Counter RWB Fest

[Kieranbob]

Hi everyone

I was wondering if anybody was going to head up to Derbyshire to counter the RWB festival the BNP is organising.

Found on UAF website a list of cities where the local anti facist groups are organising coaches up to the festival in order to 'Kettle' the BNP.

Let me know if anyone is going as I am considering making the effort.

Thanks

[nuisance]

The use of 'kettling' is very misguided, espically when UAF (SWP) have been up in arms about the use of the tactic on demonstrations by the police.

[G_for_Gemma]

Hi guys

More information about the anti-RWB event can be found at http: (without this brackets)//nobnpfestival.wordpress.com, the plan this year as called by Notts TUC and East midlands stop the BNP is to meet at 9am in codnor market square and blockade the festival entrance, not 'kettle' a very wide camping site with a fairly small amount of people later in the day like UAF plan to. However despite all that this years protest will hopefully be bigger and come off with less police shit than last years one.

If you are coming from sheffield (or other northern towns and can get to sheffield) please get in touch with me about coach details, theres a pick up and drop off in the city centre, tickets £10 waged, £5 unwaged or low waged. If you message me on here I'll sort you out with a ticket.
Really important people come to this so if you can please do.
Solidarity

[AlMack]

oh christ UAF arent tryna ignore the local groups plans again are they?
on a side note wigan BNP have been laid low by swine flu ROFLOINK

[Pogue]

remember folks dont organise anything through the ent and mind who you trust!

[Radical]

I shall be attending this battle to resist oppression.

[bellyscratch]

I'm going to be there. Apparently UAF have got 50 coaches organised to send people down to it, so it should be a big turn out

[Pogue]

I shall be attending this battle to resist oppression.

You bringing guns? Maybe we could start an armed uprising...

Either way, now Radical is there I'm not worried.

[Sam_b]

I will most likely be there.

[Fietsketting]

I will most likely be there.
I heard Pogue wants to beat you up with TAT ;):laugh:

Nah seriously, good luck folks, make it a better one then last year..

[Pogue]

Don't be silly, Sam is a secret squadist, me and him will be like Frodo and the GSE in that film, except Sam is scottish. WE'LL STAND OUR GROUND AND FIGHT

[Fidel Follower]

I hope the UAF don't fuck it up and do their own thing this year, you let the team down last time.

Anyone know of any ANTIFA contacts that are going?

[ls]

Haha 'let the team down' aha.

Also people in antifa are not likely to wanta let the world know they are going on an individual basis on a message board.

[Atrus]

I'm considering going from Liverpool, but it's so poorly organised that I'm unsure. Needless to say if I do go I'll be meeting up with no one that I don't know in person, but I'm still not convinced it will be that worthwhile.

[Steve_j]

:( im in spain with the inlaws.......

Best of luck to you all.

[Pogue]

I hope the UAF don't fuck it up and do their own thing this year, you let the team down last time.

Anyone know of any ANTIFA contacts that are going?

I don't think an internet forum is the best place to talk about 'Antifa contacts', and I'd suggest if you want to ask any questions or get involved with that organisation that you do it through trusted contacts in real life.

[Sam_b]

I'm just going down so I can kick the shit out of Antifa, of course.

As well as work with the police.

[Pogue]

I'm just going down so I can kick the shit out of Antifa, of course.

As well as work with the police.

I knew it! I bet you'll be part of the four person 'symbolic' march to the fence with Bennett and all :D

[Holden Caulfield]

As well as work with the police.

I'm interested to see what UAF (don't) do. They are getting more militant in what they say but as long as they try to build the 'broadest coalition' they can never be militant as one thing undermines the other.

Any militancy would scare off he bourgeois liberal (and conservative support) and ruin the 'broad coalition'. You cannot fight the police and resist the organs of the state and rely on support from its key figures.

UAF is stuck in a contradiction between the rhetoric of the SWP section of it and its organisational make-up, a contradiction that cannot last forever. Either it will sell out completely (even more than some say they already have done) or will have to break from their popular front tactic.

[OneNamedNameLess]

I'm going to go if I can. We need a big counter demo. I have a feeling this is gonna be big this year so the more there are to oppose it the merrier.

[Melbourne Lefty]

Sounds like a big one this year, if the UAF actually have a couple of dozen buses going i am sure they can find the uni students to fill them. There is bound to be a lot of anti-BNP feeling on campus with the euro election thing.

I am pretty sure that is exactly what the UAF will be counting on, big numbers of "its my first demo" people who need to be "Directed" by someone with a microphone.:(

Which will pretty much lead to what happened last year. Antifa will make a bold showing again I have no doubt, but wont make it into the farm. UAF will have lots of little lemmings to direct, and it will look great on the news, but thats about it.

[AlMack]

There will be a 'nationalist anti-UAF demo', a counter-counter protest, its all over facebook. They reckon they have police clearing. Could get loively

It better not rain.

[Fictional]

Anyone got a time/date?

[AlMack]

week on sat, 9am at the entrance, then uaf rally is at 11

[Fictional]

week on sat, 9am at the entrance, then uaf rally is at 11
Thank you, Comrade.

[El Rojo]

Im going, be it militant or not. Its still anti-BNP, and wouldn't it be great if the anti- fascist marchers outnumbered the Nazis!
Whatever the issues with this demo, it looks huge, and i'd regret it if I wasn't there.