Oppose the EDL in Walthamstow - Saturday 27th October
AFN | 22.10.2012 12:07 | Anti-racism
After their miserable day out in Walthamstow a few weeks back, the EDL have promised to return for another demonstration, this coming Saturday, the 27th October – this time without co-operating with the police. At the last demo they managed to get a measly 300 people out compared to the thousands of locals and anti-fascists that opposed them. Fuck only knows how they think they are going to fare without police protection.
To add to the racists problems 53 of them, including the leaders, got nicked on Saturday as they tried to plan an attack on a London Mosque by all hiding in the back of a removal van!! Those who got nicked are not allowed back into east London as part of their bail…
If this unpoliced revenge ‘demo’ is anything like when Casuals United tried the same thing in Brighton, it will end up with the fascists skulking around a few pubs, desperately trying to get pissed enough to get the bollocks to go and shout at locals who don’t look white. As easy as it is to laugh at these inept morons, even a handful of drunk racists can inflict injury & damage on an innocent community. Anti-fascists from AFN were out last time and will be out again, as long as the community is under threat from street fascism.
WALTHAMSTOW TOWN CENTRE FROM 11AM SATURDAY 27th OCTOBER.
To add to the racists problems 53 of them, including the leaders, got nicked on Saturday as they tried to plan an attack on a London Mosque by all hiding in the back of a removal van!! Those who got nicked are not allowed back into east London as part of their bail…
If this unpoliced revenge ‘demo’ is anything like when Casuals United tried the same thing in Brighton, it will end up with the fascists skulking around a few pubs, desperately trying to get pissed enough to get the bollocks to go and shout at locals who don’t look white. As easy as it is to laugh at these inept morons, even a handful of drunk racists can inflict injury & damage on an innocent community. Anti-fascists from AFN were out last time and will be out again, as long as the community is under threat from street fascism.
WALTHAMSTOW TOWN CENTRE FROM 11AM SATURDAY 27th OCTOBER.
AFN
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Why not oppose Islamic extremists instead?
22.10.2012 12:14
Confused
Confused?
22.10.2012 12:25
Doesn't mean the EDL and their more nutty offshoots shouldn't be opposed when they deliberately try and cause damage and division to a community though.
Do you really think marching in an area where the locals clearly don't want them, shouting abuse, causing a nuisance and getting pissed is doing ANYTHING effective to combat Islamic extremism?
@
Who are you to say what people can and can't protest against?
22.10.2012 12:44
People can protest against whatever they want!
Anarchist Bookfair...
22.10.2012 12:45
It always attracts BIG numbers and I'm sure it will be able to look after itself if any of the idiots are stupid enough to try anything. It still might be an idea to have spotters around the area though, as well as good communication between those heading to Walthamstow and those at the Bookfair so people can respond to anything happening in the wider area.
Lets get numbers on the streets and put militant anti-fascism back on the agenda in east London.
Stay sharp, stay mobile - have a good 'un.
LDN anti-fascist
confirmed
22.10.2012 12:46
UAF supporter
Never mind the right wing trollocks
22.10.2012 12:49
Ya'll butthurt?
Trolls & Islamic fundamentalists
22.10.2012 12:51
As anarchists and grassroots anti-fascists we are opposed to the bigotry and authoritarianism of Islamic Extremism and some of the UAFs support for this.
To the trolls Popping up on here - if you're deluded enough to think we're one and the same, I pity you.
Anarchist
just in
22.10.2012 12:54
improper intention (contrary to Section Identity Documents Act 2010).
He was remanded in custody to appear at Southwark Crown Court on a date in January 2013"
cables
Of course unlike the EDL anarchists are totally peaceful
22.10.2012 12:56
Are anarchists more peaceful than the EDL?
@Are anarchists more peaceful than the EDL?
22.10.2012 13:03
cables
Peaceful?
22.10.2012 13:03
Anarchist
What gives you anarchists the right to use violence?
22.10.2012 13:10
pissed off at anarchist violence
EDL feed islamic extremism
22.10.2012 13:19
oh come on...!
This muslim riot happened BEFORE the EDL was formed
22.10.2012 13:25
Realist
fuck fascism
22.10.2012 15:16
liverpool
Oooo-er missus!
22.10.2012 16:52
He's now in prison being groomed to be the bitch of Barry the lorry driver from Hull.
I hope you ELD'ers measured his butthole with a ruler before he went in.
If you measure it again when he comes out but you lose the ruler in the hole then you can suspect that something unpleasant has happened.
If you demand Tommy explain himself and he gives you a coy and slightly flirty answer then you definitely know something unpleasant has happened!!!
Anarchismo
Anti-Fascist protest is by definition opposed to Islamist extremism...
22.10.2012 17:20
Islam4UK nut Anjem Choudary condemning left-wing Anti-Fascism
And PLEASE can the Indy mods spike the very obvious contributions from Jeff Marsh
David Bowie
Photos of EDL showing their true - NAZI - colours
22.10.2012 17:38
National Front + EDL side-by-side
EDL Welsh Division Nazi salutes and tattoos
EDL with guns... AGAIN
Gas rattle
EDL losers.
22.10.2012 18:45
But thats a protest against international Capitalism. The EDL are nowhere to be seen when those protests happen. Thats because the EDL are state loyalists...they support the state and what the state does to people. Its the EDL that betray us all and its the EDL that sit in front of their TV's gobbling up all the propaganda and trying to convince us that the government is always right about everything. The EDL support the wars the Capitalists have been fighting, the EDL support the persecution of Muslims in the Middle-East and its the EDL that support the apartheid state of Israel and its robots.
The EDL send us all a message...if you protest again the state, we will persecute the minorities. They do this because they wrongly beleive the government and police will reward them for keeping the 'left' under control.
The EDL are the states reactionaries and they have absolutely no political credibility at all. They are nothing but vile racists and reactionaries. Thw EDL are the political equivalant of bottom feeding scum.
Solidarity to those that stand against the Capitalists and their nightmare vision of corporate hell.
Death to the state and its reactionary loyalists.
Anarchist
Meet up @ bookfair
22.10.2012 20:59
Town End boy
@Town End boy
22.10.2012 21:29
DOH!
@ Town End Boy
22.10.2012 21:37
Anark-oh
@Who are you to say what people can and can't protest against?
22.10.2012 22:15
People can protest against whatever they want!
Precisely, you are telling us what we can and can't do. We can protest against your protesting which is aimed at other protesters if we want to, You have no right to say that we can't protest against a counter protest of some other protest.
get a grip
@realist
22.10.2012 22:27
Firstly, that crowd aren't islamic fundamentalists, who are what the EDL claim to be opposing; they are angry pro-Palestine demonstrators who have chosen to fight the cops. I'd wager that most of that crowd don't want sharia law or to bomb tube trains, they're just fucking angry about Palestine and don't like being pushed around by cops. Lots of groups (including both anarchists, and the EDL!) have fought the cops in certain situations. Rioting is a tactic (often not a very thought-through one!) and not an ideological position.
Secondly, no-one's suggesting that there was no islamic fundamentalism before the EDL - it's just that the EDL's aggressive posturing has helped Choudhry and his ilk to gain political capital. In other words, the EDL has fed (not created, realist, but FED) the growth of islamic extremism. So, another reason to welcome the demise of the EDL.
oh come on...!
@get a grip
22.10.2012 23:02
now fuck off y'arseclown
@Get a grip
22.10.2012 23:12
In fact people who protest against Muslim extremism include groups like Women Against Fundamentalism and Southall Black Sisters (who've been doing this for decades longer than the EDL even existed), and the many millions of Sufi, Barelvi, Chisti, Ahmadiyya and Alevi Muslims world-wide - who are frequently targeted for terror attacks by Islamists, and who frequently protest and run PR and education campaigns opposing the extremist Islam of the Deobandis, Wahhabis and Al-Qaeda (including campaigns run here in the UK)
In the UK also groups like the One Law for All, which campaigns against Sharia Law and which (far from "Commies" supporting radical Islamism) is instead run by an Iranian Communist ex-pat called Maryam Namaze, and UK branches of the Awami League - which is a secular left / humanist party from Bangladesh which is well-represented among British Bengalis, particularly in Whitechapel and Tower Hamlets. You've been told all this already Jeff, but since you insist on continually lying anyway, unfortunately it's necessary to repeat it.
Unfortunately the EDL and Casuals aren't part of this picture however, because for instance when you tried to found a Welsh Defence League, Jeff, virtually all its members (see photo above) turned out to be active members of the violent Nazi group Combat 18
Kel
Why oppose the EDL?
23.10.2012 03:30
because its a chance for you, an anarchist to meet kids from different communities and form links.
Make the muslim community know its not alone.
BTW that photo of the EDL posing with guns... hillarious!
mary
Re @ TEB
23.10.2012 06:01
What seems more stupid than the above is individuals trickling out of the bookfair one at a time. EDL are violent, so safety in numbers makes sense
Town End Boy
jeffrey!
23.10.2012 08:52
Malatesta
Islamic extremism is a serious threat what are we going to do about it?
23.10.2012 10:53
Islamic extremists still need to be stopped!
@Islamic extremists still need to be stopped!
23.10.2012 11:24
giz
@town end boy
23.10.2012 16:15
sami
Jeff Marsh .....
24.10.2012 01:37
Getting A Grip Of His Penis!
@ Get a Grip (yes, you certainly need to!)
24.10.2012 16:47
As a socialist and a secularist, I am as anti-Islamism and Islamicx extremism and bigotry as the next person, however, the EDL are NOT an umbrella for peaceful, progressive protest. They are a frontjob for far-right, fascist, racist hatemongers, and they are pissed up thugs to boot, most of them being ex-footie hoolies? Why do you think trouble follows them wherever they go? At their last (laughably unsuccessful) attempted protest in Walthamstow, not only did they start brawling amongst themselves whilst still in Kings X, some EDLers actually beat up one of their own stewards!
Fluffy little lambs they are not.
Waltham forest anti-fascist
e-mail:
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What people are going to do about it?
24.10.2012 23:08
Well, at the risk of committing an indie-heresy, one answer is to let the police get on with their job. For all their scum-baggery in some departments, the cops have foiled dozens of wannabe Islamist terror plots, just as they've banged-up wannabe EDL terrorists like Ian and Nicky Davidson etc, and the way to help the cops continue doing that is not to waste police time and resources by organising the pissed-up closet BNP, NF and football hooligans of the EDL to stage provocative marches into communities where their presence is absolutely not wanted, Sherlock
You left Barry Island yet Jeff?
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