Antifacists attacked whilst leafletting in Manchester!
Manchester AF | 20.02.2013 17:06 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles
Today 8 activists from the Manchester area went leafleting to highlight the EDL's upcoming demo in March.
All went well, we handed out over 500 leaflets and got some people saying they would be attending. Whilst out, one of our activists saw a pair of suspicious looking men watching us and talking on their mobiles. When one of our antifascists went to challenge them they both went into a pub.
All went well until after the day of action when four Antifascists had left. We were on the way to where we'd parked the cars when the two fascists we'd seen outside the pubs as well as 6 or 7 other fascists ran up behind us and attacked us. I was hit on the back of the head, my friend had to go to hospital with a broken nose and the other got hit a few times too. It would have gotten nasty were it not for a nearby supermarket's security rushing out to stop them.
We've got another day of action planned in the next couple of days. Please, any antifascists in the Manchester area urgently attend. This was an organised attack, whether it was EDL, NF or NWI we don't know but they waited until our group had split up before attacking.
Everyone is okay, but it was lucky. We were outnumbered by the fascist and need more numbers for leafleting in the future to stop it happening again.
All went well until after the day of action when four Antifascists had left. We were on the way to where we'd parked the cars when the two fascists we'd seen outside the pubs as well as 6 or 7 other fascists ran up behind us and attacked us. I was hit on the back of the head, my friend had to go to hospital with a broken nose and the other got hit a few times too. It would have gotten nasty were it not for a nearby supermarket's security rushing out to stop them.
We've got another day of action planned in the next couple of days. Please, any antifascists in the Manchester area urgently attend. This was an organised attack, whether it was EDL, NF or NWI we don't know but they waited until our group had split up before attacking.
Everyone is okay, but it was lucky. We were outnumbered by the fascist and need more numbers for leafleting in the future to stop it happening again.
Manchester AF
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Actual facts
20.02.2013 17:12
You got punched because you were mouthy in the pub and expected the rest of us to come and back you up when you got into trouble. You were hit not by Fash but by a bloke you mouthed off at.
real antifascist
Hi.
20.02.2013 17:49
Coming from a background of learning street self-defense for a couple of years, I would like to pointr a few things out which I hope will keep you safe.
1. They had been weighing you up, and following you for sometime, meaning the signs were there to see. Clocking you are being watched, and getting on the phone yourself can deter an attack long enough to make it to a safe area until back up arrives.
2. Location. You are aware you are being followed, are you walking into an area that is isolated, doesn't have good escape routes, and poor visiability? A carpark is a good place to spring a suprise assault, and I think the supermarket appears the relatively safest place in this case.
3. Noise deterrent. Whstles, screaming, and drawing attention takes the wind and ferocity out of an attack.
4. having a cohesive plan of action, that everyone in the group is down with, when to run, how to 5. Staying as a large group, and not splintering off.
6. Awareness of being tailed, doubleing back if need be, particularly if you are aware of being watched - keep your home a sanctuary.
Good luck.
KM
Oh no
20.02.2013 19:07
cathy
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fake comment
20.02.2013 19:12
Get Real
bad one
20.02.2013 19:17
Malatesta
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20.02.2013 19:47
Josephine
The NWI Were Behind This Violent Attack
20.02.2013 19:53
Go fuck yourself, Stabber Marsh. Zoe do the same!
ANTIFA
Admin
20.02.2013 19:55
Start Modding Indymedia Again!
FAKE
20.02.2013 20:14
manc161
GO TO THE PRESS
20.02.2013 20:17
Secondly, go to the Manchester Evening News.
As a crime has been committed, the newspaper cannot allow pro-EDL comments to be made by facsist trolls as this could hinder the investigation. Thus this would be a one-way antifascist media exercise.
This would be a publicity coup for AF in MCR, and by commiting this violent crime, the neo-Nazi scum would have been shooting themselves in the foot.
The EDL / NWI / ect. can then go back to masturbating in-front of their life-sized wall portraits of Adolf Hitler!
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REMOVE OP
20.02.2013 20:18
salfordian
Shenanigans!
20.02.2013 20:23
Southern Fried
Yes, hide it if it's not true
20.02.2013 20:33
@wegowherewewant
should be changed to
@wegonowhereoutsideofcyberspace
Jeff marsh, has already surrendered, of course!
Fuck Off, Stabber Marsh!
Jeff Marsh
20.02.2013 20:35
his bedroom
Not true
20.02.2013 21:19
Daft even for fascists, thinking this would work...
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Jeff Marsh / Joe Casuals
20.02.2013 21:28
Jeff Marsh sits behind a keyboard doing fuck all, then tries to steal the thunder of the enire far right movement to sell his crappy books.
What a complete and absolute cowardly fuckbugle!
Anti-Marshist Action
This fake article is yet another
20.02.2013 21:29
for CASUALS DISUNITED
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