Backs Against the Walsall – Homeland Conference Brum Rushed

An embarrassing weekend for the 'Homeland Party' who ended their annual conference by being chased through the car park.

On Saturday 27th September, Homeland – the fascist micro party – held their 2025 conference at the Village Hotel in Walsall, just outside of Birmingham. Antifascists arrived around 10am to a distressed looking group of Homeland members, including a few acting as security. Daniel Gale appeared and looked close to tears before scurrying back into the hotel lobby.

Activists, including members of Birmingham Queers for Palestine, took over the entrance to the hotel while chanting 'Nazi scum, outta Brum', 'racist, sexist, anti gay, Homeland party go away', along with other catchy chants and banging a drum.

The hotel management went into crisis with a mob at the front and the phones ringing off the hook. Locals were supportive of the blockade, and a number of hotel guests went straight to the front desk to complain about the Homeland booking.

It didn't take long for police to turn up but, despite a police van and four police cars arriving in quick succession, antifascists refused to move and held their ground at the entrance.

Members of the local Stand Up To Racism turned up and joined the protest, boosting the numbers and applying more pressure. By lunch time the hotel management claimed to have asked Homeland to leave, but they were refusing.

At 4pm more police and security hired by the hotel arrived and stood by the entrance. While the demo continued, a few antifascists scouted the rear, catching Homeland with their tails between their legs trying to sneak out the tradesmen's entrance. With antifascists running straight at them, the fascist hardmen (including Anthony Burrows and Kevin Carrick) were forced to flee the area or hide in the nearby Holiday Inn, before reluctantly going to their cars under police protection. For people who like to cosplay as the peaky blinders they sure do scare easy.

Grab your mates, organise and chase the Nazis off our streets.

SCARF Statement – In Response to UKIP's March on 8th November

On Saturday 8th November a small band of fascists marched through Sheffield with the support and protection of a massive policing operation. Despite being billed as a national mobilisation, Nick Tenconi’s UKIP barely managed to draw 100 attendees from across the country, dwarfed by around 800 antifascists, the overwhelming majority from Sheffield. With less than two weeks’ notice, people across the city spread the word and turned out, making it clear that fascists are not welcome in our city. Despite outnumbering them 8:1, a feat widely celebrated this week, we were ultimately unable to stop the march. We need to learn from this so that the next time we ask “whose streets?”, the answer rings loud, clear and true. UKIP only marched because the police enabled them. South Yorkshire Police’s last-minute Section 14 order criminalised almost all opposition while granting UKIP a protected route through our city. Hundreds of officers, many drafted in from other forces and armed with bato...

False Flag

HOW TO START A CULTURE WAR? Surely every true-born Englishman has by now downed a pint of Coronation ale, got the ladder out of the shed, and using British-made cable ties, tethered a flag to a lamp post in their street. Or is the whole thing a hoax, a GBeebies fever dream? There are far fewer flags per square mile than even during a lesser football tournament, those that are out seem pretty localised and nothing compared to the spontaneous display of Ukrainian flags at the outset of war. None of this has stopped the entire billionaire funded pundit class (Wootton, Goodwin, Oakeshott, GB News...) stepping up and declaring that the English lion has finally roared. Astroturfing is the art of creating “grassroots” movements from the top, and this flagshagging exercise is such a plastic lawn that it comes with its own set of garden furniture. The main Facebook group has only got 3.7k members! The few photos on it show a max of three flags each. KERB YOUR ENTHUSIASM As an action desig...

UKIP If You Want To – Sheffield Says No To Hate

Contribute to the fundraiser to support arrested anti-racist activists Antifascists gathering near the cathedral – credit @racheloleary_ Saturday saw 800 Sheffielders turn out onto the streets and attempt to block UKIP's hate march. Billed as a “Mass Deportations” march, UKIP mustered under a hundred “patriots”, around a quarter of whom were livestreamers. The day began jubilantly enough at the Cathedral, the original start point for the far right, but now occupied by hundreds of antifascists. However, in the event, facilitated by police violence, the far-right were able to march. The majority of the counter demonstration went down to Waingate, where antifascists attempted to hold the road. There they were kettled by police and herded into Castlegate by a combination of police violence & ushering from (non-SCARF) stewards. This crowd then remained contained by police on Castlegate. A group of forty antifascists managed to break away from the kettle and sto...

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