Here’s some updated new AFN flyers with our new web address and Facebook page.
Click on the image to get it full size and then right-click to download the image.
Hopefully these should work if you print double sided on a piece of A4 and chop in half, so you can run them off easily on a photocopier. Let us know of any issues with printing and we’ll try and address it.
More stickers, flyers, T-shirts and other goodies coming soon – Spread the word on the streets!
Let us know if you want some to distribute in your area!
Statement from the HSA:
Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) is pleased to announce its affiliation to the Anti-Fascist Network (AFN).
The HSA has always had a policy of inclusion, welcoming anyone into our ranks regardless of race, creed, gender, religion or sexuality, and has been forced over the years to confront and exclude people who have been proved to be racist or fascist. Our active members have for years been the subject of racist (and sexist) abuse from the hunting community which only highlights that our struggle to end hunting also promotes a more ethical attitude to both humans and animals.
Both the HSA and AFN promote a policy of confronting those engaged in racism and hunting respectively, on the streets and in the countryside. To not only stop such activities continuing but also to highlight them to the wider public. While other organisations hide their heads in their hands, hoping that a few leaflets or email shots will make the problems go away, we are clear that the only way to end both hunting and racism is confront it head on, so those who partake of such actions and attitudes are clear that we will oppose them until they stop.
For any further enquiries please contact our Press Officer here.
An AFN activist has just written up a new flyer for entry level Anti-fascists, A PDF of the double sided A5 can be veiwed/printed here:
Why take direct action against fascism
We will be getting a print run of this leaflet done at some point and we’ll hopefully have a page of resources on here to allow people to view and print any literature we have. If you spot anything amiss on it please do get in touch before we commit it to paper!
Reports and pictures confirm the National Front have pulled in about 60 extreme fascists to the heavily policed white pride rally. The police chopper is up for this? Pathetic!
Antifascists gathered with the UAF have around 300-400 participants. It appears that a few militant antifascist groups roaming Swansea have been stopped by police and forced to join the UAF demo or sit in the cells for the day.
More news will follow, there may be a few local fascists hanging around later. Out of towner scumbags (98%?) will be making their way back home by train and car after the police bus them to a safe distance and out of the reach of Antifa’s. If you have a National Front member in your town you may want to collect them from the station to make sure they get home ok!
Here’s a picture of a redwatch photographer looking lonely (tweeted by EDL News):
I’m so ronery!
Urgent call out from Welsh Antifa! (reblogged from Wessex Solidarity)
On 9th March the National Front are holding a White Pride Demo on the streets of Swansea where they will be spewing their Racial hatred, so let’s show them what we think of their bile and show them they are not wanted in Swansea or anywhere else.
Welsh Antifa have received verified information that the NF shall be forced to undertake a static protest in a back street/Car park near the Strand area of Swansea, away from the shops and out of sight of the public. The UAF shall be holding their Counter Demo in the Strand Quay so if you would rather not be put into a Kettle situation, try to avoid 
. Please make your way to the Strand area about 10.30am. Bring Flags, Banners and Placards, Musical Instruments if you so wish. Stay Safe People 
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Facebook page for info: http://www.facebook.com/events/113020642216513/
Fascist scumbags IC1 are due to play at an Oi gig in Barking on Saturday night. Here’s the facebook event: Monsters Of Oi – a short look through the guest list and you may come across some real ‘white pride’ losers (as usual, all terrible examples of the master race!)
The venue is The Boleyn Pub, Barking Road, London, E6. – telephone 02084722182. All are welcome to attend! The Boleyn probably would appreciate warning that anti-fascists will be none too happy if they let IC1 play.
UAF are advertising a demo outside the pub at 8pm sharp.
IC1 – Combat 18 security on the right.
And please remember, there are plenty of Anti-fascist Skins about too!
Real Skins
Anti-Capitalist Action
It seems like things are really coming along at the moment – Introducing our new friends ACA Manchester!! As most people will be aware the hardcore EDL hangers on are planning to hold some sort of flop in Manchester on the 2nd March. There’s plenty written about it elsewhere but from our point of view it’s forming up to be a nice day out.
It seems our new pals have reclaimed the letters A.C.A from the irrelevant far right group ‘anti communist action’ – which tried, and failed, to counter AFA a good decade or so back!
ACA Manchester have been out and about In Manchester engaging with the public to talk about the threat the far right poses, here’s a cheeky write up of their last leafleting session-
‘ACA members had their hearts broken today as we were present in Market Street for yet another promised date that the EDL stood us up on. The EDL had made *specific promises* to personally greet us and some of our friends as we leafleted about the upcoming counter-demonstration against their demonstration on the 2nd of March. We feel that this may have damaged our relationship with the fascists to such an extent that we will never trust them again, especially seeing as we waited for about 5 hours for them to arrive.
Regardless, we handed out hundreds of leaflets to the public and received an overwhelmingly positive response, and also fostered links with other activists in the area.’
Although the area’s around Greater Manchester may be strong holds for the far right, Manchester itself will most likely be having non of it when the lard lads roll in. See you on the streets!
It’s been widely reported over the last day or so that Freedom Press was subject to a ‘firebomb attack’. What seems to have happened is that some scumbag managed to force open one of the outside window covers with a crowbar or some-such and lob in a Molotov cocktail or pour petrol in and set it alight. Whatever they did the effort was amateurish and the shop survives to agitate another day, thank fuck no one was hurt, and a lot of the damage apparently came from the chemicals used to extinguish the fire, what is apparently normal in these situations. It looks like the fascist scum that creep around hiding their beliefs from everyone they know & try to care about are to blame, but once again the actions of a couple of pricks looks likely to give a shot in the arm to anti-fascists, and those on the left who have sat on the fence for too long. As the antifash movement grew following the surprise attack by fascists on an Irish march in Liverpool a year or so ago, more people again seem to be joining the movement to stamp out UK fascism.
Freedom was last attacked in 1993 by Combat 18, during that attack they sprayed C18 on the wall as they left, but in the age where every fascist posts their poisonous ideas on the net it is unlikely that any of the fuckers will admit to this one. The pigs as well as antifascists know who a lot of these people are. (The police are involved as they were called by the fire brigade, although we shouldn’t expect anything from that line of inquiry).
After the Tower Hamlets EDL march was scuppered last year, and the embarrassment they suffered in Walthamstow (twice) recently, there was chatter on EDL facebook pages about attacking the anarchist book fair, with some of them posting links to Freedom Press. Another candidate could be the ‘British Golden Dawn’ who got humiliated the other weekend by London antifascists, and as they are a tiny group of nutters this could be the kind of cowardly stuff they could sink right into. We may never know if it was organised or just a lone dickhead, needless to say whoever it was probably identifies with most far right wannabe street movements. The Kebele Club in Bristol also had it windows put in a couple of days before, although the prime suspects for that locally seems to be the toff lads from the local hunt. It’s also worth noting that the Neo-Nazi group Blood and Honour hosted a secret gig in London last week, although there does not seem to have been any talk about it from them so far.
Help has already been offered by many people, today saw a great turn out by folk volunteering to help clean up so the shop can get back to running as normal asap. Other anarchists and antifascists have quickly organised events to raise money for Freedom with events planned from Newcastle to Brighton (and everywhere in between).
Report on the 1993 attack, 4.25 mins in: C18
Iron Column Records is looking for artists to donate to a benefit CD for Freedom – here’s the link: Iron Column
Poets can get involved here – Poems
And anyone wanting to make a donation can do so by ordering a book on line but stating that the money is for a donation: Freedom Press
Freedoms online books are still available as normal as obviously not all stock is stored in the shop and the upstaris area is fine apart from electrical damage.
Here’s the amazing story of the clean up so far: Clean me!
So it looks like a near tragedy could turn into a positive for the antifascist and anarchist movements, and no doubt whoever did it may curse the day they kicked the hornets nest. Solidarity With Freedom Press, Always Antifascist.
Saturday saw anti fascists across the world answer the call from Greece Antifa for a show of solidarity. So far reports of solidarity demo’s happening have been received in Greece from London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Bristol, Cork, Dublin, Derry, Barcelona, Ossona, Manresa, La Garriga, Bilbao, Lyon, Brussells, Berlin, Copenhagen, Vienna, Tampere, Warsaw, Vilneous, Moscow, Chicago, New York, Montreal, Toronto, Sydney, Canberra, Buenos Aires, Oslo, Cologne, Nicosia, and Paris.
All in all a good day for anti fascism, especially in London where around 200-300 gathered in the cold outside the Greek embassy (Sorry to those reporting much higher numbers, but the AFN does not exaggerate or lie, this is a figure that many involved in the network thought was about right).
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UAF did a good job getting their supporters out, but unfortunately treated them to speakers including Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and David Lammy – like the Labour party doesn’t give immigrants a kick when it wins them votes! London groups aligned with the anti-fascist network seemed pleased with the local antifash turn out, and they were joined by a couple of other groups who made the trip through the snow. One group of Antifascists who arrived fashionably late stumbled upon the ‘British friends of Golden Dawn’ holding pen (holding all 12 of them) and whilst out of the UAF kettle attempted to engage the dipshit fascists in a bit of light banter – shortly after this the Nazi’s were marched off to a tube station by the old bill in a shower of snowballs as the antifascists were put into the appropriate kettle to join the solidarity demo.
Pretty much everything Antifascists do is reactive to what the opposition is doing so it was great to have show of solidarity, requested, and answered by antifascists. The fact the scum only managed to get 12 out to counter the demo is encouraging, as was the turn out from Londoners. To be fair there were apparently a couple of fascists waiting in a pub nearby, but they decided to stay there rather than making arses out of themselves like their mates. The classic quote of the day came from one of the Golden Dawn Supporters – “We’re not fascists, we’re Nazi’s”. Fucking insane!!
Dead behind the eyes – half of Londons Golden Shower brigade
The Edinburgh demo was almost identical, with 8 or so assorted fruit loops including SDL members showing up to stand on the sidelines and look dejected.
Edinburgh’s Friends of Golden Dawn looking lonely
The SDL did not fare much better in Pollokshields (Glasgow) on Sunday when a planned demonstration to use the anniversary of the death of a Scottish lad to try and stir up some hate attracted about 15 nutters and was told where to go. The turnout may have been low however, that may be due to the deceased being of catholic descent and the SDL getting confused about which side they are on. Militant antifascists and local antifa casuals also stayed away due to the organisers of the counter protest working with the police.
All in all a fucking terrible weekend for the fascists in the UK. If there does seem to be a lull in their fortunes it could provide a perfect opportunity to build a stronger, and more organised movement for the future.
Here’s some more reports from Saturday: Schnews – Wessex Solidarity – Athens Antifa
And one from Sunday in Glasgow: ISG
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