That's anti-fascism. It's not necessarily synonymous with the US groups' aims. You can have anti-fascists on the centre-right as well, and I fear the hard-left Communists are no better… (View Post)

Are you? How do you define Antifa, and how are *you* Antifa? (Personally, I think defining yourself by that Americanism is deeply unhelpful...) (View Post)

They don't need to have the skills to run the council. When they fail, they'll just blame others - particularly the 'system', when they are now actually core to that system. They&… (View Post)

Who does not, comrade? Even the great man himself, Lenin, had a beard. The great Soviet experiment started to go wrong when he died, and his successor only managed to put two slugs under his nose... (View Post)

Not meaning to get at Big_G here, who just repeated a comment he heard on the news, but I do wish people would not go on about Anitfa in a UK context. It doesn't exist in the UK; it is an irrele… (View Post)