Wednesday 21 November 2012

The Steadfast Trust stall incident: Marxist thugs or peaceful protesters?

For the past three years Julia "Angelcynn" Howman ran an annual stall in Norwich promoting the Steadfast Trust, a charity for the ethnic English. She claims that her most recent stall, held in July this year, was attacked by "Marxist thugs":






(If you're wondering about the first image, I swiped it from the Google cache of what seemed to be Facebook's Japanese mirror - the only place which still has the discussion, as far as I can tell)

On 30 August the Socialist Workers Party held a conference entitled Defending the Right to Protest: Cops, Class and Corruption. The event was set up by Nick O'Brien - who would later head We Are Norwich - and has a Facebook page giving a very different account of the incident:
Speakers to include John Tipple and Soren Goard. John is a lawyer who represented Joe Glenton, the anti-war soldier and is currently working with three anti-racist activists in Norwich who were arrested and charged by the police after peacefully opposing a stall in the centre of Norwich run by the Steadfast Trust, a charity with clear links to the BNP. Soren is a student activist at Goldsmiths university and has been involved with the Defend the Right to protest movement.
With Julia and her friends on the one side and the SWP on the other this looks like a conflict between two groups of loonies, with the facts of the matter taking a back seat.

Whatever happened, it would seem that the incident has taught Julia not to put so much (ahem) steadfast trust in the Steadfast Trust:


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