"Hope over Fear" - A vote for Scottish independence is a vote for working class pride as well as national dignity

Scottish Independence Referendum 18th September 2014 - Six Months Until Scotland Makes It's Choice Between Two Futures...

Six months until we decide to live our progressive dream as an 



independent nation, or continue with the nightmare of deepening


austerity and never-ending war as part of the UK...

World In Action - Violence With Violence - The Battle of Welling Oct16 1993 and the Criminalistion of Anti-fascism.

On the 20th Anniversary of the Oct 16 1993 'Battle of Welling', it is well worth revisiting this early attempt at criminalising militant anti-fascists. This episode of ITV's World In Action starts out looking at the spate of racist murders that blighted the early 1990's, but then goes on to blame anti-fascists for creating a culture of violence by taking the fight back to the fascists and putting the scum on the run. 

Other than Red Action and Anti-fascist Action, the programme also focuses on Class War and the now-defunct Panther UK (both factions, confusingly labled "Militant faction" and "Non-militant faction". The reformist faction (labelled "Militant faction") was a puppet of Militant tendency. The others were the black nationalist militants who broke away hoping to emulate (rather than just cash in on the legacy of) Malcolm X, the Black Panthers and Marcus Garvey. However, both groups soon slipped into oblivion - where are they now? (Serious question btw)).

Also featured/promoted is "Red" Ken Livingston and the careerist/collaborationist Labour Party liberals and "black nationalists" of Marc Wadsworth and Lee Japser's Anti-Racist Alliance. 

Recommended viewing...

20 Years Ago - October 16 1993 - ITN News report on the "Shut down the BNP" Welling demo 1993

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond at the Scottish Independence Rall...

Margo McDonald MSP speaking at the Scottish Independence Rally, 2013

Days of Glory (1944) - Gregory Peck, Tamara Toumanova - Soviet anti-fasc...

Classic piece of Second World War Hollywood propaganda, but this time from that short period when the Communists were the good guys. Stirring stuff, especially the last twenty minutes. Melodrama, yes, but as you watch, especially the stirring finale, you know that millions of partisans and Red Army men and women fought and died in a similar manner, for the same anti-fascist cause.