Bookmarks manager Dave Gilchrist shakes hands with London Assembly member Ushmen Desai at the event
A STRONG showing of solidarity with socialist booksellers Bookmarks easily saw off a handful of disruptive fascists at the weekend.
Hundreds of socialists, feminists and anti-racists thronged the central London bookshop and adjacent Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church on Saturday afternoon, listening to speakers call for a new mobilisation against the far right in the wake of a fascist attack on the shop a week before.
The crowd heard from Stand Up to Racism co-convener Weyman Bennett, Jewish Socialists’ Group’s David Rosenberg and former National Union of Teachers president Louise Regan — as well as dozens of messages of solidarity received from those who couldn’t be there, including 103-year-old Cable Street veteran and communist Max Levitas and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
