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 riots
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 […]