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16 Aug 2010
j4b backs Bradford mobilisation against EDL

“We need imaginative tactics and strategy to deal with the EDL…anti-fascists should be prepared to prevent the terrorising of immigrant communities if fascist elements are allowed to go ahead with their provocation…” j4b Treasurer

2 Aug 2010
NUT complain to police and UAF demand disclosure from police authority

Lancashire NUT “urgently call on the executive Director and all the other 18 members of the Greater Manchester Police Authority to investigate the way that the GMP behaved in Bolton” …UAF call upon “Greater Manchester Police Authority to state clearly where the supposed UAF “positive feedback” on policing of our Bolton rally came from.”

30 Jul 2010
Unity with j4b grows on all fronts

“Bolton has a proud history of tolerance and unity that goes back over generations. We are concerned at the use of much discredited conspiracy laws against anti-fascist protestors. We support the justice4bolton campaign.”

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Anti-racist and anti-fascist campaigners are facing serious criminal charges after they were arrested on the 20 March demonstration in Bolton against the English Defence League – an organisation with links to the fascist British National Party that is violently islamophobic (racist against Muslims).

The activists who are facing serious charges include Weyman Bennett, joint secretary of Unite Against Fascism, and Rhetta Moran, joint secretary of Greater Manchester UAF.

The potential charges include "conspiracy to incite violent disorder" – which carries a lengthy prison sentence. The use of conspiracy laws threatens to delegitimise protests against the rise of fascism and the right to any public protest.

The justice4bolton campaign is calling for the charges against the anti-fascists arrested at Bolton to be dropped.

>> Read our full statement and find out more about the campaign