Well, on Luton, it's a hole of a dump of a sty. Any heart has been clearly ripped out by Vauxhall motors. My commiserations to anyone whop has to live there... Now, with mixed-bag, fear/silly regional prejudice done with... The demonstration in Luton against the EDL was excellent. Unite Against Fascism estimate 5,000 overall turned out against the nazis. Best of all thousands of locals came to Bury Park, Luton's chiefly Asian area, which the EDL intended to target (for the moment we will leave aside the worrying stories of 'stewards' at Bury Park, almost certainly either Labour Party and/or Islamist, trying to drive people away). This means we have broken the effective police lock down on two occasions. Mass-mobilisation, you can't beat mass mobilisation with the aim of standing in the way of the racists and nazis... Well, the police couldn't yesterday, who were a soft, spongy mass. We gave them a run for their doughnuts, especially breaking out of the town centre kettle. They were not GMP nutters, and may have even been told to take it easy after the police's case, around Bolton, collapsed. I'm not grateful though: the police protect the nazis.
Mass mobilisation (to repeat the standard term) is the way forward. This was one of the largest and most effective instants of political action carried out under the Tory government. The kind of unity seen on that demo is the kind that will, if encouraged, break the Tory agenda. We should put anti-fascist activity back at the top of our priorities.
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