A rare note of thanks goes to Elon Musk for his hilarious New Year farce turning Reform UK’s leader into a complete laughing stock ~ Rob Ray ~ What an excellent few days it’s been for far-right watching.
Farage’s failed sell-out
Tag: Tommy Robinson
OOH ARR ANTIFA!!!! – Fascist demo in Bristol cancelled with a week to go
Faced with mounting community resistance, Tommy Robinson and the political party/support act For Britain have abandoned their planned anti-BLM rally at the site of the famously dethroned Colston statue next Saturday, April 9th.
ALERT: Transphobic feminism and far-right activism rapidly converging
As the conversation around transgender people’s human rights continues to generate heat, many have speculated on the extent to which anti-trans “gender critical” (GC) activists who often claim to be either feminists or otherwise motivated mostly by concern for women’s safety and human rights are aligned with openly conservative and right-wing interests.
Hearts of Oak- threat or a joke?
Saturday saw the public debut of a new attempt to “unite the right”.
Brexit Day – a confused day for the far right, marred by infighting
This article was orginially posted on the website of London Antifascists.
Tommy Robinson’s rally showed one thing: He doesn’t care about free speech
When two thousand people turned out yesterday to support the far-right media personality’s big show against a State/BBC conspiracy to destroy him he talked about his wedding, his campaign against muslims and much more – but actual threats to free speech?
UPDATE on anti-Tommy Robinson demo Sunday 9th December
Here’s the latest on what will be one of the biggest and most important mobilizations against the far-right this year.
Anti-fascist reports: Confronting the far-right in London
Anti-fascist activists from Plan C and Edinburgh Antifa write on yesterday’s clash with Tommy Robinson-supporting neo-nazis.
Gays Against Sharia march draws barely two dozen
The rally through Bristol saw Muslim-bashers outnumbered both by anti-fascists and four-to-one by police.
Campaigners condemn far-right recruitment attempts among IPP families
Campaigners against indefinite IPP prison sentences publicly denounced efforts being made by far-right activist Tommy Robinson (pictured waving brick) to infiltrate and recruit from among the prisoners’ families of using his “media reach” as a lure today.
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Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
Facing down the flagshaggers
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.
London arms fair disruption: A stark contrast to mass arrests for Palestine
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,
Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
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.
France blockades: The leaderless escalate
Yesterday’s day of action saw Bloquons Tout stepping out of the shadows nationwide—and facing major police repression ~ punkacademic ~ Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in France on Wednesday (10 September) as the first day of action organised under the banner Bloquons Tout (“Block Everything”) saw widespread protests and blockades in defence
