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Counter-protest against the NF, Swansea, 9 March 2013

Tonypandy | 26.02.2013 03:10 | Anti-racism | Wales

South Wales NF are planning a "White Pride World Wide" demo, to take place in Swansea on 9 March 2013. Although the publicity pretends the demo is against racial discrimination directed at whites, it's organised by Hitler-worshipping Nazis Bryan & David Powell, and as such insults all Welsh people who fought during WW2 and the Spanish Civil War, and the 230 people who were murdered and 400 people who were injured by Hitler's Luftwaffe during the Swansea Blitz.

9 March demo publicity, on the SWNF website

9 March demo publicity, enlarged

WDL demo, Swansea, 17 Oct 2009 - note flag & banners

The same WDL flag & banners + Nazi salutes

Powell brothers (right, with moustaches), Swansea demo, 17 Oct 2009

Bryan Powell Nazi Salute

Bryan Powell (baseball cap) stewarding EDL demo, London, 5 March 2010 (2 photos)

Powell brothers (Swastika shirts) with Wayne Baldwin (Swastika tattoo)

David Powell's collection of SS knives

South Wales National Front are planning a "White Pride World Wide" demo, to take place in Swansea on 9 March 2013. Although their publicity pretends the demo is against racial discrimination directed at whites, it's organised by Hitler-worshipping (and nearly identical) Nazi brothers Bryan & David Powell (of Morriston, Swansea), and as such the demo insults all the families of Welsh people who fought and died during WW2 and the Spanish Civil War, and the families of the 230 people who were murdered and the 400 people who were injured by Hitler's Luftwaffe during the Swansea Blitz.

The Powell brothers became notorious after being photographed among the Sieg Heiling Nazis of (Casuals United founder) Jeff Marsh's EDL branch the Welsh Defence League, during the WDL demo in Swansea, 17 Oct 2009; but, after the Powells had been exposed as Nazis, the EDL still chose Bryan Powell to steward an EDL march in London, 5 March 2010.

Since the WDL collapsed after being exposed as Nazis, the Powell brothers founded the South Wales NF group, with Bryan also playing in a godawful folk band Waredigaeth ("Deliverance"), alongside banjo teacher and ex-WDL goon Chris Lewis (aka Criss Lewis, aka Banjo Lewis, last known address Pontarddulais, Swansea), at the SWNF Xmas Party and at the Nazi organisation Blood & Honour's last social in (literally) an old shed on the outskirts of London.

Although in practice SWNF consists of little more than the Powell family and at best a couple of dozen friends (Chris Lewis, Luke Pippen, Steven White, Ken Davies, Wayne Baldwin and former BNP candidate Sion Owens etc) the Swansea demo is likely to draw supporters from the North West Infidels, England's Golden Dawn, Casuals United and other Fascists who've advertised the demo on their Facebook pages etc. Although the NF demo isn't likely to be well attended, if we can't beat Fascists when they're weak, we definitely won't beat them when they're strong, and making a strong show of opposition to these Nazis sends an important message to Fascists across the UK and overseas and to figures in the right-wing establishment who might be considering whether they can work with these thugs (Fascists have often been used for strike-breaking in industrial disputes, for instance).

Exact details of the "White Pride World Wide" demo have yet to be announced, so the National Campaign Against Fees & Cuts say the "counter-demo will take place starting in Castle Square, Swansea at 11am, but details will be updated as new facts emerge"...

http://anticuts.com/2013/02/23/we-will-fight-the-neo-nazis-in-swansea-on-march-9th-ccafc/

https://www.facebook.com/events/113020642216513/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea_Blitz

All photos hacked from social media websites

Tonypandy

Comments

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More proof the Welsh Defence League were Nazis

26.02.2013 03:38

This photo's been circulating for years

This photo however recently came to light

Give us a twirl, fellas

Welsh Defence League group photos taken on the way back from an EDL demo (with the Powell brothers taking turns to take the photos)

Tony

Bryan Powell with Nick Griffin

26.02.2013 03:41

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Tony

Luke Pippen

26.02.2013 03:54

Luke Pippen ...

Pretending he isn't racist (brown jacket, holding banner, WDL demo)

But in fact he is

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Beth!!!

26.02.2013 10:37

These people are just a mix of football hooligans and benefit scroungers. Will you please stop referring to them as fascists.

I know you have very strong views on fascism and that is based on immediate history but even an antifascist will recognise that fascism is, like Anarchism, a political philosophy and despite being misrepresented by the hierarchy, these philosophies are logical and backed by political theory and practise.

These people in the photos will be able to repeat verbatim from the history books the detail of the Nazi party and the Italian fascists because thats all they are capable of doing. They are not fascists, they are hero worshippers.

Ask them to articulate a basic understanding of the world they live in and they completely fall to pieces. What self respecting modern day fascist would fail to understand the environment in which they live?

I wonder about your motives. It seems to me you are trying to see something where it doesn't exist. You seem to have a misplaced fondness for the thing you profess to despise. Either that or you are a fully paid up member of the group pictured above and are using an Anarchist resource to garner publicity for your sluggish football hooligan "firm".

This article shouldn't be on IMC. It is not news.

Longbow.

troll bugle above

26.02.2013 11:10

yeah right wots fashist abaht swastikas, white power tattoos and and SS knifes eh? you total fucking arsebugle. try being at least a little convincing.

Malatesta

@pretend Malatesta.

26.02.2013 13:34

" yeah right wots fashist abaht swastikas, white power tattoos and and SS knifes eh? you total fucking arsebugle. try being at least a little convincing."

Oh what's the matter?

Are we still not friendly enough toward Israel?

Have you got to keep smothering this site with hooligans until we start being nice toward Israel and the Zionist's?

I tell you what, we will promise to be good but you have to promise to stop posting this crappy hooligan stuff so we can build up our user base.

Waddya say you little hook-nosed Jew troll?

Is it a deal?

anonymous

@ Longbow

26.02.2013 13:35

First Longbow seems to have a high opinion of Fascists and Nazis - as his/her response ignores the fact that many original German & Austrian Nazi Party (NSDAP) members were the 1930s equivalents of "hooligans and benefit scroungers" as well, and of course Hitler went to immense lengths to encourage support from "hero worshippers", just like these. These people may be no-marks and morons, but, no shit, Nazis usually are no-marks and morons, that doesn't mean they're not Nazis, you lunk-head

Second this is not a question of Anti-Fascists "trying to see something where it doesn't exist", but instead a question of YOU refusing to see 100% unambiguous evidence when it's been placed directly in front of your face. Try harder, fool

Luigi

LONGBOW

26.02.2013 16:33

get back

ON THE FUCKING STRONGBOW, CASUALS TROLL!

Nice you're trolling again, Jeff / Joe

26.02.2013 16:38

Hope you enjoy Spain, and stop worrying about yer Welsh nazi mates so much.

Move on, and stop writing books about stabbing people, Stabby!

Casuals United, who were promoting this gig on Twitter, have officially surrended by the way. Remind the fuckin' chumps of this if you see them in Manchester this Saturday, sticking tongues up Kev Carroll and Hel Gower's arses!

Antimarshist Action

Fuck The NF

26.02.2013 16:39

Fuck Casuals United

Fuck All The Nutzi Scum Throughout The World!

Antisemitism

26.02.2013 16:57

It's so bloody ironic that many of the unreformed nazi creeps such as the NWI with views with the troll above (aimed at Malatesta), CxF, and CA, will be standing hand-in-hand with the EDL's Official Israeli Flag Bearer in Manchester City Centre this Saturday, hugging each other as the dearest of pals.

It's an EDL march, funded by American wasp pro-Zionists, you complete set of tools.

So much for hypocrisy, whoever's organising the march, EDL or the supposed Northern Alliance (Official EDL by another name) not standing for what you believe in, fucking neo-Nutzi kissy-pissy-sell-outs.

UNITE THE SHITE, INDEED!

HOW THE MERRY FUCK CAN JEWISH-HATERS STAND WITH ISRAEL LOVERS THIS SATURDAY?

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

Creating fascism...and other useful defences.

26.02.2013 17:05

"First Longbow seems to have a high opinion of Fascists and Nazis - as his/her response ignores the fact that many original German & Austrian Nazi Party (NSDAP) members were the 1930s equivalents of "hooligans and benefit scroungers" as well, and of course Hitler went to immense lengths to encourage support from "hero worshippers", just like these. These people may be no-marks and morons, but, no shit, Nazis usually are no-marks and morons, that doesn't mean they're not Nazis, you lunk-head

Second this is not a question of Anti-Fascists "trying to see something where it doesn't exist", but instead a question of YOU refusing to see 100% unambiguous evidence when it's been placed directly in front of your face. Try harder, fool
Luigi "

To try and equate the EDL with the post war survivors of Germany after the first world war is enough in itself to dismiss what you have to say. You have a curiously vacuum-like understanding of history, so much so that you appear to be qualified to be in the EDL! Who knows, you might well be.

Hitler did not encourage hero worship, in the early days he strongly discouraged that as a recruiting sergeant to build his own support base. He felt that the Kaiser was worshipped by the bourgeoisie, he despised it and strongly encouraged the proletariat to avoid doing that. As he secured power, the German people flocked to his movement only because he was able to articulate an intelligent political platform which took full account of Germany's position in Europe and the wider world. National Socialism was something that was not only understood, but was usable in Europe in a way that was the equal of anything else the other European powers had or could use.

Hitlers supporters were not drunken jobs or overweight skinheads, but war bitten, distressed and terribly poor ex conscripts and jobless men, many of whom had lost their families and had little or nothing to live for. If you took an EDL supporter back in time and stuck him shirtless into Berlin, what do you think those men would have made of him?

Yes, thats right, he would be the village idiot.

Now dont get me wrong, I am no fascist nor am i an EDL supporter, but I am politically aware and keep a keen eye on history.

So I say it again, why are you attempting to create Fascists out of drunken football hooligans who know nothing whatsoever about the basic reality of the world they live in?

You are giving them qualities, they simply do not possess.

Now why would you want to do that?

Longbow

CHECK OUT THE BIG SALE - SORRY, SELL-OUT, IN MANCHESTER THIS SATURDAY

26.02.2013 17:08

Thanks braindead fash troll for reminding us that anti-Semites will fucking surrender this Saturday to the EDLers waving their Israeli flags!

Enjoy your EDL march this Saturday in Manchester (and don't pretend NF / NWI won't be there. many have said they are attending on facebook and twitter).

Say Hi! to the EDL's Uncle Toms whilst you are getting high on Hel Gower and Kev Carroll's speeches (contrary to early reports, both have now confirmed they are attending)!

BET YOU'RE TOO SHIT-SCARED TO GIVE IT THE 14 WORDS WITHIN WEARSHOT OF THE EDL SECURITY LADS!

UNITE THE SHITE- LOL! FUCKING GO FOR IT!!!

BRITISH FASCISTS SELL OUT IN MANCHESTER!

Qualified To Be In The EDL

26.02.2013 17:12

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SLATEDL

Manchester Nazi Sell-Out

26.02.2013 17:15

I dare you NFers to stand up and bawl "Hitler is my hero" whilst Kev Carroll gets up and does a speech this Saturday.

BRING IT ON!

EDL Leadership Excited About Attending Manchester

26.02.2013 17:37

From a fresh tweet taken in the last hour.

The EDL's Leadership Kev and Hel, are wetting their pants for Manchester, so all talk of them not being welcome in Manchester by the Northern branch of the EDL is complete and absolute bullshit.

Anyone who thinks they will be staying away, is seriously deluded. Expect lots of Kev and Hel Speeches, and remember to clap when told to do so, old-school unreconstituted NWI/ CxF / NF/ BNP / BPP nazis, or else there will be absolute Hel to pay!

Former EDLers are being used to boost the EDL's leadership's popularity, stupid Sheeple!

GOOD TURNOUT AND KEV AND HEL STAY IN CHARGE OF THE EDL!

UNITE THE SHITE - BRING IT ON!

Longbow... Strongbow more like

26.02.2013 19:12

"Hitler did not encourage hero worship"? Read this -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Führer_principle

The fuck off

Broadsword

@Broadsword

26.02.2013 19:22

This beats your can of strongbow every time!

Gorgeous countryside, wide open spaces of beautiful green land, That's why Wales is better than any shitty booze that you can pour down your throat. So fuck off with you cans of piss water cider. Wales is the best

Made in Wales

@Made in Wales

26.02.2013 23:48

The meaning of the Strongbow joke seems to have eluded you, Longbow. It's the Fascists in the photos above who have the cans and bottles in their hands (Welsh Fascists as it happens, irrespective of the beautiful countryside)

The joke is that it's the Fascists - as the photos prove - who are constantly pissed. Still, even a joke like that probably is over the heads people who think Hitler didn't encourage hero worship. Try to keep up

Broadcast

WDL at todays demo

09.03.2013 17:41

Luke Pippen (his new name is Earl Turner) was there with Shane Calvert.

Bagger

powell brothers

08.08.2013 10:38

thats a nice thing on the wall in the photograph of brian powell , and i do not mean the swastika flag which happens to be the wrong way around.i mean the lovely carving or maybe a clock in the shape of AFRICA. you see,maybe they are quite the evil nazis after all? maybe they do have a love of other country's and cultures.

truthseeker28

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