After some anti-immigrant protesters turned violent in England this month, ordinary Britons turned up to confront them.
Jeremy Corbyn, journalist Owen Jones and a host of other speakers tell how ordinary Britons stood up to anti-immigrant protests that in several instances turned violent in the north of England earlier this month. They spoke at a rally in Hackney, London last Saturday.
Cameras: Cathy Vogan and Joe Lauria. Editor: Cathy Vogan. Time: 1 hr, 6 min.
Jeremy Corbyn (Cathy Vogan)
Corbyn was pretty much the only one of this sad bunch to articulate some kind of actual political alternative to creeping fascism. It’s fine to be anti-something if you have the comfort and resources to do so, but you cannot seriously expect the desperation the generates violent bigotry to be cured unless you provide a program to help people. Arguing merely for the opposition to something ultimately amounts to an argument for the status quo, and history shows us plainly that in a time of crisis the center never holds.
Also really depressing to see Brits calling for and cheering on even more draconian speech suppression in the name of anti-racism/anti-fascism/anti-whatever. Sorry but you can’t speak for “freedom of speech” out of one side of your mouth and then say “but it has to be controlled” out of the other. You either support actual freedom of speech or you oppose it.
The owner of Telegram has just been arrested.
The street riots were a product of UK sham democracy, “2 cheeks of the same arse” to coin a phrase. sham bogus elections in the uk are a joke. voting is totally pointless and most people don’t bother. The whole tawdry, degrading spectacle is of no relevance to their lives. Starmer The Blairite Backstabber won a landslide with 20% of the electorate. The 2 parties are interchangeable, irrelevant puppets of powerful vested interests. They are all pro globalist, pro austerity, pro censorship, pro repression, pro genocide Zionist puppets. They might as well be stuffed animals. It makes no difference whatever which globalist puppet is installed as leader. It just doesn’t matter. Reform (for what they’re worth, which isn’t much) got 5 seats with 4 million votes. So there is no outlet, no safety valve, for people’s concerns, immigration, poverty, austerity, health, housing, whatever. So they take to the streets. And of course a lot of this is manipulated by establishment agents provocateurs and bogus zionist front groups like the EDL.
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