LONDON: Anti-racism activists say they acted quickly to get people to come together to stop days of far-right rioting in Britain but that the main tes...
Anti-racism activists say they acted quickly to get people to come together to stop days of far-right rioting in Britain but that the main test for their fight against hate lies ahead.
“In many places, we were ready but we need more people all the time,“ said Cardwell, who was chief steward at Wednesday’s biggest anti-racism protest in Walthamstow, north London. “This is a scale of attack that we have never seen before.” The riots began after a wave of false online posts wrongly identified the suspected killer of three young girls in a knife attack on July 29 in Southport, northwest England, as an Islamist migrant.
Telegram is known to be the far-right’s go-to platform, but counter-protesters are also active on it, with one of their main groups having more than 3,000 subscribers. Other platforms, such as WhatsApp and Tiktok, are also key. Among the disparate groups attending the counterprotests were some wearing facemasks while others were filmed carrying bats and other such weapons, prompting organisers to urge attendees to behave.
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