Steph Paton: We must stand up and fight back when fascists take to our streets

Fascist agitation meets resistance in the streets

This summer, an emboldened far right is repackaging racist outrages as ‘local issues’—and the mainstream media is playing along ~ Blade Runner ~ Hundreds turned out to counter a fash protest in Epping Forest on Sunday 27 July, mobilised by Stand Up To Racism and local trade unions and joined by grassroots antifascists. Police, also in the hundreds, kept the two sides apart—Essex Police had issued a dispersal order covering the town centre and st…

Steph Paton: We must stand up and fight back when fascists take to our streets

‘MUM, stop,” said a slightly exasperated voice. A young person in the crowd gently guided their mother away from the police for the second time,…