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EDL Amsterdam Washout!

'Malatesta' | 31.10.2010 07:25 | Anti-racism | South Coast | World

The EDL were humiliated in Amsterdam yesterday and rejected by all and sundry! Good.

EDL’s Dutch Courage Runs Out!
Well, what a wash out. After months of trumpeting and blether the English Defence League’s band of hooligans and ‘chav scrotes’ were humiliated in Amsterdam yesterday, attacked by antifascists and Ajax fans and harried by the cops. At least they didn’t have time to fight amongst themselves as they usually do. There is some interesting YouTube footage, involving some shaky camera work, of them running around cluelessly, pursued by Dutch Antifa and plod. At one point there seemed to be more photographers than EDL all believing the hype that this was going to be another Bradford ‘little big one.’ In the end it was ‘the little little one.’ The images show a faintly confused bunch of fat blokes in hoodies wandering about. One of the EDL vans was trashed and there were 34 arrests. They had a little stage and Tommy Robinson AKA Steven Yaxley-Lennon, ex-BNP and jailed for assaulting a copper, gave a ‘rousing speech’ to his mates and then they went home. No surrender? They did. Completely.

According to Hope Not Hate about 60 turned up to ‘support’ Geert Wilders, the anti-Islamic Dutch MP who has publicly distanced himself from the lager swilling, loud mouthed hooligans for obvious reasons. So if that is the case, why did the EDL bother? So they can get their necessary media injection and show their mates in the pub how famous they are. This kind of behaviour shows the EDL as a vanity operation, boosting the egos a of a few nobodies with criminal records.

Battered
A poster on the EDL website said a group of EDL turned up on Friday night and the following day were attacked by Ajax fans who told them to go away in no uncertain terms. The EDL are now making threatening noises about revenge should Ajax come to the UK. We shall see … One hapless EDL got battered and ended up with a shattered leg. He had the misfortune to have no travel insurance either and had to travel back to the UK in considerable discomfort. The ‘Malatestas’ have had a whip round and will sending 50p to the EDL as fast as possible. The poster admits that the public were also opposed to the EDL presence – which comes as no surprise. The EDL seriously think that ALL the ‘public’ and ALL football fans have the duty to support them. Well, they don’t: lots of people despise them or are merely bored by their posturing. The Dutch authorities didn’t want them there either and throughout the week the demo was moved about and they ended up with an out of town spot at the Western docks. In his ‘rousing speech’ Yaxley-Lennon criticised the mayor for moving the demo – as if a gang of drunk hooligans with a violent reputation should be welcomed with open arms wherever they go. The Dutch will have seen what the EDL have done in place like Stoke, Bradford and Leicester and have the absolute right to move them wherever they want. Would the EDL like the Ajax fans to demonstrate in the middle of Luton?

A Successful Failure
The Gates of Vienna website has declared the event a success but this is difficult to reconcile with the facts. The EDL had a poor turn out. The local football supporters attacked them. The person who they were ‘supporting’ publicly rejected them. The general public were hostile. The media coverage was negative. And the hope of uniting with other anti-Islamic factions and footie fans did not materialise. Well done. They had difficulties in getting the numbers for various reasons, mainly that the DSS won’t pay for ‘chav scrotes’ to go abroad on a jolly. One poster wrote: ‘I’m going, most people will be meeting round the red light district where the bars are next to the canals. I’m going on my own my mates cant afford it or aren’t allowed by there Mrs.’ Which just about sums them up.

What Price Fame?
What is more alarming than the EDL’s ‘international mobilisation’ is the relationship between Tommy Robinson and Katie Price. There was a picture of them schmoozing widely circulated on the net but now Katie is doing a desperate PR job distancing herself from the EDL. Meanwhile on the EDL web forum there is anti-Katie consternation and it is difficult to tell who is disowning whom. Both seem embarrassed by the turn of events. As they should be.

Anyway …
Despite all the photos of the EDL seig-heiling, and the dual membership of fascist groups by key members – Jeff Marsh, Steven White, Luke Pippin (Combat 18) etc. – they are still going on about being non-racist and this process of denial is sounding politically weak. The next ‘big one’ scheduled is in Preston on 27th November but there could be a few flash’ demos on the way.

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press release antifa!-amsterdam

31.10.2010 08:37

Press Release: EDL demonstration embarrasment, anti-fascists very satisfied with counter-protests.

Antifa! Amsterdam is positive about the course of the demonstrations and actions today in Amsterdam.
In many ways today it became crystal clear that no’one over here wants the kind of fascist street-activism as the right-wing English Defence League hopes to export to mainland Europe.

The demonstration of the EDL / DDL was an outright failure, not more than 50 protesters eventually took the trouble to show their support for Wilders. This while the organization, even after the forced relocation to a midle of nowhere spot in the western docklands, still said this week to expect up to1,000 supporters.
In the end, the meager turnout (in particular on the part of the Dutch Defence League, only a few of the protesters were Dutch) and the fierce resistance that they were confronted with should be an omen about the future prospects of their crossing of the channel.

This while simultaneously a broad range of hundreds of people and dozens of groups showed throughout the city their disapproval and anger about the coming of the racist scum to the capital.
Antifa! Amsterdam expresses support and appreciation to each and everyone who has gone out on the streets today against racism and xenophobia.
From the hundreds of protesters who protested at 1941 general strike monument, the dozens of activists that spread over the city to prevent that the EDL would still showup in the center, to the many people who decided to ignore the emergency orders from the mayor and went in direct action in the docklands.
The great variety of people who have come today in opposition is a clear signal, from young immigrants to experienced activists, from soccer fans to social organizations.
In particular, the presence of Jewish individuals and the reform movement in Iran, for whom the EDL pretends to speak, and the high turnout of football fans that the EDL consider as their natural support, show that people are not deceived by the EDL.

In summary Antifa! Amsterdam considers the day as overwhelmingly successful, and calls on everyone to keep fighting, in resistance against discrimination, hatred, fear and extreme right violence.

antifa!-amsterdam


Thanks to Antifa and Ajax

31.10.2010 11:19

From Leicester, England. You have really ruined their week.

Viva Ajax! The edl are all supporting Feyenoord now, so things become simpler. So much for no nazis in the edl....................

Leicester old school


Well done!

31.10.2010 11:37

Well done comrades.

635er


EDL attacking women and children in Leicester

31.10.2010 12:31

EDL attacking women and children in Leicester...
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxdTEVzzr_s

As for Feyenoord, ironic how Feyenoord traditionally taunt Ajax with pro-Hamas chants, but then the EDL never were very bright ;)

Forklift


Feyenoord also antifa

31.10.2010 12:43

Hah, too bad if the EDL thinks Feyenoord will be on their side. Feyenoord fans have been beating up fascists too when they try to demonstrate in Rotterdam ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J27SsYL_R5Y). They will not forget it was the nazi's that bombed Rotterdam in 1940 (and have many people of colour in their ranks). Antifa Hooligan!

adamma


muppets!

31.10.2010 17:26

Ha, the EDL are such a bunch of sorry muppets; yet again they get a small bunch of idiots to some town where they are most unwelcome, and then they get battered and/or pushed around by the coppers. When they do manage to get the numbers, they piss all over things, fight cops or each other, and generally trash their appalling public image even more. This time they venture abroad, and it's even more embarrassing. Being on the left is often demoralising; at least at the moment we've got the EDL to laugh at and make us feel better about ourselves!

seely


Just a thought...

31.10.2010 18:54

Always nice to hear about the EDL getting fucked over, but could we have less of the "chav scrotes", thanks? We're against the EDL cos they're racist, not cos they're poor/on the dole/casuals/whatever. I'm sure you wouldn't use sexist/racist/homophobic insults, so don't use snobbish ones either.

Scrote


"Chav Scrotes" - EDL's own words

31.10.2010 21:14

"Chav Scrotes" was a phrase used by the EDL leadership to describe some of its own followers - the ones they blamed for getting the EDL a bad name.

Laughable really, a load of racist thugs, neo nazi's BNP supporters etc blaming "chav scrotes" for getting them a bad name!

So the EDL are not only Islamaphobic, racist and facist but also class prejudiced too. If I was one of the EDL's "chav scrotes" I would have a look at who I was following and why. Any group I was a member of who abused me because of my social class would get ditched asap.

If you are an EDL follower and think the EDL leadership are referring to you by this think on, this is what your leaders describe you as, they scapegoat you for their own bad image as they scapegoat the Muslims for the problems they think we face.

Become an anti-facist! Gauranteed no class discrimination here!!!

IHTF


feyenoord

31.10.2010 22:55

Yup, very funny they are all raising feyenoord avatars now, like said feyenoord has some good anti-fascists and those who are not (sadly quite dominant) their signature chant is "hamas, "hamas, all news to the gas". Not something that would benefit the edl's already shaky image

antifa amsterdam


typo

31.10.2010 23:56

News should be Jews

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