Posts Tagged ‘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
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
A German translation of ’Günter Grass and the German neurosis‘ has just been published by Hintergrund magazine (issue 3/2012). You can order the magazine here or from the Junge Welt shop.
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Tags: anti-Semitism, fascism, Günter Grass, german neurosis, germany, Hintergrund, imperialism, national socialism
Looking at a literary scandal and the bourgeoisie’s attempts to cope with the past Published in Weekly Worker, 19th April 2012 “Abominable”, “irritating”, and “over the top” – these are the attributes that the German tabloid Bild, otherwise known for agitating the local populace against ‘lazy Greeks’ and suchlike, used to describe a poem, ‘What must […]
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Tags: anti-Semitism, fascism, Günter Grass, germany, imperialism, Israel, national socialism, what must be said
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
A triumphant victory?
Co-written with Claire Fisher, published in Weekly Worker As readers will know, home secretary Theresa May responded to the English Defence League’s intention to hold an anti-Muslim demonstration in Tower Hamlets and the proposed counter-demonstration of the left by banning all marches in five London boroughs in the month of September, including the City of London.
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Tags: edl, English Defence League, fascism, islamophobia, lumpenproletariat, neo-fascism, popular front, unite against fascism, working class
‘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
