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shafique wrote:RC - as DDS pointed out, just look up EDL and who attend their ralllies and you'll see what they are about.

But specifically on the fascist bit:

But having spent time with them, there is evidence that this movement has a more disturbing side. There is talk of the need for a 'street army', and there are links with football hooligans and evidence that violent neo-Nazi groups including Combat 18, Blood and Honour and the British Freedom Fighters have been attending demos.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive ... eague.html

Cheers,
Shafique

Red Chief wrote:From the BBC article I learnt only about Muslim violent youth
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About 100 Asian teenagers then pelted it with bricks and stones, according to a BBC reporter at the scene.

shafique wrote:The article clearly states local - but hey, why quibble over the details. None of the local, Asian teenagers who threw stuff at the coach carrying the drunken EDL louts were arrested, were they?

I pity the cleaners who would have had to clean up the coach after the EDL drunks soiled themselves!

Cheers,
Shafique

About 100 Asian teenagers then pelted it with bricks and stones, according to a BBC reporter at the scene.

East End 2 Fascists 0

Sunday 04 September 2011

Victory. Victory for the anti-fascist movement, victory for the labour movement and above all victory for the East End in all its vibrant array of races, religions, languages and communities.

That's the only conclusion to draw from a day when the fascists were not only stopped but sent packing in humiliation from the streets of east London - again.

There was no repeat of the pitched battles that erupted in Cable Street when Oswald Mosley's blackshirts were halted in their tracks in 1936. But it was still a humbling defeat for the drunken rabble of the EDL and their attempt to terrorise the East End.

This was unity in action, from the RMT members who refused to let the fascists use Liverpool Street or King's Cross stations to the business owners who denied them a venue to protest in Tower Hamlets to the Euston landlords who heeded Unite Against Fascism's call not to let EDL members get tanked up in their pubs.

And, of course, the East Enders themselves who massively outnumbered the fascists with a peaceful counter-protest which brought together locals and campaigners from all across Britain and of all races and religions.

This was not two invading armies warring over neutral territory. It was one invading army, a rag-tag mob of racist thugs, against an opposing force with roots deep in the community it was defending.

Painstaking grass-roots work by Unite Against Fascism and local trade union and community activists meant the EDL was met not by campaigners parachuted in from elsewhere but by an alliance which put the lie to the EDL's scaremongering over immigration and Islam.

So much for "Islamisation." So much for the fascists' grubby little attempt to whip up race hatred where none existed before.

And, on a day when the EDL suffered defeat after defeat after defeat, when scores of members reportedly including the leader were arrested amid scenes of drunken brawling, when it was put to shame by the dignity and determination of the East End - so much for the EDL itself.

We have the fascists on the run. Saturday's famous victory shows we can beat them wherever and whenever they raise their ugly heads.

English Defence League coach attacked in east London

A coach full of English Defence League supporters was pelted with missiles after it broke down in east London.

Red Chief wrote:Excuse me, Sir, my English needs some improvement but the head-line of the article is following:

English Defence League coach attacked in east London

A coach full of English Defence League supporters was pelted with missiles after it broke down in east London.

shafique wrote:
I didn't say I supported any violence, and just made the point that those arrested were the racists on the coach.

Cheers,
Shafique

-- Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:56 am --

Here's how the Morning Star reported on it:

East End 2 Fascists 0
..
That's the only conclusion to draw from a day when the fascists were not only stopped but sent packing in humiliation from the streets of east London - again.
...
And, of course, the East Enders themselves who massively outnumbered the fascists with a peaceful counter-protest which brought together locals and campaigners from all across Britain and of all races and religions.

This was not two invading armies warring over neutral territory. It was one invading army, a rag-tag mob of racist thugs, against an opposing force with roots deep in the community it was defending.

Painstaking grass-roots work by Unite Against Fascism and local trade union and community activists meant the EDL was met not by campaigners parachuted in from elsewhere but by an alliance which put the lie to the EDL's scaremongering over immigration and Islam.

So much for "Islamisation." So much for the fascists' grubby little attempt to whip up race hatred where none existed before.

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news ... ull/109082