Akenton. "Exactly so Fred, the lynch mob mentality never works!" The lynch mob mentality belongs on the fascist side, along with apartheid, Auschwitz and the jackboot and the gas chamber. The vast majority of anti-fascists realise that. Unfortunately, a tiny minority don't. They think they are aiding the socialist revolution. They're not.

Richard. I'll know more when I speak to some of the people who went to Bolton. I do know though that some of the demonstrators went with the express aim of causing trouble. If they played into the hands of reactionary police, as well as the EDL, that is their own stupid fault.

What makes it worse for me is that I've just spent two days demonstrating against the BNP. We protested peacefully. The BNP did not. In fact they proved themselves to be an unruly paranoid rabble. We got a lot of support from passers by, where the BNP just made fools of themselves. That is how you fight fascism, not by turning up at anti-fascist rallies armed with too much testosterone.