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Thoughts on Anti-Fascism after Summer Unrest

Posted on 26 Jan 2025 in Politics

Trotskyist monthly newspaper Workers Power says that Bristol's anti-fascist movement needs to learn lessons from the successful mobilisations against far right thugs that took place in August. An anonymous activist, writing in issue 414 of the newspaper, says "The counter demonstration showed that many people were prepared to mobilise at short notice. But it also showed that we would need better organisation and more numbers to stop pogrom-style attacks on refugees. A big weakness was the absence of Bristol’s large Muslim community, which mostly failed to turn out.

Time to Fight Project 2025

Posted on 24 Jan 2025 in Politics

A number of writers have now publicised the document that right wing extremists in the US are rallying around, known as Project 2025. Victoria A Brownworth writing at Philadelphia Gay News reports that the plan to eviscerate the constitution and impose a fundame

Pledging to Keep Bristol Fascist Free

Posted on 18 Jan 2025 in Politics

The People's Republic of Stokes Croft reports that Bristol Anti-Racist Action have launched a pledge, where individuals and organisations agree to come out in opposition to the far right if they ever attempt to march in Bristol again.

Multi Genre Night Targets Fascism

Posted on 17 Jan 2025 in Politics

Urban Resistance to Fascism (URF) are bringing their debut party to the Exchange Basement, raising money for Bristol Anti-Fascists. Is partying political? How can the movement of bodies resist forces that want to control them?

Linking Movements with LGBT+ Eco Activism

Posted on 10 Jan 2025 in Politics

International petition website for the LGBTQIA communities, Allout.org, have for some time been warning that LGBT+ people need to get involved in wider movements for environmental and social change, as our lives are often considered expendable by not just fascists, but by climate

Dec

Praise for Butler's Inclusive Feminism

Long time socialist writer Colin Wilson writes for left wing portal RS21 about Judith Butler's new book "Who's Afraid of Gender". Colin notes " The American acade

Dec

New Analysis on Summer Racist Rioters

Act for Freedom are an anarchist collective based in London who have published on the streets a flyposter with essay on it on the recent racist riots in the UK. It is worth readin

Dec

Islamophobia and Homophobia "Same Fight"

London based drag queen Bimini was one of the people who addressed a benefit event for Stand Up to Racism in mid August. She spoke alongside figures such as Jerem

Nov

Hapless Homophobe Fails to Make Grade

LGBTQ Nation newswire reports that an unhinged right wing extremist who planned to run for the Republican Party as candidate for Missouri Secretary of State, came in a miserable sixth place out of

Nov

Centenary of James Baldwin Celebrated

Darnell L Moore celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of black gay writer, civil rights campaigner and incisive political analyst James Baldwin for the online magaz