When Phil Curson turned up outside the Bell Hotel in Epping last July, he did not come as an outraged but peaceful local as he claimed. He came as what he has always been: a Combat 18-connected street nazi with more than two decades of racially-motivated violence behind him, looking for a fight. He found […]
Epping riots
Epping sets anti-racists a challenge we cannot shirk
In Epping, organised fascists and their racist supporters have scored a notable victory over the last couple of weeks. The situation was not turned around by yesterday’s creditable anti-racist turnout but maybe a line has been drawn, and a moment signalled when the real, hard work of winning hearts and changing minds in that divided […]
Epping this Sunday – anti-racists must nip far-right violence in the bud
On 7 August last year, in response to direct fascist threats of violence against organisations helping migrants and asylum seekers, tens of thousands of anti-racists turned out to physically protect those organisations. It was a phenomenal show of strength and helped put an end to a week of horrendous racist violence. Searchlight wrote at the […]
Farage’s false claims risk stoking racist violence
Last year’s race riots became known as the Farage Riots for one simple reason – Nigel Farage went online and suggested that the truth was not being told about the Southport murders. It was untrue, but it immeasurably boosted far-right claims and stoked the racist fires. Now he’s doing it again. Yesterday, on GB News, […]
Fanning the flames – far right aims to whip up summer of race riots
Let’s be under no illusions about the significance of this week’s events in Epping – this is simply the first chapter in determined efforts by the far right this summer to engineer a repeat of last year’s post-Southport race riots, using whatever pretext presents itself. This week the pretext was three alleged sexual assaults on […]