Heinous Attack of far-right Thugs
on Socialist Book shop in London
The neo-liberal economic
policies imposed on the world by
the imperialism have not brought
any affluence to the people of
globe as has been touted. On the
contrary they have speeded up
exploitation of labour power of
workers and loot of natural
resources around the world,
spreading more misery and
distress. Moreover these liberal
economic policies have been
instrumental in exacerbating the
fascist forces throughout the world
in various forms under various
names. Racism, neo-Nazism, white
supremacy, Right extremism have
risen in developed world viz. in
America and Europe. Bigot Hindu
communal forces have raised their
ugly head in India playing havoc
with common people.
All these extreme right-
reactionary groups seem to have
a common aim viz. the hate against
socialism and communism and the
object of destroying the very
thought of socialism and commu-
nism through violence. The
manifestation of the anti-progre-
ssive, anti-democratic, anti-socialist
and anti-communist activities of
these groups are vividly apparent
in U.S.A, Germany, England,
France, Australia and India.
Very recently on 4 th August,
twelve masked far-right demon-
strators attacked the socialist
book-shop ‘Book Marks’ situated at
Central London. This attack was
conducted before the closing time
of the book-shop. The attackers
wore masks while one of them wore
the mask of Donald Trump. Another
held a placard reading “British
Bolshevik Cult”. The attackers
attempted to intimidate the staff
and customers to destroy books
and materials. This attack was
conducted aftermath of demon-
stration organised earlier on the
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day, by far-right parties, calling it a
“Make Britain Great Again” demon-
stration. This year in London such
several far-right protests have
taken place.
The socialist book-shop, Book-
Marks, has been one of London’s
remaining socialist book-shop. It
publishes as well sells publications
from across the world on themes
ranging from anti-Semitism, anti-
racism and Islamophobia to
critiques of the empire and texts on
socialist philosophy and history. It
also sells paraphernalia such as
anti-racism mugs, busts of
prominent socialist leaders and
activists and sardonic post cards.
Book-marks faced challenges
from giant corporates like Amazon,
also which put pressure on
independent book-shops in
London, but with-stood them.
This attack was the first one
on Book Marks. No one was
arrested till date for the attack but
the U.K. Independence Party stated
that it had suspended three of its
members who had been involved
in the incident of attack.
Condemning this heinous
attack on the socialist book-shop
a massive rally was held in in
London on 12 th August in solidarity
with the socialist book-shop. Many
prominent writers, intellectuals,
book-publishers, democrats,
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regard of industrial safety. It is the
conspicuous reality that all the
workers killed in these accidents
are migrated workers belonging to
other states. Agricultural Crises and
rural distress have compelled them
to migrate for a living braving their
lives to the avarice of industrial
management.
“Ease of doing business” has
facilitated the industrial manage-
ments, to kill the workers by willfully
ignoring the implementation of
teachers, politicians, trade-union
leaders, socialists, feminists,
human-rights activists, progressive
minded academics and others
such as film director Ken Loach
and singer Billy Bragg have
participated. Writers like Tommy,
Robinson, Louzrea, David
Rosenburg etc have addressed the
rally. Communist activist Max who
participated in the 1930’s anti-
fascist struggle sent his written
message, which was read in the
meeting of the rally. Leaders like
Paul Sillet of “United against
Fascism Movement” spoke
condemning the heinous attack on
the book-house and warned
against the cruel acts of fascists
and to be vigilant against them to
fight against rising fascist forces.
This is most welcome.
In the same way an anti-fascist
rally was conducted at Washington
out-side the white house on Aug.12
countering the rally of America’s
extreme right white nationalists
organized by white supremacist
net-work called “Unite the Right”.
These developments seriously
warn us in India to be vigilant as
well organize a strong movement
against the Hindu communal forces
that have been perpetrating
vicious mob-attacks of fascist type
against minorities, dalits and
progressive minded intellectuals.
satiety norms and safety standards
with impunity at the cost of the lives
of workers making them lacking
any value.
Such has been the cost of
“Ease of doing business” appre-
ciated by the imperialist World
Bank!
The worker’s movement shall
take-up required suitable action
against this aspect of killing
workers, that too the orphaned
migrant workers.
Class Struggle