On the day of the second round of Brazil’s general election, we repost the statement by the Brazilian Women United Against Fascism UK, who will be protesting today outside of the Brazilian embassy in London. As the fascistoid candidate Jair Bolsonaro could be elected as president, efforts to resist and counterattack the global rise of
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Thousands of militant anti-fascists blocked and disrupted the march of the Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) in central London on Saturday, October 13th. A coalition of over 30 groups called by London Anti-Fascists (AFN) and led by Feminist Anti-Fascists brought around 1,500 people together in a well organised and disciplined bloc. The bloc set-up from
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On Saturday 13th October 2018, a coalition of feminist and anti-fascist groups, including Women’s Strike Assembly and Plan C, were involved in organising a feminist bloc against the planned Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) march in London. The bloc was part of a unity demonstration, bringing together an even broader group of anti-fascist and anti-racist
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On 13th October 2018, more than 2000 antifascists, led by the Women’s Strike and Feminist Anti-fa, took to the streets of central London and stopped the vastly outnumbered Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) in their path, preventing them from reaching their final meeting point at Downing Street. Further support was offered by the Stand Up
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Summer is over and the far-right have not gone away. On October 13th the far-right Democratic Football Lads Alliance plan to march in London. In the last year thousands of them have taken to the streets, uniting racists from UKIP to Generation Identity. By manipulating information and outright lying, the far-right now present themselves as
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Here is Plan C’s report from the counter-demo against the ‘Free Tommy Robinson’ rally in Whitehall, on 14th July 2018. Building on a precedent of large central London rallies, the Saturday 14th July event was the first far-right mobilisation in recent years to face a large and diverse counter-demonstration. The arrest of Tommy Robinson for
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Tens of thousands are gathering today to protest Trump and his racist and misogynist policies. However, protesting Trump is not enough. We need to fight the reactionary forces in our country, whether that’s the Home Office’s hostile environment or the growing #freetommy movement. America’s Hostile Environment The British public have been rightly horrified by the
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We have translated this text by Italian neo-workerist economist Andrea Fumagalli, first published on Effimera.org. Fumagalli analyses Italy’s new right-wing government resulting from the alliance of far-right Lega Nord and populist Five Star Movement (M5S). Some people, especially outside of Italy, have thought of the M5S as a leftist electoral force. The M5S, however, has
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In February this year one of our members had a chance to sit down with a comrade from Autonom Organisering (AO) in Lund, southern Sweden. They talked about the Swedish political situation and AO’s wider network, the Autonomous Revolutionary Nordic Alliance (ARNA), who we first saw mobilising for the G20 in Hamburg. Could you briefly
Organising autonomously – an interview with AO from Sweden. Read More »
On Sunday 6th May, between two and five thousand people attended the far-right’s ‘Day For Freedom’ protest. Here is our anti-fascists’ account of the event and its context. What happened in the build up to the event? The far-right is now waving the banner of free speech. According to them, their right to uncritically spout
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