Largest Ever Anti-Fascist Rally in Brighton Said No to Farage, Tommy Robinson, the BBC, Starmer and their Media Friends
The Night that Brighton Sent the Fascists Back to their Sewers
Ever since
the murder of 3 little girls in Southport, the air has been thick with calls
for revenge. Aided by the media which emphasised the Rwandan origins of the alleged
killer, coupled with disinformation on social media that the killer was a
Muslim and Nigel Farage hinting that information was being withheld, mobs of
fascist thugs were encouraged to attack mosques, beat up Black people and set
fire to and try to burn alive refugees in asylum centres.
Off you fuck racists πππ
— ππ€Garethπ€π (@Brighton_Peer) August 7, 2024
Can’t even believe they had the audacity to try it in Brighton
So proud of the people of Brighton πππ pic.twitter.com/0UVQmWWgiN
Tonight was
the night that people came onto the streets in their thousands, all over Britain,
to say no to the fascists and their GB News and BBC sponsors. Farage and the
rest of the Westminster political slime can eat their heart out.
The Master Race
Sir Kid
Starver had a phone round to Labour MPs instructing them not to attend the anti-fascist mobilisations and Stella Creasy in
Walthamstow had people chanting ‘where are you’.
From Bristol to Brighton, London to Liverpool, anti-fascists have taken the streets and sent the far right packing with their tail between their legs.
— We Deserve Better (@_we_deserve_) August 7, 2024
No pasaran! pic.twitter.com/oTBeP91DcZ
When I went
to see my probation officer yesterday I was told they were closing the offices the next day because information had been received, presumably from the police, that
fascists and neo-Nazis were going to descend on Brighton in order that they
could attack.
Comrades of
mine were worried about whether we would be sufficient in numbers to be able to
confront and see off the fascist hordes who were set to descend on Brighton.
Careful plans were laid to go to the rallying point in large groups just in
case.
At most 20x fascists and #FarageThugs turned up in Brighton for the riot they planned. They were surrounded by literally THOUSANDS of anti-fascists chanting "FUCK OFF HOME" and "YOU CAME TO THE WRONG TOWN" all the way back to the station. They were outnumbered 100 to 1. #RiotsUK pic.twitter.com/cs6yBRRk93
— Leyton Jay - the Silly Version (@desertconfetti) August 7, 2024
I even
advised my two twenty something children not to go because I didn’t want them
to get hurt but I needn’t have worried. Thousands turned up. I would estimate that between 4,000 and 5,000
occupied half of Queens Road leading up to Brighton station. If the Police hadn’t
been there doing their usual job of protecting fascists they would, literally,
have been massacred.
I am the
historian of Brighton fascism having written the only history
of Brighton’s fine anti-fascist record. We have had large demonstrations
against the fascists in the past. In
1981 we mobilised about a thousand people. A similar number put Oswald Moseley’s
henchman Geoffrey Hamm in hospital with a broken jaw in 1948. In 2012 up to
1,500 took to the streets to send the EDL back to the sewers but last night
was by far the largest anti-fascist mobilisation
ever seen in Brighton.
Update of the protests in Brighton this evening.
— abigaildombey.bsky.social (@AbigailDombey) August 7, 2024
Five or six far right protesters surrounded by police (halfway up the photo on the RHS), surrounded by an entire street of anti-fascist protestors.
Oh, & there even was a band!
Times like this I’m very proud to live in Brighton. pic.twitter.com/WOCRvBW2oK
And not
just in Brighton. There was a massive demonstration in Walhamstow in London and elsewhere.
People have become sick to the back teeth of corrupt and rotten politicians
like Yvette Cooper, Sunak and Farage demonising asylum seekers. It is these
scumbags who create the atmosphere in which Tommy Robinson can exist. They
accept that refugees are a problem and of course the fascists have much more
simple solutions than a drawn out deportation process. They either force them
out immediately or kill them.
After all
that’s what our politicians are supporting in Gaza. Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing. So why not here? And of course it wouldn’t be limited to
refugees. Every non-White person would be a target as we have seen with the attacks
on Black people. And like the Greater Manchester Police, the filth will protect
the fascists and arrest their victims.
We should
be clear. Refugees are welcome in Britain. The reason they are here is because
we were and still are in many cases in their countries. That is what our ‘defence’
budget is about. Intervening in other countries to change their regimes if they
don’t serve our interests. The £80 billions on ‘defence’ could be spent on the
NHS, schools etc. Instead it goes on imperialist wars and supporting the
fascist state of Ukraine.
If the media class think we’re going to forget their complicity over decades with one front-page, then I’ve got news for you:
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) August 7, 2024
HELL NO. pic.twitter.com/B4GnjUqgib
Economically
migrants benefit a country because they tend to be young people who don’t use
social services or claim benefits because they want to work. This idea that a
migrant takes someone’s job is economic illiteracy. As if unemployment is
a function of the size of a population.
Likewise
this argument about it lowering the cost of wages. What lowers the price of
labour isn’t immigration but weak and useless trade unions. When British unions
were militant they served their members interests.
So we
should rebut the racist narrative of the main parties and also
challenge the media monopoly of the racists – be it the BBC, Sky or GB News.
They each sing from the same racist song sheet.
Of course
even the bourgeois establishment became somewhat worried that the right-wing riots
were getting out of hand with their smashing up of property. So we had the
absurd and once-in-a-lifetime experience of the Daily
Express and Mail
paying tribute to the thousands of anti-racist/anti-fascist demonstrators last
night. Even the BBC had a half-decent report.
As the old
saying goes, hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue!
Tony Greenstein
Well done, them Brightonians.
ReplyDeleteThanks. And you know what? Not a Zionist in sight (apart from the 5 fascists)
DeleteThis is just wonderful. The coward scumbags didn’t show up - but the people did. How brilliant. This sends such a crystal clear message to all of them. As for the shit rag’s headlines, it’s almost as though they didn’t know what to say. But it’s as you say Tony, too much property has been destroyed and the bastards had to consider this. I read a Middle east Eye report on how deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Ariel King, has stoked up the violence on uk streets by suggesting that this is all about a Muslim plot to take over Britain! Nothing surprises me anymore but the extent to which fascists and Zionism are interlinked is a true eye opener for many people; including me, thanks not only to your excellent book Tony, but also to how transparent their own agenda is. They themselves will be their own undoing ultimately. Power to the people!
ReplyDeleteVassa Nicolaou
Arieh King is a true Nazi. He incited the murder of a Palestinian boy some years ago by thugs who poured petrol in his mouth and then set it alight. In any normal country he'd be doing a life sentence. In Israel he is deputy Mayor of Jerusalem.
DeleteThanks Tony very moving. Well done Brighton.
ReplyDeleteWonderful report, Tony, and seeing these pictures is so heartening. Last night I listened to Stella Creasy urging people not to join the anti-fascist demonstrations...... to leave it to the police. How typical, that Starmer and his tame MPs believe that courts and judges and prisons are the only answer to right-wing toughs rather than appealing to the decency and humanity of ordinary people. Heartfelt thanks to all those who turned out to show their opposition to racism
ReplyDeleteYes absolutely - 'law n order' is all they know. No understanding of where fascism comes from and what its appeal is. By demonstrating our strength on the streets the fascists become less attractive to the misguided. I am very proud of living in Brighton. It has a wonderful history of opposing fascism from the 30s till now
DeleteLiarbour as the left wing kerb and curb of popular resistance. No change there then.
DeleteBravo to all the everyday heroes who drove the Nazi scum from the streets of Brighton. This is the sort of action needed wherever these rats try to congregate.
ReplyDeleteNiiiice! Tony.
ReplyDeleteThere is no mention of Starmer except in the headline. Recommended reading: „The fascist rampage against mosques and asylum centres can and must be stopped. The question is how. Organise mass trade union defence!“ https://iclfi.org/pubs/wh/2024-tu-defence
ReplyDeleteHow come you don't talk about the Rotherham grooming gangs ?
ReplyDeleteYM
Ah our resident Zionist, Yaacov Moshe is now interested in grooming gangs in Rotherham. The implication being that all Muslims are grooming children. Actually this is what the Nazis said of Jews in Germany. THey were a danger to young German girls. The racism pores out of the scum that Zionism represents.
DeleteI don't talk out the all-white grooming gang in Wolverhampton that was convicted last year either. Fascists and Zionists they make such a handsome pair!