https://www.europesays.com/1811605/ Tomb of polarizing French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen vandalized just weeks after his burial #BrittanyRegion #JeanMarieLePen #LePen #NationalFront #News #world #WorldNews #WorldTopics
Chumbawamba - On The Day The Nazi Died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CUQu5K8lp8
So if you meet with these historians
I'll tell you what to say
Tell them that the Nazis
Never really went away
They're out there burning houses down
And peddling racist lies
And we'll never rest again...
Until every Nazi dies
Absolutely fantastic news. One less scumbag today.
#LePen #NationalFront #France
Interview with Prof. Kehinde Andrews about recent (and not so recent) events in the UK:
I really would have been surprised if [right-wing thugs] had come through London or Birmingham. I got a WhatsApp message saying they were coming through Handsworth in Birmingham, where it’s 80% ethnic minority, and I just knew that was never going to happen.
Look, maybe they planned it and then they were cowards, but I just think they were never going to follow through. Realistically you can’t do an English Defence League march through someone else’s neighbourhood! They’d just get a kicking. Cowardice is a huge part of these British KKK types, pick people off when they feel strong, they’re not going to take on a whole community like that.
Let me add as well, and I think this is something that’s been hugely underplayed in mainstream discussions, that it’s actually because there was so much racial violence in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s – when I was at school, we’d see National Front signs in people’s windows – precisely because of this racial violence and history, Black and Brown communities rallied together to defend themselves.
And so because there’s a history of us defending ourselves, that’s why these far-right racists aren’t going to be coming back to these predominantly Black and Brown areas, where they know they can’t win. It’s not just coincidental, it’s part of our resistance to racism in this country, and it’s a story that’s underplayed. It’s community self-defence which has stopped National Front, English Defence League and all these other incursions.
#UK #racism #antifascism #fascism #CommunitySelfDefense #CommunitySelfDefence #EDL #NationalFront
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/far-right-riots-black-history-kehinde-andrews/
Scottish Government issues 'protest' statement ahead of #Glasgow '#FarRight' rally promoted by Tommy Robinson
By Alistair Grant
Published 2nd Aug 2024
"The Scottish Government has warned the right to peaceful protest should not be used to justify hateful or violent behaviour ahead of a planned rally in Glasgow promoted by #TommyRobinson. A '#ProUK rally' has been planned for the city’s George Square on September 7, with the English Defence League (#EDL) founder, whose real name is #StephenYaxleyLennon, posting about the event on social media.
"It follows violence in #Southport, Merseyside, this week after the killings of three young girls in a knife attack. Police said the scenes were sparked by supporters of the #farright claiming those present backed the EDL – although the organisation has not existed for around a decade.
"Police across the country are bracing for more protests following the Southport stabbing attack, as one force said disorder 'simply will not be tolerated'.
"The Muslim Council of Britain said hundreds of mosques were strengthening their security and putting in place protective measures ahead of more planned protests. There are fears Islamic places of worship could be targeted during demonstrations expected to take place over the weekend.
"A Police Scotland spokesperson said: 'The unacceptable violent disorder witnessed in other parts of the United Kingdom this week does not constitute peaceful protest. There is no current intelligence indicating similar incidents are likely in #Scotland, but we will continue to monitor developments.'
"Mr Yaxley-Lennon shared a post on social media that said the Glasgow event would coincide with 'other pro-UK rallies'. The post said the event would be a 'peaceful protest to share our distrust and fear of the future'.
"Mr Yaxley-Lennon did not indicate whether he planned to attend, tweeting only: 'The British are rising.' Mr Yaxley-Lennon is the subject of an arrest warrant after leaving the country shortly before a major legal case against him."
NEO-NAZIS ACCUSED IN LONDON RIOTS
July 5, 1981
New York Times
[...] "The trouble apparently began when two busloads of #skinheads arrived in #Southall, not far from Heathrow Airport, for a rock concert given by a skinhead group in the Hambrough pub.
"Southall has a large #Indian and #Pakistani population, and the skinheads have provided many recruits for the #whitesupremacist #NationalFront organization.
"Many Britons were shocked today as they watched television, waiting for the start of the men's Wimbledon tennis final, to see film of a pitched battle in the London streets, with fire engines and police vans burning along with buildings.
"The police said they had no evidence that the white youths were members of the National Front, a small extremist group that has been accused of #neonazism but local officials said they were sure that the front was involved.
"'The skinheads were wearing National Front gear, #swastikas everywhere, and National Front written on their jackets,' said a spokesman for the Southall Youth Association. 'They sheltered behind the police barricades and threw stones at the crowd. Instead of arresting them, the police just pushed them back. It's not surprising people started to retaliate."
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/05/world/neo-nazis-accused-in-london-riots.html
@PhilipCJames The late art critic #BrianSewell made a good point about how easily the #British would have fallen into line under #Nazi occupation.
The main reason why the #NationalFront and the #BNP did so badly was not due to an innate love of liberal democracy, but simply because they were not marketable enough.
All it takes is for someone like #Farage to come along, or someone like #Murdoch and the Lords #Rothermere to blight the public discourse, and it all falls away very quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6zBRP6XRHU
#ARTEtv 3 days ago #ARTEEuropeWeekly
#France's 
great swing to the right
#RN, #RassemblementNational are STILL the #NationalFront
If it quacks like ... , goose-steps like a ...
So the #farright is doing better in #France than anywhere else in the #EUelections, securing 37% of seats and yet my mum still acts surprised #JordanBardella arrived in 1st place. “But mum,, the #RN secured 81 new seats in the French legislatives in 2022 (from 9!), in total number of votes the #nationalfront has been nearing the 40% bar for DECADES, seriously you are surprised?”. Douce France, that #fascist syphilitic habit will never go away, will it? https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2024/jun/09/european-elections-results-2024-europe-eu-parliament
As an aside, this has been a cornerstone policy of the #BNP and #NationalFront for decades.
"Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory national service
"...It said 18-year-olds would have a choice of either joining the military full-time, or volunteering one weekend every month..."
"...#RishiSunak said he believed [this] would help foster the "national spirit" that emerged during the pandemic..."
Just how dangerous is Europe’s rising far right? Anti-immigration parties with fascist roots — and an uncertain commitment to democracy — are now mainstream. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/06/world/politics/how-dangerous-europe-far-right/ #worldnews #politics #eu #europe #italy #poland #hungary #france #germany #jordanbardella #marinelepen #nationalfront #giorgiameloni #sweden #netherlands #geertwilders #viktororban
Belgium’s far right struggles to break through media ban https://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/belgiums-far-right-struggles-to-break-through-media-ban/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Belgium #ChezNous #farright #Flanders #NationalFront
Catherine Belton: #Russia is working to subvert French support for Ukraine, documents show
"From the top floor of the house he shares here with a senior Russian diplomat — to whom he rents the apartment below — the man who helped bankroll the French presidential bid of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen has been working on plans to propel pro-Moscow politicians to power.
'We have to change all the governments … All the governments in Western Europe will be changed,' Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, a former member of the European Parliament for Le Pen’s party, said in an interview. 'We have to control this. Take the leadership of this.'"
#giftarticle #France #propaganda #marinelepen #nationalfront #nationalrally #Rassemblementnational #putin #ukraine
https://wapo.st/3RDaeGt
2017
WHAT THE FUCK?!
French Election: Young, Jewish Parisian Defends Square-Headed #Antisemite Le Pen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6mhgFKQX1s
I was looking for something else, and came...across..this! #WTF
"HAPPY #ERICCANTONA #DAY!
Twenty-eight years ago today, at a match against Crystal Palace, #Manchester United star Eric #Cantona #responded to #racial #abuse he was #subjected to from sieg heiling #NationalFront/#BritishNationalParty supporter #MatthewSimmons by #delivering a #flying #kick to his #head from the #pitch.
Asked about the #incident two decades later, Cantona said “I didn’t #punch him strong enough. I should have #punched him #harder.”
Still a #dedicated #humanitarian and anti-racist, Cantona pledged in September to personally house and feed a #refugee #family in his own home for two years."
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