70th anniversary of Cable street commemoration gig 7th October
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Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
treelover said:
Bet all the anarkids had good hair cuts
Luther Blissett
Nomadologist
danbreen said:
Shame about that 'dead fascist' tagline. I won't be going.
Don't let the Fascists pass. Talk of death and violence just gives the fash what they're looking for, and undermines the Anti-Fascist cause, as well as alienating thousands of physically present supporters.
Who wants to run the risk of being taken out of the protest either by the State or an equally violent Fascist?
Non-violent direct action is the way, and live to 'fight' another day.
I notice some excellent comments have been made already about non-violence and community action - *thumbs up*
Paul Marsh
NeitherWashingtonNorMecca
Well it was pretty good wasn't it!
The Black Hand
Unclean
durruti02 said:
Yes, Joer was right. Perhaps we can exchange some ideas @ the bookfair.
Paul Marsh
NeitherWashingtonNorMecca
treelover said:
All in due course.
I thought it was a great night, I had a really, really good time.
Paul Marsh
NeitherWashingtonNorMecca
Nigel
For A Degenerates' Workers State
Veterans Of Anti-Fascism
Good to go along to the gig & to the event on Sunday.
Glad that veterens of both Cable St. & Spanish Civil War are still around and hopefully for other events in the future.
Can't see many ageing crusties/punks at Chats Palace lasting much longer the way they are going: Going through that much Evo Stick in a week really takes it out on you.
Good to see militant anti-fascism is still alive and kicking.
Hope oit goes from strength to strength.
Good to go along to the gig & to the event on Sunday.
Glad that veterens of both Cable St. & Spanish Civil War are still around and hopefully for other events in the future.
Can't see many ageing crusties/punks at Chats Palace lasting much longer the way they are going: Going through that much Evo Stick in a week really takes it out on you.
Good to see militant anti-fascism is still alive and kicking.
Hope oit goes from strength to strength.
Luther Blissett
Nomadologist
I don't doubt that militant antifascism is required in important times.
Cable Street was one of those times, with the Police and State and Newspapers lending their support to Mosely's fascists.
Durruti's Militia Column was another one of those times. Emma Goldman wrote in her 1936 Obituary, "Durruti Is Dead, Yet Living", that the European Press "competed with each other in calumny and vilification of the Spanish defenders of liberty. Not a day during the last four months but what these satraps of European fascism did not write the most sensational reports of atrocities committed by the revolutionary forces. Every day the readers of these yellow sheets were fed on the riots and disorders in Barcelona and other towns and villages, free from the fascist invasion."
And today, some segments of the British press conjoin once more with British fascists to vilify and demonise their latest target, having given up on the antisemitism and anti-union rhetoric.
That latest targets = asylum seekers, immigrants, and British Muslims.
Cable Street was one of those times, with the Police and State and Newspapers lending their support to Mosely's fascists.
Durruti's Militia Column was another one of those times. Emma Goldman wrote in her 1936 Obituary, "Durruti Is Dead, Yet Living", that the European Press "competed with each other in calumny and vilification of the Spanish defenders of liberty. Not a day during the last four months but what these satraps of European fascism did not write the most sensational reports of atrocities committed by the revolutionary forces. Every day the readers of these yellow sheets were fed on the riots and disorders in Barcelona and other towns and villages, free from the fascist invasion."
And today, some segments of the British press conjoin once more with British fascists to vilify and demonise their latest target, having given up on the antisemitism and anti-union rhetoric.
That latest targets = asylum seekers, immigrants, and British Muslims.
undesirable
New Member
well ideally we'd be able to fight labour/lib dem/tory and fash political candidates, unfortunately while prescott is still a labour MP that will be very dangerous!
I can see where your coming from, it can be seen to be implying that the fash are a threat to a democratic ideal and that we need to preserve the existing status quo by stopping the fash. This may be the case with UAF et al, but i think that antifa make it patently clear that we are against the causes of fascism as much as fascism itself (sorry!), if not even more so. The best way of caombatting fascism is fighting its causes, the bnp are the only party that even pretend to represent the working class, its not even the fact they get councillors thats the problem its the fact that their devisive beliefs are accepted by large swathes of the working class, simply by sewing their vile ideas they are succeding in their task of painting society as being divided along lines of race, in doing so they are fragmenting and weakening working class resolve and resistance. The best guard against fascist ideas is to build working class solidarity and show our true potential when we are united against capitalism and regressive government attacks on working conditions. If anti-fascism is to be succesful it has to take on the system that fascism springs from, it has to be class struggle anti-fascism, it has to be in our communities (in the form of mutual aid, leafletting and ensuring there is no platform for the bnp) and it has to be in our workplaces (in uniting workers in common struggle against the imposition of work and offering ideas on how society could be organised along lines of direct democracy, self determination and production for need etc).
all that said theres absolutely nothing wrong with giving the fash a good toeing when the opportunity arises!
Paul Marsh
NeitherWashingtonNorMecca
treelover said:
Well the Met Police had a stall, you can't rewrite history much more than that!
Paul Marsh
NeitherWashingtonNorMecca
haggy said:it was like i'd been transported back in time 25 years, tho, to an Exploited gig at the lyceum. punk may not be dead, but it's on its last bottle of cider
What amazed me was that you get punks nowadays who sniff charlie?
Surely that just cannot be right.........
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
you do know that you know that you know me, and quite well...?durruti02 said:
Burrough market.
Would love to chat, w/ DC too - missed you last sunday tho, would have been a good opportunity.
If you do risk all the fun of the fair, i'll be behind the same stall as last year
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
Paul Marsh said:
Its a topsy turvy world for sure.
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