Message From Recently Released Anti-fascist!

17 05 2012
Re-post from 3 Counties Anti Fascist Alliance, originally posted on Indymedia….
By 3cafa

“I just hope this can even show 1% for the love I feel for those who supportted me, I’ll never forget you and love you always. NO PASARAN!

As reported, yes I was releasd on Friday. I just wanted to take this opportunity to try and thank everyone who supportted me while I was inside. If ever I had any doubts on whether prisoner support had any effect I can say in total honesty that they’ve been quelled.

Throughout my sentence I was able to stay positive, strong and focused which I believe was down to the post and contact I got.

Honestly it was the wierdest thing but just the post was like a daily kick in the arse to remind me Im not alone. So please accept my heartfelt thanks for all the support, letters. cards, mags, money, leaflets, etc etc. If anything positive came out of the this experience (Apart from your support), I have seen with my own eyes the fallacy of a fair British (or worldwide) justice system. The whole thing is run by bullies with their own agendas, committing crimes in the name society.

Im now just getting back into normal life but wont forget our brothers and sister still incarcerated, even they wrote to me and Im proud to say Ive made a lot of new friends bothg inside and outside of the prison system.

Please if you’ve everv thought about writing to a prisoner, take it from me the letters make such a difference, for me it was the difference between getting depressed or making a stand against prison policies that were clearly wrong and sometimes illegal! Throughout my sentence though alone I felt I was on my own, it was the words of the kind people that wrote to me that kept me going, as Im sure governers Rielly and I’anson will confirm (sorry lads but ya never beat me!).

Letters make all the difference in keeping the mind strong, so please just send that letter. There are many comrades still inside worldwide so the battle goes on, of course my freedom is a source of joy but I hope you’ll excuse me if I dont celebrate to much as many people I now know, love and respect are still hostages of a corrupt system.

Thank you all Ill love you always. By the way I have a list of all who promised me a pint so will be collecting, its better you come to me HA! HA!

Till all are free, Till the walls fall in a pile of dust.
We’ll drip like water and make the locks rust.
Draw your weapons and beat us senseless,
yet still we smile for our battle is relentless.
We fight for for what is right, you fight for a wage.
Thats why we stand proud, feel our rage.
For each you kill 10 more grow like a tree
because none are free till all are free”

Ravi Gill

Taken from Indymedia UK





Observations From The Playground

16 05 2012

We’ve all seen the change in tactics of the far right recently, as the hardcore grew too extreme for the EDL, and the fluffy patriot facade blurred into full scale street fascism.

Most people will have been keeping an eye on the goings on in Liverpool recently, in which a small gang of fascists turned up to have a go at a picket line of striking workers. Rather than repost the articles here, click on Libcom for a write up or see the one on Liverpool Anti-fascists blog to find out more about the incident.

Once again the fascists seemed to do little else but try to single people out, and of course call the trade unionists ‘paedos’. One guy got arrested and the other mugs wondered off, seemingly without much confrontation (although I’m sure it came as a shock to people who are not used to seeing this kind of thing). The fascists once home then decided to make a facebook page dedicated to calling a chap from  Liverpool Antifascists a ‘Paedo Lover’ (the page has been shut down by facebook). This really highlights the mentality of the people we are opposing here, to say they have a brain age of a 13 year old is definitely unkind to teenagers, but seriously, making a baseless facebook page about someone you don’t like is truly pathetic!  The fact that it was based on the fascists own fantasies rather than any evidence just makes them appear weak, and clutching at straws, desperate to try and fool people into believing them. It didn’t seem to work very well anyway, when I checked it out all the messages on the site were from antifas calling the scum out!

Playground Bullys In Liverpool Last Week Before Going Home To Update Their Status!

So they behave like dumb kids on the internet, but how about real life? From experience it seems they want to be the playground bully, perhaps trying to make up for something that happened in their early years. In general they only attack when they have much more significant numbers, or the most aggressive one singles someone out. From personal experience, they mouth off,  but once confronted most fascists will run, or try to turn it into a discussion before skulking off (and then quickly writing on their facebook accounts that anti-fascists are all thugs).

This is why we advocate numbers on the street, whatever your level of commitment, the hardest part is getting out of bed (and coping with the boredom that sometimes comes with fash watching at demos). When faced with a mob 9 times out of 10 they bottle it.

As for ‘Casuals United’, many of us are not sure that they have many casuals at all for the following reasons:

  1. There are not a huge amount of firms in the UK. Those that do exist are made up of a cross section of lads, most of whom ain’t fascist or racist.
  2. Loads of the blokes who go on about their firms are old (too old), and talking about the ‘good old days’ when hooliganism was at it’s height. They are not effective opponents.
  3. Most of the younger lads seem to have watched a few footy hooligan films, bought a Stone Island cap, and call themselves casuals without any real knowledge.
  4. The idea of ‘uniting’ the casuals for a common cause doesn’t really make sense, if you’re in a firm you leave the politics at the door and fight together, against other firms. Whilst many firms contained NF and other far right in the ’80s & ’90s, they also had guys from Red Action, and AFA.

An example of this was seen in Brighton the other week. 6 ‘casuals’ in a pub, 6 anti-fascists walk in. The Nazis jump to their feet & one picks up a chair – the chair is quickly taken off him and thrown to the side, the lads leg it, to the amusement of the anti-fascists trying to keep their town tidy! (Hopefully we’ll be getting an article through soon about militant left casuals.)

So what’s trying to be said here really is that we need to look after each other, like in Liverpool last week, stick together, don’t let the scum bully people. For people who shy away from confrontation, there’s always other work to be done, but just try challenging a racist next time you overhear them in a pub, you’ll be surprised how quickly they get embarrassed when stood up to! Also we should always remember that MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT RACIST, and yes, most people are against extremist religion…and paedos!!

(these are just my thoughts, in the next few months updating the blog will be passed onto another group to keep things nice and democratic! Anti Fascist Always!)

 

 





Ravi Gill Released!

14 05 2012

Some good news & not before time!

Repost – Originally  Posted on May 12, 2012 by leedsabc

Ravi Gill was released from Wayland Prison this morning after completing half of a 21 month sentence imposed last year following the first Welling antifascist trial. He thanks everyone for the support he received while inside. Ravi was one of seven antifascists fitted-up on conspiracy charges after a German neo-Nazi was floored at Welling train station. A further sixteen antifascists were acquitted. Six comrades went to jail in the case, with one subsequently being deported. Ravi Gill is the last prisoner to be released.





GUILTY VERDICT IN ROCHDALE GROOMING TRIAL

9 05 2012
We were going to do a full(er) report on the EDL demo in Luton, but it seems apart from the EDL getting about a third of the numbers they expected on Saturday, there is literally fuck all to report. Instead here’s a re-post from Liverpool Anti-Fascists for those who have not yet seen it – a local reaction to the case that saw the far-right trying to jump on the band wagon, and accusing all those who oppose them of being peado’s!

Posted by Phil Dickens on May 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

NB: This post was published here yesterday. It has been updated slightly to reflect subsequent developments.

Nine men have been found guilty at Liverpool Crown Court of operating a child sex ring in Rochdale. The verdict sees all of the offenders jailed, and will hopefully offer some closure to the victims and their families. There is no doubt at all that these were truly horrendous crimes, made worse after police cock-ups allowed them to go undetected for two years.

The trial is the same one which saw a mob of 100 fascists demonstrating outside the courts andrioting against Asian-owned businesses in Rochdale. For the far-right, the case has been proof of a so-called epidemic of Muslim grooming gangs terrorising white girls because they view them as easy meat. It also inspired conspiracy theories about a “news blackout” as a result of political correctness, and “cultural Marxist” complicity in “racist” sexual attacks on whites. Thus, any opposition to the British National Party, North West Infidels or others exploiting the case was portrayed as “supporting” paedophiles.

However, there can be little doubt that the far-right was exploiting the case. To see their attempts to whip up hysteria over the issue, you need only look at the “Labour 25.” The website was set up by Liverpool BNP (now National Front) members as a way to associate the Labour Party with child abuse, contains blatantly doctored pictures, distortions, and outright lies. Not to mention that 0.015% of the Labour Party’s total membership being convicted of paedophilia is about consistent with the percentage of paedophiles in the country as a whole. It’s not at all like, as the far-right’s rhetoric implies, there is a large and organised bloc of child sex offenders within the party doing their utmost to push pro-paedophilia legislation.

The fascists’ willingness to brand anybody as a paedophile for virtually any reason underlines that their motives are purely reactionary. They have not been at the courts to support the victims, and indeed their violent antics during the protests nearly wrecked the whole case. As those who suffered at the hands of these men relived their harrowing ordeal, the knobheads outside the court wanted only to wave flags and piss about.

Since the verdict, there has been further evidence of far-right attempts to wreck the trial, with BNP leader Nick Griffin tweeting leaked jury deliberations and the North West Infidels revealing the name of one man whose identity was subject to reporting restrictions. This is due to him being charged in other, ongoing cases which may now be prejudiced as a result of his name being leaked.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t serious questions to be answered. Not the least of which should be why the police convinced victims as far back as 2008 not to press charges. This allowed the crimes to continue for a further two years, only lengthening the ordeal and suffering. There will now be an independent investigation into why this happened, and rightly so.

Rather than any kind of cultural Marxist plot to cover up the crimes of Muslims, however, this fits in with how sexual offences are dealt with generally. With a 6% conviction rate, rape cases as a whole are dealt with poorly – and up to two thirds do not go beyond the investigation stage. This betrays not some politically correct agenda, but rather a horrendous attitude to sex crimes which makes it difficult for victims to seek – let alone get – justice.

The question of race and/or religion is a lot harder to pin down. Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of The Ramadhan Foundation, says that “they think that white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought; it is this sort of behaviour that is bringing shame on our community.” Whereas Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood of Greater Manchester Police believes that this was simply a case of “adults preying on vulnerable young children” and “it just happens that in this particular area and time, the demographics were that these were Asian men.”

There is a strong case for both positions being true. Certainly, the statistics back up Heywood’s position, and we’re faced with an “outgroup homogenity bias,” whereby “if a white man commits a rape, he’s just a rapist but if a Pakistani does so, he’s a Pakistani rapist.” This (perhaps with Muslim exchanged for Pakistani) is where the far-right is coming from, and I have no doubt that their claims of the predators being “racist” is ridiculous.

That being the case, then, how can Shafiq also be right about a problem in the Muslim community? The answer, I’d posit, lies with multiculturalism. Specifically, in that the form of multi-racial society promoted by the state for the past decade.

As Brighton Solidarity Federation once put it;

[M]oney is parcelled out to different imaginary, homogenous ‘communities’ on a racial basis, under the control of ‘community leaders’ – who supposedly represent this entire community and repay this with votes. This corrupts the great lived experience many of us have with multiculturalism, into something repellent – official state ‘multiculturalism’ which explicitly divides people on the basis of race, and gives out money and favours on the basis of a series of different ‘communities’ who need representing.

As a result, this view that “white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought” is a convenient one for sexually repressed males looking for an outlet within a culture where socially conservative community leaders frown upon far more healthy expressions of sexuality. At the same time, because this phenomenon happens in areas where “communities” are segregated rather than where people mix freely regardless of race and religion, it is equally true to say that ”it just happens that in this particular area and time, the demographics were that these were Asian men.”

The ethno-nationalism of the far-right isn’t the answer to this, but only the other side of the same coin. In both cases the working class is divided against itself on the basis of arbitrary differences, only what are inadvertent effects of multiculturalism are the intent of fascism. Nazi sexual violence against Jewish women during the holocaust being a case in point. To move away from this kind of phenomenon, we need to move away from trying to package people into “communities.”

This won’t stop crimes such as the abuse of children. Ultimately, the actions of individuals have to be dealt with as such, and the vile acts committed by the men in this case fall on their heads alone. That they face some form of justice for this has to be a welcome result.





EDL In Luton Today

5 05 2012

Brief report so far:

UAF say EDL got 1000 out, it doesn’t look like much on footage, but Casuals United blog predictably says it was 2000, so lets call it 1500. EDL Groups from all over country bused in – probably got more out than in Tower Hamlets, but that’s because lots of these brave ‘patriots’ shat themselves at the prospect of walking into the east end.

EDL announced that Dear leader Tommy was going to be the new Deputy Fuhrer of the Brittish Freedom Party.

EDL Deputy Kevin Carroll gave a very strange speech in which he called for George Galloway to be hung for treason, and said that all English people should make their kids wear crosses…Dunno what the atheists kids will wear though, if that’s even allowed under Tommy & Kevin’s regime.

Reports of the EDL crowd being shitfaced are everywhere & apparently scuffles with police broke out at the front of the EDL march with bottles, cans, fireworks and a smoke bomb being chucked at police. Presumably fighting with police is the EDL way of saying thank you for saving them from a wooping in Brighton.
Police have given out leaflets telling people not to mask up.

No reports yet that anyone in the local community have suffered injury. Full report to follow.

A Foaming ‘Patriot’, earlier





Liverpool Mayoral Candidates Crack Whilst Anti Fascists Apply Pressure

2 05 2012

Peter_Tierney_Mike_Whitby.jpg

On the left is Peter Tierney owner of Quiggins Attique, He’s an NF candidate supposed to be standing for Mayor of Liverpool. He got arrested yesterday for getting hot under the collar outside a court case involving a muslim peodophile gang, obviously his issue is that the gang is muslim, not peadophiles, as we’ve never seen him outside a case involving white peado’s!

On the right is Mike Whitby, he’s a BNP candidate also standing for Mayor of Liverpool. He got his door busted down by cops after refusing to come out for 6 hours and was then arrested. He faked a bunch of legal papers, “Under electoral law, a candidate must gather a proposer, seconder and 28 other signatures from electors in order to be eligible to stand as mayor.” – it seems he couldn’t get 28 people to support him so he did the next best thing, and made it up!

A couple of days earlier Liverpool Anti-Fascists Mobilised on a day the the North West Infidels were supposed to be having a day of action, the NWI ended up with two nutters on a roof in Halifax:

Here’s a repost from Liverpool Antifascists on thier day of action:

LIVERPOOL ANTIFASCISTS PICKET QUIGGINS ATTIQUE

Posted by Phil Dickens on April 28, 2012 · 3 Comments

Today was the Infidels of Britain’s nationwide day of “direct action.” In Liverpool, we were promised that the Scouse Infidels would be “busy bodies,” and they even had a special National Front “Vote Quiggins” banner for the occasion. In reality, Liverpool Antifascists got the drop on the far-right, who were nowhere to be seen in the city when it came to it.

In the morning, around 20 anti-fascists headed to Quiggins Attique on Aigburth Road. This is of course the shop owned by NF mayoral candidate Peter Tierney. We arrived at about 10am, with the shop due to open at 10.30, to unfurl our banner in front of the shop and begin handing out leaflets. The leaflets were about the mayoral elections generally and all three fascist candidates, but we did have posters (PDF) which underlined Tierney’s standing as a convicted, violent thug, and pointed out to those who took our leaflets exactly what the man was capable of.

Whilst we were there, the response we received from the public was almost universally positive. People took our leaflets, stopped to talk to us about fascism and offer us their thanks and support. The only exceptions were one racist old man who said he would vote for Tierney “if he’ll send the coloureds back,” and the man who lived above the shop.

He came out with a big dog on a leash and whirling a chain. He was clearly in the mood for a confrontation, though wide-eyed and clearly put out when nobody backed away from him. He accused us of kicking a door in, which was self-evidently false as no doors in the area had been kicked in, before declaring that he wasn’t part of anything. He quickly belied that, however, when he tried to threaten a female anti-fascist who gave him short shrift before he disappeared.

Throughout all this, Tierney remained inside the shop. He had been seen entering by the first comrades on the scene, and it was noted that he appeared to recognise at least one of them. After that, we heard nothing from him and the shutters remained down long after the scheduled opening time.

Our picket continued until midday, with leaflets dropped through letterboxes on the neighbouring streets as well as distributed to largely receptive passers-by. We then called it a day and packed up, to head into town with the expectation that the Infidels – who had failed to show in support of the man they’d had a banner made for – would be turning up at some point for their big day out.

Our scouts report that Tierney’s shop remained closed for well over an hour after the picket ended, only finally being seen open at 2pm. The wild-eyed upstairs neighbour, “nothing to do with all that,” was stood outside with his dog and his chain.

In the City Centre, we met up with anti-fascists who had been taking part in action under another banner. In Childwall, a fifty-strong counter demonstration against anti-abortion zealots was running concurrently with the picket. This, too, was highly successful and everyone was on a high when we reached town. However, the afternoon would be a chilled out one since it emerged that the Infidels had been bussed out to support a demo elsewhere in the North West.

Today underlines, yet again, that there is a world of difference between where the fascists are and where they think they are. The Infidels are the most radical of the active nationalist groups right now, having adopted anarchist tactics such as occupations and banner drops. They have also given a new lease of life to the National Front, formerly dead on its feet and not worth mentioning. But their “big” turnouts still require bussing loads of people in from across the country and – without a populist cause to exploit like paedophiles or “the IRA” – even that is often inadequate.

Not that anti-fascists should be complacent. February 18 happened because we dropped the ball, and subsequent victories were down to actively mobilising people and raising awareness of the physical threat the far-right potentially pose. As the struggle against fascism goes on, we need to keep mobilising people and getting feet on the street otherwise this trend will not continue.

Today was an unqualified victory, and all who took part should be proud. The task now is to continue to build our numbers, and a movement capable of waging effective direct action against the fascists time and time again. As Antifa once said,”we have already shown on numerous occasions that a relatively small number of dedicated antifascists can score decisive victories. Most of our actions and activities go unreported, but the fascists know and fear us. Imagine what a difference it would make if there were thousands of us.”





Brighton: The EDL Casuals continue to humiliate themselves.

30 04 2012

 Just to lighten the mood a little, check out this below! The original post has now been removed from the casuals page, but it’s all over facebook as furious morons rush to jump on the bandwagon.  Post comes with free picture just to prove that having a tattoo doesn’t mean you can punch your way out of a paper bag…

repost from EDLNews; Published on Monday, 30 April 2012 11:18
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Casuals United member with a silly tattoo

After their humiliating day In Brighton last week, The Casuals are planning to attack the Cowley Club in Brighton after making wild claims that it was the venue where the Communists (or maybe the Communards) hatched their plans to attack them.

For those that do not know who the Casuals are, they are the English Defence League’s badly dressed and semi literate football hooligan division and they are very very sore about the way the local people of Brighton chased them out of town, so in a face saving exercise they have vowed to stamp their authority on a town that does not want them there.

They joined up with March for England (MfE) to participate in their annual demo in the town, accompanied by various far right extremists, racists and sieg heilers. They were met by thousands of locals who opposed their fascist ideologies.  The Casuals, EDL and MfEers had to resort to hiding behind young children after starting a bottle throwing fight.

Such was the humiliation, they have announced they they are going to target the Cowley Club and posted their plans on their hilariously shrill blog.  The intention is to disrupt an anti racism gig which is strange because they spend rather  a lot of their time claiming they are not racists.

They claim their intentions are peaceful but due to the fact that they have only joined up with these morons due to football banning orders, their claims are rather dubious. This is further backed up when they were caught bragging on Twitter about a cowardly attack they launched on a pensioner at the weekend, leaving him hospitalised. They claimed it was done in revenge for Brighton.

There is one obvious flaw to this plan though, the gig they are planning to disrupt was held in May 2011 and it is well and truly over by now.

It did not end there though, they are planning to go back to Brighton to ‘celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee’.

Various threats of violence towards the people of Brighton have been made and the following was posted on their Facebook by a guy with a ‘white power’ profile picture who was offering up the above poor quality intelligence.

It does seem as though they have got their dates wrong completely and will actually miss the Jubilee as pointed out by a more intelligent contibutor to the page.

For such rank idiocy, the Casuals have found themselves in Derek Fender Corner, the place on the internet where everyone comes to laugh at them.





Fascist Attacks In London This Weekend

29 04 2012

After last weekend in Brighton those monitoring the fascists will have noticed they seem to have completely shifted their hatred from Muslims to the Left….Something some of us are quite pleased about. Showing their true colours at last, It’s very doubtful they will pick up any more support now, it’s more difficult to convince people that their friends and family may be ‘red scum’ than it is to go on about  Islam & Sharia law.

The amount of bullshit flying about in far right circles is as crazy as it gets, one report (from Casuals United) actually said that the MFE counter protesters “left the men alone and bottled the women and kids” – If anyone believes this shit they have serious problems, possibly even beyond fascism! We’ll put together an article all about the shit filtering out of the far right on this subject next week.

As expected it’s looking like an attempted revenge for being completely humiliated  in Brighton is starting to happen.  The report below  is from a re-post although other information from London Anti-Fascists suggests the Mob, possibly London EDL, was about 15 deep, so had clearly been organised before hand, with a separate gang targeting a stall in Central London (no violence reported). Unlike the fascists, and as terrible as it may be that 15 thugs can attack 2 paper sellers and hospitalise a pensioner in the process, lets not whinge and moan, lets get fucking organised!

This is a re-post from libcom, originally from http://transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/fascist-attack-in-lewisham-today.html

Reports on Twitter and elsewhere that one person (and possibly two people) needed hospital treatment today after extreme right wing thugs attacked a socialist stall in Lewisham town centre.

I didn’t see the actual attack, but it did not surprize me. As reported here yesterday, Unite Against Fascism had announced that an anti-BNP cavalcade would be starting out from Lewisham Clock Tower at 11 am. I was down there at 11 and there was no sign of the lorry, but there was a very obvious group of about 10 -15 fascists standing by Lewisham Food Market and closely watching what was going on at the Clock Tower. They had scouts posted on corners nearby presumably looking out for signs of the cavalcade.

I got a good look at one of them as she came away from the group and stood at the bottom of Lee High Road – a pasty faced woman with dyed black hair and an eyebrow piercing, wearing a black Paul’s Boutique coat with a yellow cancer charity daffodil. I think the rest were all blokes, mostly in their 20s or younger wearing various rain gear [can I just be clear that I don’t have a problem with eyebrow piercing or Paul’s Boutique – the description is included because it might help the victims identify their attackers, not to make any snobby point about EDL dress codes]

I tweeted ‘In Lewisham waiting for arrival of anti-BNP bus, ten or so moody looking possible BNP by clock tower’. After about half an hour it looked like the cavalcade wasn’t coming. I heard that the lorry had technical faults and so wouldn’t be coming to Lewisham, so I headed off.

As I was leaving I saw a couple of local Socialist Workers Party members on their way to set up their regular Saturday stall and warned them about the dodgy crew nearby. Fair play to them, they refused to be intimidated and went ahead as normal. Shortly afterwards they were attacked.

On Twitter the attack is being blamed on the ‘English Defence League’, but it’s difficult to say whether they were BNP or EDL or both. The EDL did post a crowing message on twitter (laughably comparing their opponents to ‘fascists’).

No doubt they will be boasting of their audacity in operating in a multi-racial area like Lewisham. Hardly an act of great bravery though for the cream of the master race to attack two people selling papers, one of them a pensioner.

Presumably Lewisham police were sheltering from the rain in their huge station opposite the scene of the attack. The perpetrators were present for at least 45 minutes before the attack, can’t believe that a group of young black men looking menacing in the same place would have escaped their notice.

Update (Sunday 29 April): two further witnesses have left acccounts in the comments –

– ‘I was there and helped one of the attacked men up. He must of been in his late 60’s and was punched to the ground.The other guy was headbutted and looked like he had a broken cheekbone. I offered to take them to the hospital but they opted for an ambulance. No police anywhere even though it was opposite one of the biggest police stations in Europe. They wasn’t just young, there was older guys in there 40’s with them too’.

– ‘I was there too. A group had gathered quite a while before and even though I had no idea of the planned meeting it was obvious they were up to something. Maybe 7 or 8 younger men plus an older man and the woman with Paul’s Boutique coat. After attack they left laughing. They hardly ran. Very surprised police did not come at all during this time’.

The older man who was attacked was apparently 74 years old (just to be clear the second person attacked isn’t a pensioner).





REPORT FROM AFA IRELAND TALK IN LONDON

27 04 2012

(Re-post From Schnews)

                                                                            

Anti Fascism talk hosted by Alarm and The Anti-Fascist Network

Saturday  21st April 2012 evening saw LARC (London Action Resource Centre) play host to a talk from a speaker from Anti-Fascist Action (AFA)  Ireland. The talk was jointly hosted by London Anti-Fascists and The Anti-Fascist Network. We had a good attendance considering numerous other Anti-Fascist events happening around the country on the same evening, with approx 20 people from numerous groups.

The talk was broken up into two sections the first being titled “The development of the Irish far right and Anti-fascist opposition 1945 to 1991. This was an excellent history lesson of a part of Irish history which is usually relegated to footnotes.

The point the speaker made excellently was, that although often small in numbers, and of varying degrees of lunacy, Ireland has always had a far right presence. From the 40’s extreme right corporatist, Ailtirí na hAiséirghe , the black Legion in the 50s, up to the 70’s National Movement,  and 80s neo –Nazi boneheads.  The talk was accompanied by slides of various players within these groups as well as the some examples of the propaganda they were printing. The talker also had some great anecdotes from anti-fascists who opposed these groups through the years. Needless to say as Ireland always had a far right presence there has always being anti-fascist resistance, primarily coming from the republican movement, from the IRA burning down Mosley’s house in Ireland to the Workers Party kicking Nazis off the streets of Dublin.

The second part of the talk focused from 1991 when AFA was formed to the present day. A run down was given of all the opposition that AFA have seen the back off since then, including the Immigration Control Platform, which never really took off in the mid 90s when AFA physically stopped their launch meeting, a blow from which they never recovered. To the early 00s and  Justin Barretts swift exit from Irish politics after a meeting with a few AFA lads. In the later part of the decade a neo nazi group the  Celtic Wolves, disappeared shortly after a encounter with an AFA mob in a Dublin pub.

He went on to talk about the current groups on the Far Right namely Folk Advance and The Democratic Right Movement. He went on to give an honest analysis of these two groups, and the current role of AFA in Ireland.

One point the Speaker made, which I don’t think can be over stressed was the success of AFA Ireland, now in its 21st year, is down to 2 main factors :
1) That the core group of people who were involved from its launch 21 years ago, are still very much involved in the group now.
2) That AFA Ireland has always had a membership from across the left wing political divide in Ireland, that it has managed to remain non political outside of the No Platform policy. This means it has being able to draw wide support from various different Republican groups, Eirigi being particularly mentioned, Anarchists both aligned and non aligned, The Socialist Party, and many other Left wing groups. Herein the speaker stated was the strength of AFA Ireland.

We would like to extend our thanks to AFA Ireland for sending over a speaker, a great night was had and we managed to raise a few pounds for our prisoner fund as well.
We look forward to running many more similar nights

No Pasaran.





Infidels Or Imbeciles?

26 04 2012

Interesting to see how different infidel groups behave in different parts of the country – these midlands fella’s have completely given up trying to hide being fascist! (article below is a re-post from East Midlands Anti-fascists)

The recent arrests of members of EDL splinter group, the Infidels, have raised the profile of this tiny far right protest group. Anti-fascists might be wondering whether the Infidels have a local presence and what kind of threat they pose. We did the dirty job of scouring their websites so you don’t have to. Here’s the deal:

Derbyshire Infidels

These guys go for an old school white supremacist vibe, devoid of punctuation or grammar: “The futures bright the futures white ktf ns!”, “Unite the right to be white”, “white white white is right kick them and fight fight fight”, etc. As with many of their fellow on the far right, the urge to write bloody awful racist songs and ‘poetry’ cannot be suppressed:

They say they are “sometimes violent” and use fascist imagery of

fighting for the white race, etc. So are they a threat?

Erm… don’t think so.

Leicester Infidels

These fellas are more happy to show their links to Nazism, littering their posts  with “14w” (reference to a 14 word phrase from Mein Kampf) and “88″ (8th word of the alphabet is H, HH stands for Heil Hitler). They think that “jew scum took control of the uk/world media” and are obsessed with anti-semitic conspiracy theories and holocaust denial. Fortunately they seem like too paranoid a bunch of lunatics for most people to show the slightest bit of interest in them and have to resort to liking their own posts.

Nottinghamshire Infidels

A relatively new Facebook group that seems to have aroused very minimal support. Set up by Phil Murfet, a Notts County fan whose speciality is rape jokes, race hate jokes and jokes about Tommy Robinson involving race hate. ” ‘Sex with someone who doesn’t want to is rape’ … I call it marriage” the little charmer wrote in a recent status update. Another recent ‘joke’ called black people at KFC “native, wild black members in their home tribe” an “uncivilized group” who “sloppily munched into their food”. Little Miss Murfet refers to Tommy Robinson as a “fenian” funded by “jew boy” Alan Lake. A nasty piece of work to be sure, but without any support.

What is noticeable about all of these tiny Facebook fan pages is that they have very little local support and seem capable of very little independent action.  They are full of links to the North West Infidels, British People’s Party and National Front and their members occasionally report going to fairly small demonstrations in the north. In short, although they love to think of themselves as the hardcore street army who have had enough of what they see as the multicultural, Zionist, Irish-led EDL, they will always be in its much larger shadow.

The threat of more militant, hardline fascist groups like these is not that they might have any mass influence, but that they might give rise to future ‘lone wolves’ – radicalised individuals who resort to violent atrocities in order to ‘fight back’ against ‘the Jewish conspiracy’, ‘multiculturalism’, ‘cultural Marxism’, ‘Islamic takeover’ or whatever their current bogeyman is. We have had homegrown Breiviks in the past – David CopelandMartyn Gilleard andRobert Cottage spring to mind.

Fortunately the Infidels phenomenon does not seem to have taken off in the Midlands and the police raids on several of the leaders of the movement in the north and London will hopefully dampen their spirits. However, we should not be complacent. These fascists need to be stamped out.