A small but determined group of anti fascists turned up to oppose about 300 EDLers marching in Batley on Saturday 9th August.
A few of the EDL had a street stall in the market square while the rest gathered in their pub five minutes away. The Anti Fascist Network presence demonstrated at the entrance to the square until the police forced our group away as the EDL march approached.
Anti fascists held a banner as the English and Israeli flags gathered for speeches before the fash got on coaches to get drunk in Leeds.
Autonomous antifascists then caught up with those at the UAF We Are Batley event. Local Batley residents also confronted the EDL independently, though the police stopped some of them from holding a Palestinian flag.
Meanwhile, in Portsmouth, 15 EDL members turned up to shout at a demo in support of Gaza.
The EDL is not dead yet. Anti fascists everywhere need to get out and get active to confront racism on the streets. Why not come to the next event?
*Next up is opposing the EDL’s even nastier Scottish clones the SDL in Edinburgh on August 23rd and then the EDL’s return to Colchester on September 6th
*Support Leeds AFN who mobilised for Batley by coming to their benefit gig on August 16th
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