NORWICH DEFENDS DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR – DISPATCHES FROM THE ANTIFASCIST COUNTER-PROTEST

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged activism, alt-right, Bradley Walsh, conspiracy theories, Drag Queen Story Hour, drag queens, far-right, fascism, featured, gender critical, LGBTQIA+, Neo-Nazis, norfolk, North Walsham, norwich, patriotic alternative, police, queer solidarity, racism, Titania Trust, trans rights.

By The Norwich Radical Editorial Team

In the process of putting together our reporting on the far-right presence and pro-LGBTQIA+ counter-protest at Storytime with Auntie Titania in Norwich last Wednesday, we received a number of accounts from people who attended the counter-protest. We were not able to reproduce all of those accounts in our original article, but we believe that they offer valuable insight into the events in question, the strength of LGBTQIA+ solidarity in Norwich, and the lessons that can be taken forward from this action. This article reproduces more of the content of those accounts, with small edits in places for clarity and to maintain anonymity.

WE ARE NOT YOUR BOGEYMEN – NORWICH RESISTS THE FAR-RIGHT IN SOLIDARITY WITH DRAG STORYTIME

Posted on August 20, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged activism, alt-right, bnp, Bradley Walsh, Chris Mitchell, conspiracy theories, Drag Queen Story Hour, drag queens, far-right, fascism, featured, gender critical, Jeff Marsh, LGBTQIA+, Mark Collett, Neo-Nazis, norfolk, North Walsham, norwich, patriotic alternative, police, queer solidarity, racism, Steve Blake, Titania Trust, trans rights.

By Anonymous

Content Warning: descriptions of fascist violence & racist ideology

Following the anti-LGBT protest outside a Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) event in North Walsham library on 2^ndAugust, a new event, titled ‘Storytime with Auntie Titania’ and featuring local drag artist Titania Trust, was scheduled for August 17th at the Millennium Library, Norwich. A counter-protest gathered outside the library on Wednesday ahead of the event to defend the national DQSH initiative and protect attendees from the presence of far-right protestors.

THE RISE OF POPULISM IN 21ST CENTURY POLITICS

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged activism, alt-right, artivism, empathy, far right, Farage, fascism, featured, France, freedom party, generation identity, indentity, le pen, Lega, migration observatory, MSM, national front, Nazi, populism, racism, reactionary, Salvini, social media, Trump, uk, UNHCR, xenophobia.

by Matt Musindi

Politics has become more divisive and polarised than ever, and it is the populists who have been the main beneficiaries of these political divisions. A populist is someone who consistently promises to channel the unified will of the people. Going off this definition, most political parties in liberal democracies are populist and yet this is not the case – why?Continue Reading

ISLAMOPHOBIA IN THE UK – ‘TOMMY ROBINSON’ IS A SYMPTOM NOT THE PROBLEM

Posted on August 10, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged 2016 London Mayoral Elections, Akala, Alex Jones, alt-right, anti racism, anti-fascism, Baroness Warso, bbc, bigotry, Boris Johnson, British Muslims, child abuse, contempt of court, court system, demonstration, Donald Trump, EDL, extremism, Ezra Levant, far right, fascism, featured, fox news, freedom of speech, Geert Wilders, hatred, islamophobia, Katy Hopkins, law, LBC, london, Matthew d'Ancona, Nazir Afzal, Nigel Farage, Owen Jones, prevent, racism, Raheem Kassam, Richard Price, sadiq khan, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, Steve Bannon, tommy robinson, Tories, Tory Islamophobia, Tory racism, war on terror.

by Scott McLaughlan

Content warning: mentions Islamophobia, racism, paedophilia, sexual abuse, fascism

The sentencing in May this year of Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (stage name ‘Tommy Robinson’) to 13 months for contempt of court has caused quite a reaction from his fellows on the far right. On Saturday 9th June, an estimated 15,000 people turned out for a mass rally in London in support of Yaxley-Lennon, Trump and ‘free speech’. The sinister focal point of the rally was to link rape and child sexual exploitation with migration and Islam.

POLITICS & CULTURE – THE AMIEL & MELBURN SEMINAR 2017

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national and tagged 7 Days, academia, access, activism, alpha male, alt-right, alternative media, Annie Kelly, anti-feminism, art, Athina Karatzogianni, Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust, Chardine Taylor-Stone, class, corruption, critique, culture, culture war, curricula, digital culture, direct action, disillusionment, economics, education, fake news, far right, fascism, feminism, feminist allies, future generations, GE17, higher education, history, holding power to account, ideology, inequality, inheritance, Jo Littler, Judies, knowledge, language, mainstream media, male psyche, marxism, media representation, meritocracy, Michael Rustin, Milo Yiannopolous, Mod, Mod women, modernity, music, neo nazi, neoliberalism, peer-pressure, politics, Politics & Culture Seminar, politics of difference, progress, progress narrative, progressive media, public education, punk, Punk women, representation, Rhian E Jones, right wing, Rosalind Delmar, Roshi Naidoo, Skinhead, Skinhead women, social exclusion, social media, social mobility, socialism, society, strike action, subcultures, talent, Teddy Girls, tenant strike, trust, universities, working class movement, young people, Zahra Dalilah.

by Gunnar Eigener and Rowan Gavin

CW: mentions misogyny, anti-feminism, neo-nazism

Earlier this month, a writer and an editor from the Radical took part in the Amiel & Melburn Trust’s annual residential seminar. The Trust’s aims are “to advance public education, learning and knowledge in all aspects of the philosophy of Marxism, the history of socialism, and the working-class movement’. This year, the topic of the seminar was ‘Politics & Culture’, and the various intertwinings and intersections thereof. What follows are thoughts and reactions about the seminar from our contributors.

PUNCH NAZIS

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged alt-right, antifa, born in the usa, bruce springsteen, dead kennedy, democracy, diversity, eugenics, fascism, free speech, harassment, Hitler, inauguration, Nazis, nazy punks fuck off, Neo-Nazism, norwich, protest, Punch, race, radicalisation, resist, Richard Spencer, symbolism, Trump, violence, Warren Ellis, white genocide, white nationalism.

by Zoe Harding

Content warning: violence, neo-Nazism, the Holocaust, and anti-semitism. Article contains strong language.

I’d like to begin by showing you a video. It’s quite possibly a video you’ve already seen.

That man is Richard Spencer, professional neo-Nazi dickhead. The identity of the puncher is not yet known (and will hopefully remain unknown), but they’re believed to be one of the Antifa protesters from the day of the Trump Inauguration. Continue Reading

THE TROLL VOTE: WHAT TIPPED TRUMP TO VICTORY?

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged alt-right, breitbart news, Donald Trump, emperor palpatine, fascism, international politics, Perspectives, politics, star wars, US election, US Politics.

by Sunetra Senior

In a socio-political climate where rape jokes and racism are very much in the mainstream, let’s not be afraid to call a troll a troll. The left is falling into the tendency to self-chastise after election defeats, even as a sinister phenomenon rises outside of our camp, and now more than ever requires our passionate standing. Over the past couple of months, the “Alt-Right” movement – a storm of right-wing publications primarily driven by Neo-fascist groups that use the web to circulate hate gossip and headlines to forward the far right’s agenda – has been confirmed to be a significant factor in the dissented zeitgeist of the US elections. The Guardian’ s Jason Wilson said of the self-professed ‘platform for the Alt-right’– Breitbart News – that ‘the ideal Breitbart headline is provocative and designed to offend progressive sensibilities’, and that ‘they went with the stuff that got them the most hits and the most attention using the most extreme clickbait they could come up with’. For me, a further examination of this extremist social runaway train signals an alarming topple over an ideological precipice: the end to free-thinking and western democracy as we know it.

THE POWER OF THE FARCE: THREE THINGS ABOUT ROGUE ONE

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Alan Tudyk, alt-right, anti-fascism, black hawk down, british empire, cGI, darth vader, Diego Luna, Donald Trump, donnie yen, Ender's game, fascism, Felicity Jones, film, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hammerhead Class Corvette, Houthi rebels, islamophobic, jedda, jeddah, middle east, movie, rebel, resistance fighters, review, Riz Ahmed, Rogue One, Saudi Arabia, sci-fi, star wars, stereotype, Stormtroopers, The Empire Strikes Back, war on terror, wen jiang, women.

by Zoe Harding

Warning: contains spoilers. Also mentions fascistic, militaristic imperialism, Trump, and ‘Nazi dickheads’.

I know it came out last year, I was on holiday damn it.

The first I properly heard about Rogue One was that some Trump supporters wanted to boycott it because it was rumoured to contain anti-Trump themes. Seemed like a good reason to go and see it. Incidentally, the finished product contains no giant smug orange aliens inexplicably allowed out without supervision groping women – perhaps people were getting confused by Star Wars’ underlying anti-Nazi overtones. I can’t imagine how anti-fascism would seem anti-Trumpist at all. Those ‘Alt right’ (read: Nazi) dickheads really don’t like it, of course. Tough. They can fuck off back to Ender’s Game.

With that decent start in mind, I went to go and see it just before New Year. You know what? It’s pretty decent.Continue Reading

TIME TO FUCKING STAND

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged 2016, alt-right, authoritarian states, bigotry, capitalism, Cathy Newman, daily mail, DAPL, dread, dreams, Erdogan, Europe, facts, fake news, fascism, fear, fight back, First Nations, future, get ready, Golden Dawn, hate crimes, homophobia, humans, individualism, Italy referendum, Junot Diaz, Kashmir, KKK, Lind Tirado, Marine Le Pen, Modi, Movimento 5 Stelle, mysogny, neo nazi, neoliberalism, North Dakota, Orban, Pakistan, politics, putin, racism, radical hope, refugee camp, resist, Roland Martin, sarah kendzior, Snoopers Charter, standards, taking a stand, Teen Vogue, transphobia, Trevor Noah, US, violence, white nationalism, write.

by Alex Valente

Content warning: mentions racism, xenophobia, bigotry, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, and the general mess that is 2016.

And so the world has suddenly changed, again, seemingly even louder than before. For a lot of people who claim to be interested in following politics, nationally or internationally, the events of the past month can feel like a shock. We’ve all trying to find someone to blame, someone to accuse, someone to stand in front of us as we look in a mirror, and global media has been having a field-day of think-pieces on the issue. But quite frankly, who cares?

We fucked up. We’ve been doing so for a long time. We’ve been doing so with every time we didn’t speak up, stand up, stand in the way of neoliberalism, aggressive capitalism, individualism and their opening the gates to full-on, fully backed racism, xenophobia, bigotry, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny and so many other horrors that not even patriarchy-mythologised Pandora could be blamed for them all.Continue Reading

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NORWICH DEFENDS DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR – DISPATCHES FROM THE ANTIFASCIST COUNTER-PROTEST

By The Norwich Radical Editorial Team

WE ARE NOT YOUR BOGEYMEN – NORWICH RESISTS THE FAR-RIGHT IN SOLIDARITY WITH DRAG STORYTIME

By Anonymous

ISLAMOPHOBIA IN THE UK – ‘TOMMY ROBINSON’ IS A SYMPTOM NOT THE PROBLEM

PUNCH NAZIS

THE TROLL VOTE: WHAT TIPPED TRUMP TO VICTORY?

THE POWER OF THE FARCE: THREE THINGS ABOUT ROGUE ONE

TIME TO FUCKING STAND

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