A counter-demo by Cornwall Resists faced off against the far-right in Truro for several hours ~ Scott Harris ~ Mylor Councillor, Peter Lawrence, was caught on film yesterday (24th May) delivering a blatantly antisemitic, holocaust denying rant at the far-right Great British Strike event in Truro, Cornwall.
MCC think tank “echoes Orbàn’s authoritarian policies and values”, say anti-fascists of Vigilance Cordon Sanitaire ~ From Stuut.info ~ Last night (14 April), activists covered the facades of Brussels hotels and venues with anti-far-right posters.
Confronting the far right means solidarity with climate refugees ~ James Horton ~ In late January, the Climate and Nature (CaN) Bill failed to pass at the House of Commons.
A fascist in the White House, and the ‘traffic lights’ go out in Germany ~ Jonathan Eibisch, Paradox-A ~ The promised turning point is clearly coming much louder than many would have expected.
Kemi Badenoch exemplifies the decades-long tradition in the UK of ‘pulling up the ladder’, practiced by class-ascendant immigrants on the right of the political spectrum ~ Daniel Adediran ~ Kemi Badenoch is the death’s head of the Tory Party.
Instead of self-righteous identity politics, our practice should oppose fake empowerment narratives ~ Anon Grata ~ A right-wing populist party has won the elections in yet another European country—but as the international media reminds us, it’s not any country: it’s both the birthplace of the leader of historical Nazi-Fascism, and the cradle of modern post-fascist
Activists in Switzerland storm the stage at the homophobic and anti-abortion “March for Life” event ~ from Barrikade ~ As they do every year, this September too, the fundamentalists crawled out of every hole of their contempt for humanity to Oerlikon (Zurich, Switzerland) to demonstrate against the basic human right to a safe abortion.
The far right is not ‘revolting’, only upholding white supremacism with performative violence
Deep-seated racism and xenophobia persist within the white majority, mirroring the fundamentalism and hatred cultivated among marginalised communities — The burgeoning neo-fascism is just a symptom, not the disease itself.
Coordinated antifascist defense has been inspiring, but it must grow to become omnipresent — Tuesday July 30 saw the start of an uprising of far-right terror on British streets.
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
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