outside the Art Gallery and keep them away from the EDL. Good luck to everyone on Saturday.

Antifascist


White Stalks Teenage Girls!

29.10.2009 16:14

Tony White's a paedo who is into the same stuff as Martyn Gilleard. If he and tghe rest of the BPP lot are going to join in, teenage girls both part of the protest or innocently shopping in Leeds have to be ultra careful.

Some people think White's a copper's nark which would explain things that he is allowed to escape arrest time after time.

Does White live in Bramley? If so, Armley Prison's only a short prison van ride away, if Special Branch ever throw him to the dogs.

Whitezapeedo


uaf cops

29.10.2009 16:19

You can your life that the liberal-police UAF will be using their demo to spin the "Don't play into the hands of the EDL, let's just wave lollipops n read Sooocialist Worker" line.

fuck the uaf


The English Defence League is not racist!

29.10.2009 19:41

The English Defence League is not racist! They in fact say the opposite, that they do not want racists to attend their demonstrations. Watch this video where they burn a swastica flag and condemn racists and the far right:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkKmzNpUBM4

Some people are so ignorant


Kelway Is Pishing In The Wind

29.10.2009 22:18


Thanks Mister Kelway for trolling Indymedia. The EDL have done didley squat about the thirty seig heilers on the Manchester march, and have refused to remove "NO MORE MOSQUES" signs from their legion of skinheaded thugs. Then there's the non-stop racist chanting. A recent forum on the Sun newspaper which contained comments by leading EDL members who had posted plenty of comments about the EDL, (and seemed by all extent to be far more than rank and file members), called for Muslims to be exterminated. Then there's the BNP members who help run the EDL's website, organise demos, etc, despite the assurances from the EDL spindoctors that they do not want to be associated with the BNP.

Last but not least, leading members of the EDL are currently boasting that they have linked up with the UDA both in Belfast and exiled loyalist terrorists in Glasgow, to be trained in paramilitary tactics to go hand-in-hand with their paramilitary-style masks that these far right activists continue to wear.

Unlike the BNP, the EDL have large millionairre backers such as Alan Lake who impose a "code of public relations" rather than a "code of conduct", to do a fascist-style Mandelson gloss over the cold, hard facts that the EDL are a neo-Nazi association who view themselves as a street army.

Far right football hooligans are pure fighters, with shit for brains, so the "freedom of speech" argument doesn't come into it.

If we can forget the "divide and conquer" anarchist versus SWP trolling to try to outpsyche the anti-fash opposition, for a moment, and consider the credentials of the Troll-In-Chief himself, a loser called Kelway.

We have reason to believe (though he will deny it), Kelway is behind all of the "WE'RE NOT NAZIS" bullshit, which is so bizarre when you understand the far right connections of Kelway himself, that the weasel doesn't want the world to know about.

The aim of the EDL is to create a brand new British far right force, a cross between the National Front and Mr Berlesconi's hard right Italian populist party which engages in political violence with a long-term aim of becoming the new BNP. For this to happen, and the party to become more popular than the BNP, the EDL has to live one big lie and play down its evil nazi self, and also downplay the destructive role of his football hooligans who give the EDL a bad name with the likes of the Daily Mail, who hate all young people let alone young football louts who never know how to behave with civility in public.

As an affirmed antiracist myself, I do not want to give the EDL any tips on how to become a successful neo-Nazi party to take over from the BNP, as this would become every anti-fascist's nightmare, having two not one far right political party, however one thing's for sure, employing an army of racist football hooligans and hardline Hitler-saluting national socialists, is NOT the way to become the next BNP.

The EDL are the new National Front not the BNP. The NF got nowhere fast because of their unsophisticated street tactics, so Alan Lake is wasting every last penny of his corporate cash if he thinks he can turn his fucked-up brigade of racist fuckwits into anything other than a laughing stock.

To paraphrase the dad from Royal Family, "EDL, NOT RACIST MY ARSE!"

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL



















Troll Pishtayka


Did someone mention the BPP?

29.10.2009 22:24

> If he and tghe rest of the BPP lot are going to join in

The rest of them? That'll be the other ten then, eh? That's assuming they've stopped running after being chased out of Leeds following their amazingly successful demo last year. The few that were old enough not to be in a pushchair or not so old as to be repeatedly pissing themselves have probably made it to Brazil by now.

Concerned of Halton Moor


Tony White = Grass

29.10.2009 22:29

> Tony White's a paedo who is into the same stuff as Martyn Gilleard. If he and tghe rest of the BPP lot are going to join in, teenage girls both part of the protest or innocently shopping in Leeds have to be ultra careful.

To be fair the only people at risk from the grass White are his fash mates, he sold out the BPP and now even those inbreed misfits don't want anything to do with him.

Concerned of Halton Moor


WHIP IT OUT!!!

29.10.2009 23:10

I agree about White and the BPP. He's a grass.

EDL nazi goon Greaves looks just as dodgy as White and the BPP Paedos.

His hand on his belt, he looks like he's about do the full Chipindales routine with a Village people twist, and "get his cock out for the lads" to get his kicks on neo-nazi demos.

No wonder the EDL weirdo's trying to cover his face!

Paulley


Grammar

31.10.2009 23:41

Why did the vast majority of the "master race" on the EDL demo today look so pasty? 'Wigan' Mike (as opposed to Mike's from other places I suppose?) and Tony White both look like they could do with a good holiday and new healthy eating regime. Perhaps they should all switch to drinking bitter as opposed to imported strong larger. On the videos of the EDL demo a few of them do this weird dance thing where they bend their needs and wiggle their arms around, like they need to go to the toilet, and then repeatedly chant where they are from. Their mannerisms and behaviour is pretty much typical of the kind of behaviour you see from certain year 7 or 8 school kids.Look out for the EDL dancing, it would be funny if they weren't so repugnant.

Lyn Truss


Sats experience

14.11.2009 14:47

The uaf were useless.They kept saying theyd march but didnt a few of us did but were forced back anyway because too many people listened to Weyman dixkhead.Who later on abondoned a group of antifascists who were kettled in with police to talk to tv camaras.This is a man who gave a speach at codnor about how everytime he sees a nazi theyre running away! I understand not everyone wants to phsically confront the fascists ut bottom line because of the uaf 'leaders' the edl marched and hardly any antifascists did.

stephen smith
mail e-mail: swellbelly@hotmail.co.uk


White Truth - years later

30.01.2013 07:21

I was sadly pulled into Tony Whites click in the early 2000's whilst growing up - You live and learn, growing up in Pudsey it became a focal point to get involved with the demos, not because im racist, which im not , but for the fun of it !!!

So lets get straight to the point, iv been at Tony Whites home along with Tony Foye and others when meetings with the police have taken place , arranging the up and coming demos where Tony and others have straight grassed others up ! why do you think the police always turned up at demos, did you never see him on the phone calling for back up, not his friends but the police he was a shitty arse and still is. He was a fully signed up police informer that tried getting me to give info ha ha no way mr white, i was in it against the police not to help them
he made out he was the top bollock, he was a top bollock alright ha ha

Alot of things happened over the years, and most of us grew to hate the little runt, we wernt racistm, i had a brief fling with his missus when he was locked up the first time round and she broke down and told me she was basicly forced into it by white and that she couldnt leave him as he had said he would kill her and the kids, i don't feel sorry for her because she could leave if she wanted, so there you go the truth on white that he can not denie .. iv got my own scores to settle with him all these years later and his time is coming :-) im going to do what should have been done years ago ;-)

White Truth


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