This New Feminist Antifa Group Is Taking on the Far-Right

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“FAF organizer Alice Caradonna told Broadly on the day: “We organized
today to stand to the far right’s appropriation of our experiences of
sexual violence. Our experiences of sexual violence cannot be used to
propagate their racist crap. We’re here to say that we’re against rape
and that we’re against racism.”

The DFLA march descended into violence early on, with dozens of DFLA supporters reportedly fighting cops
and one threatening an officer and screaming “I’m going to kill you.”
In a slow and tense build-up, the feminist antifascist bloc edged its
way along the city’s streets from Portland Place to Oxford Circus. It
finally faced up to the DFLA at Trafalgar Square, separated only by ten
meters and scores of riot vans and overwhelmed police.

Antifascist
organizers kept up a relentless chant of “no pasaran” (“they shall not
pass” in Spanish), their ranks powerfully headed up by an assembly of
women and nonbinary supporters. The DFLA hurled racist slurs, beer cans,
and chants of “God Save the Queen” and “Rule Britannia” in response.

Finally, the antifascist bloc edged out the far right faction and
continued its march along Waterloo Bridge. FAF organizers described the
day as a success, but called on more people to join the movement of
resistance against far-right ideology.

“There have been so many
militant women at the front of this demonstration all day taking to the
streets, standing up to and confronting the far right,” Caradonna said.
“I think we’re seeing a turn in antifascist and antiracist organizing
in the UK. It’s becoming incredibly more normal and normalized, and it’s
really becoming an everyday activity that everyone needs to be involved
in.””

This New Feminist Antifa Group Is Taking on the Far-Right