Posts Tagged ‘anti-fascism’
BNP: Out of the woodwork
Published in Weekly Worker, 6 June 2013 As descriptions of the June 1 British National Party demonstration and the anti-fascist counter-protest in Westminster, phrases such as ‘good clean fun’, ‘solid Saturday afternoon entertainment’, and ‘decent spectacle’ spring to mind. Following years of infighting, financial troubles, and near-absence from the public eye, the whites-only outfit was […]
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Tags: anti-fascism, Antifa, bnp, edl, fascism, NIck Griffin, swp, UAF
Disappointing anti-fascism
A comment I left on the Who Makes The Nazis blog. I’m a little disappointed that my article, “Of Runes and Men“, which you reposted from Red Mist a year ago did not stimulate any substantial discussion. Instead, we’re back to business as usual: musicians and their far right links and sentiments are listed, and […]
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Tags: anti-fascism, Death in June, love music hate racism, neofolk, Who Makes The Nazis
Published in Weekly Worker, 8 November 2012 There can be no annual Marxist school without a session on the far right and that was the case with Socialism 2012. But, credit where credit is due, the Socialist Party in England and Wales does not treat the subject as an easy recipe to stir up emotions, […]
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Tags: anti-fascism, English Defence League, fascism, Keynesianism, Labourism, nationalism, Socialism 2012, socialist party, SPEW
Of Runes And Men
Published in Red Mist, Weekly Worker, and Who Makes The Nazis? Warning! Attention, everybody! It looks like for the first time since the 80s, London’s ethnic communities must fear for their safety when certain rock bands come to town. As the Love Music, Hate Racism website warns us in bold letters, the Slimelight club in Islington, […]
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Tags: anti-fascism, Death in June, fascism, industrial music, love music hate racism, martial industrial, neofolk, Sol Invictus, unite against fascism
“Grandpa was Sturmführer of the SS – his grandson will be Sturmführer of the SS”, went a chorus typical of Berlin’s neo-Nazi rock group, Landser, whose rather nauseating songs recommended the murder of Jews, blacks, “Polaks”, “gooks” and communists. In 2005, the group was classified as a “criminal organisation” and banned by the German federal […]
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Tags: anti-fascism, communism, extremism, germany, landser, neo-nazis, skinheads, white power rock
‘Surfing rabbi’ wheeled out
Published in Weekly Worker, 28th October 2011 The October 24 English Defence League march to the Israeli embassy “in solidarity with Israel” was virtually ignored by Unite Against Fascism. “Palestinians stink,” I heard a female voice shout, as I made my way from the October 23 anti-cuts march in central London to Covent Garden, the day […]
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Tags: anti-fascism, chauvinism, edl, English Defence League, fascism, islamophobia, rabbi nachum shifren, unite against fascism, zionism
The EDL did not turn up to disrupt an SWP event after all. On Wednesday August 11, the Socialist Worker Party’s Dave Renton gave a talk on the history of fighting fascism in the UK at Houseman’s bookshop in central London. Formerly a member of the now […]
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Tags: anti-fascism, edl, English Defence League, islamophobia, neo-fascism, socialist workers party, swp, UAF, unite against fascism
There’s something strangely fascinating about radical skinhead music. We’re not talking Oi! music or ‘street punk’, that politically unadventurous football hooligan variant of punk rock that cropped up in the UK around 1980. We’re talking angry young men who have dedicated their music and their lives to a cause and are not adverse to using […]
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Tags: anarchist, anti-fascism, hardcore punk, non-servium, oi, Punk, red and anarchist skinheads, skinheads, street punk
