By Paul Gale Alek Yerbury, founder and leader of the National Rebirth Party, and the chap with a penchant for pencil moustaches and military-style great coats, has again put pen to paper to offer a comment for the Searchlight website. Now, it has to be said that Mr Yerbury is, by a considerable distance, the […]
Anti-fascism
Kent schoolboy in court on ‘terror charges’ linked to far-right extremism
Read article in Kent Live News website here
Trade union movement and Labour Party gear up against Tommy Robinson’s fascist rally on Saturday
The fight against the emerging Islamophobic street movement picked up pace this week, Unite Against Fascism writes. Activists from across the trade unions and Labour Party have been mobilising for the counter-demonstration to the next Free Tommy Robinson rally in Whitehall this Saturday. Initiated by Stand Up To Racism and Unite Against Fascism, it is […]
Unite against Tommy Robinson’s fascists – London 14 July
On 14 July anti-racists from across the UK will gather in London to oppose the supporters of Tommy Robinson, Stand Up To Racism writes. Find the Facebook event here. The last time Tommy’s supporters came out they rioted through central London attacking whoever was in their way. Their platform hosted notorious racists and fascists with […]
Leeds anti-racists step up fightback as Robinson supporters plan march
Activists from Unite Against Fascism and Leeds Stand Up To Racism have been organising against far-right attempts to march in their multicultural city on Saturday 7 July, UAF writes. Here anti-racists report on how they’ve been building the fightback against supporters of fascist Tommy Robinson. “Following Tommy Robinson’s arrest and jailing in Leeds for contempt of […]
Oppose the racist DFLA in Manchester next Saturday
The Democratic Football Lads Alliance, a split from the Football Lads Alliance, have called a demonstration in Manchester on Saturday 2 June to protest against the remand in custody of Tommy Robinson, founder of the English Defence League, Unite Against Fascism writes. The DFLA also want to exploit the recent anniversary of the Arena bombings, […]
Remembering Sivanandan: social justice activist and thinker
Ekklesia posted the following commentary by Savi Hensman on 13 January. Ambalavaner Sivanandan, an activist, thinker and novelist, died on 3 January 2018, aged 94. What he said and wrote on class, race, oppression and resistance influenced many people internationally. For several reasons, he is an important figure for people of all faiths and none. […]
Update on anti-EDL protest in London, Saturday 24 June
The fascist Islamophobes of the English Defence League have called a march in central London this Saturday, 24 June. The EDL is seeking to scapegoat Muslims following the appalling terror attacks in the UK. We must ensure the EDL’s poison is countered. Last Sunday 18 June several thousand racists, fascists and Islamophobes demonstrated in Manchester. […]
No to the fascist EDL in London – 24 June
The remaining rump of the fascist English Defence League (EDL) are returning to London, on 24 June, Unite Against Fascism writes. This is just a few weeks after their humiliation at the hands of over 1,000 anti fascists in Liverpool. The supposed reason for their demonstration is concern over the recent terror attacks in the […]
Oppose fascist and Islamophobic Britain First in Birmingham – 24 June
Birmingham Unite Against Fascism is calling upon anti-fascists to oppose another fascist attempt to inflame race hate in Birmingham. The Islamophobic and fascist sect, Britain First, plan to visit the city of Birmingham on 24 June. They had aimed at an earlier, unwanted intrusion, but had to postpone this, as their leaders were arrested on various […]
Norscarf to celebrate 40 years of struggle
The NORSCARF Group (North Staffordshire Campaign Against Racism and Fascism) are celebrating 40 years of struggle this autumn, and will be publishing a study of the group’s activities. They are anxious to contact all those who have been active over the years, especially in the very early years when the group was set up. The […]
EDL haters never learn
Liverpool lived up to its historic record as being one of the most unfriendly places for the extreme right to visit when the English Defence League tried to hold a march on Saturday 3 June. For the EDL it was an unmitigated disaster. Just 60 supporters scraped up from gutters nationwide turned out, supported by […]
UAF Scotland anti-fascism demo – oppose the Nazi White Pride march in Edinburgh
Unite Against Fascism Scotland is disgusted to announce that the poisonous nazi rump called the National Front intend to come to Edinburgh city centre on 25 March to hold a national, racist, ‘White Pride March’. The National Front are a pale shadow of what they were in the 1970s, when they achieved 100,000s of votes […]
For a Europe without fences and neo-Nazis
International meeting against racism and fascism, Athens, 15-16 October 2016 The annual Nationwide Assembly of KEERFA (Movement against Racism and Fascist Threat) held over a warm October weekend in Athens ended by adopting a raft of agreed actions and priorities for the coming year by the many Greek Anti-Racist and Anti- Fascist activists, networks and […]
1936 – they did not pass; 2016 – they still do not pass
Next month we will remember those anti-fascists who in their ten of thousands prevented the march of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts of the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists into the heart of the Jewish working class borough of Stepney (now Tower Hamlets). We also salute those of them who went on to defend […]
