EDL supporter convicted of racist attack in Derby
Lee Preston targeted a Muslim taxi driver with a group of friends who said “We are EDL” while drinking in his cab. The group chanted “EDL” and threatened to kill Mohammed Rashid whilst attacking him....
View ArticleLocal elections round up
With a little under 2 weeks to go until polling day, 3rd May, East Midlands Anti-fascists bring you a round up of local fascist attempts to jockey for power. BNP Having finally concluded the messy...
View ArticleBNP fail in Derby
It looks like the BNP have had a really bad election. Locally their loss of two seats in Amber Valley has been compounded by their failure to make a breakthrough in Derby. Admirer of Mussolini’s...
View ArticleBye bye BNP!
Fascists had a bad night in local elections across the country. The BNP has, at the time of writing, lost all of the seats it was defending and failed to win any new seats. None of the smaller fascist...
View ArticleEDL rush to “defend” Derby Pride
Derbyshire Pride was due to be held in Derby city centre on Saturday. Unfortunately, due to the torrential rain the organisers had to call it off. This year, Derbyshire’s rain sodden LGBT community...
View ArticleFar-right silence on Derby paedophiles speaks volumes
Stories of gangs grooming vulnerable girls for sex have been very prominent in the media recently, but it was easy to miss a recent court case in Derby, where eight men were convicted of sexual and...
View ArticleSecond Derby EDL member convicted of racist attack
Ashley Pegg of Cowsley Road, Chaddesden, admitted committing affray and racially aggravated assault in an attack against a Muslim taxi driver last April. He was part of a gang of 5 who chanted “we are...
View ArticleEast Midlands #EDL donors revealed
Hackers, ZHC, have defaced the EDL website, hacked the organisation’s email accounts and have released a list of donors to the far right group. Although only 19 addresses are listed, 3 of these are...
View ArticleEast Midlands local election results
Derbyshire BNP freefall continues As predicted, the BNP’s four candidates in the region polled very poorly in Thursday’s local council elections. In Amber Valley, Derbyshire, Ken Cooper came in...
View ArticleIt’s kicking off
We’re excited by a new anti-fascist initiative amongst football fans: Football Lads and Lasses Against Football (FLAF). The organisation has been set-up in response to the recent surge in far-right...
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