Posts Tagged ‘islamophobia’
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
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
