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Despite the demonstrations being organised in response to rumoured anti-immigration protests in Scotland, there was no sign of far-right protests. [213] In England, anti-racist protesters outnumbered far-right protesters, with 5,000 assembling outside the Reform UK headquarters in London, and 1,000 people protesting in Liverpool and Newcastle ...
Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) was a militant anti-fascist organisation, founded in the UK in 1985 by a wide range of anti-racist and anti-fascist organisations. It was active in fighting far-right organisations, particularly the National Front and British National Party .
The anti-fascists celebrated the community's united response, in which large numbers of East-Enders of all backgrounds; Protestants, Catholics and Jews successfully resisted Mosley and his followers. There were few Muslims in London at the time, so organisers were also delighted when Muslim Somali seamen joined the anti-fascist crowds. [29]
“Our aim was to bring people together,” says Weyman Bennett, co-convenor of Stand Up To Racism, a British anti-fascist group who helped to organize many of Wednesday’s counter protests.
PHOTO: A shop owner boards up the windows due to fear, safety and possible looting hours before a planned far-right protest is set to take place in northeast London, United Kingdom on August 07, 2024.
Unite Against Fascism (UAF) was formed in Great Britain in late 2003 in response to electoral successes by the BNP. [9] Its main elements were the Anti-Nazi League and the National Assembly Against Racism, with the support of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and leading British unions such as the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G) (now Unite) and UNISON. [10]
A National Action protest in 2014 at the statue of Nelson Mandela in Parliament Square, with the use of a Nazi salute. Founded in 2013 by Christopher Lythgoe, National Action is the first ER to be banned by the UK government. National Action is described as a Neo-Nazi organisation that stirs up "hatred, glorifies violence and promotes vile ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. Opposition to fascism An Italian partisan in Florence, 14 August 1944, during the liberation of Italy Part of a series on Anti-fascism Interwar Ethiopia Black Lions Central Europe Arbeiter-Schutzbund Republikanischer Schutzbund Socialist Action Germany Antifaschistische Aktion Black ...