also anti-black riots in Butetown/Tiger Bay area, 1919.
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also anti-black riots in Butetown/Tiger Bay area, 1919.
Red Storm
M14
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/08/483013.html?c=on#c271463
Don't know if anyone has spotted this on Indymedia but it looks fake. This hasn't been posted by anyone from Manchester Anti Fascist Alliance and there is no proof of the NWI coming to Manchester on Saturday.
Don't know if anyone has spotted this on Indymedia but it looks fake. This hasn't been posted by anyone from Manchester Anti Fascist Alliance and there is no proof of the NWI coming to Manchester on Saturday.
Wasnt that when the soldiers came back from France having been fighting the Germanic hordes in WW1 only to apparently find some of their jobs and houses had been taken.
There was riots in Cardiff in 1910 after the Peerless Jim Driscoll v Freddie Welsh {Thomas} fight.
The mix of valley commando's from the Ponty area and Irish immigrants from the docks was too much, especially considering the way the fight went {a DQ and an away win for the commando's}.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Fucking tasty it is too!
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it doesn't say it was posted by mafa. i suppose there isn't such a group as manchester alliance is there?
Cardiff race riots, 1919 Scene of the first credible declaration of black British identity
In June 1919 the black communities of London and other seaports such as Cardiff faced an explosion of race riots. Their response was to defend themselves vigorously, and, when offered repatriation, to reply that they were British citizens.
The black reaction to those events was to define the multiracial nature of cities such as Cardiff for the next century. Later generations of black activists and liberal campaigners were to draw on their experience in outlining the unique type and content of Britain's present-day multiculturalism. If black Britain has a history, then the Cardiff race riots were one of its most important events.
The anti-black riots that spread through British ports that spring were associated with the demobilisation of the armed forces after the first world war, a period of economic crisis in which black populations became the scapegoats. In Newport on June 6 white mobs wrecked so many properties that, according to the South Wales Argus, the city looked as if it had suffered an air raid. The riots were at their most virulent in Cardiff. By June 11 they had developed into a series of organised attacks in the centre of the city and, in particular, on Bute Town, where most of the black population lived. Hotels and lodging houses were besieged by mobs led by "colonial" (Australian) soldiers armed with rifles, who presented themselves as leaders of the action.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/jul/24/past.britishidentity
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
out of curiosity, do you have any examples of black communities in the uk defining themselves as not british?
Just had a read of this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/9144411.stm
'the brawl spilled out onto Westgate Street..' some things never change
I don't have any to hand but there's been quite a lot printed on the subject available. I would say up to the 90s it was fairly common amongst black British people to not feel British. Mainly caused by rejection, alienation and non-acceptance of black British (or any BME) by the British.
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
thanks you to all those expressing concern over the excessive caledonian overtones of the recent malatesta piece: 'normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.' M
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
melly, re: lake. as usual there were a few classic 'no he wasn't ... i mean yes he was ...' prevarications from the EDL - like the richard price PR disaster
http://malatesta32.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/edl-latest-from-february/
the truth is yet to fully come out on alan lake. what we have sort of established is that
the EDL recently denied being funded by him;
then they said he did fund EDL at the start;
lake also admitted he funded them earlier;
lake was photo'd with tommy and roberta moore. .
the problem is clarifying how long that funding continued and if it still continues to this day. we pointed out tommy's reaction to the anti-israel strain of the EDL here:
http://malatesta32.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/edl-norway/
when the EDL bleated about being English not Israeli tommy clearly stated support would continue. any info more that welcome!
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
BA, you got any more sources about this? M
http://leeds.academia.edu/EylemKano...d_Factors_Regarding_the_Race_Riots_in_Britain includes sources
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiger-Bay-Story-Neil-Sinclair/dp/0953085902 Very good history of the area from an academic who grew up there even appearing as a child extra in the film Tiger Bay so pretty authentic and well worth a read.
A reading into the riots will explain some of the reaction the EDL faced when they went to Cardiff. Folk memory runs deep.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiger-Bay-Story-Neil-Sinclair/dp/0953085902 Very good history of the area from an academic who grew up there even appearing as a child extra in the film Tiger Bay so pretty authentic and well worth a read.
A reading into the riots will explain some of the reaction the EDL faced when they went to Cardiff. Folk memory runs deep.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Interesting Nazi salute going on at the bottom right of the second picture.
A friend of mine claimed this excuse when he was caught doing the same pose in a photo with a group of mates. I'm also in the photo, he's mixed-race and now stuck with the nick-name Nazi Dan.
Ranbay
The same rules apply
Whole thread on the Cardiff demo here if anyone is bored.
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/th...-demo-Cardiff-Saturday-5th-June?highlight=edl
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/th...-demo-Cardiff-Saturday-5th-June?highlight=edl
Ranbay
The same rules apply
htttttp://casualsunited.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/edl-tower-hamlets-update/
EDL Tower Hamlets update
6 08 2011
After a meeting yesterday the MET have agreed that we can march through Tower Hamlets, along Whitechapel Road and Mile end road, past the East London Mosque which regularly hosts preachers of hate. They are aware that certain elements of UAF/Anarchists are intent on causing trouble but have assured us that these people will be kettled and kept away from the route of the march.
EDL Tower Hamlets update
6 08 2011
After a meeting yesterday the MET have agreed that we can march through Tower Hamlets, along Whitechapel Road and Mile end road, past the East London Mosque which regularly hosts preachers of hate. They are aware that certain elements of UAF/Anarchists are intent on causing trouble but have assured us that these people will be kettled and kept away from the route of the march.
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
bob, this is another example of the EDL completely misunderstanding the array of opposition against them. they think UAF, MAC and militant antifascists are one and the same. UAF will be willingly kettled in, any local muslim youth up for it will know the streets better than plod or EDL and outmanouevre them, militant antifascists will do as we always do and keep on the move in small groups well out of any kettling possibility. Corax! they always say they aint talking to no rozzers then do and are impeded in their activities or dont and are impeded in their activities. macmalatesta suggested the EDL change their name to the carpark defence league (NCPDL?). what are the parking facilities like in tower hamlets? my suggestion is 'EDL: neither racist nor violent but both!'
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Smells like bollocks.
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