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UK Demonstrates how to Fight Back Against Fascist Rioters! [1]

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Date: 2024-08-08  

Community member aaraujo had a well-received story up yesterday about the growing threat of far-right anti-immigrant riots spreading across England and Northern Ireland over the past nine days.

The Guardian tonight has a really uplifting look at how both the new Labour Government under Keir Starmer, together with many thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators, managed to stop the rioters cold on Wednesday:

It was the day that England held its breath. Across the country, and over the Irish sea in Belfast, police feared and were braced for the most widespread night of violence in more than a decade. Shops were boarded up, theatre performances cancelled and hotels and immigration advice centres closed over fears they were in the crosshairs of the far-right disorder that has laid siege to dozens of towns and cities over the past week. But it was anti-racism demonstrators who thronged the streets of England from Newcastle down to London and across to Bristol. Counter-protesters arrived first and their numbers just grew and grew, from dozens to hundreds and then thousands. By mid-evening they were mostly counter-protesters with nothing to counter. There was sometimes an almost carnival-like atmosphere – singing, dancing and in one case a samba band – with little sign of the far right. The scale of the anti-racism protests was surely sending a message: an effort to change the narrative after a week dominated by rampant far-right, anti-immigrant violence.

Perhaps even more impressive is how the British Press, including the tabloids, managed to unite in their collective call to condemn the rioters. I was particularly struck by the outstanding efficiency of the British courts, which have already sentenced 3 of the ringleaders to prison terms of 20 months to 3 years barely a week after the initial riots broke out.

Likewise, since there appears to considerable crossover between these anti-immigrant fascists and your typically British soccer hooligans, I was also impressed by efforts to ban them (hopefully for life) from any future football matches!

Hopefully our own DOJ is taking notes.

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