Both?
Don't think that's the real Milo though.
yeah, cheers
its going to have massive represcussions across europe - definitely relevant to this thread i think.
Nice.
Monument itself was held by several hundred anti-racists today. NF were over the road from monument, and around 25 EDL were on the other side of monument hiding behind a police line. These numbers are actually not that big for fash mobilisations in the northeast. The sight of them in my city is fucking disgusting and anger-making. I was with a march against the immigration act which had been called by the Migration and Justice Forum which some groups i'm involved with had agreed to support. The EDL had mobilised against the march. Newcastle Unites (basically SWP + Labour but they can mobilise quite a bit of support) called a rally against the EDL at Monument (without co-ordinating with the march organisers). There was always the chance that the march could have been attacked on route (thankfully it wasn't) so it was important for people to support the march -I hadn't been that up for the idea of the march in the first place, but while we had a couple of people shouting stuff at us, the route of the march was through a neighbourhood with a large BME community and then through the centre of town, and we had several people actually thanking us as we went past - it seemed like a positive thing to do in the end. Unfortunately monument today wasn't the time or place for pitched battles against the fash for various reasons, not least because of the history of certain key members of Newcastle Unites have of naming militant antifascists to the police - monument and the surrounding area is absolutely covered with cameras too. So Newcastle Unites shouted at the EDL from behind a police line, some young people that had been with the march played loud music at and generally annoyed the NF until that lot of fash packed up, and the Migration and Justice Forum had a rally. Lots of passers by that I talked to were disgusted by the presence of the NF/EDL. The police seemed really keen to protect the fash from any insults from passing shoppers - and the fash certainly didn't have support from the majority of Newcastle. If anyone thinks they can do anything more to challenge the fash in the circumstances, please come up to Newcastle and do it though!
The far right and the nationalists are the professional victims (no idea who Laurie Penny is, a journo? DJ?). Personal responsibility no, victimhood yes.and made a career out of it
the professional victim.
