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Death Knell for the EDL?

Jo Makepeace | 01.09.2012 21:37 | Anti-racism

Brighton hinted at it, Bristol seemed to continue the pattern but today's misguided outing to the London borough of Walthamstow showed the extent to which the English Defence League is now in a steep downward spiral.

Full article + links at  http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/DEATH-KNELL-FOR-THE-EDL/

This was intended to be a re-run of Tower Hamlets – a mission into darkest Muslamic country to liberate a corner of England. In the event around only two hundred fash made the trip down – to be confronted by a multi-racial crowd of over two thousand.

After getting pissed up and fighting amongst themselves at King's Cross station the EDL gathered at Blackhorse Rd tube station. They were then marched in a mobile kettle along Forest Rd, the initial stage of their intended route to the Town Hall. The UAF were behind police lines occupying half of Forest Rd. Autonomous anti-fascists waited just down from the crossroads. The EDL approached at a snail's pace entirely surrounded by cops.

As soon as the hapless leaguers came in sight the Anti-Fascist Network's banner was unveiled – triggering scuffles with the police and a couple of arrests. The cops soon realised that if a handful of anti-fascists were going to cause that much bother then getting the EDL past the UAF demo was going to be more trouble than it was it worth. The answer was to divert the EDL down the side-streets and try to smuggle them to their rally point.

SMASH GAZEBO

Meanwhile, realising that the EDL march had been blocked anti-fascists started breaking away in small groups getting round police lines to the rally point. Soon hundreds had gathered in front of a gazebo decorated with England flags and staffed by the EDL's top boys. Unfortunately for them their minions were being held up by police a few streets away leaving Tommy Robinson and Kev Carroll to have a rally behind police lines that barely got into double figures. After they were bombarded with eggs and bottle and repeated anti-fascist crowd surges the EDL's police liaison officers told them to leave the area. Rumours that Kev and Tommy later indulged in a bit of sulky mutual recrimination and even handbags at dawn have so far been confined to the socialist press.

Eventually the EDL were marched back, remarkably silent for this once vocal organisation. Locals came out to give them some abuse to send them on their way. One anti-fascist told SchNEWS “They recruited no-one, didn't seem to have a point to their demo and basically looked like thuggish idiots. They're not even frightening anymore”.

Jo Makepeace
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@abc

02.09.2012 23:26

by what we've seen here I don't think so!

Dezzi


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Massive Fail

01.09.2012 22:04

...as they would say. Top job all concerned, and a nice little write up.

Where next for the pseudo-fash?

Casual


Good

01.09.2012 22:55

One of the good things is that the EDL got twatted, even better their publicity stunt didn't even make the local TV news in London, so the EDL grunts got the experience of being massively outnumbered in London, while the leadership were mostly ignored by mainstream mass-media

Shay


sorry to disappoint

01.09.2012 23:52

Sorry to disappoint, but there will always be dickheads. They will change form and come back again. They will inevitably be squashed by common sense again.

Just remember though that they keep the rest of us on our toes and remind us what is stupid and wrong.

KermitTheFrog


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Thankyou leftists for helping us to conquer your country!

02.09.2012 12:33

Thankyou very much leftists for fighting those who oppose us! See our great video about how will aim to bring Sharia law into force:  http://www.youtube.com/user/islam4uk
The EDL are our biggest threat to gaining power but thankfully you people have defeated them for us which will allow us to take power within a few years.

Islam 4 UK


Leagues apart?

02.09.2012 12:46

Interesting that the music on the official video for the EDL is by the anti nowhere league.
Which means that the edl either used it unofficially and the band can sue them, or they got permission.

Kermit


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The hypocrisy and stupidity of the anti-fascists.

02.09.2012 14:40

While there is an epidemic of paedophile grooming gangs by Pakistani Muslim men in cities right across the UK (Liverpool, Bradford, London, Rochdale, Blackpool, Carlisle, Preston, Leeds and many more), and Al Qaeda terrorists born in Britain (e.g. Luton, Rochdale) continue to threaten our lives and plant bombs, you can always count on the UAF and the antifascists to turn a blind eye to these disgusting crimes against children and support militant Islam all the way.

Sims


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@Sims

02.09.2012 15:15

sort out your own dirty little backyard first  http://edlnews.co.uk/index.php/featured-stories/9-the-edl-and-paedophiles

Filth


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woman leader

02.09.2012 17:15

The more whites who get beaten up stabbed killed the better youve bought it on yaselves.

bnp


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whites are NOT evil

02.09.2012 17:33

"The more whites who get beaten up stabbed killed the better youve bought it on yaselves."

That's racist! Mods get this racist shit off here

annon


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ethnics hate u

02.09.2012 17:39

They hate u middle class wankas ha.ha.

fact


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Thats racist too

02.09.2012 17:54

moderators wake up! These comments and racist and illegal

Towers


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uaf afa wankas

02.09.2012 18:09

Mid class wankas ha.ha. Ethnics detest u cos u lick yhete arses ha.ha

enoch


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Answer my questions hypocrite.

02.09.2012 18:16

@Filth

Sorry mate, not a member of the EDL. Although you'd like me to be I am sure. Anyone who complains about these paedophile gangs or Islamic extremism to you is a racist. Get your own house in order and change the record. I'm one of millions in this country who think the same way.

And why don't the antifascists do anything about the Muslim paedophile gangs rampant in most cities in UK? They haven't done a thing to help any of these child victims who have been so terribly abused, in fact they came out in suppoprt of the nonces outside Blackpool courts.

And chumming up to muslim extremists. Dear me.

Sick and disgusting.

Sims


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EDL paedo Richard Price

02.09.2012 20:45

Given that the EDL leadership team once contained kiddie-porn downloader Richard Price, and seeing how Tommy Robinson made excuses for Richard Price after his friend's conviction had been exposed, you could argue the EDL don't have a very strong case

 http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/176587

Carl Jung


PHOTOS OF MUNTERS

02.09.2012 20:53


EDL on the way back from the... nit-nurse
EDL on the way back from the... nit-nurse

The irony is that if anyone's secretly funding the EDL, you have to conclude it must be Al-Qaeda or the Iranian regime, because the EDL have done so much to make opponents of Islamic extremism to look like a bunch of thick, ugly, ignorant, drunken hooligan twats

The EDL have done far more damage to the cause of anti-Islamism than good

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/09/499464.html?c=on#comments

Barber


Behold thee masterace! (seen in walthamstow!)

02.09.2012 22:28

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"it's too late, I've done it now"
"it's too late, I've done it now"

. . .

click^click


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getting scared boys?

02.09.2012 22:48

They must be doing something right to get all this hoo-har defence response on indymedia.
Must feel under threat

abc


EDL IN NAZI SHIRT AT WALTHAMSTOW

02.09.2012 22:55

EDL German Tank Division in Walthamstow
EDL German Tank Division in Walthamstow

Panzers were the tanks Nazis used to kill Britons during WW2

 http://www.demotix.com/news/1419204/english-defence-league-march-disrupted-local-residents#slide-13

Grace


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Islamofascism

03.09.2012 05:39

@Carl Jung.

I wish you were right, were that the case I would support AFA.

This though is not the case. The left it seems is willing to endorse certain types of fascism.

Afew years ago at marxism John Rees made the statement that we have to stand side by side with the muslim community because they offer us the best chance at revolution.

This is when people started to question why the swp and anti nazi league demonstrated for the rights of free speech for hate preacher and terrorist supporter Abu Hamsa stating Abu Hamsa is fighting the same enemy namely western imperialism.




Azad Ali is the vice-chair of Unite Against Fascism, the ostensibly anti-racist group (in fact more of a meal-ticket for the leadership of the Socialist Workers’ Party.)


Azad is the community affairs co-ordinator of the extremist Islamic Forum of Europe, which controls the East London Mosque and which is dedicated, in its own words, to changing the "very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed … from ignorance to Islam.'


” Through “hisbah” (the enforcement of Islamic law) and “jihad,” it aims to create a “global” Islamic dictatorship, the caliphate, and its “primary work” in this "is in Europe, because it is this continent, despite all the furore about its achievements, which has a moral and spiritual vacuum."


The IFE has already made some progress towards its goal, exercising strong influence over Tower Hamlets Council through its close ally, the elected mayor, Lutfur Rahman.


Lutfur’s council has been busily engaged in enforcing Islamic law on, for instance, local strip clubs and a gay pub.

At the last election Azad and the IFE also helped to deliver extraordinary and unprecedented swings in their East London heartland for their equally close friend, Ken Livingstone (Ken had given the East London Mosque more than £1 million of City Hall money to build the IFE a new headquarters, despite the strenuous objections of his officials.)


Azad has written on his IFE blog of his “love” for Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaeda cleric.

He used to attend talks by Al-Qaeda’s main representative in the UK, Abu Qatada.

He has described al-Qaeda as a "myth" and said that the Mumbai terrorist attacks were not terrorism. On his IFE blog, he advocated the killing of British troops in Iraq (he sued a newspaper for reporting this, and lost.)


Filmed by an undercover reporter for my Channel 4 Dispatches on the IFE, Azad said:

“Democracy, if it means at the expense of not implementing the sharia, of course no-one agrees with that.

His response to this exposure was to threaten our undercover reporter.
It would, I think, be fair to describe Azad Ali as an Islamic fascist.

Sims


grand!

03.09.2012 10:15

'Rumours that Kev and Tommy later indulged in a bit of sulky mutual recrimination and even handbags at dawn have so far been confined to the socialist press. '
pray tell!

more here
 http://malatesta32.wordpress.com/

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strategy

03.09.2012 10:34

'One of the good things is that the EDL got twatted, even better their publicity stunt didn't even make the local TV news in London, so the EDL grunts got the experience of being massively outnumbered in London, while the leadership were mostly ignored by mainstream mass-media.'

the various combination of militant anti-fascism, massive community response (esp from the mosques!) and either non-existent or negative coverage will defeat fascism. the edl have still not got the fact that assaulting NUJ = bad or no publicity. fuckbugles!

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It is not fascist or racist to protest against Islamic extremism!

03.09.2012 12:07

It is not fascist or racist to protest against Islamic extremism! You people will never ever confront Islamic extremists yet you shout at the top of your voicies fascists, racists and scum at anyone who dares speak out against Islamic extremists! You are the shock troops of Al Qaeda - you are fighting their war for them!

Against Islamic extremism


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@Against Islamic extremism

03.09.2012 12:30

it is when your organisation is full of bnp, combat 18, b&h, sex offenders and violent criminals.

piss off


The Kev/Tommy rumour

03.09.2012 14:19

I also heard that from one of the organisers, back at the stage after the protest

JC
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dont forget

05.09.2012 00:15

Looking forward to it.

november


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