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New and bigger far right on the streets

The rapid rise of new far-right street movements in the UK, spearheaded by the Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA), and coalescing around the #FreeTommy movement, is a serious concern for the left and labour movement. Alongside smaller more hard-line groups such as For Britain and the UK branch of the European far right youth movement, Generation Identity, the nationalist and populist far right are having a resurgence. The DFLA was formed in the wake of the Manchester and London Bridge terror attacks and has brought together elements of the far-right with established football firms and...

Far right anti-Muslim bigot to stand in Lewisham East by-election

Anne Marie Waters from the tiny political party, For Britain, is standing in the Lewisham East by-election on 14 June. Waters is a far right anti-Muslim bigot and, as well as working hard for the Labour candidate Janet Daby in this election, we must be oppose her racism. Who is Waters? Waters, was once a prominent Labour, secularist and LGBT activist; in the past she was seen to be on the left. She claims to have been involved in the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign but no-one in that campaign remembers her. Waters took a sharp turn to the right in 2013. Around that time she broke ranks with...

Wake up for anti-fascists

The May 6 “free speech” rally by various parts of the far-right should be a wake-up call to the left, labour and antifascist movement. 4,000 racists were able to gather in Whitehall following the life ban from Twitter of Tommy Robinson, former EDL leader and probably the UK far-rights most well known figure. The main counter protest organised by the SWP fronts Stand up to Racism and Unite Against Fascism was probably only 200 strong. The demo found itself attacked early on by members of Democratic Football Lads Alliance. Without the police presence it is likely the far-right would have been...

Far right in local elections

On 3 May UKIP and groups to its right are likely to face a well-deserved drubbing in the local elections. UKIP will be standing in only a fraction of the seats they stood for in 2014, the last time most of the same council wards were up for election. In 2014 UKIP got 16% of the vote and won hundreds of new councillors. This time round UKIP’s support is likely to continue to drop, as it did in the 2017 general election, when it got under 2% of the vote. Since then they have been through two more leaders and have shown little sign of revival. The newly energised Labour Party, organising and...

Italian elections: fascist menace grows

The horrific act of fascist violence on the 3 February in the central Italian town of Macerata, where eight young west Africans were gunned down by a neo-fascist thug, has highlighted the level of putrefying decadence of the major political contenders for office. All of them, from the inveterate xenophobes and the racist (northern) Lega, to the now-not-so-populist 5 Star Movement, through to the resurrected corpse of Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and rounded off by the Renzi-led Democratic Party of government, instinctively chorused that the answer to the ever-more palpable violent presence of neo...

Who are the US “alt-right”?

Much has been written about the so-called “alt-right”. The term has been used to describe quite different phenomena. Depending on whose analysis you support, the alt-right could be disaffected young white men resurrecting fascist politics on a foundation of social media meme-culture irony. Or a PR ploy by classical fascists of various stripes pitching both for edginess and a mainstream platform. Or a meaningless epithet slapped, with little explanatory value, onto a scurrying cluster of various far-right fringe groups suddenly given prominence by a presidential regime which has seemingly...

Four briefings on the French Front National

How does the National Front control its municipal territories? - briefing prepared for Ideas for Freedom summer school 2017 Some clichés and preconceived ideas about the National Front - 2014 The National Front and its influence among French workers - 2014 Antifascism in France - 2014

Reclaim Brixton!

Two thousand people gathered in Brixton on Saturday 25 April under the banner of Reclaim Brixton. The day included a short lived occupation of the Town Hall, several marches and speeches and music in Windrush Square. Reclaim Brixton brings together a number of new and existing campaigns together. Demands of the protest included: • Refurbishment not regeneration of council estates — no evictions of Lambeth residents • Stop racist policing, stop police violence, no more stop and search • No cuts to local services — save Lambeth Libraries • Private rent cap, new property development to be used...

Occupy needs politics

After being evicted by the police from their nine day occupation of Parliament Square in October, a new movement called “Occupy Democracy” attempted to reclaim the Square on Friday 21 of November. Police repressed the direct action. The former deputy chairman of the Liberal Democrats, Donnachadh McCarthy, was arrested. The demonstration continued nearby, with speakers including NHS campaigner Lucy Reynolds and the Green Party’s Natalie Bennett and a total around 200 people participating. One protester chained himself to the railings of parliament. The movement is attempting to challenge...

A reply to Richard Brenner on the Yalta conferences, Ukraine and Russia

Richard Brenner (a member of Workers Power and the “Solidarity with the Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine” campaign) has issued a statement explaining his attendance at a conference about Ukraine held in Yalta (Crimea) in early July. (1) That conference – entitled “The World Crisis and the Confrontation in Ukraine” – was subject to lengthy criticism in the pages of Solidarity . We argued that the conference was an initiative by people who fall somewhere in the grey area between extremist nationalism and outright fascism, and that any left-wingers attending it were, at best, playing the role...

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