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Tommy Robinson – sharing the hate
David Rosenberg - October 13, 2018
I was lucky enough to be almost born an anti fascist. Before I learned to ride a bike I had heard about the Battle of Cable Street from my grandad – a boxer in the East End – and his escapades fighting Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts in the 1930s.
The fascist, Oswald Mosley, once told a dinner party. “Every successful movement needs someone to hate.”
And that is the only lesson that Tommy Robinson – the two-bob Oswald Mosley – the lummox from Luton – has learned from history. How to hate and get others to hate.
In Mosley’s case he hated was the Jews. In Robinson’s case he hates Muslims.
But racism gets lonely when it is on its own, and is much happier when it extends that hate to other groups.... See more
About
Rebel Notes is the blogg of David Rosenberg. He is an educator, writer, and tour guide of London’s radical history. He is a lifelong rebel and socialist.
