The English Defence League have called a national demo in Bradford on 12 October.
We cannot let these violent racists march unopposed.
Recently in Hull the EDL were virtually unopposed, so the police allowed them to march. They marched down a street with a large Kurdish population shouting racist slogans, smashing windows; they beat up two Labour Party members.
The Anti Fascist Network in Leeds and Bradford is calling on anti-fascists in the north and local working-class people to counter the EDL when they turn up in the city centre.
Last time the EDL came to Bradford a thousand people opposed them. When some EDLers broke out of their police kettle and rampaged through the city, local people and anti fascists stopped them and forced them to flee behind police lines.
The anti-racist group Hope not Hate and the trades council want a unity event earlier in the day and no counter demonstration. Unite Against Fascism is due to decide on its plans.
We call on them to join a counter demonstration — the most effective show of unity against the racist EDL.
