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UK: Further attacks planned by fascists across the island

Posted on 2024/08/05 - 2024/08/05 by darknights

Trusted comrades have handed to us details of new planned attacks across the country organised by fascist/far right groups. After the attacks upon the Rotherham and Tamworth hotels yesterday, where asylum seekers are housed, both had side entrances set on fire by fascists. We cannot let the blatant attempts by fascists to lead pogroms around the island, to terrorise everyone that doesn’t agree with them.

For anyone who is still under the illusion that this is about children being murdered or some kind of rebellion, revolution or insurrection of the people, that its not to do with the far right, fascists, neo-nazis, racism and Islamophobia, we advise you to sort out your head, not listen to social media influencers or the manistream media, we have seen with our own two eyes well known fascists and neo-nazis on the streets, organising online through social media and telegram.

Fascism and racism doesn’t exist in a void, successive governments not only here on this island but also around the world have been using racist, Islamophobic, anti-immigration propaganda to serve their own power games, from Trump to Bolsonaro and Suella Braverman to Priti Patel, even the cops and armed forces being infiltrated by neo-nazi groups proscribed by the state as terrorists, the whole liberal democracy is corrupted to the core. If they don’t tell you that the refugees are the problem, they will tell you not to fight back, to rely on the cops, the very system that also brought this about.

The only way to fight back against racism and fascism is to physcially fight it off the streets.

Keep safe, organise with trusted comrades, keep commucation off phones and internet, mask up.

“Adolf Hitler himself said that the only way the rise of the German Nazi Party could have been prevented was if its enemies had recognised it for what it was right at the start and had smashed it in its infancy with utmost force.” – Oi Polloi, ‘Bash the Fash’

Posted in Anti-FascismTagged Anti-Fascism, Far-Right, Racism, Southport Fascist Riot 2024, UK

UK: Convicted neo-Nazi terrorist was at Southport riot

Posted on 2024/08/02 - 2024/08/02 by darknights

One of the far-right activists who travelled to Southport on Tuesday night was Matthew Hankinson, an unrepentant neo-Nazi terrorist, who was jailed for six years for his membership of the proscribed neo-Nazi youth group National Action (NA).

Posts on Hankinson’s account on X (formerly Twitter) reveal he was present at the riot, where he took photographs and recorded videos of the violence. In one gleeful post, which included a video of a burning police van, Hankinson wrote: “‘Piggy in the middle’ Police vans trapped between English People showing solidarity in the face of foreign terror get set on fire by misguided Patriots who take vengence (sic) into their own hands. ”.

Before he was jailed, Hankinson lived outside St Helens in Newton-le-Willows.

NA were proscribed in the wake of the murder of Jo Cox MP after one of them posted “649 to go” on Twitter and they set the title on their website to “Death to traitors, Freedom for Britain”, the slogan said in court by Jo Cox’s killer.

Hankinson’s first post on X includes the same slogan and says: “Those who take issue with the Righteous and Just sentiment of these Noble words are those same subversive Traitors that are oppressing and destroying Britain.”

After NA were proscribed, Hankinson continued to be involved and was present at a meeting in a Wetherspoons where the now convicted neo-Nazi paedophile terrorist Jack Renshaw shared a plan to murder his local MP. Renshaw was jailed for life and must serve at least 20 years in prison.

The violence in Southport on Tuesday night, where far-right activists and racist locals rioted in a grieving community, has sparked a wave of anti-migrant violence with disorder taking place in London and Hartlepool last night and anti-migrant protests in Manchester and Aldershot. More protests are planned around the country over the coming days.

We revealed fascist group Patriotic Alternative (PA) were one of the groups behind the protest which turned violent in Southport on Tuesday evening. David Miles (aka Jack The Nipper) from the West Midlands, was one of the PA activists to have travelled to Southport.

Miles could be seen facing down riot police, wearing a t-shirt featuring the slogan ‘Free Sam Melia’. Melia, PA’s Yorkshire regional organiser, is currently serving a prison sentence for producing racist stickers. The protest was promoted by PA’s Wales regional organiser, violent football hooligan Joe Butler (aka Joe Marsh). Butler has a series of convictions for stabbing football fans and attacking women.

Leading politicians are discussing responding to the Southport riot by proscribing the English Defence League, an organisation which has not existed for more than five years. Hankinson’s presence shows that state bans won’t stop neo-Nazis from being involved in violent disorder.

Source: Red Flare

DN Note:

Patriotic Alternative (PA)’s regional organiser for Wales is Joe Butler, also known as Joe Marsh, a leading figure in the Pie & Mash Squad hooligan group. Butler is a violent fascist and football hooligan who was jailed in 2015 for attacking a female anti-austerity protester in central London the previous year.

The Pie & Mash Squad have been responsible for several attacks on left-wing activists, including an attack on a squat and an attack on a 12 year-old girl and her father. The attack on the squat in January 2017 was led by the Pie & Mash Squad who were joined by supporters of the now-banned neo-Nazi terrorist organisation National Action (NA). The squat mentioned was Belgravia ANAL Embassy a £15 million mansion in London’s bourgeois Belgravia neighbourhood which had been opened up to rough sleepers.

Patriotic Alternative activist David Miles in Southport, 30 July 2024. One activist to bus into town was David Miles (AKA the English Wanderer) from Birmingham, a core member of Patriotic Alternative (PA), the UK’s most active fascist group. Miles somewhat unwisely posted pictures of himself at the event on social media.

Posted in Anti-FascismTagged Anti-Fascism, David Miles (aka Jack The Nipper), English Defence League, Far-Right, Fascism, Jack Renshaw, Jo Cox killing, Joe Butler (Joe Marsh), Matthew Hankinson, National Action, Neo-Nazi Terrorism, Neo-Nazis, Patriotic Alternative, Social Media, Southport, Southport Fascist Riot 2024, UK

Conservative-endorsed “youth” group Turning Point UK linked to political violence

Posted on 2024/08/02 by darknights

DN Note: The PDF contained in the text mentions organising against the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn as well as attacks on the Socialist Worker Party. We would like to express that we don’t care for these political entities which we are also opposed to, we add this PDF because we find it clearly explains the increasing connections between the Conservative Party that has lurched more to the far right during and now out of power. It also identifies the far right scum involved which we will always never hesitate to broadcast far and wide. We also add that Turning Point is one of the most prominent groups that have been pushing the protests, riots, attacks on mosques and migrant accomodation that have spread in the last week.

Our report, Turning Point UK: Conservative hooligans, details our undercover infiltration of Turning Point UK (TPUK) which saw members of the group’s secret “elite” Direct Action Team offering to sell offensive weapons to other members ahead of protests which subsequently saw outbreaks of violent disorder.

TPUK has previously been endorsed by several leading figures in the Conservative Party, is involved in far-right street violence and has activists currently in prison.

TPUK’s honorary president, Conservative candidate Marco Longhi may have misled the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards about his relationship to the group.

Allan Jones, a spokesperson for anti-fascist investigators Red Flare, said: “TPUK connects the halls of power to violent neo-Nazis involved in racist attacks. In between schmoozing with Conservative party establishment figures, Jack Ross has been rubbing shoulders with violent neo-Nazis convicted of hate crimes.

“Ross should be expelled from the Conservative party for leading a violent far-right street gang. If the people of Dudley decide to re-elect Marco Longhi, he’s got questions to answer about his relationship with TPUK.”

On 11 November 2023, TPUK mobilised for far-right protests which caused widespread violence and disruption across Westminster, leading to 126 arrests and Suella Braverman’s subsequent resignation as Home Secretary.

Source: Red Flare

Posted in Anti-FascismTagged Anti-Fascism, Conservative Party, Direct Action Team, Far-Right, Fascism, Marco Longhi, Neo-Nazis, Red Flare, Southport Fascist Riot 2024, Suella Braverman, Tories, Turning Point, UK

Hungary: How Putin’s friend started hunting anti-fascists in the EU

Posted on 2024/01/09 - 2024/01/09 by darknights

For the past 20 years, the neo-Nazi group Blood&Honor has been gathering thousands of neo-Nazis from all over Europe on February 11 for a “Day of Honor” in Hungary. The occasion is the attempt by Hitler’s soldiers, along with their Hungarian allies, to break out of Soviet-encircled Budapest and return to Nazi Germany. Of the 28,000 soldiers of the Wehrmacht, SS and Hungarian allies, only a few hundred broke through. Most were killed or captured by the Red Army.

Now neo-Nazis lead a 60km march every year from Budapest to the breakthrough lines with sad faces and memories of SS veterans who died in WWII.

Viktor Orbán’s far-right Hungarian government doesn’t really interfere with the march, and according to some reports directly assists some far-right groups in rewriting history. The organization officially organizing the march received about 2,700 euros from the Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources, and the organizers themselves produced several documentaries for Hungarian state channels, including one about the glory of Hungarian troops during World War II.

 

Neo-Nazis at the “Day of Honor” march in Hungary

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Posted in Anti-FascismTagged "Day of Honor", Anti-Fascism, Blood & Honor, Budapest, Far-Right, Hungarian Fidesz, Hungary, Neo-fascists, Neo-Nazis, Repression, Viktor Orbán, Vladimir Putin

Athens, Greece : Taking responsibility for the attack on a member of the fascist group propatria in Nea Ionia on Heraklion Avenue

Posted on 2023/11/22 by darknights

Athens: Taking responsibility for the attack on a member of the fascist group propatria in Nea Ionia on Heraklion Avenue.

On 28 October we chose to visit the coffee bar berry in Nea Ionia on Heraklion Avenue while Dionysis Karagiannis, a member of the fascist group propatria, was working there. Once again a member of propatria showed us his fighting skills by running to hide in the store’s warehouse. Propatria is a group that acts and moves invisibly, with little presence on the streets and usually for a short time, in the context of captions, “quotes” and in terms of spectacle, trying in this way to reach the youth, forcing the antifascist movement to take on the role of detective in order to reach its members.

They should be well aware that we will choose the target, the time and the place each time. It is the duty of the antifascist movement to dismantle every fascist cell, against any attempt at political reconstruction, with stubbornness, organisation and loyalty to each other.

Still, we want to emphasize that the attack on this shop has nothing to do with the organization of the anti-fascist concert that took place on the same day in Heraklion Square and with the collectives, organizations that undertook the protection of the area . The arrests as well as the motorbikes seized a few hours after the attack have no involvement in our action but are based on the known tactics of the EL.AS to target militants through the known “suspect tank”. We express our solidarity with those arrested.

P.S. Our victories and our defeats, our mistakes and our self-criticism, our tenderness and our hardness, our contradictions and our certainties will never find their place in the enemy’s camp. They will be the raw material for the next proletarian offensive, for the next assault on the sky.

Shiraz Shaftar Cell

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Source: athens.indymedia

Via & Translated by Act for freedom now!


Act for free notes: the murder of the 23-year-old worker from Pakistan, Shiraz Saftar, in the early hours of August 12 . 2023 Shiraz Saftar was working as an unloader in the public market on his way to work. He was found murdered in the Rizoupoli-Perissos area, near the Apollo stadium, at 4:30 in the morning.

Posted in Anti-Fascism, Direct ActionTagged Anti-Fascism, Athens, Greece, Nea Ionia, Neo-fascists, propatria, Shiraz Shaftar, Shiraz Shaftar Cell

Hamburg, Germany: +++ Free all Antifas +++ Free all Prisoners +++, Hamburg Police Academy attacked with stones

Posted on 2023/08/14 by darknights

In the night of June 14-15, we visited buildings of the Police Academy Hamburg at Braamkamp with stones.

We salute the defendants of the Antifa Ost trial and the victims of the 11 hour kettle in Leipzig.

Raise the price for the freedom of our friends!

Against racist attacks and police violence – against the state and its henchmen!

Source: de.indymedia

Posted in Anti-Fascism, Direct ActionTagged Anti-Fascism, Antifa Ost, Cop Attack, Germany, Hamburg, Hamburg Police Academy, Leipzig, Racism, Window Smashing

Dresden, Germany: Antifascist Lina E. Sentenced to More Than Five Years in Prison

Posted on 2023/06/04 - 2023/06/04 by darknights

On Wednesday (31st May), the judgment in the so-called “Antifa Ost” trial was spoken before the Higher Regional Court in Dresden. Several anti-fascists were accused of forming a “criminal association” that is said to have committed attacks against fascist forces. Members of the far right-wing scene in Leipzig, Wurzen and Eisenach are said to have been “brutally beaten up”. The supposed victims were the squads of the young nationalists and the identitarian fascist movement.

Lina E., was accused of being the “mastermind” of the anti-fascist Leipzig group by the Federal prosecutor’s office, who asked for a prison sentence of eight years. She was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for taking part in a series of attacks on neo-Nazis and other fascists over a period of two years.

Three other antifascists, Lennart A, Jannis R and Jonathan M, are alleged to have joined forces with her by the end of 2019. The men were sentenced to between 27 months and 39 months in prison.

Concrete evidence was in short supply during the trial; instead the political conviction of the accused was decisive.

Lina E has been in custody since her arrest on November 5, 2020. The other suspects have remained free.

Among the attacks she was accused of helping orchestrate was a 2020 incident, in which antifascists beat a group of six fascists returning from a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the firebombing of Dresden.

The event regularly attracts neo-Nazis and other fascists.

In the run-up to the trial, the accused have always received broad support from the anti-fascist movement. A nationwide demonstration against the persecution of the anti-fascist movement in Leipzig is planned for Saturday (3rd June), which will begin at 5 p.m. in Wolfgang-Heinze-Strasse.

Source: Abolition Media

Posted in Anti-Fascism, Social ControlTagged "criminal association", Anti-Fascism, Antifa Ost, Germany, Leipzig, Lina, Neo-Nazis, Trial, §129

Patras, Greece: Attack on the offices of the Patriotic Union of Emfietzoglou

Posted on 2023/02/24 - 2023/02/24 by darknights

On the afternoon of Tuesday 21 February, after the end of the anti-war march that took place in the centre of Patras on the occasion of the visit of the American Secretary of State, we attacked the open offices of the fascist group “Patriotic Union” of the bankrupt* Prodromos Emfietzoglou, who has been involved in dozens of scandals since the Olympic Games and has now decided to turn to patriotism in order to continue receiving a crumb from the state budget, but also to confirm Samuel Johnson’s old saying that “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrels”.

In a city that retains indelible in its political history the class, social, anti-fascist struggles of the past and in which the activity of the fascist and parastatal mechanisms has left irreparable scars since the period of the Temponeras assassination2, it should be made clear and unambiguous in all directions and to all would-be imitators of Emfietzoglou that not an inch of land will be given to the enemies of freedom.

The existence of offices of a nationalist party in the central square of Patras, and anywhere else, cannot be tolerated and there has certainly been some misunderstanding on the part of Emfietzoglou with this choice. He would do well to pack up and leave…

Fascists, nationalists and other misfits, forget what you knew. This is Patras! We’re gonna kick your asses!

Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia

DN Notes

1 μπαταχτσή is the original word used in Greek, which is not completly translatable exactly as ‘bankrupt’. It is originally from the Turkish batakçi = bankrupt. It means a person or some one who gains from the state, especially the money from taxes, normally from corruption.

2 Nikos Temponeras was a secondary school mathematics teacher, a left-wing member of the Labour Anti-imperialist Front (EAM), who was assissinated by fascists/right wingers (even a member of New Democracy party) attempting to break up the occupation of a Patras school during the student demonstrations of 1990-91. Once again this murder amongst others in Greece’s modern history shows the complicity between racism, fascism and nationalism, that the crossover between the right wing New Democracy party (that is in power now), that members normally come from a fascist background, is a kind of requirement to be part of the party. This continues the well known slogan in Greece that ‘The Junta never ended!’

Posted in Anti-Fascism, Direct ActionTagged Anti-Fascism, Corruption, Fascism, Fascist Office Attack, Greece, Nationalism, Neo-fascists, Nikos Temponeras, Olympic Games Greece 2004, Patras, Patriotic Union, Prodromos Emfietzoglou

Thessaloniki, Greece: Responsibility claim for the incendiary attack on the vehicle of fascist Ioannnis Momolias

Posted on 2023/02/21 - 2023/02/21 by darknights

We take responsibility for the placement of an incendiary device in the morning of Thursday 19.01, in Tripotamos street in Stavroupoli in the vehicle of Ioannis Momolias in the yard of his residence, a fascist member of the United Macedonians, resulting in the complete destruction of the vehicle. The message is clear no fascist will hide forever, no one will sleep in peace; fire on your miserable lives.
Antifascist rage.

Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia

Posted in Anti-Fascism, Direct ActionTagged Anarchists, Anti-Fascism, Greece, Incendiary Attack, Ioannis Momolias, Neo-fascists, Thessaloniki, United Macedonians, Vehicle Burning

Bristol: Bristol Against The Hate, Saturday April 9th

Posted on 2022/03/26 by darknights

Posted in Anti-Fascism, Direct ActionTagged 'For Britain Party', Anti-Fascism, Antifascist Rally, BASH THE FASH!, Bristol, Bristol Against The Hate, Edward Colston, Far-Right, GLAD COLSTON'S GONE!, Slave Trade, Tommy Robinson, UK

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