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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 [...]
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No to SDL/EDL racists: in Kilmarnock, Newcastle, everywhere!
Earlier today I travelled down to Ayrshire to help local SSP members spread awareness of an important date for all anti-fascists in Scotland: Saturday the 19th of June. This is when the drunken far-right morons of the “Scottish Defence League” are planning on bringing their wee roadshow to Kilmarnock, under the guise of protesting against [...]
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SDL round III: AYRSHIRE
Remember the Scottish Defence League? Not very keen on Islam, quite like sitting in pubs, don’t want to surrender to the IRA, seem to always end up on a bus filled with riot cops… yeah, that lot. The ones we chased out from Glasgow in our thousands. Then Edinburgh. Well, they’re claiming to be back. [...]
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Dress Down Friday
David Cameron’s wife keeps some of her campaign reading material handy – some great stuff about imposing immigration caps in there.
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Who the Hell is… Albert Einstein?
Today we’re reviving a regular feature you used to see the in the classic (pre-blog, paper only) version of Leftfield. “Who the Hell is…” brings you the low down on key folk who’ve tried to make a difference to the world in the past. Previous people we’ve profiled have included Delegate Zero/Subcommandante Marcos, and Che [...]
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Metropolitan Police: Getting away with murder
It’s taken 31 years, but the Metropolitan Police have finally published a secret internal report showing that police officers killed an anti-fascist protester in 1979. Blair Peach, a 33 year old teacher originally from New Zealand, was on a demo against the National Front in Southall, London, where he was beaten to death by police [...]
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The Far Right: You either love it or hate it
The far right BNP are hated by socialists, anti-fascists and anyone that isn’t white, straight and mental. But today it emerged they’ve made a powerful new enemy. The makers of Marmite have announced they are to sue the BNP, after they used the images of the spread in their party election broadcast. As you can [...]
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BNP frozen out in Glasgow Central
Following Labour candidate Anas Sarwar agreeing to boycott the BNP, the SNP candidate has also confirmed he will not share a platform with them either. In response to my Letter to SNP and Labour candidates, Osama Saeed commented: Thank you for your email. I have always refused to share a platform with the BNP. Fro [...]
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Collett's Night of the Shite knives foiled
After facing “treason” only a few weeks ago in Scotland, the BNP have had to carry out another purge within their own ranks. This time its against a far more senior member, making far more serious threats to the party leadership. The BNP have expelled 3 of their leading members, including their head of publicity, [...]
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Official position on death of Terreblanche
As the SSP candidate for Glasgow Central, I feel the burden of being an official member of civil society. To my mind, the norm when a prominent death occurs is for the media to do the rounds of Important People, gathering their balanced reactions. In order to assist our friends in the press, I have [...]
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