SchNEWS the free weekly direct action news sheet covering social and environmental issues in the UK and abroad including climate change, arms industry, ecological direct action and more... Copenhagen Conference
Subscribe to receive SchNEWS erery week by email View all of our back issues Find out about the history of SchNEWS and how it's put together every week Search for contacts and links of protest and community groups in UK and abroad A selection of How To guides for direct action andother fun stuff Previous articles and hot topics SchMOVIES
Copyleft - Information for direct action - Published weekly in Brighton since 1994

Home | Friday 20th November 2009 | Issue 700

Back to the Full Issue

OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE

After their disastrous attempt at rallying Welsh racists (See SchNEWS 696, 697), the EDL  scrambled over Hadrian’s Wall last Saturday (14th) to try their hand at instigating racial hatred in Scotland. The Scottish Defence League assembled in a Glasgow pub and were quickly surrounded by police. Hundreds of Antifascists gathered outside waiting for police to release the racists on an unsuspecting Scottish public.

However, before that could happen, the UAF contingent of the crowd broke away and marched off to a nearby Glasgow Green to have a natter about how important it is keep fascists off the streets. With only around 50 people left to actually try and keep fascists off the streets, the afternoon lock-in came to an end and the SDL and were let out. Tightly kettled by the police, they marched about 200 metres up the road then stood around singing popular Scottish nationalist ditties Rule Britannia and God Save the Queen.

After 20 minutes, the SDL marched back down the road and were put onto buses taking them away. After they had departed a demonstration of over a thousand people returned from Glasgow Green, ready to confront the spectre of fascism only to have completely missed the fash themselves.

Later some right wing nutters were arrested after doing Nazi salutes near the train station, and an Asian guy was also arrested at the scene for breach of the peace.

* The EDL are set to rear their ugly heads in Nottingham on December 5th. On the same day soldiers from the Second Battalion Mercian regiment will be marching through town to receive a salute in Nottingham’s central Market Square. There are concerns the EDL will try and hijack the event to garner support. While the EDL have yet to announce their meeting point, Notts Stop the BNP will be gathering outside the Royal Centre at 10am, while UAF have stated that they will be holding a rally at 10am in the Market Square. Autonomous antifascists are being urged to act independently and stay mobile to try and avoid being kettled in and reducing the antifascist presence to confined chanting.



 

Subscribe to SchNEWS: Send 1st Class stamps (e.g. 10 for next 9 issues) or donations (payable to Justice?). Or £15 for a year's subscription, or the SchNEWS supporter's rate, £1 a week. Ask for "originals" if you plan to copy and distribute. SchNEWS is post-free to prisoners.