Mike Stuchbery And Louise Raw Are Far Left Extremists
I debated whether or not to bring this particular Twitter thread "back" to the world. For Mike Stuchbery's reaction in January 2019 (and months afterward) suggested to me that I crushed his mind. All I did was show his words to people. The difference with me is that I'm in the USA. As someone not in the U.K. sphere of political delusions, I had a more objective assessment of Stuchbery's remarks.
(Despite that? I think he threatened to sue me too. Which again shows the geopolitical differences at play.)
This was written back in a time where people around the world could freely travel outside. Into their neighborhoods and their cities. It was a time of political turmoil that started right after the 2016 election of Donald Trump, and tapered off by the end of 2019 after Brexit finally happened. The so-called "Far Right" clashed with the "Far Left" in various rallies that happened in both the U.K. and USA. At face value the feuding spilled over online and caused a gradual increase in social media censorship. I fell into the Free Speech camp that worked to preserve people's right to express themselves. Stuchbery claimed to be anti-extremist, working to fight off alleged "Nazis" which in themselves were defined by an ever-increasing definition.
At the core of this issue was political violence. Mike Stuchbery claimed to abhor political violence. But in reality he only focused on the "Far Right" side. Mike Stuchbery completely ignored the radical extremists on the Antifa side. This "Far Left" camp is where Stuchbery identified himself. Antifa was a group that thought certain political violence was justified. I saw that as hypocritical and totally dragged Stuchbery over the internet coals for espousing that ideology.
So. How did my January 2019 thread begin? Mike Stuchbery posted a picture of Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad). Carl was at some kind of protest at UK parliament. Count Dankula noted Stuchbery liked a tweet from one of his radical followers, who said "Can someone please Spencer Carl." Which is a reference to the infamous punching of Richard Spencer that took place in Washington DC, USA, back in January 2017. Another one that Stuchbery liked just flat-out said "just smack [Carl] accidentally hard with your headstock to his smug face."
What did Mike Stuchbery do? Downplay it. Deny deny deny. "The unbelievable fragility. Dank, while my power level *is* substantial, I cannot predict, or can I influence what my followers tweet."
Thus began my epic thread response. The crux of it being that Mike Stuchbery claiming zero responsibility for his Twitter behavior as having an influence on his followers. Which in itself is referring to the backdrop of polarized political violence in the UK going on at that time.
Back in March/April 2018, political tensions between the left and right wing were lit aflame thanks to the detainment and then banning of Brittany Pettibone, Martin Sellner, and Lauren Southern. The official reasoning from the UK Home Office alleged the trio were a "threat to social cohesion" for the country. What it basically boiled down to was the fact all three of them hung out with Tommy Robinson. In the case of the ladies it was because of an "Allah is gay" stunt video. In the case of Sellner it was because the UK authorities feared Martin was setting up a new Generation Identity branch in the country. Point being the fiasco became international news. The heat was hot and Tommy Robinson took the opportunity to seize the moment. A week later, he made a big political protest out of going to Speaker's Corner and delivering Martin Sellner's speech. Antifa in tow trying to disrupt. They failed.
Stuchbery sounded the horn:
-- (2:38 PM - 14 Mar 2018) "After IKEA lifestyle fascists @BrittPettibone & @Martin_Sellner got knocked back from the UK, local gammon roast @TRobinsonNewEra & Nazi LARPer @lutzbofficial are speaking at Speaker's Corner, London @ 3pm on 18/3. Give them hell, folks."
Mike got incredibly flustered that someone assumed his tweet was a call to violence. That'd happen next month.
That April, Antifa decided to ambush Generation Identity UK's inaugural conference. People likes James Poulter and Hope not Hate publicized the location. The Far Left showed up and clashed with the conference attendees. Tommy Robinson's former camera lady Lucy Brown got the worst of it. An Antifa lass named Lola went after her and pulled out a chunk of Lucy's hair. If you read Lucy Brown's recounting (archive is wonky, here's a cleaner version) of that day's events, she makes it clear that she never set out to fight anyone.
Which brings us back to Mike. He tweeted:
-- (5:48 AM - Apr 13, 2018) "ATTENTION LONDON! The fascist youth organization # GenerationIdentity are meeting for a conference tomorrow in London. Follow @ OpposeGI for details of the counterprotests. They must be stopped. In this thread, I will explain what makes them a fascist organization."
Ok. Let's follow his advice. That leads us to this tweet from Anti-Fascist Network, retweeted by the @OpposeGI account.
-- (5:21 AM - 14 Apr 2018) "The Generation Identity meeting is in Sevenoaks (right by the station). Barely London, but you can catch a train there from London Bridge in half an hour... Let's go Nazi hunting. Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks, TN13 1ZZ @OpposeGI"
It's one of the most prominent examples of Mike Stuchbery using his Twitter to coordinate political violence. "They must be stopped," he says. "Which side are you on?" he writes. I don't know how it works in the UK, but in the USA this is easily a case of incitement.
Just to be clear. Mike Stuchbery identifies himself as "Antifa." In both conversations with people and in his Twitter bio.
-- (1:46 PM - 12 Mar 2018) "Just added 'Antifa' to my bio. I won't let the Right & their enablers make it the mindless, violent boogeyman that everyone has to disavow. Instead, I'll embrace anti-fascist action as the community self-defence it is. Now, more than ever, we need it it."
.... Well it was in his Twitter bio.
-- (12:55 AM - 19 Nov 2018) "I removed it as I was asked to by someone I respect, in a professional capacity. That in no way diminishes my belief in Antifa as a vital check on Far Right movements around the world."
Either way, there are more concrete ways of establishing Mike Stuchbery's affiliation with Far Left extremism. This is possible thanks to Lola. A few months after the Sevenoaks incident, she died.
Mike Stuchbery attended Lola's funeral. I don't know how "official" an Antifa gathering can get, but burying Lola with the Antifa flag seems to christen it as much. According to one attendee Stuchbery gave a strapping eulogy speech to send the comrade off. It also serves as a brilliant example of Mike glorifying violence.
He said:
-- (7:51 AM - 13 Jul 2018) "RIP Lola/Edel. She spent her life fighting fascists and the Far Right."
The so-called fascist in this case refers to people like Lucy Brown. According to Lola's own words.
-- (1:14 PM - 9 Jul 2018) "You are dead right. However. I can say Lucy isn't antifa. If she was she wouldn't have got a slap at sevenoakes."
That brings us back to Mike Stuchbery's hypocrisy when it comes to the Far Left extremism stuff. In a remark made to Count Dankula:
-- (6:40 AM - 11 Mar 2018) "There is an element of that get violent (just saw the vision of Tommy Robinson being done over) and I think they're fucking idiots. That said, any shitstirrer can (and does) put on a black beanie and call themselves Antifa. I'm still not going to disavow anti-fascism."
I wonder if he called Lola a "fucking idiot" during the speech he gave at her funeral. Probably not.
When faced with an objectively terrible case of Far Left violence, Mike Stuchbery acted aloof. He delayed acknowledging what happened altogether. When Mike finally got around to talking about it? He implied the outcome was somehow justified.
It should be stated that Tom Dupre had a spree of bad things happen to him. Not only was he beaten by Antifa thugs, Hope not Hate targeted Dupre's job and got him yanked from it. On top of that, he had a falling out with Generation Identity because someone in the UK circle had their past affiliations catch up with them.
"What happened to Tom Dupre?" According to the Far Left hub over at libcom.org:
-- (3:57 AM - 30 Jun 2018) "Generation Identity UK leader Tom Dupré was knocked out with one punch from an anti-fascist in Hackney, east London on Thursday evening. 👊"
-- (3:57 AM - 30 Jun 2018) "While on the ground Dupré took a kicking. Anti-fascists tell us it took the former City banker nearly five minutes to regain consciousness. 😂"
-- (3:57 AM - 30 Jun 2018) "Upon coming round Dupré nearly stumbled in front of an oncoming bus but a local took pity and stopped him from getting flattened. 😕"
The libcom account celebrated the beating because that's what the Far Left does.
The usual ploy that Mike Stuchbery uses is the threat of political violence. Think of it in this case as the line between order and chaos. Mike declared himself a gatekeeper that assumed the throne squarely in the middle.
In this one tweet alone you can clearly see Stuchbery demanding the same thing that I now ask Mike himself to do.
-- (7:30 AM - 10 Jun 2018) "Paul, you usually have no problem condemning political violence from the Left, regardless. You also claim to be against all kinds of political violence. Again, I'm going to ask, as someone who has amplified the Free Tommy bullshit - do you condemn yesterday's violence?"
Some more examples. Bold emphasis added by me to get the point of Mike's hypocrisy across.
-- (8:57 AM - 14 Jun 2018) "You are playing with fire here. If you continue to wind up people with unsubstantiated bullshit, the violence that ensues is going to be partly your fault."
-- (8:23 AM - 10 Jun 2018) "Paul, don't play coy - you've boosted Tommy for years, retweeting his videos, having him on InfoWars, pushing his schtick. You amplify him. If violence is abhorrent, say something - not a reply, stick to your principles. Or is some violence better than others?"
-- (8:12 AM - 10 May 2018) "When speech is used to turn the community against minorities and the vulnerable, when Far Right groups parade and attempt to police certain areas, when the police either choose to look away or are complicit, then you can see why some choose violence and deplatforming."
-- (5:47 PM - 19 Jul 2018) "I'm going to make this very clear, @PrisonPlanet. Your words about Antifa, etc don't mean a speck of mouseshit unless you condemn those who commit violence on the Right. You never do condemn those groups, because you're trying to sell them useless soy pills. Coward."
Indeed the main reason I pointed out this aspect of Mike Stuchbery's espousing in the first place is because of how strongly he pushed it. It creates the lasting shock of his willful ignorance of the Far Left.
Mike Stuchbery fancies himself as a writer. So I'll give the January 2019 HuffPost piece he wrote at the time I made that Twitter thread a go. He opens up by alluding to the newspapers of the 1930s as the reason for the rise of the Nazi party, and making that leap of comparison to social media in 2019. For the next four paragraphs Mike parrots the smears against: Generation Identity, Tommy Robinson, Paul Joseph Watson, and Millennial Woes without bothering to flesh out any details of how, what and why these came about in the first place. Then he says the Far Right are exploitative of social media and know how to churn a profit from it. So they must be censored harder.
That's it. Very surface level. The only quote worthwhile is this one. "I do suggest that with the spectre of a chaotic Brexit looming, we commit anew to finding ways to counter and disrupt the hateful messages that so many are being exposed to."
As I said at the beginning of this blog post, Brexit served as a tool by the likes of Stuchbery of driving fear into people. Point proven.
In response to that I'll do Mike one better and say there's just as much depth, if not more, in the underbelly of the Far Left as there is with the Far Right. Back in the Twitter thread, I mentioned the case of Antifa activist Richard Pursell. Previously jailed for violence at political demonstrations, and visibly seen trying to accost Tommy Robinson and his people out in public. I have no clue how these "police spotter cards" posted in The Guardian came about. But they're great for providing more background to Richard. "Has been involved in arms trade, climate change and animal rights campaigns."
Seems legit.
"All politics, to an extent, is violence!" -- quote from Mike Stuchbery, 2018. In my original remarks I went on to say he had a fetish for the topic of political violence. In retrospect I see how crude that appears. Ineffective at driving home a point.
Now I observe how Mike Stuchbery's demonstrated personal knowledge of history leaves no room for doubt. To put it simply: it's clear that Mike isn't an idiot when it comes to past political clashes of British society. Moreover, rather than work to avoid in making matters worse, Stuchbery chooses to openly indulge in exacerbating tensions.
In a now deleted tweet:
-- (9:48 AM - 4 Mar 2018) "The ideological underpinning of Antifa/anti-fascists is stopping fascists from gaining traction, Will. You don't do that by being polite. It'd be like trying to win a boxing match without throwing a punch."
Let's follow this up by making it clear what side Mike is on.
-- (3:45 AM - 13 Mar 2018) "I don't even want to spend my most of my time talking about the Far Right and having to throw my lot behind the Antifa banner, but the times demand it. The Far Right is in a place it hasn't been for decades. If you're not worried, you're complicit."
-- (3:56 AM - 13 Mar 2018) "Too late for that man. Communities need defending."
"Defending" meaning violence. Mike admits that Antifa, the side he identifies on, uses violence.
-- (5:48 AM - 19 Apr 2018) "Yes, Antifa may seem uncouth. Yes, they sometimes use violence. Sure, sometimes they drown out other voices. They're not here to bring balance to the Force though, dickheads - they're here to get rid of modern-day fascists!"
What Mike Stuchbery preaches versus what Mike Stuchbery glosses over is jarring. In one remark he suggests that symbols, slogans, and calls to violence are what make the Far Right so "evil." Meanwhile on the Far Left, Antifa hold up signs like "IT TAKES BULLET TO BASH FASH." Mike is silent for these sorts of things even though it fulfills all three of his criteria.
Although it seems usually trivial, such things were damning to Mike Stuchbery. Given how harsh he judged Paul Joseph Watson over it. Again, when it comes to matters of the Far Left, the standards are somehow different. In a tweet where Mike accuses the police of being Far Right: "If the police or armed forces are complicit, then who's fit to lead the resistance?" Stuchbery then goes on to applaud communism.
It all comes back to Mike Stuchbery labeling the violence of the Far Left as "supposed." I rarely use the word gaslighting but the term fits to describe someone who says "you can see why some choose violence" one day and then "we're not inciting violence" the next. Which is it? Evidence points towards the former.
Stuchbery is on record for justifying violence against Tommy Robinson. "Those people telling me 'violence solves nothing' don't understand what Tommy & his EDL dickhead mates did to Luton town centre during their meetups."
Mike's tweets fan flames of Far Left extremism.
Then days later he's "disavowing." It's a continuous cycle over and over.
When you see Mike Stuchbery's interview with Sargon of Akkad, you'll realize how much of Stuchbery's rhetoric is itself bloat. This political fuss that he has spent years going on about melts away when faced by an adversary in real life. Mike's visible body language nervousness when questioned by Sargon shows how much Stuchbery relies on hiding behind a keyboard.
This was the infamous Day for Freedom rally. One of the most successful UK events that Tommy Robinson hosted. Why was Mike Stuchbery so nervous? It goes back to the keyboard rhetoric. A few months earlier, Sargon held a talk at Kings College. North London Antifa ambushed it. Afterward, Mike heavily implied that someone tipped off the Far Left activists. From Mike's perspective, we're supposed to believe he was the brave warrior marching behind enemy lines to unmask the fascist boogeymen.
People build these things up in their heads.
Some backstory on Mike Stuchbery, courtesy of a November 2014 BBC News article. "A teacher who banned the word banter in class has left his school by mutual consent after saying "speaking up" came at a "hefty cost"." The report says Stuchbery wrote a blog condemning the use of the word "banter" because he believed the word was an excuse for bullying in the classroom. The grounds for Mike's dismissal came as a result of the distraction it caused in the workplace.
The kicker: "Far too often we're told that the ability to make fun of others should outweigh the right of others to feel safe. This is not only irresponsible, it is contrary to the values of a functional society."
This comes from the same man who'd later infamously tweet things like "kill whitey." Clearly he had a change of heart.
I'll reiterate what I said back in January 2019. Don't goad Mike Stuchbery by tweeting at him. It doesn't do any good playing into his world of paranoia. It's the very thing that fuels his venomous Far Left rhetoric that asserts that Antifa's violence is in any "justified."
-- (12:26 PM - 14 Jul 2017) "Careful, I'll send Antifa after you."
-- (3:25 PM - 1 Aug 2017) "Yeah, no. Antifa works. Peace out."
-- (11:23 PM - 12 Aug 2017) "The Alt-right necessitates Antifa. It's an immune response to toxic infection."
-- (3:30 AM - 13 Aug 2017) "Antifa, an idea more than anything, rose in Europe out of a need for community self-defence. Trying viewing it through that lens."
-- (6:10 AM - 29 Aug 2017) "Antifa today is not the Antifa of pre-WW2 Germany. It's a loose coalition devoted to stopping the spread of white nationalism. Never again."
-- (1:51 AM - 1 Sep 2017) "Good God man, no. I think Antifa is essential, but do I agree with every action of a decentralised movement? Nah."
-- (9:06 AM - 21 Sep 2017) "Haha, true, yeah. That said, having spent time w/ German Antifa, there's plenty of work for those with the aptitude."
Antifa by definition is more concretely known as a group that inflicts violence. In comparison to the ever-broadening definition of what qualifies as a "Nazi" in this day and age. Case in point, "Jewish man mistakenly identified as Proud Boy attacked at right-wing rally in Philadelphia" is never a good look.
I ended off the Stuchbery thread with this excerpt from "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook." This particular passage highlighting how the whole Left vs. Right feud here is both a battle over free speech and a class war. At least, that's what's driving these mobs to do what they do.
But back then I was lazy and hadn't read the whole book. Since then, I have. I can see now the general sentiments that drove the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States. Even if Antifa's war against the "elite" didn't translate exactly one-to-one when imported to the United States. The underlying hypocrisy at work throughout since then hasn't changed, in my opinion. The hyperfocus on fringe elements in the United States like Richard Spencer were magnified by clickbait media into a weapon to attack President Trump. The authoritarian nightmare of China currently looming high in the public consciousness is speaking volumes where Antifa's priorities are at. As of now, their rank and file went quiet when it pertains to the real threats to the Western world as we know it.
The handbook says:
"Depending on local contexts and politics, antifa can variously be described as a kind of ideology, an identity, a tendency or milieu, or an activity of self-defense."
Throughout this whole piece I have successful ascribed a pattern of Antifa behaviors to Mike Stuchbery that fit this category. Far removed from the infamous 1936 Battle of Cable Street in London that kicked off the whole Antifa movement in the UK, decades ago. Any sense of "moral authority" in Mike's eyes has been delegated to whining and complaining about people he disagrees with on Twitter.
What I'm saying is not only Mike Stuchbery is Antifa, he's an embarrassing one by Antifa's own standards.
Fast forward to the end of March 2019 and once more I found myself fascinated with Mike Stuchbery's hypocritical Twitter activities. On March 23rd 2019 he complained Tommy Robinson and Lucy Brown were trying to get him killed. It was only one week later that Stuchbery targeted Lucy Brown because she was speaking at a For Britain event.
Mike had the gall to say I was accusing him of conspiracy. Despite the fact he knew what Antifa's tendencies for protest often lead to. He hadn't a leg to stand on considering how fickle he was about everything the so called Far Right did.
A couple of directly relevant tweets made by Mike "Gaslighter" Stuchbery on the day he went after Lucy Brown. In response to an Antifa saying "We do not want fascists in Loughton. They are a risk to us all," Mike concurred:
-- (5:41 AM - 31 Mar 2019) "Yes, unequivocally - to everyone, regardless of background."
Twenty minutes later Stuchbery buckled under his lofty reassurances of wanting peace.
-- (6:00 AM - 31 Mar 2019) "That said, since when were we supposed to be civil to Nazis?"
So Mike Stuchbery labeled Lucy Brown a Nazi and made the assertion nobody is supposed to be polite towards "those people." If that was all I had to go on here it wouldn't have been much of a follow-up thread. But then along came Louise Raw. Mike Stuchbery had a Communist mate helping him out to pile on Lucy Brown.
-- (6:13 AM - 31 Mar 2019) "BREAKING: Ex-BNP Julian Leppert at @LoughtonClub right now with a shower of anti-Muslim bigots inc Anne-Marie Waters and Lucy Brown. Stand up to Racism @AntiRacismDay @uaf activists in Loughton warned last year about For Britain re-launching as a mass party like this"
-- (10:59 AM - 31 Mar 2019) "Exactly right. It should be regarded as incitement IMO. Lucy desperately wants to be a celeb and thinks she’s provocative & cool- but her games result in blood on the streets"
Here are more tweets from Louise that show both of those things. That Louise is Mike's de-facto Commie Grandmother, and Louise targeting Lucy.
-- (3:36 AM - 11 Feb 2019) "A bit of the ol’ anti-fascism last night with the marvellous @MikeStuchbery_ and others ✊🏻"
-- (11:23 AM - 11 Mar 2019) "Imam @qa_zafar on behalf of the Ahmadiyya community agreed to my request to help @MikeStuchbery_ immediately, & in less than 24 hours were sitting with the 3 of us. They happily allowed me to bring the S’s with me to #PeaceSymposiumUK. True Brits showing true British values!"
-- (4:23 PM - 23 Mar 2019) "As Lucy’s now so sensitive and put upon, no doubt this is a snowflake she’s wearing round her neck, not the sonnenrad symbol from Himmler’s castle, used by the Nazi party & SS"
-- (1:57 AM - 26 Mar 2019) "Did you get a chance to ask Tommy Robinson’s (Far) right hand woman Lucy Brown, who I gather is featured, why she refers to disabled people in Nazi fashion as ‘der untermensch’? Pretty shocking."
-- (3:17 AM - 26 Mar 2019) "I’d also be interested to know what Lucy means by ‘crip4lyfe’ in the context of a disabled people’s charity event. Is she, perhaps, a member of the L.A. gang? Too many people of colour for her, I would’ve thought. -What else could ‘crip’ stand for? @blacktriangle1"
-- (1:05 PM - 26 Mar 2019) "After threatening to destroy the BBC with Tommy Robinson last month, Lucy was only this morning boasting about being on this show. Now she’s heard how they exposed her, she’s blaming the BBC again. The scapegoating never ends. Decent people are only ‘angry’, Lucy, with YOU"
Louise Raw too knew Lola, describing the hair-pulling thug as "a very brave anti-fascist who is sadly no longer with us."
What's hilarious (as I pointed out in my original thread) is that Louise Raw's gripes over Lucy Brown's fashion choices was something going on for months. It was recycled from an earlier Stuchbery Twitter tirade.
"Make no mistake, if you're at the point where you're openly wearing a 'Sonnenrad', you're full hardcore white nationalist," declared Mike Stuchbery in August 2018. He saw Lucy Brown wearing it and apparently it was the final piece of proof Mike needed to throw the book at her. He caught her red-handed!
Two problems with that. 1.) Shakira's people got into controversy for selling a similar necklace on their merchandise store. "The necklace Live Nation designed for Shakira’s “El Dorado World Tour” was based on Pre-Columbian imagery," they wrote. Leaving ample room for simple mistakes. 2.) Lucy has also worn Antifa related clothing and buttons in the past, and attended Black Lives Matter meetings. Does that by default make her a member of the Far Left? No way.
So Mike's assertion isn't so ironclad. That was seriously the extent of Stuchbery's argument. Lucy Brown hanging out with a particular crowd is somehow paramount to her actively participating in some kind of race war.
In comparison, looking at the activities of the Far Left is a cakewalk. Especially in the particular case of Louise Raw. The best example of this being the Tommy Robinson "Panodrama" event on February 23rd 2019. Louise Raw was actively involved in riling up the Far Left to protest.
She went as far as involving a map of attack.
But if that wasn't enough, there's more tweets that detail Raw's role.
-- (10:42 AM - 23 Feb 2019) "Well done #Manchester anti-fascists today! Great turn-out- victory of love, solidarity & decency over the wealth & networks of fascism. Thanks to all who were there & worked hard for this: @ManchesterSutr @uaf @AntiRacismDay @suevictorian @MikeStuchbery_ @hazardscampaign & more"
-- (11:27 AM - 23 Feb 2019) "Great photos from #Manchester #StandUpToTommyRobinson today (Thanks @uaf and Héctor Sierra)"
I find it hilarious that Louise Raw asserts that they are politically independent and not a member of any group (although in the case of general anarchist ideology I can humor why they believe themselves to be so). The reality is that anyone who has an "in" to the behind-the-scenes of Far Left Antifa protest organizing is by in large open for scrutiny. As is the case with Louise Raw and the "United Against Fascism" group.
Some background on this particular Antifa cell is made possible by Andrew Gilligan of The Telegraph. In June 2013 he put out a wonderful piece titled "Anti-fascists fuel the fire of hate." Within it there's a pertinent passage regarding UAF:
One reason why UAF will not campaign against Islamist extremists is that one of its own vice-chairmen, Azad Ali, is one. As well as his UAF role, which he took up last year, Mr Ali is community affairs coordinator of the Islamic Forum of Europe, a Muslim supremacist group dedicated to changing “the very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed from ignorance to Islam”. Mr Ali has written on his blog of his “love” for Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaeda cleric closely linked to many terrorist plots, including the September 11 attacks, and used to attend talks by Abu Qatada, the extremist cleric whom Britain is seeking to deport.
With that in mind we can return our attention to Louise Raw. Back in my original Twitter thread I found plenty of examples that demonstrate the close relationship between Raw and UAF. Mike's anger about my criticisms would've had a leg to stand on if the only proof I had was Louise borrowing a book from them.
But I have much more than that. At least three other instances of Louise Raw actively rallying against the so-called "Far Right menace" alongside this UAF group.
-- (6:56 AM - 17 Nov 2018) "Tens of thousands of lovely anti-racists in London right now! #N17Unity #NoRacismNoFascism #nopasaran Brilliant work @AntiRacismDay @uaf @The_TUC"
-- (2:40 PM - 17 Nov 2018) "Anti-fascists Got Grammar: Rock COMMA On Tommy 😀"
-- (11:57 AM - 6 Dec 2018) ".@uaf & @AntiRacismDay warned about these bastards, Sonnenkrieg-UK Nazis who want white women killed for dating non-white men,& are linked to a murderous US group. This is the horror UKIP are normalising, & why we MUST stand together on SUNDAY, BBC, 11am"
-- (6:15 AM - 9 Dec 2018) "I GOT ALL MY SISTERS WITH ME: I’m here in the *all-women* front row, leading the HUGE #stopTommy #Noracismnofascism demo! BAD DAY FOR NAZIS- we outnumbered them by thousands! Well done everyone @uaf @AntiRacismDay"
-- (3:42 AM - 19 Mar 2019) "You will still have your comrades love & support. This is, as my friends at @uaf always say, a marathon not a sprint- pace yourselves. Also get some sleep and eat your vegetables Love, The Mum You Never Asked For 😄❤️✊🏻"
-- (6:02 AM - 24 Mar 2019) "*BREAKING*: UKIP have called a rally in London Friday with Robinson speaking, so we will have to counter them. Follow @uaf and @AntiRacismDay for more details and please RT for reach- thanks, lovelies. 😘✊🏻"
Funny that Louise Raw was so entertained at the notion of people throwing rocks at Tommy Robinson. Eventually that really happened, if we count brick as a type of rock. Those, along with bottles and eggs, were unleashed by the Muslim Defence League in May 2019. Tommy had a run for public office and the MDL ambushed him and his supporters at a campaign stop in Oldham.
This sort of brawling is the norm for Louise and her ilk. Mike obviously among them. Thankfully Dr. Raw is kind enough to give a list of Antifa people. "Follow anti-fascists like @MikeStuchbery_ @danhett @uaf @AntiRacismDay @AlfredoBonanno5 @Rob_Bulll @Wheres_Tommy @GenuineRebel," she wrote.
It's still funny to me that Mike thought I was claiming "conspiracy" in showing the world he and these Antifa people all know each other.
By the way, they know each other.
I can see how Mike Stuchbery and Louise Raw get along. Both of them idolize history when it pertains to the Far Left.
-- (2:08 PM - 8 Apr 2018) "Though tortured in prison, Lepa would not give up the names of her comrades. She was sentenced to death. Even with the noose round her neck they couldn’t silence her: ‘Long live the Communist Party and partisans! Fight, people- fight for your freedom. Do not surrender’"
-- (2:10 PM - 8 Apr 2018) "The Nazis gave Lepa one last chance to save her life as she waited to die: but again she refused to betray her comrades: ‘I am not a traitor. Those you ask about will reveal themselves when they wipe you out to the last man!’ She was SEVENTEEN when they hanged her"
Either that or the both of them think World War II never ended.
Let's do away with the notion that Antifa is a fringe element of the Far Left. At least in the UK, they are directly connected to the Communist Party through the likes of Louise Raw. As you can see by the annual Marxism Festivals the communists put on.
Louise Raw being a speaker at the event in question. Which in part is organized by a Communist newspaper called Morning Star. Where Louise Raw has published articles going after Tommy Robinson. It's within her right to criticize him, of course. But when Raw's work starts out by saying "WE used to no-platform fascists in this country: now, it seems, we build them platforms," we can see Louise doesn't feel the same in return.
My point being to show off the fleshed out ecosystem in place for fostering Far Left Antifa extremism. Where is the conspiracy here in a fully realized political party line that goes all the way up to Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott, all the way down the totem pole to foot soldiers like Stuchbery and Louise Raw? Or as Louise likes to call Mike: "m’colleague in anti-fascism."
This brings us back full circle. I'm allowed to call Louise Raw and Mike Stuchbery Far Left extremists because that's the official perception of it. Louise Raw's own words say as much: "Police forces categorise antifascists @uaf as ‘violent extremists’."
That they are.