Radio 43 | Episode 50 | Intelligence Report | The far right remembers Britain's war dead the only way it knows how

11/13/23 • 31 min

On Armistice Day, 2000 far right activists and football hooligans descended on London under the guise of "defending" the Cenotaph from pro-Palestine demonstrators.
10 days ago, Britain's hooligan chat groups were filled with the usual discussion of football and beer. But they quickly mobilised as the (now former) Home Secretary Braverman branded pro-Palestine demonstrations as "hate marches", and as the The Daily Mail and Douglas Murray suggested the Cenotaph was under threat. All this coupled with Tommy Robinson's return to X, and his calls for a new anti-Islam far right street movement.
The result: chaos on the streets of London, as far right activists and football hooligans battled police and attempted to confront Pro-Palestine demonstrators.
HOPE not hate had teams on the ground and embedded within the far right all day, feeding live information about what exactly was going on and where.
HOPE not hate's CEO, Nick Lowles, makes an appearance on Radio 43 to give us the full run-through of the precursors to the carnage, how the itself day panned out, and what the backlash has been for those on the march and for Tommy Robinson himself.
With over 100 arrests already and presumably many more to come as police trawl through footage, it's looking as though Saturday will go down as another costly moment for Britain's far right.
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Here's our analysis of how the hooligan chat groups turned to threats of violence.
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Here's our analysis of how the hooligan chat groups turned to threats of violence.
If you value our research and intelligence operations, please consider supporting HOPE not hate.

Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate Registered office Suite 1, 7th Floor, 50 Broadway, London SW1H 0BL, United Kingdom.

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Radio 43 | Episode 49 | Intelligence Report | Is Tommy Robinson returning to the streets?

On this episode, Nick and Joe discuss what is a very fast-moving situation.
The far-right are mobilising in London this weekend in opposition to a demonstration calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Near the centre of this is Tommy Robinson, who was allowed back onto X (Twitter) on Monday, and who has mentioned repeatedly that he’s wanted to get the English Defence League (EDL) back together.
Home Secretary Braverman’s recent comments calling pro-Palestine demonstrations “hate marches” have contributed to firing up an already hostile, and increasingly energised, mass of the former far-right street movement.
Along with worrying rumblings from the underground, the literal Nazis in the National Front look set to make their Remembrance Day march to the Cenotaph as usual, whilst somehow avoiding being labelled a “hate march” by our Home Secretary...
It’s a muddied picture, but Joe helps us to get to grips with what we should expect to see.
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The Dublin riots & the far-right in Ireland: how did we get here? - w/ historian and author, Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc

On Thursday 23rd November, a 49-year-old Irish citizen, originally from Algeria but who had lived in Ireland for 20 years, committed a heinous knife attack on children at a primary school in Parnell Square East in Dublin.
Quickly, far-right and anti-migrant activists and agitators turned to social media, spreading a range of misinformation about the attack, including that the perpetrator was an illegal immigrant.
Within hours Dublin was ablaze, as rioters set police cars, buses and a tram alight and looted shops, causing over an estimated €10 million of damage.
But how did this happen? Is the Irish far-right larger and stronger than previously thought? And how do antifascists and Irish society more broadly respond to such a violent outburst?
To discuss this, and events in Dublin in more detail, we welcome the historian and author, Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, onto the podcast.
N.B. - During the course of the podcast, "The Diggers" are mentioned at one point. This ought to have been "The Levellers".
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Pádraig has written several books on the Irish Civil War.
- Several are available through Mercier Press.
- Pádraig’s forthcoming book on political violence in Ireland (published Feb 2024) will be available through Merrion Press.
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