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Edl Thugs Attack; Trade union and labour movement bookshop
Topic Started: May 24 2011, 05:54 AM (303 Views)
IslamicHitman
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monday 9 may 2011

EDL thugs target trade union and labour movement bookshop
Members of the English Defence League invaded Merseyside’s main trade union and labour movement bookshop on Saturday.

The EDL is an organisation of racist thugs with fascists in its midst. It primarily targets Muslims with its vicious racism. But it is increasingly turning its sights on other traditional fascist targets, such as trade unionists and socialists as well as ethnic minorities.

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The News From Nowhere bookshop is a central part of the trade union and labour movement in Liverpool, selling tickets for antiracist events and coaches to anticuts protests, as well as books on everything from feminism and activism to the local area and children’s literature.

On Saturday 7 May, around 15 EDL supporters, arrived at the bookshop with flags. A group then came into the shop and attempted to intimidate staff – including making comments to female staff about pornography – before they were eventually moved on by police.

Sara Newton from News From Nowhere said:

We are still wondering how EDL members asking us if we stock pornography is challenging terrorism or defending England. We’ve never quite figured out what they are defending England from and why it takes 15 men and a flag to do it in our shop.

Liverpool councillor Louise Baldock spoke out against the EDL thugs and their racism and intimidation after the incident. She said:

With its international port witnessing many centuries of people moving to and through the city, Liverpool has always offered a welcome to new citizens. The EDL, with their hatred and intimidatory tactics, try to scare decent people into becoming bigoted like them.

We are not listening and they will find no succour here. Liverpool is proud to be a world in one city.

Antifascist campaigners believe the targeting of News From Nowhere is sign of the EDL’s widening agenda. UAF North West organiser Paul Jenkins said:

The racist EDL claim only to be against “militant Islam”. But now they are intimidating a progressive bookshop, News From Nowhere.

It follows the EDL’s attempted intimidation of an antiracist conference at Unite the union’s office near Liverpool’s Lime Street in April, and shows their real agenda.

They start by attacking ethnic minorities, but move on to target trades unionists, feminists and others as part of a wider attack on all our democratic rights. We must not be intimidated by racists and fascists. UAF will continue to work with others to oppose the EDL and their friends in the fascist BNP.
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http://uaf.org.uk/2011/05/edl-teams-up-with-bnp-to-attack-antiracist-meeting-in-barking/
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friday 20 may 2011

EDL teams up with BNP to attack antiracist meeting
The racist thugs of the English Defence League teamed up with their Nazi pals in the British National Party to attack an anti-racist meeting in Barking on Thursday night.

They smashed the windows of Crown House on Linton Road, where the meeting was taking place. A woman NHS worker who was attending the meeting was injured in the attack. She had to receive hospital treatment.


The EDL smashed the windows of Crown House in Barking

The meeting went ahead despite the EDL’s attempts to storm it. It had been called by local councillors and trade unionists together with UAF to defend multiculturalism in Barking & Dagenham.

Speakers at the meeting included Councillor George Barratt, local National Union of Teachers rep Dominic Byrne and Steve Hedley from the RMT.

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Some 25 EDL thugs threw bricks and rocks at Crown House causing damage to the building’s exterior.

They chanted “EDL” and shouted racist abuse and death threats. At least two Barking BNP activists were involved in the mob attack.

The EDL has been active in Barking & Dagenham recently whipping up race hatred over proposals to build a mosque in the borough.

Anti-fascist activists believe the local BNP branch is turning back to street thuggery after the losing all 12 of its councillors in last year’s elections.

George Barratt, Labour councillor for Barking’s Mayesbrook ward, said:

It’s extremely disturbing that these people tried to break up an anti-racist meeting organised by democratically elected councillors and trade unionists from the local area.

We don’t want these EDL thugs here, and we won’t tolerate them attacking our meetings. Barking is multicultural — and it’s going to stay that way.

Steve Hedley, organiser for the RMT’s London region, said:

We won’t be intimidated by these street thugs. We will stand together and oppose them.

Weyman Bennett, joint national secretary of UAF, said:

This attack exposes the EDL for what it really is: a fascist and racist organisation that teams up with the Nazi BNP to attack anti-racists and labour movement activists.

It also sends a stark warning to those politicians who think it’s fashionable to attack multiculturalism: your words are giving succour to the likes of the EDL and BNP.
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