internationale situation - England

03. Mai 2012

This is the face of Andrew Smith, aged 69, who was attacked by EDL thugs on Saturday 28 April. He was one of two pensioners who were hospitalised when a gang of thugs attacked socialists and antiracist campaigners in Lewisham, south east London. The EDL thugs began with shouts and racist heckling before laying in more violently. Andrew told Socialist Worker newspaper: They smashed up our Socialist Worker stall and one of them headbutted me. I’ve got a possible fractured sinus and a tear to my retina. But I’ll be in Luton on Saturday — and everyone who opposes the fascists should be there too. The Lewisham Anti Racist Action Group (Larag) reports that another pensioner intervened and was quickly surrounded and flung to the floor, receiving a knock to the head. Both had to receive medical treatment for their injuries. Larag chair Jarman Parmar said: The actions of these racist attackers is shocking and strengthens our resolve to unite everyone who opposes these kind of behaviours and ideas which have no place in our society. The attack follows events in Brighton last week, when around 110 marchers from ‘March for England’ – a group closely linked to and sharing members with the EDL – were humiliated and outnumbered by 1,000 antifascists who filled the streets and prevented the EDL’s attempts to reach the seafront.

via uaf: EDL thugs beat up pensioner: now march against them in Luton

internationale situation - England

29. April 2012

We have received information that leads us to believe that the man charged over the Tottenham Court Road siege on Friday previously stood as a BNP parliamentary candidate. Michael Green, 48, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, was arrested on Friday after the incident, during which parts of central London were evacuated. His alleged offences include possession of a weapon for the discharge of a noxious liquid/gas or electrical incapacitating device. Green is also accused of false imprisonment, making a bomb hoax, causing criminal damage and recklessly endangering life. He has been remanded in custody to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Monday morning.

via hopenothate: Tottenham Court Road suspect a BNP candidate

internationale situation - England

29. April 2012

Head of English Defence League to join British Freedom party as deputy leader with virulent anti-Muslim platform. The head of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, will be named deputy leader of the British Freedom party this week after proposing that the group adopt virulent anti-Islamic policies as its central strategy. Confirmation that Robinson is to be offered a political platform within the BFP is contained in internal documents revealing that he has forwarded a number of “potential policy suggestions” that suggest the party will widen its attacks on Muslims. The document suggests the BFP with Robinson would “focus on non-Islamic population, not white/black population”, a move that critics describe as an attempt to antagonise relations between Muslims and other Britons. Other proposed areas of campaigning for the party, which will contest several seats in this week’s local elections, include calls for regulation of all mosques and religious schools and the banning of the burqa and niqab.

via bbc: Britain’s far right to focus on anti-Islamic policy

siehe auch: EDL joins with British Freedom in classic fascist strategy. The racists and fascists of the English Defence League have announced a tie-up with the British Freedom Party, which emerged from a splinter group of the fascist British National Party last year. The BNP is stricken by crisis, with disaffected members joining splinter groups and draining into the EDL, whose own leadership includes former BNP members.

internationale situation - England

24. April 2012

we have reissued our poster – different faces, same hatred – warning that Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik was inspired by the poisonous politics of the English Defence League. The poster shows Breivik – a fascist who hates multiculturalism, Muslims and the left – and “Tommy Robison”, leader of the EDL, an organisation of racist and fascist thugs who hate multiculturalism, Muslims and the left. >> Download the poster and display it in windows or on noticeboards >> Find out more about the national demonstration against the EDLBreivik has been using his trial as a platform for his poisonous politics, insulting his victims and their relatives by declaiming more of his vicious racist hatred in a bid to “justify” his actions. The Norwegian killer was in touch with EDL members and was inspired by the same ideas.

via uaf: Different faces, same hatred – Breivik and the EDL

internationale situation - England

22. April 2012

Let us introduce you to the English Defence League’s Norwich Division member Sam Burgess. We find it a little concerning that someone who has been on training courses to work for the Olympics security team has pictured himself on Facebook with a gun and makes threats towards the Muslim community. Wearing a EDL Norwich Division hoody and posing with what looks like a sniper rifle, the former Norwich City College student claims he is a ‘good shot’ and ‘never misses ragheads’. He also brags that he has fired powerful guns and his friends encourage him to shoot Muslims.

via edlnews: The English Defence League’s Olympics Security Officer wants to shoot Muslims