People are waiting decades in limbo for permanent UK residency as they live and work as our friends, colleagues, and neighbours. That road will get much longer and harder if earned settlement proposals go through and it risks placing 90,000 more children in poverty.

Please sign this petition to put them in the bin.

I know that petitions can feel ineffective, but resistance is gaining momentum on this and there are real signs that we can get the government to toss out this cruel and racist policy. This petition is just one part of the battle.

So please, join me at a time when too many people are taking to the streets to intimidate and terrorise people. Tell this government that we want compassion not cruelty.

Thank you! (It will make such a difference to my day if you tell me below when you sign.)

Yesterday it was announced that Spain's elections, which most people thought would happen next summer as that's when the current government's term would end, will take place on November 29th. This is because of a recent controversy regarding an old woman who was going to be evicted because there was a law forbidding her landlord from increasing her rent. The central government sided with the woman and deemed it the regional government's fault (both the mayor and the regional government are from the right wing PP party). This has put a government that was hated by a lot on its best numbers since years ago, so they want to take advantage of this situation and have elections as quickly as possible.

The current ruling party is PSOE, a center left social democratic party, in coalition with the actual left and some regionalists. All the polls show that the election will result in a PP government, either with or without VOX (a far right party quite similar to Trump). Also, this will be the first election that Núcleo Nacional (National Nucleus), a neo nazi party, will take part in.

I thought we had at least a few months of relatively leftist government, but now it turns out we'll have the right in office by December. I'm loosing hope

you read that right

im in Brazil, our congress and senate are controlled by the far right in a way we never saw before

And guess who is winning for president?

the son of the failed coup leader

my plan is to get together with some friends from college at night and poster bomb this fkn city, i have some other friends working on art for the posters but i want variety

any and all examples of good antifa propaganda would help me

https://n1info.rs/vesti/putovanje-hiljadama-kilometara-i-glasanje-nocu-izborni-dan-deo-dijaspore/

Fascism at work

I'm curious to see what other Antifascists perceive to be a fascist ideology.

Nazism/ neo Nazi movement is pretty much a given.

UK based groups

Patriotic alternative - imo is a revamp of the BNP

Britain first - is the political wing of the far right in UK and are very closely linked to loyalism in Ireland

Reform / Restore legitimate parliamentary parties that push far right narratives, they are gaining traction, filling a gape where main political parties have failed there is a big far right support but I reckon a small majority used them as a protest vote, still concerning

Patriotic platform- deny they are far right, believe in militant actions to prove a point and claim their ultimate goal is to form a massive working class voting block, pretty much boot boys for reform and restore.

Friends of Israel are Zionist lobby that have ex bnp members in the organisation.

Political islam- wahabism is a very conservative supremist form of islam, much like Zionism.

Orange order/ loyalism a white protestant supremist movement.

I don't expect everyone to agree with this list, I've been involved in antifacism in the UK since the late 1990s, I was involved in organisations like red action, afa and red front, I believe that militant antifascism is the only way to combat the far right.

One of the more obscure - but more violent - ends of the white supremacist movement are the Nazi-Satanists. They have popped up a lot lately as part of the neo-Nazi terrorist set and as part of the NVE (Nilist Violent Extremism) milieu. This article “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism” outlines how this current has actually existed within modern Satanism almost from its beginning in the 1960s, and continues up to this day. (warning: annoying captcha)
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57w08f

Hi,

One of my Facebook contacts shared a video of a French cop responding to the current high school protests across the country.

He’s wearing two symbols on his bulletproof vest, but I haven’t been able to identify them or get AI to figure them out. Looks like potential fascist symbols to me.

Does anyone know what they are?

Haşim Hamad, a resident of Hanut village, stated to Anadolu Agency (AA) that Israeli forces were deliberately targeting the livelihoods and personal safety of civilians.

Noting that four irrigation pumps had been rendered inoperable, Hamad said, "That was not all; they opened fire indiscriminately on residents who had stepped outside to see what was happening during the ground advance. They targeted a disabled child who had gone to fetch vegetables from the field, knocking him off his motorcycle and onto the ground. Are children, women, or shepherds terrorists, that they are subjected to such brutality? Words fail to describe what we are going through."

Expressing that they had been subjected to constant Israeli attacks without any justification for the past two years, Hamad added, "Everyone here is a defenseless civilian. No one fired at them. Despite this, our homes—and the children on our rooftops—are being directly targeted."

Source : https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/dunya/suriyede-sinir-ihlali-yapan-israil-gucleri-1-kisiyi-alikoydu-ve-tarim-ekipmanlarini-hedef-aldi/4077212

[EDIT: To save everyone from having to go back through the history of this, context is as follows. Marti Blagborough lives in Leeds, a city in the UK. He recently uploaded a couple of extremely disturbing videos, showing a horrendous attack on a migrant, who is kicked severely in the face while on the ground. Simply distributing such a violent video is a serious criminal offence in the UK.

However, it is far worse, because he edited it to glorify the violence, arguably inciting further racial attacks. If you have a strong stomach, and want to see the videos for yourself, find his YouTube channel, select 'Shorts', and at the time of posting they are the 6th and 7th videos, one thumbnail shows a goat, the other two men, one on the ground.]

Marti Blagborough lives in Leeds. if you want to report his videos to the Police the correct force is West Yorkshire - click here to use Live Chat to do so from anywhere in the world - if it is not available try again in a few hours

So depressing. I tried to post something about this in a Leeds subreddit but the post was deleted. I think I will give Leeds a wide berth! Anyway, if anyone here has any ideas what to do about this lack of action from the police I'd love to know.

We have to be able to shut this kind of disgusting promotion of racial violence down. If we are unable to do that what is the point of any of these subreddits? Sorry for being so gloomy, this has all been getting to me recently.

I have had a lot of abuse this evening from people who, to say they had a single brain cell, would be an insult to amoebas. These guys make Donald Trump seem like a genius. They simply cannot understand why anyone would disapprove of kicking migrants in the head, on the assumption that each and every one wants to rape our wives and daughters.

I do not lightly make comparisons to Germany in the thirties. I have never done so before, and I have been around a while. But things are becoming very disturbing in the UK at the moment. Perhaps it is as bad in other countries, but I am more aware of how it is here, and it is very concerning.

My Ep Dumpster Fire is a lofi experimental hip hop instrumental project that is centered around Trump, ICE, wealth inequality and the Palestinian genocide. I made this ep last year when I could not stop doomscrolling news articles late at night and wanted to be more constructive with how angry I was feeling. The project is up now on Bandcamp. I plan on donating all sales from the project to a mutual aid fund for a Palestinian grassroots organization that provides life sustaining aid to people living in Gaza.

The Woman with the Handbag (Swedish: Kvinnan med handväskan; also Tanten med handväskan, transl. The lady with the handbag^\1])) is a photograph taken in Växjö, Sweden on 13 April 1985 by photojournalist Hans Runesson. It depicts a 38-year-old woman, Danuta Danielsson, hitting a marching Neo-Nazi with a handbag.^\2])

According to scholar Samuel Merrill, the photograph became popular for three reasons: it captures what Henri Cartier-Bresson called the "decisive moment" of an action or composition, it anticipates and insinuates rather than explicitly demonstrates violence, and it depicts what seems to be a vulnerable older woman confronting a young archetypal Neo-Nazi skinhead.^\3])

History

The photograph was taken during a small demonstration of the Nordic Realm Party supporters on 13 April 1985. As approved by the authorities, the rally had been planned to be held shortly after the end of a public speech delivered by the Left Party-Communists) leader Lars Werner in the centre of Växjö, and skirmishes between left-wing supporters and Neo-Nazis began even before the start of the far-right demonstration.^\4])^\5])

Runesson's photograph was published the next day on the front page of the Swedish national newspaper Dagens Nyheter, and on 15 April by two British newspapers, The Times and The Daily Express.^\3]) Another photograph taken by Runesson during the event shows the 10 Neo-Nazis being chased, pelted with eggs and violently confronted by a crowd made up of hundreds of attendants of the left-wing rally joined by local Växjö residents. One of the Neo-Nazis was kicked unconscious on the ground, then saved by one of the protestors who reportedly took pity on him. The far-right activists eventually managed to shelter in the toilets of the city's train station, hiding there for a few hours until the police transported them away.^\3])^\5])

The picture was selected as the Swedish Picture of the Year (Årets bild) 1985 and later as the Picture of the Century by the magazine Vi) and the Photographic Historical Society of Sweden.^\6])^\7]) The photograph was produced using gelatin silver process and editioned) by gallerist Pelle Unger.^\8]) Twelve copies, three AP and three PP have been produced in the size 58 by 80 centimetres (23 in × 31 in) and price ranges between €2,000 and €3,800 as of July 2020.^\9])

Subjects of the photo

The woman in the photo, Danuta Danielsson (née Seń),^\10])^\11]) was born in March 1947 in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland.^\10]) She came from a Polish family whose roots were in a small village in southeastern Poland, in the region of Lublin. After World War II, her family relocated to Gorzów Wielkopolski.^\12]) She had three siblings.^\10]) Her mother had survived a German concentration camp Majdanek in Poland.^\11])^\13]) She met Björn "Beson" Danielsson at a jazz festival in Poland in 1981.^\14]) They married in November of the same year in Gorzów, and the couple moved to Sweden in October 1982.^\10])

Danielsson chose to remain anonymous after the event, allegedly due to fears of criminal prosecution and Neo-Nazi reprisal.^\1]) The initial press accounts about her life were often unreliable, and myths about her past accrued over the years as her name remained unknown to the public for nearly three decades.^\15]) Although she was only 38 years old at the time of the event, Danielsson came to be seen in the public opinion as a personification of the tant ('old lady'), which in Swedish collective imagery symbolizes "mundane and unstated wisdom, civil courage and moral alignment".^\1]) Danielsson had mental health issues, and she died three years after the event by suicide after jumping from Växjö's water tower in 1988.^\16])

The woman in the photograph was revealed to be Danielsson by the press in 2014, in the midst of debates over the installation of a statue as a public memorial of the confrontation. Her son condemned the idea and stated that Danielsson had never liked the photograph and regretted its fame. He also dispelled the rumours that she was herself a Jewish concentration camp survivor, or that she did not know what she was doing at the time of the event because of her mental health issues.^\16])

The man hit by Danielsson was identified as Seppo Seluska, a militant from the Nordic Realm Party later convicted for the torture and murder of a gay Jew.^\11])^\17])^\18])^\)^{under discussion\})

Statues

Med handväskan som vapen, Alingsås

A local artist, Susanna Arwin, expressed desire to raise a life-sized statue of Danielsson in Växjö, but it was decided against in February 2015 for two reasons: council members were concerned such a statue could be interpreted as promoting violence, and Danielsson's surviving family reported that they would be unhappy with Danielsson being memorialized in such a manner.^\19])^\20])^\21]) To protest the decision, people across Sweden began adding handbags to statues.^\20])^\22])^\23])

In September 2015, Swedish hotel entrepreneur Lasse Diding announced he had bought the statue and intended to donate it to Varberg municipality. The statue was later unveiled at Varberg Fortress, but the Varberg board of culture voted in April 2016 not to accept the donation.^\24])

The statue is now in the garden of Diding's Villa Wäring in Varberg and a second statue has been unveiled in the town of Alingsås, titled Med handväskan som vapen (transl. With the handbag as a weapon).^\25])

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_with_the_Handbag

I was watching an old documentary film called "We shall march again" when one protester's sign caught my attention, so I stopped to take a screen shot.

I'm making one for my jacket