SDL round III: AYRSHIRE

Remember the Scottish Defence League? Not very keen on Islam, quite like sitting in pubs, don’t want to surrender to the IRA, seem to always end up on a bus filled with riot cops… yeah, that lot. The ones we chased out from Glasgow in our thousands. Then Edinburgh. Well, they’re claiming to be back. [...]

Joint anti-fascist meeting this Saturday.

Regular readers of this site will know of two attempts by the so-called “Scottish Defence League” to march in Glasgow in Edinburgh to demonstrate against Muslims in this country. On both occasions the SDL have been kettled, unable to march – and in Edinburgh unable to make even a token static protest. On both occasions [...]

EAFA open letter to UAF

Most readers will have been following how two weeks ago thousands of anti-fascists mobilised on the streets of Edinburgh to defeat the racist Scottish Defence League through militant direct action. If you haven’t, you can read what SSY had to say about the day here and here. Although the day was a great success, one [...]

Getting serious about the Far Right

Last weekend thousands of anti-fascists took to the streets of Edinburgh to confront and defeat the Scottish Defence League. We won an overwhelming victory, and everyone who was part of it should be proud. This Thursday (25th), SSY has called a national meeting to discuss what we can learn from the weekend’s success, and what [...]

Square Go wi the SDL in Edinburger

Awrite mah wee muckers? Here’s the Glesgie style lowdoon oan the demo opposin’ the SDL oan the 20th ay February. Fucken… So yisterday me n aw the crew went oot tae Edinburger, right? We wur there tae tell ‘ay SDL mob whit we thoat ay their bolloks. So, we spent fucken days staunin in the [...]

Anti-SDL meeting in Edinburgh.

After being convincingly routed last month the SDL are talking about having another march, this time in Edinburgh on February 20th. The last time the SDL marched they were outnumbered 1,500 to 80 and were unable to march anywhere. They spent the day cooped up in a bar, a totally different situation from other parts [...]

Scottish Defence League routed in Glasgow.

Image by John Lanigan Almost two months of organising against the Scottish incarnation of the fascist English Defence League paid off yesterday – the SDL were outnumbered 50 to 1 by anti-fascist demonstrators, unable to march and spent most of the day kettled in a pub in Glasgow. Earlier fears of the SDL marching on [...]

let's all stop the fascists

As Leftfield reported last month, the so-called ‘Scottish Defence League’ are planning to hold a ‘demonstration against Muslim extremists’ in Glasgow this Saturday, 14 November. With past English and Welsh Defence League protests being marred by racist violence, provocative chanting, fascist salutes and general far-right hooliganism, we can probably assume the Glasgow demo will try its [...]

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