Category Archives: Anti Fascism

Anti-Muslim Bigotry, Plain and Nasty

By Yossarian | Published: September 11, 2009
This summer has been a bad one for people proud of Britain’s multiethnic, multifaith identity. Especially if you have any attachment to Birmingham where the actions of some anti-fascists have proved a propaganda boon for the far right anti-Muslim bigots of the English Defence League, BNP and Stop Islamisation Of Europe (SIOE). Today there is a [...]
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English Defence League Reveal Their Real Intentions

By Yossarian | Published: September 8, 2009
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Keeping the Pressure on the BNP

By Guest | Published: September 4, 2009
This is a guest post by Lucy James, a research fellow at Quilliam **** Last month, on the back of a paper entitled In Defence of British Muslims: A response to BNP racist propaganda (pdf), I called for Muslim communities, and the British public as a whole, to take a more united ideological stand against the BNP; [...]
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Bob and Bungle – Forget the BNP, let’s attack Quilliam

By Yossarian | Published: August 20, 2009
This morning I turned on my computer and was immediately confronted by a bizarre article from Bob Pitt of Islamophobia Watch. Quilliam accuses anti-BNP protestors of ‘thuggery and hooliganism’ is an amateurish bit of slime aimed at Lucy James (who has kindly written one guest post for the Spittoon in the past) for comments she [...]
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The rise of the far-right and anti-Muslim bigotry

By Shikwa | Published: August 11, 2009
Last weekend saw some ugly scenes in Birmingham when a group calling itself Casuals United held a protest in the City Centre. There was a similar protest held in Birmingham last month well. Casuals United say they are only opposed to Islamist extremism but that is not the case. The group is little more than a [...]
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Fascists in Europe

By Shikwa | Published: July 15, 2009
The British National Party took their seats in the European Union yesterday marking a real low-point in the modern history of British politics.Full credit to Diane Dodds, the Democratic Unionist, who refused to take up her seat next to BNP member Andrew Brons. The tireless campaigners from ‘Hope Not Hate‘ also submitted a petition with 88021 [...]
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The BNP and the Online Fascist Network

By Guest | Published: July 14, 2009
This is a cross-post of an article by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens from his blog. **** Yesterday, the Centre for Social Cohesion released its latest report ‘The BNP and the Online Fascist Network’.  Authored by Edmund Standing, it is an investigation into the BNP’s online support network which includes blogs of official members and activists and official BNP YouTube [...]
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BNP’s “Reverend” West Refuses to Answer Questions About His Ordination

By Guest | Published: July 12, 2009
This eyewitness account is cross-posted from Hope not Hate, Norfolk **** Three Hope not hate campaigners went to meet the fake Reverend Robert West in Norwich today. The three campaigners approached Robert West and asked him to explain where he got the right to use the title “Reverend”. The BNP activists, who were rallying in a car [...]
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Dog Bark Politics

By Shikwa | Published: July 10, 2009
I’m replicating below an important and brilliant post by Dave Rich of the CST. You’ll remember, this is the same CST those insane fools at the IHRC falsely accused of ‘Islamophobia’ before we dismantled their arguments here and the CST blew them out of the water here. ****************************** On Wednesday Nick Griffin, BNP leader and newly-elected Member [...]
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Griffin: Sink Immigrants’ Boats

By Shikwa | Published: July 8, 2009
Well, it didn’t take him long did it? The BBC reports: If there’s measures to set up some kind of force or to help, say the Italians, set up a force which actually blocks the Mediterranean then we’d support that. But the only measure, sooner or later, which is going to stop immigration and stop large numbers [...]
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