April 6, Leeds – Leeds Anti-Fascist Assembly
Leeds Momentum invites you to join us for the first anti-fascist assembly of 2019, to participate in the building of an effective and reimagined ‘total anti-fascism’ in Leeds.
Come along and get involved as we look at recent developments in anti-fascism, and discuss how to broaden antifascist activism into community and feminist organising.
Context:
The far-right have been growing rapidly in the past few years, fuelled by global economic turmoil, and a ruling-class that is desperate to divide the working-class and cling on to their wealth and power by any means necessary.
Internationally, fascists is coming to power in more and more countries. In the UK, anti-fascism has been almost entirely geared towards combatting street-movements.
While fascists always need opposing in the streets, on its own this isn’t enough to combat the growth of the far-right, the constant stream of right-wing propaganda in the media, and government policies like the racist ‘hostile environment’.
