After Bolton: tactical choices for anti-fascists

 

OVER the top comparisons with the streets of Italy during the Bienno Rosso thankfully remain alarmist nonsense. But it is the case that the fascist right now has an established street thug presence in Britain for the first time since the 1970s, and has even started to intimidate leftwing meetings.
Broadly there are two potential responses from [...]

BNP teachers: it’s right not to ban them

 

POLICE officers and prison workers are banned from becoming members of the British National Party. But teachers, the government has confirmed today, are not. Whatever happened to logical consistency here, I haven’t a clue. But on balance, I reckon Maurice Smith has made the right call.
Unsurprisingly, the decision has upset some on the left, who argue that the profession [...]