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ANTI-FASCIST campaigners hit back yesterday at Nigel Farrage’s “scandalous” accusations of violence.
The ubiquitous far-right party leader used BBC Sunday Politics to complain that groups such as Hope Not Hate and Unite Against Fascism “are banging me over the head with banners.”
Mr Farage — who also defended a Ukip local candidate recent homophobic remarks — went on to suggest that both organisations were “headed up by senior Labour Party figures” and “acted in a violent way more than once.”
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Morning Star’s Race, Sex and Class Liberation conference last weekend, which discussed the dangers of incipient fascism and the spiralling drive to war
