EDL revert to type

Times are hard for the English Defence League. As they drift ever further into obscurity and irrelevance – continuing to insist to anyone who’ll listen that the single greatest threat to the British working class right now is the impending arrival of islamofascism – their tactics are becoming increasingly desperate. Britain’s inevitable transformation to an [...]

Posted by Liam T on December 28th, 2010 | 4 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Anti-fascist strategies tested in Bradford

We’ve previously covered the run-up to last weekend’s English Defence League march in Bradford. Despite a successful campaign to have the government ban the march, it was always clear that the EDL would come anyway. The “official” anti-fascist movement made no plans to take direct action to try and stop the EDL from being able [...]

Posted by Jack on August 31st, 2010 | 5 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

The EDL and SDL: they must be smashed

Following the relative success of their wee day out to Kilmarnock – where the shameful actions of Strathclyde Police ensured that their ‘march’ could go ahead – the SDL are intending to have another go at parading through Glasgow next month, on Saturday 18th September. As you might recall, when the SDL last tried to [...]

Posted by Liam T on August 2nd, 2010 | 20 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Newcastle: impasse for the anti-fascist movement

Saturday 29 May was meant to be the day of the English Defence League’s ‘secret’ protest. So secret, in fact, that its location was revealed months ago as Newcastle upon Tyne, giving anti-racists enough time to organise a whopping three separate anti-racist protests, all ostensibly setting out to ‘oppose’ the EDL. The outcome was far [...]

Posted by Liam T on May 31st, 2010 | 14 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

UKIP – more nutter than you think.

UKIP are the most successful minor party in British electoral history. Despite having no MP’s, no official backing from any major newspaper, and only 70 councillors UKIP were able to beat the Lib Dems and come third in 2004′s European Elections. Last year they went further, coming second and beating the governing Labour Party. Today [...]

Posted by Andy Bowden on March 23rd, 2010 | 43 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Joint anti-fascist meeting this Saturday.

Regular readers of this site will know of two attempts by the so-called “Scottish Defence League” to march in Glasgow in Edinburgh to demonstrate against Muslims in this country. On both occasions the SDL have been kettled, unable to march – and in Edinburgh unable to make even a token static protest. On both occasions [...]

Posted by Andy Bowden on March 11th, 2010 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Square Go wi the SDL in Edinburger

Awrite mah wee muckers? Here’s the Glesgie style lowdoon oan the demo opposin’ the SDL oan the 20th ay February. Fucken… So yisterday me n aw the crew went oot tae Edinburger, right? We wur there tae tell ‘ay SDL mob whit we thoat ay their bolloks. So, we spent fucken days staunin in the [...]

Posted by LydiaTeapot on February 21st, 2010 | 50 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Anti-SDL meeting in Edinburgh.

After being convincingly routed last month the SDL are talking about having another march, this time in Edinburgh on February 20th. The last time the SDL marched they were outnumbered 1,500 to 80 and were unable to march anywhere. They spent the day cooped up in a bar, a totally different situation from other parts [...]

Posted by Andy Bowden on December 4th, 2009 | 21 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Scottish Defence League routed in Glasgow.

Image by John Lanigan Almost two months of organising against the Scottish incarnation of the fascist English Defence League paid off yesterday – the SDL were outnumbered 50 to 1 by anti-fascist demonstrators, unable to march and spent most of the day kettled in a pub in Glasgow. Earlier fears of the SDL marching on [...]

Posted by Andy Bowden on November 15th, 2009 | 8 Comments Posted in Uncategorized