Suella Braverman is not a fascist. She is a Tory Home Secretary. But her speech at the Tory Conference deliberately attempted to whip up racist and fascist sentiment against refugees and indeed anyone the Tories hate.
We can despair but we can also fight back. London dockers marched against the racism of Enoch Powell in 1968 and the National Front was defeated by the Anti Nazi League and Rock Agsinst Racism mobilising a powerful movement against them.
Michael Rosen’s words warn about what can happen if we don’t do that again
Fascism: I sometimes fear…
I sometimes fear that
people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
worn by grotesques and monsters
as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.
Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you…
It doesn’t walk in saying,
“Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution.”
Michael Rosen
True words but didn’t a group of dock workers (and Smithfield) workers march in support of Powell?
Yes…and there were dockers like Mickey:
http://writemark.blogspot.com/2013/10/micky-fenn-trade-unionist-and-anti.html
http://www.blowe.org.uk/2010/10/mickey-fenn-on-fighting-fascists.html