Can't make it all the way down to London tomorrow, but good luck to anyone going. (And to the UVW picket in the morning if anyone's doing that.)
For what it's worth,
latest from the anti-fascist/migrant worker bloc organising for tomorrow:
On Saturday Oct 26th - our movements will hit the streets in the defence of migrants, asylum seekers, workers, muslims and jews that are in the firing line due to the growing far-right shifts we have seen happening.
On Saturday, their movement of racists, extremists and conspiracists are taking to the streets to follow their leader, "Tommy Robinson", and a host of other far-right racist influencers, seeking to exploit the divisions and unease that our society is facing, and to capitalise on the vulnerable and misinformed, in an attempt to gain power and influence on our how we live our lives.
Their movement is not a movement from below, though they may attract many working class people, they are funded and amplified through international far-right neoliberal capitalist institutions, tech- billionaire oligarchs, and unapologetic fascists politicians. Riding off decades of vilification against muslims and migrants, spread through mainstream media channels that have bombarded millions of people with distorted and false views in order to further divide society into the compliant mess we are in now.
Those that benefit from this division are those at the top, the billionaires that seek to have political influence on maintaining their power in an ever insecure world, who seek to grow right-wing populous movements in order to use them. The likes of "Tommy Robinson" and the other clowns are useful idiots whilst ordinary people - rightfully concerned with the state of the world and their communities are led into fighting and blaming the wrong people.
On Saturday, we are for the first time aiming to bring our movements together, and seek to develop real alternatives and power to not only take on the far-right but also the boss class, that manipulate and dominate our lives on a daily basis.
Join us, and lets build a world free from the racist lies and division, for effective powerful direct action and joy, to improve everyones lives together.
(As a union nerd, mildly interested that Birkbeck Unison and Brighton Unite seem to have managed to endorse a non-SUTR action, but I suppose that's maybe a side conversation.)
