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Aug 5 • 20 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
The mob vs Starmer. Why this is Britain's January 6th... 1/ The sudden upsurge of far-right violence has strong parallels with Russia 1905/Italy 1920 - plebeian far right suddenly lose the underpinnings of their political reality... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
2/ In this case, the violent racist right - which certainly numbers tens of thousands - suddenly lost "their" government - with no prospect of it ever returning... every incident reminding them of this maddens them... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
3/ And yes, it's nearly always the "dregs of society" - as the Black Hundreds of 1905 described themselves - who experience mass racist violence as a moment of elation - suddenly allowed to shout the P word in public with no comeback and torch Uber cars...
theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
4/ They're triggered by what Erich Fromm called a "fear of freedom" - when they see people they've otherised actually exercising their freedoms: that's why they're still going on about BLM in 2020... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
5/ So this was *both* incited by TR and his mates, *and* manipulated by Russian disinfo channels, *and* facilitated by Musk's de-banning policy, *and* dog-whistled by Farage/Braverman... but...
6/... it is also a deep, organic phenomenon, with tacit support among large numbers of far-right curious voters. Which dictates how to fight it.... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
7/ Since 2016 the NatCon-Reform-fascist milieus have formed a cozy continuum. The eruption of planned, incited violence - with stated intent to kill and maim in some places - allows us to shatter that alliance... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
8/ Robinson is playing for the emergence of an Italian style fascist movement, where the "football lads" and the drug scallies on their little scooters are the blackshirts for a big, political coalition... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
9/ Farage, Musk, Thiel, Trump - all playing for the same game globally - and now this has happened we'll be a magnet for all kinds of manipulation and disinfo by global forces... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
10/ Ultra-right wing Tories meanwhile biding their time. They win if Starmer messes up administratively; they win if the crackdown is successful, where the "two tier policing" myth becomes a recurrent grievance for working class white racists... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
11/ How to proceed: In every town we need a broad anti-racist alliance, including all democratic/progressive parties, unions, all faiths, cultural organisations... that's what the French Popular Front actually was at base level... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
12/ The broad anti-racist front has to focus on three tasks: a) Building confidence and cohesion between communities b) Peacefully opposing any further violent demos c) Building an anti-fascist ethos... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
13/ As Enzo Traverso wrote... ‘Against the fascist political religion of force, antifascism championed the civil religion of humanity, democracy and socialism.’ - it became a replacement ethos for communism, social democracy and liberalism... amazon.co.uk/How-Stop-Fasci…
14/ As for the Labour government - we need clarity today as to what role backbench MPs intend to play: the labour and trade union movement has to put itself front and centre of local anti-racist coalitions... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
15/ The TUC sponsored the Rock Against Racism gigs - it should step forward now... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
16/ I want to see the government a) launch an unprecedented crackdown on the fascists: arrests, bans, extradition of TR from Cyprus... b) immediate imposition of Online Safety Act regulations, end the consultations ... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
17/ An independent govt watchdog on disinformation, so that if a rumour is ID'd as being spread on behalf of Russia, the full penalties of the National Security Act 2023 can be used against instigators... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
18/ An expert-led redesign of public order and counter-extremism policing. Stop listening to 10-year old academic research, start listening to the global/national NGOs who specialise in monitoring and combating fascism...
19/ Sack the Ofcom leadership, and its entire TV/radio content board - they have failed to regulate GB News properly, handing the far right their own slot on the EPG... theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…
20/20 You cannot defeat fascism without a theory of what it is. Militant democracy requires govt recognising it is under a combined attack from home-grown fascism, Silicon Valley and Russia and deciding to defeat them. #NoPasaran #HopeNotHate theneweuropean.co.uk/the-mob-vs-sta…

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The latest from numbskull county... what's happening on UK far right channels today 1/ They're warning each other to ditch phones, remove exif data and mask up...might have been sensible to do this *before* committing riot and disorder but hey...
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Yesterday's riots have woken people up to the scale of the far right challenge. But we’re still getting a lot of things wrong. 1/ The fascists achieved something: they have terrorised Britain’s BAME population. I’ve got people contacting me saying they don’t feel safe…
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The political dynamics of this week’s far-right riots are unique on many levels. 🧵1/ First: it’s organised/incited. Tommy Robinson’s lieutenant “Danny Tommo” issued a call: searchlightmagazine.com/2024/07/tommy-…
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2a/ Court cases now coming through reveal a pattern. Charge = violent disorder. Not guilty plea = remanded in custody. Sentencing guidelines: “racial hostility” = aggravating factor, so is taking part in a riot. Max sentence = 5 years
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