EDL choose Bolton

[alexa]

I don't know enough about the UAF, I think if you look at my posts on this thread I've criticised them as much as praised them.

One of the reasons I began the thread was because I wanted to learn more about them and I certainly was not praising them in the OP

 

[Andalublue]

One of the reasons I began the thread was because I wanted to learn more about them and I certainly was not praising them in the OP

alexa, I wasn't suggesting you were. They are an interesting organisation, as were their forebears the ANL and RAR. They all have (had) the right aim, I believe, of fighting the resurgence of the neo-Nazi far-right. I applaud that. Unfortunately they are a broad church which includes violent element of Trotskyists and anarchists who think in terms of a class war, and all the things that war entails. A bit like the right-ists, in fact.

You can praise their aims while criticising their strategy. It doesn't make their aims any less valid, or their methods any less counter-productive. Mind you, I suspect that their violence is directed at their opponents rather than at the innocent passers-by at their demos, which is more than can be said for the EDL.

 

[alexa]

alexa, I wasn't suggesting you were.

no, I didn't think you were but I think I did find myself defending them more than I would have wanted the way the thread went.

They are an interesting organisation, as were their forebears the ANL and RAR. They all have (had) the right aim, I believe, of fighting the resurgence of the neo-Nazi far-right. I applaud that.

I agree with you there

Unfortunately they are a broad church which includes violent element of Trotskyists and anarchists who think in terms of a class war, and all the things that war entails. A bit like the right-ists, in fact.

I cam across someone talking about that yesterday. Will need to look a bit more.

You can praise their aims while criticising their strategy. It doesn't make their aims any less valid, or their methods any less counter-productive. Mind you, I suspect that their violence is directed at their opponents rather than at the innocent passers-by at their demos, which is more than can be said for the EDL.

Yes, I agree with you there too. I have been wondering what would be better against these very threatening looking EDL people and I have not yet come up with an answer.