Tag Archives: far right

Editorial of the Socialist 1336 The ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march in London on 13 September sounds a warning that the workers’ movement must urgently respond to. Police estimate that 110,000 took to the streets in the largest-ever demonstration called by far-right racist Tommy Robinson. Those that attended,  who went far beyond the still small numbers in the organised far right, ...

After over a week of horrific violent racist and Islamophobic attacks, huge numbers took to the streets in counter-protests. Millions of Black and Asian people, especially Muslims, have been living in fear. That is the desired effect of the hardcore far-right agitators stoking violence and intimidation. In Cardiff and Swansea over 500 have turned out to anti-racism protests last weekend. ...

By Mark Evans, Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party On 8 July, a protest was called in Llanelli by the far-right group Patriotic Alternative (PA), supposedly for ‘boots on the ground’. Only a handful of PA members turned up. Socialist Party members played a central role in the counter protest against PA, organised by Swansea Trades Council, alongside Carmarthenshire County Unison ...

West Wales Socialist Party members supported and participated in the Furnace Action Committee’s protest march against the Tory Governments’ ‘hostile environment’ strategy of inappropriately housing 241 asylum seekers into just 77 rooms at the Stradey Park Hotel in Furnace, a small residential area of Llanelli. The protest march was called in support of the 100+ workers, who have just been ...

A rally by far-right For Britain leader Anne Marie Waters, an openly racist islamophobe and political ally of Tommy Robinson, was held in Swansea on 27 April. A motley crew of 40-50 people gathered for a ‘national mobilisation’ within a tight police cordon to hear Waters’s hate speech, under the guise of a pro-Brexit protest. Some local leave voters expressed ...

By Pittsburgh Socialist Alternative (CWI in USA) On Saturday morning, 27 October, a man shouting anti-Semitic slogans opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the historically Jewish Squirrel Hill neighbourhood, in Pittsburgh. Eleven people were killed during the morning shabbat service, and during a bris, a ceremony welcoming a baby to the Jewish community. This horrific shooting is ...

By LIBERDADE, SOCIALISMO E REVOLUCAO (LSR – CWI in Brazil) The victory of Jair Bolsonaro in the second round of the Brazilian elections represents a huge political step backwards for the country and the Brazilian people. We do not share the cynicism of bourgeois analysts who speak about the legitimacy of the system and “consolidation” of the democratic institutions. A ...

The National Front organised their annual “White Pride” event in Swansea. Barely 25 fascists from all over the UK huddled in the rain outnumbered by the police protecting them from over 300 anti-fascist protesters until they were escorted by a large police contingent and police horses back down their usual back alley before being escorted out of Swansea. One particularly ...