The men of the National Rebirth Party will know that size isn’t everything. And that’s good because today’s so-called National Conference, attended by around 30 desperate and misled souls, was a springboard into an empty swimming pool. We sat and watched them entering the Headley Verity Wetherspoons just outside Leeds City Centre. It’s not difficult […]
Thousands raised by far right in Dundee ‘migrant attack’ case police say didn’t happen
From the moment UK fascists started to focus on a disturbing incident that happened in Dundee, Scotland, we knew something was wrong. A video, obviously made on a mobile phone, started to circulate on fascist social media channels. The footage showed two very young girls, probably in their early teens, in conflict with unnamed and […]
Tenconi’s UKIP besieged and humiliated in Liverpool
Saturday was a very bad day indeed for the fascists of UKIP. Leader Nick ‘Lonely’ Tenconi waited an hour to join his racist assemblage of thugs, hooligans, convicted criminals and fascist sympathisers and, when he did, anti-fascists physically pushed him against the war memorial opposite Liverpool Lime St Station and pinned him there. Massive effort […]
Liverpool anti-fascists go toe to toe with far-right thugs and see them off
Today, in Liverpool, reporting for Searchlight, I found myself in the forefront as anti-fascists fought off a violent mob of fascists, Ulster loyalists, and right-wing football hooligans. We didn’t know what to expect. Passing through Liverpool city centre we enjoyed seeing an African guy singing to a large crowd, an Iranian playing his violin and […]
Manchester – latest chapter in Britain First’s slow death
Britain First leadership was confidently predicting thousands of marchers for its event today in Manchester. It turned out to be considerably less than that with estimates varying between 400 and 700. Only the BBC placed the numbers present at over 1000. This was certainly more than at its previous recent marches in Nuneaton and Birmingham, […]
Grim up north : far-right ‘Manchester Protest’ flops
When Claire Walsh, the organiser of the much-vaunted and much-hyped Manchester Protest, aka National Strike, disappears off to Dover for the main national event you know something is wrong. And today’s shambolic, utterly pathetic “rally” at St Peter’s Square, in Manchester, drew considerable ire from passers-by. If you’d blinked you might have missed it but […]