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10th March 2010
All out to oppose the EDL's racist violence on March 20th
Bolton demonstration - email info@yhuaf.org.uk for transport details from our region
The racist hooligans of the English Defence League have rescheduled their plans to descend on Bolton for Saturday 20 March. Unite Against Fascism has called a national counter demonstration for all those who want to defend our multiracial society against the EDL's thuggery and violence.
Please log on to www.uaf.org.uk for the latest news about the local and national campaign to oppose the EDL.
The EDL has grown on the back of the breakthrough by the BNP in June. The two organisations have a far right division of labour. For now the BNP focuses on elections and the EDL aims to dominate the streets.
The recent EDL racist riot in Stoke, attracting up to 1,400 racists, and its provocations outside Harrow mosque are a serious warning of what is to come if the EDL is allowed to grow unopposed.
To not oppose the EDL would lead to even larger actions, the creation of ‘no go’ zones for Black and Asian people and direct attacks on communities as in Oldham in 2001.
The EDL is an embryonic pogrom movement that concentrates on anti-Muslim prejudice as a focal
point for its racism. It will seek to organise any anti-Muslim current but starts with those, such as football ‘casuals’, most prepared to ‘take to the streets’.
It aims to create a street force capable of intimidating and attacking the Muslim community, and further down the line to pose a physical threat to other Black and Asian communities and to the labour movement.
Other European countries have shown what happens when groups akin to the EDL are allowed to grow. It leads to racist violence directed against whole communities, including arson and murder.
We should also challenge the media’s failure to condemn the EDL’s racist violence and its inaccurate portrayal of the EDL as being opposed to ‘extreme Islam’.
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