the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Aug 5, 2024
This article is translated from a brief posted on August 3rd on the website of Lutte Ouvrière (Workers Struggle), the Trotskyist group active in France. It discusses events in the aftermath of a recent stabbing attack in Southport, England, where a young man killed three young girls and wounded ten others at a Taylor-Swift-themed dance class.
Following the deaths of three little girls by a 17-year-old boy, far-right activists sought to provoke a riot in Southport, under the false pretext that the murderer was a Muslim foreigner. A mosque was targeted by far-right anti-Islamists. Further disturbances took place in other towns in the north of England and in London over the following days.
The perpetrator of the Southport massacre was born in Britain and his motives are not known. But that doesn’t matter to the far right, which stops at nothing to advance its xenophobic ideas. They are gaining in confidence; they are a danger against which workers will have to defend themselves.