{"id":19437,"date":"2026-04-22T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/19437\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:00:07","slug":"anti-racists-outnumber-fascist-britain-first-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/19437\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-racists outnumber fascist Britain First in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworker.co.uk\/anti-racism\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-racism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anti-fascists were met with heavy handed policing but were still able to march<\/p>\n<p>By Pat Meusel<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tDownloading PDF. Please wait&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 22 April 2026<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworker.co.uk\/past-issues\/3002-22-april-2026\/\" class=\"issueNumber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 3002<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176011\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176011\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"On the streets of Manchester opposing the fascists\" width=\"760\" height=\"508\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-19-at-15.22.16.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176011\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-19-at-15.22.16.jpg\" alt=\"On the streets of Manchester opposing the fascists\" width=\"760\" height=\"508\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-176011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the streets of Manchester opposing the fascists<\/p>\n<p>Anti-fascists outnumbered Britain First by three to one in Manchester last Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The fascist group had planned to march from Piccadilly Station for a rally in St Peter\u2019s Square, but met substantial resistance throughout the day. <\/p>\n<p>At the start of the day some 500 anti-fascists assembled in Piccadilly Gardens, ready to confront Paul Golding\u2019s group as they arrived from out of town. <\/p>\n<p>The anti-fascists attempted to march towards Piccadilly Station, but were met with heavy handed policing. <\/p>\n<p>Some 500 officers were deployed on the day from across the north of England. <\/p>\n<p>The cops pepper sprayed several on the anti-fascist side, with reports of up to 14 people needing first aid treatment. But the cops allowed Britain First, who never numbered more than 350, to march on to St Peter\u2019s Square. <\/p>\n<p>The anti-fascists were not to be deterred and pushed around police lines. <\/p>\n<p>They marched through the city centre, picking up hundreds more supporters. <\/p>\n<p>Women Against The Far Right was prominent at the head of a militant and radical march. <\/p>\n<p>In the end, more than 1,000 anti-racists were there to welcome a demoralised rump of fascists to St Peter\u2019s Square. <\/p>\n<p>Golding tried to go ahead with the rally as planned, but was drowned out by the drums of Palestine activists. <\/p>\n<p>The few fascists that were left struggled to hear a small number of speeches, silenced by choruses of \u201cBella, ciao\u201d and \u201cThere are many, many more of us than you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anti-racism Anti-fascists were met with heavy handed policing but were still able to march By Pat Meusel Downloading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3405,13,1722],"class_list":{"0":"post-19437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-anti-fascism","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-fascism"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116448016738258073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}