https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/07/anti-racism-protesters-fill-streets-of-english-cities-as-far-right-threat-recedes

anti racist rally in Dundee (and other Scottish cities) on Saturday

didn't let one of my kids go into Brighton yesterday, 'cos shops were boarding up in preparation for riots &c ... but 5 fascists and maybe 1,000 anti-fascists turned out, so the fascists were escorted away by police for their own safety and the anti-fascists had a party

oh, beeb says 2,000 : https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3d9e3e573o

Seems to me that things are definitely going in the right direction 🙂

Still have to kick out the fash. There are a lot of newspapers and major political parties supplying them with slogans who need to take a look at themselves

We're facing the same thing in America -- we haven't yet had much in the way of far-right riots (the disgraceful neo-nazi "rally" back in Charlottesville shocked most Americans) but if Trump and his MAGA supporters lose in November, I expect we'll see some violence and riots -- and most of the mainstream press has been ridiculously sympathetic to the far-right for the last decade 😞

I'm hoping for a massive blue wave in November but the Republicans have stacked the courts and gerrymandered the voting districts and engaged in systemic suppression of minority voters... so we'll have to keep our fingers crossed.