Well done everyone who participated in yesterday's anti-fascist activity; from the thousands of people blocking Whitechapel Road to the RMT shutting down stations the EDL wanted to 'muster' in. I'm even warming slightly to Peter Tatchell who, shit placard aside, was down at Aldgate East crossroads.
What have we learned? Well, I think it's that mass mobilisation is right and good. Why should anyone run and hide when the EDL come to their borough or town? Whose streets? Our streets! And they damn well were yesterday. We marched in Tower Hamlets, not the nazis.
But there are some who won't learn or are, perhaps, too worried about protecting the Labour Party's left flank. We should not leave it to the police. Why? Because the police don't think the EDL are violent right wingers and, according to one copper, Muslims should open a line of dialogue with them.
Outrageous!
Be in no doubt, if you reach out a hand to the EDL, if you even so much as get within arms length of them, they will try to burn you with lighter fluid.
