Comments on: After Bolton: tactical choices for anti-fascists

By: liam

liam — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:31:10 +0000

lol, ‘antifa’ don’t really exist in Scotland at all, nevermind Edinburgh. The Edinburgh Anti-Fascist Alliance is a broad grouping of people in SSP, RCG, Socialist Appeal, IWW, anarchists, unaffiliated etc. EAFA led the way in opposing the SDL directly in Edinburgh, with 500+ anti-fascists laying siege to the pub the SDL were gathered in. As did the prototype Glasgow Anti-Fascist Alliance when the SDL tried to demonstrate here last November.
We’ve now formed the Scottish Anti-Fascist Alliance, with a group in Aberdeen too. And we will be confronting the SDL next week in Kilmarnock.

By: Bill Corr

Bill Corr — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:12:53 +0000

This is Dave’s blog and he decides what goes.

However, since I am hardly at all in sympathy with the [almost certainly very very very nasty] people behind REDWATCH I was startled to see the link deleted.

By: modernity

modernity — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:49:19 +0000

I’ve always thought I should take an interest in psychology, but I never, that was until I saw a Ruskin College graduate, Exile, try and excuse the racist thugs within the English defence league.

And trying to understand what twisted mental process goes through his mind when he implicitly supports the EDL’s xenophobia and racism, by virtue of trying to sanitised the EDL and their methods

It must be some psychological disorder, because it certainly couldn’t be political, unless Exile actually agrees with the EDL’s supposed policies? And if that is the case, then why post here?

Exile would be far more welcomed at the BNP’s watering hole, green Arrow.

I just wish he’d fuck off there and stop giving out the blarney about the EDL.

By: Exile

Exile — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:59:01 +0000

Forget it – outsourced crap put out by someone who is about ready to drop his load – you Modernity. I can almost here your arsehole clench. Well, it’s been a long 30 years hasn’t it? Guess what? I think that wonderful moments when you repeatedly pony your strides are about to arrive.

By: E10 Rifle

E10 Rifle — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:09:04 +0000

One perspective that is notably absent from these regular, spirit-sapping debates from competing lefties with their (metaphorical and, probably, actual) cocks out – and that’s the perspective of the minority groups that are the actual target of EDL marches and the like.

It’s easy to mock the facile sloganeering of yer Swoppies – and hell, I do it enough meself – but there doesn’t appear to be very much speaking up on behalf of racism’s actual victims, on any side, in these debates.

By: modernity

modernity — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:30:18 +0000

Not forgetting http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/English-Defence-League-cracks-begin-to-show

By: modernity

modernity — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:29:42 +0000

Dave,

Maybe you should run a few articles on basic history, antifascist history and highlight the parallels with the 1920s and thirties as some of your readers, exile and co, could certainly do with some education on the topic.

and as my contribution here’s a video on the Welsh defence league, just like their mate in the EDL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HrS8Fmx2ho

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:05:04 +0000

“Everytime bus-loads of middle-class first year humanities students and effete Trotskyists”

” On the council estates where the BNP are strong it is these very lefties that are detested only second to immigrants . . .”

Dave,

any chance of getting your tech experts to install a facepalm button on your blog?

When you read cliched bollocks like this what else can you reach for?

By: Exile

Exile — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:52:26 +0000

Right, so you have dropped the bit about intimidating the ethnics, have you? Good because the number of black faces in the group made you look a bit of a mong. Well, rather more than normal.

James Bloodworth: This is me done with these cockroaches from now on in. I don’t want to argue with them on fora like this – I am bringing my eldest lad over soon and they can take it up with him. Bugger’s got a punch that makes me quite proud to be his old dad. I just hope that I live long enough to see them destroyed.

Good Twitter page that offers update on demos as they unfold, by the way. My blog has the details but I can’t be mithered with URLs today. What calls itself the left just makes me want to vomit.

By: James Bloodworth

James Bloodworth — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:27:42 +0000

Everytime bus-loads of middle-class first year humanities students and effete Trotskyists confront working-class football hooligans who are also a bit racist it is an absolute gift to the BNP. On the council estates where the BNP are strong it is these very lefties that are detested only second to immigrants, and bring a whole new meaning to class-war by turning up in peripheral market towns to shout “Nazi scum” at the working classes. Nazis? Get real.

I do suppose though that when you have so many links to anti-Semitic figures as the UAF do, downplaying and bandying around the term ‘Nazi’ is quite easily done.

Just incase you really did think that UAF were ‘anti-fascist’ as they proclaim, here are a few images from their recent rallies.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l197/JJJjjjpua/UAFALLAH.jpg

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l197/JJJjjjpua/UAFflags.jpg
(This is the flag of Al Qaeda in Somalia)