Anti-fascism Follow

Activists in Preston are opposing EDL plans to demonstrate in the town on Saturday 27 November.

In a victory for the anti-fascist movement, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has dropped its case against 63-year-old Alan Clough from Radcliff, Bury.

Since its launch, the racist English Defence League (EDL) and its sister organisations have organised 31 demonstrations across Britain.

The racist thugs of the English Defence League (EDL) brought their hate to Leicester last Saturday—and were opposed by some 800 anti-fascists and anti-racists.

Dane Kelly, a 24-year-old student from Leeds, was cleared on Monday of a charge of using threatening and abusive words and behaviour against a police officer.

Racist Dutch politician Geert Wilders is launching a European Defence League in Amsterdam on Saturday 30 October.

The Unite Against Fascism (UAF) national demonstration against racism, fascism and Islamophobia in London on 6 November is a vital part of the struggle to drive back the threat of racism.

The BNP has expelled Richard Barnbrook, its elected member on the London Assembly and one of the party’s senior figures.

UAF is hosting a series of meetings across the country in the coming months. These include ones in Glasgow on 13 October, Birmingham on 16 October, London Metropolitan University on 28 October and Cambridge on 2 November.

Asian, black and white people are uniting against the racist English Defence League (EDL) in Leicester this Saturday. This is still vital, though the EDL have been banned from "marching".

One of five anti-fascists who were charged after the protest against the EDL in Bolton on 20 March stood trial this week.

The racist English Defence League (EDL) seem to be developing a new strategy for continuing their campaign of hatred against the Muslim community following their failure to pull off "the big one" in Bradford last month.