EDL attack Leeds Rage Against Racism gig

june 18
Members of the English Defence League yesterday attempted to attack an anti-racist event at the Well pub in Leeds.
Organised by local anti-racist activists, hundreds of people turned out for the Rage Against Racism all-dayer.
In a pathetic sequence of events, about a dozen EDL members showed up, and smashed a couple of windows before running off after some of them came off worse when gig-goers defended themselves.
While embarrassing this time, previous attacks on left-wing, anti-racist and trade union meetings have always been a feature of the EDL, and have been growing in number and violence in recent months.
Coming as it does just 3 weeks before the EDL demonstration in Halifax on the 9th July, this attack is a worrying sign that the fascists’ confidence is increasing, despite the internal divisions and setbacks within the English Defence League.
Wherever the fascists attack us, we have the right to defend ourselves. Moreover, we need to counter the fascist threat wherever it tries to mobilise.
This means opposing – physically when necessary – the ‘right’ of the fascists to spread their poison through demonstrations which regularly end up in mini-pogroms against Asian areas.
The fascists’ propaganda has no purpose except to divide the working class, making it easier for the bosses to set one group of us against another, while they cut the jobs, pay and pensions of millions of working people regardless of race or religion.

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