Last Sunday (22 June) we ran an article about right-wing photographers who were taking pictures of people attending left-wing or anti-fascist demonstrations.
Two of those pictured, including the person captioned number 2, have contacted us to say they have no involvement with the far right. Others have contacted us on their behalf.
We are happy to accept that this is truly the case and that they have nothing to do with far-right politics. We have taken down the article and we offer both these individuals a sincere and unreserved apology for getting this badly wrong, and for the distress that it has understandably caused them.
This is the second correction we have had to make in a couple of weeks, and we are genuinely mortified to have to do so. We take pride in the fact that what we publish – and there is an awful lot of it – is accurate.
We work extremely hard to maintain that reputation – prior to this we have not had to apologise for getting anything wrong for a very long time.
But having moved online earlier this year our output has increased massively. We are all unpaid volunteers who working extremely long and hard to produce this material simply to be of service to the anti-fascist and anti-racist movement. And, we are human.
Even so, this mistake should not have occurred, and we will continue to make every possible effort to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
