Arrests Follow Britain First March and Counter-Protests in Manchester

Manchester police arrested 9 men after a Britain First march and counter-protests on Saturday. Clashes led to public order and assault charges.

#ManchesterProtests, #BritainFirst, #CounterProtest, #PoliceAction, #PublicOrder

https://newsletter.tf/manchester-arrests-britain-first-march-clashes/

Nine men were arrested in Manchester city centre on Saturday following a Britain First march and counter-protests. This is up from the six initially reported arrests.

#ManchesterProtests, #BritainFirst, #CounterProtest, #PoliceAction, #PublicOrder

https://newsletter.tf/manchester-arrests-britain-first-march-clashes/

"Hundreds of counterprotesters on Saturday drowned out a far-right activist’s attempt to hold a small rally in support of the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown in Minneapolis."

#Minneapolis #CounterProtest #FarRight
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/18/minneapolis-counterprotesters-chase-far-right-activist

Demonstration against the visit of the MR to St.-Gilles

Place Bethléem, Saint-Gilles, woensdag 19 november om 18:30 CET

On November 19, the MR wishes to organize a conference in St-Gilles to “explain” their antisocial reforms and racist policies. We are calling for a demonstration against their visit at 5:30 p.m. at Place Bethléem.

The non-profit organization CEMome—the venue for the conference—explained that the building had been made available to the MR not by them but by the municipality of St.-Gilles, and that they distanced themselves from the policies promoted by the MR.

We refuse to allow the MR to promote its contempt for the poor and its racism in Saint-Gilles. This party, which embodies the interests of the rich, is the main vehicle for the far-right agenda in French-speaking Belgium.

We call on everyone to put pressure on the municipality of St-Gilles to ban the MR conference.

It is therefore the same municipality of St-Gilles, which presents itself as “progressive” with anti-fascist flags, that will host the MR conference. It will even deploy hundreds of police officers to “cordon off” the neighborhood—according to its own words—so that GLB and his clique can come and spew their contempt.

Jean Spinette, the mayor of Saint-Gilles, commented that our call to rally against the MR was “undemocratic” and a “call to violence.” We would like to correct Jean: violence is perpetrated by the state, which pushes hundreds of thousands of people into precarious situations, which suppresses social solidarity, our unemployment benefits, our pensions, and our allowances, in order to invest in weapons... It is the violence that kills in detention centers and police stations, not the violence of a population defending itself by organizing against policies that directly threaten their lives. Wednesday's popular gathering will be the only legitimate democratic expression of the neighborhood, not the conference you are protecting.

The non-profit organization CEMome—the venue for the conference—explained that the building had been made available to the MR not by them but by the municipality of St-Gilles, and that they distanced themselves from the policies promoted by the MR. We refuse to allow the MR to promote its contempt for the poor and its racism in Saint-Gilles. This party, which embodies the interests of the rich, is the primary vehicle for the agenda of the far right in French-speaking Belgium.

We call on everyone to put pressure on the municipality of St-Gilles to ban the MR conference.

It is therefore the same municipality of St-Gilles, which presents itself as “progressive” with anti-fascist flags, that will host the MR conference. Wednesday's popular gathering will be the only legitimate democratic expression of the neighborhood, not the conference that you are protecting.

This hypocritical stance by the municipality is one of the reasons why we oppose the PS and the entire reformist left: while claiming to fight against the far right and support policies in the interests of the exploited, these parties are in fact doing the opposite.

The PS takes up the themes of the far right and capitalizes on racism in Belgium: declaring through its president that more “foreigners” considered “illegal” must be deported and imprisoned. By calling for the strengthening of the repressive apparatus of the state, which beats, harasses, and kills people out of racism, because they live in working-class neighborhoods and/or because they protest and organize to live with dignity. On Wednesday, it gave the MR a new space, well protected by an army of cops.

Should we be surprised? No. Social democratic parties have always had an interest in mediating between the far right, the bourgeoisie, and workers/the oppressed, destroying any semblance of progressive politics in their discourse if it contradicted the interests of the capitalist class and its reactionary policies.

Anti-fascism remains and will remain revolutionary, otherwise it is limited to flags on facades. Down with the PS and all political forces that give a platform to the far right.

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👥 by Front d'Action Révolutionnaire and others (source,source)

https://acties.todon.nl/event/demonstration-against-the-visit-of-the-mr-to-st-gilles

RE: https://mastodon.world/@verdantsquare/115553583212842838

"We're not actually supporting nazis, just free speech"

Bullshit. Allowing speech but not the counterspeech isn't free at all. It's protection of one at the expense of another.

Getting beat up is the counterspeech to showing up in nazi gear, because that gear itself already says it's gonna make a powerless slave out of you.

I couldn't think of a better way of encouraging neo-nazis to march, harass & attack people on the street than this.

#antifa #counterprotest #freespeech

Flag reads:
"Stand up to Racism
Stand up to division
Stand up to Facism
Stand up to Hatred"

Adjacent flag is that of the #Druze people & religion

#WeAreTheMany

#Gloucestershire #Solidarity #Counterprotest

Edit: Oops, I forgot to add the photo. Doh!

#Gloucestershire Stands Together - #March #Rally & #Community Celebration, Sun 2nd Nov

Meet 12 noon at Barnwood Park, March to the Ibis hotel to arrive around 12.30pm

Gloucestershire Solidarity Network celebrate the diverse communities of Gloucestershire. The “Patriots of Gloucestershire” of “Great British National Protest” & neo-Nazi “Patriotic Alternative” will be holding a protest at the Ibis Hotel Gloucester, trying to demonise people seeking asylum.

#AntiFacism
#CounterProtest

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These are the only people I'm afraid of in Britain, cowards who are afraid of showing their faces. Notice the #ReformUK FC shirt.

@reformparty_uk

#standuptoracism #antifaschism #counterprotest #NotInMyName #MyFlagAsWell #RaiseTheFlag

If people want flags, let's give them flags.

#MyFlagAsWell

#StandUpToRacism
#antifaschism #UKNews #CounterProtest

#RaiseTheColours #AI

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