So
this was the Master Race. All 60 of them. And it was a national mobilisation.
Another 60 right wing “Reclaim Australia” blockheads bolstered their ranks. So
there were little more than 100 far right racists in total.
It
was the latest attempt by fascists to build a violent street movement and their
own vile combat organisations.
They
were outnumbered by up to 2,000 anti-racist demonstrators in central Melbourne
today.
As
far as right wing failures go, they don’t get much more pathetic than this.
They ought to have called the event “the biggest losers”.
The
racists’ miserable mobilisation was despite the fact that “respectable” Murdoch
press columnists openly have been feeding fascism and bigotry.
It
was despite the fact that the federal government has been banging on and on
about Islamic terrorism, about imminent threats to our way of life, about
traitors in our ranks.
And
it was despite the fact that they had the protection of hundreds of police
officers, who shut down Spring Street to facilitate this neo-Nazi parade in front
of the Victorian Parliament and who attacked the anti-racist demonstration with
pepper spray.
With
all this help, and with months of building work, still they failed. “I can’t
believe how small the crowd is. It’s terrible”, Mike Holt, leader of right wing
group Restore Australia, told Fairfax Media this afternoon.
As had happened on 31 May when fascists tried to March on Richmond Town Hall, anarchists, socialists, non-aligned progressives and anti-racists united to stop them.
Again,
it was an important victory. The counter-mobilisation prevented the fascists
from marching through the streets and targeting minorities – Muslims in
particular. Instead they were forced to skulk away under police watch before
dispersing. They were prevented from spreading hate speech and instead were
forced to talk among themselves.
In
Adelaide, a 250-person Reclaim Australia rally also was outnumbered by 350
anti-racists. This was a significant turnaround from the previous Reclaim rally
at Easter, at which the left was outnumbered by 500 to only 30.
There will be more anti-racist demonstrations around the country tomorrow:
Sydney: facebook.com/events/346452865546642/
Perth: facebook.com/events/893952217313262/
Brisbane: facebook.com/events/1576424285971069/
https://redflag.org.au/article/fascists-fail-melbourne-again
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