 |
| anti-fascists on the march |
Anti-fascists
easily outnumbered the rabble that had turned up in central London on Sunday to
march behind ‘Tommy Robinson’ to ‘Stop Brexit Betrayal’. Robinson, a well-known
racist bigot whose real name in Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was making his debut for
UKIP, which recently appointed him as some sort of adviser in a last-ditch effort
to halt the decline that followed the departure of their old leader, Nigel
Farage.
About 3,000 Kippers, and the usual fascist degenerates who hang around
Robinson, marched to Parliament Square with their flags and banners to hurl
abuse at the May Government that they claimed had betrayed the Brexit vote.
Thousands more turned up to oppose them. Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) reckoned
that around 15,000 responded to the call to confront the racists on the
streets. SUTR and others said the message of the counter-demonstration was that
Leavers and Remainers alike will not stand for fascists attempting to profit
from a crisis; and that we will not stop until the rise of the far-right, and
the wave of hate crime that has accompanied it, has been defeated.
At
their rally in Whitehall, SUTR’s Weyman Bennett said: “We had a brilliant
demonstration against Tommy Robinson – outnumbering and humiliating him. Now we
have to redouble our efforts. Robinson and Batten are attempting to normalise
and legitimise fascism and we cannot let it happen.
“Tommy
Robinson should be locked up. When he made that speech saying that Jamal, a
Syrian refugee, deserved to be beaten up, it was a disgrace. That’s what
fascists do. They try to divide us and destroy us. Our message is very simple:
‘never again’.
“We
face dangerous times and dangerous times mean we need to organise. We need to
build in our communities to make sure ‘never again’ is something real.”
No comments:
Post a Comment