Today the EDL demo'd and anarchists were out to find them and clash with them...
Having avoided being kettled throughout the day, a small group of dedicated anti-fascists roamed looking for the enemy....breaking away from the castle kettle, near the robin hood statue, they headed for the square to meet up with others who were routed by cops.....
Having avoided being kettled throughout the day, a small group of dedicated anti-fascists roamed looking for the enemy....breaking away from the castle kettle, near the robin hood statue, they headed for the square to meet up with others who were routed by cops.....
Out side Walk About Bar on Friar Lane a load of fash came storming out and attacked some anti-fash comrades, causing a big fight that lasted, according to one participant, around ten minutes until police with horses slit up the groups. Injuries on both sides, no arrests at the scene, certainly not of anarcho-warriors anyway. police tried to get witnesses but none came forward as far as we know. The anti-fash dispersed. EDL hid in the pub. It was a brave fight, especially given the almost military style police take over of the city center.
It was best to publish this report as main stream media has buried the anti-fascist side of the story, as usual......
It was best to publish this report as main stream media has buried the anti-fascist side of the story, as usual......
Solidarity Comrades
05.12.2009 22:24
Big up the red & black army!
London Anarchist
A good start, but more work needed
05.12.2009 22:36
A number of edl groups were identified & dealt with though, no thanks to the unsurprisingly useless UAF who stood in a police pen the whole time somewhere else.
anon
today edl
05.12.2009 22:56
anti-fash
So much...
05.12.2009 23:32
London Anarchist
agree with antifascist
06.12.2009 00:53
Fightin' Talk
Need to learn how to fight then lad
06.12.2009 03:22
When it comes to fighting the fash there are no rules, give them a good kick in the bollocks if you have to in order to ground them don't be afraid of being accused of fighting dirty.
Blast from the past
notts youth
06.12.2009 10:39
notts attack the edl
Police on there side
06.12.2009 13:28
Fash hater
Ho ho
06.12.2009 14:08
For me, the best bit was when some EDL found themselves stranded outside their march (kettled and impotent). They actually begged the police to be allowed to rejoin the group, so scared were they to be surrounded by normal people of beautifully mixed heritage.
anon
Southampton
06.12.2009 14:11
anarchy warrior
Graffiti
06.12.2009 14:37
antifa
homoerotic undertones?
06.12.2009 17:22
It is certainly ironic that for a supposedly bigoted and right-wing group, their events have such homoerotic undertones! All those bald heads and male bonding, hmm...
anon
There EDL are overwhelmingly male
06.12.2009 17:48
A woman
what are you doing???
06.12.2009 21:31
it's too easy to set up for a row with the EDL and you walk into a distraction trap set by the state .. sharia is not the issue and EDL are a setup ..so don't get drawn into the scam ffs
and we will all suffer as what you are doing is saying to these people ( most of who are NOT racist scum though some are) that ALL @s and ALL socialists will put more energy fighting EDL than those who run this country .. it's bollox frankly and lazy .. yes fucking lazy .. get stuck in where you live where you work if you want to change the world ..
durruti02
Return to Stormfront, Neo-Nazi EDL/BNP Trolls!!!!!
06.12.2009 23:49
It doesn't take two bran cells to rattle together to realise that the whole might of the EDL's publicity department spend hours at their computers posting pro-EDL remarks, divide and conquer trolling (anarchists versus SWP), and many other underhand covert tactics, the latest of which as evident on this thread is for pretend antiracists to insist that the majority of the EDL are infact nice pleasant-minded guys. Ordinary decent honest working class people.
Most if not all of EDL members join in the racist chants, and are ready to fight opponents and the police. Yes, New Labour and leftwing groups have failed to support the working class, but to deny the EDL have massed ranks of nazis in their outfit (forty SDL bozos were Hitler saluting recently in Wales and also burnt an anti-nazi flag), would be for us to fall into the BNP's trap, and start denying the truth.
If you can deny the Holocaust like the British far right can do with ease, you're half-way there! To deny that the majority of the EDL are fascists would be to believe their bullshit lies and propaganda, which arseholes like Kelway want us to do.
Yes, reach out to working class communities, and even non-racist football hooligans (although I myself abhour football violence), but NEVER APPEASE FASCISTS.
NO PASARAN!
Dave
for f**ks sake
07.12.2009 14:40
so what the fuck are people complaining about? it happened, its real...EDL want to fight, they are not interested in joining together with other working class people....they are the enemy of their own class.
they are the retards who would probably rape and pillage their way through this country if their was a civil war, killing blacks and asians and bombing ethnic owned businesses...who ever doubts this, you need to check your right-wing history (particularly the events surrounding, and leading up to, the tottenham/broadwater farm riots in the 80's, plus other events).
yes, the state has divided the working class...but get a grip....the working class will never be completely united. face it, we have an enemy...so lets deal with it.......
and just while we're on the subject, can we stop acting like we lost on saturday...the EDL were hassled and flanked everywhere they went. part of the reason they kicked off with cops is due to their frustration at being heckled and protested against, particularly as some of those protesting against them were people, from backgrounds and beliefs that EDL hate. EDL are fucking morons, not my class, not my friends and not ever my comrades........No Fucking Surrender to Fucking Fascists! No dialogue, no retreat, no fucking compromise. at least not when our comrade in russia just got his head shot off by fascists!!
get a fucking grip, people, its a war!! not a fucking picnic!!
ISLAMIC EXTREMISM DOES NOT EXIST IN THE UK..ONLY RETALIATION FOR AMERICAN AND UK WAR ABROAD....THINK ABOUT IT.......
non-peace time infiltrator
a troll 'dave'? don't make me laugh
08.12.2009 10:49
the issue is how to defeat fascism .. if it were not for the old bill EDL would have mullahed UAF by now .. it is too easy to accuse people who think anti-fascism and kneww jerk m/c repsonses to EDL work .. and no one is saying EDL are 'nice' .. but thecertainly represent the w/c people of this country better than UAF
and what racists chants?? " you can stick your fucking allah up your arse"??? don't be so fucking wet .. and you have deliberately ignored ( and you will know as clearly you know a bit abut this that EDL not only publically burnt a swastika but they were furious about what happenned in swansea and said any nazis would get smacked from then on)
ultimately you have nmissed the point by a mile .. you do not have to be a nazi or racist to be a loyalist and end up dividing the working class in the interest of the stae and the rich, and this is what EDL are
and our response therefore needs to be different ..calling them nazis when they as ex squaddies etc hate the nazis as much as we do is meaningless .. calling them racists when many of them have black mates ( the EDL vid with the swastika getting bunrt had 5 black faces under the balaclacvas) does not work .. constantly attacking them while ignored the fact that militant islamism, while not a massive threat ( though over 100 brits have been killed in 9/11 and 77) is deeply reactionary and divisive does not work .. to go on about the holocaust when EDL overtly have israeli flags does not work
if you want to defeat fascism you have to be in off and about the w/c .. all this m/c clap trap is doomed to failure
durruti02
@durruti02
08.12.2009 14:16
Even if all EDL members aren't through-and-through old-school racists they are still authoritarians and bigots.
They create a climate for the BNP to flourish in - they work at different levels for similar ends.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that the working class is somehow inherently more racist than the middle class. I know virtually all my neighbours aren't racist, and I know middle and upper class people with bigoted views.
I take your point about the EDL being useful to the state as a divide and rule tactic, and we must not forget the state and the rich are our main enemy.
The BNP and in particular those in positions of political power like MEPs or councillors are the main fascists to target IMHO.
anon
@anon
08.12.2009 19:48
BUt yes the EDL do create a climate for the BNP to flourish in - they work at different levels for similar ends.
I did not say and do not believe and I'm not sure where you get the idea that i said the working class is somehow inherently more racist than the middle class.
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