London Socialist Historians Group
27th October
Fascism is a warning from history. Organising & marching to oppose it is the history lesson for today
The London Socialist Historians Group was amongst a range of organisations from trade unions to anti-war & climate change campaigns that backed the counter demonstration against Stephen Yaxley Lennon’s latest attempt to mobilise a far right to fascist street army in central London on Saturday 26th October.
The counter protest was backed by the TUC, Stand Up To Racism, many unions and campaigns
While numbers on such occasions are notoriously difficult to judge a benchmark is that the fascists could must no more than they did at an earlier demonstration in July while the size of the anti-racist, anti-fascist protest grew considerably in size.
As on earlier successful efforts to push back fascist organisation the anti-racist message needs to be further promoted and organised in workplaces and communities
The historians say that from Cable St in 1936 to Wood Green and Lewisham in 1977 and Walthamstow in the 2010s the importance of mass protest to halt fascist attempts to mobilise cannot be denied.
Historically it is a work in perpetual progress, never actually complete, but to be renewed in each generation. Saturday’s mobilisation of anti-racists and anti-fascists underlined that after the opposition to the August riots, the movement is on an upward trend. With the far right growing around the world, it needs to be
LSHG Convenor Dr Keith Flett said, fascists offer easy solutions to the problems thrown up by market capitalism. Those easy solutions, history underlines, lead to death, war and destruction
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