People who think we could have asked the police to remove the nazis are revealing their class position & lack of understanding of how police function, and how women behave. The police are an arm of the state, who 1/ function to ensure the state, for better or worse, has a monopoly on violence. We were absolutely dependent on the cops to protect us from the raging males who were straining at the cordon and the horses, screaming 2/

Trans Activist Violence: Many of you heard the rumour that a woman was hurt at #letwomenspeakmelbourne. I can now reveal some more details. At the moment when the Vic Police were shepherding the Nazis up onto the steps, around 12.20, trans activists broke through 1/ a tight ring of marshalls and listeners and grabbed the mike. In the scuffle to protect women from the trans activists, including one male, a woman listener was knocked to the ground: her head struck the pavement 2/