EDL humiliated in Walthamstow

2012-09-01 · first published in marxsite · 135 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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Walthamstow: 3.55pm The racist English Defence League suffered political humiliation in Walthamstow today as their bedraggled demonstration of under 100 was massively outnumbered by thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators. The size of the anti-fascist march, which united local unions, community groups and anti-fascist activists from across London, forced the re-routing of the march round deserted backstreets to finally get to the town hall. EDL leaders had hoped that their demonstration would occupy the central shopping areas in and around Hoe Street; instead these were taken over by the anti-fascist and local community demonstrators. As the anti-EDL demonstrators chanted: "Whose streets? - our streets!". As this is posted police are still holding back anti-fascists from a direct confrontation with the EDL mini-march. After the cut: pictures of the demo and the EDL tent at Walthamstow town hall.