We put this short video out this lunchtime:
This is the transcript:
First, they came for George Floyd.
Then they came for Renee Good.
And they could come for you.
My point is that fascism is growing fast. We're all at risk from the developing political movement around the world that we now see has virtually taken over the USA.
Let's not pretend the USA is a democracy anymore. It isn't. It's a dictatorship. Trump is ruling by fear. His troops on the streets are killing people. If we want to stand up against this form of tyranny, we've got to make up our minds now.
Politicians in Europe will copy what Trump is doing. The risk is, we'll see it here.
If we want freedom, if we want security, if we want democracy, if we want the choice to live how we wish, then we've got to say so now and demand action from our politicians because fascism is coming our way, and it's our job to oppose it.
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The son of a tool-maker is already “tooled-up” and heading towards fascism:
❌The Public Order Act 2023 and the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 allow for the arrest of protesters for “locking on” or causing “serious disruption”.
❌The Online Safety Act allows for:
.. .. .. the removal of “legal” but controversial political and social content,
.. .. .. enabling the police to arrest people for “offensive” or “harmful” posts.
.. .. .. the monitoring of social media posts (i.e. police surveillance of free speech).
❌The arrest of several journalists, including Richard Medhurst, Sarah Wilkinson and Richard Barnard.
❌The arrest of hundreds of peaceful protestors,
I have just posted on Substack on this.
Do you have a link?
BTW, the YouTube preview image above is not showing for me.
I can’t work out why – but shorts work differently, so I added a link.
And now the ‘cumulative disturbance’ catch-all! Anticipating action against a meeting in Lichfield by Homeland (Nazi wannabees), a member of the Greens has already declined to do anything due to a fear of arrest.
Do you have a link?
I am not so sure that the UK will descend into fascism. Johnson and his corrupt gov tried to move us to the far right, but was an inglorious failure. Farage will, I believe, go the same way, perhaps in a few years.
My reasoning is that the majority of citizens here are reasonable, decent people, centrist politically and have an extreme dislike at heart for fascism. This has been handed down to them from parents and grandparents and taught in schools. I think people here will resist fiercely any extreme form of authoritarianism, probably by mocking it.I also can’t see the judiciary bending over as much as they’ve done for Trump who is not popular here. I just cannot see it, but
I’ve been wrong about a few things in politics over the last 15 years.
30% know what Farage is and want to vote for him.
That is ample enough to deliver fascism.
I do not share your confidence, at all. I have worried about this for 20 plus years, from the moment I really understood the goals of those running tax havens.
Alan,
Surely the lesson from European history is that fascism can happen anywhere where it is not challenged?
I’m not sure that because (you consider) a “majority of citizens here are reasonable, decent people, centrist politically and have an extreme dislike at heart for fascism” is sufficient protection.
Vast majority of people in early 1930’s Germany were not Nazis — but fascism emerged.
Excuse me, but the lesson not learnt in Europe is how economic hardship helps to develop fascism particularly if austerity follows on from a period of progressive politics.
For many, the real growth of today’s fascism took place in the aftermath of the 2008 crash.
The Ordo-Liberalism that has come to dominate the EU put a lot of emphasis on protecting the work of the markets and not ordinary people.
The EU is essentially a peace project. Ordo-liberalism has essentially destabilized it. This is a terrible own goal for Europe and shows that the politics of care are urgently needed there too to stem the descent in chaos and death.
I fear that “the extreme dislike at heart for Fascism” that you say is felt by a majority of the population is about people in uniform goose-stepping to invade other countries. What Richard is showing us is how that clichéd image is the only end result of a process that starts in much more (apparently) mundane ways which are so apparent in so-called democracies.
Unfortunately, we are hitting a lot of the milestones required to fit the models of previous societal collapses across history. We have the toxic combination of rampant inequality and elite overproduction. There is an entrenched and powerful elite, with only so much access to that power available, hence insurgent elites like Farage are trying to gain access to that power and concentrated wealth. The inequality provides a disenfranchised population to stir up, and many underutilised, over educated would be elites willing to join the counter-elite insurgency. Look at all the broccolli haired, smartly dressed young men surrounding Farage. Of course, we have other counter-elite insurgents coming up, like Polanski, but the Establishment will eventually be left with a choice of which counter-elite group to back, and they will always back the ones that protect their money. The rich always back fascism.
https://www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-just-content-for-ice
I’m linking this for anyone interested in what is happening in Minneapolis, on the ground, and for any Americans struggling to get news through the propaganda machine. At a time when Trump is critising the Iranian regime for its crackdown on protestors, the Trump regime is doing this. If America recovers, its mainstream news media will have a reckoning for not covering this and bowing to the regime.