'Unity Rally' Portsmouth
Hundreds of people turned up at Guildhall Square on August 17 to take part in a rally in response to the anti-immigration protests.
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00:00They're actually counter-revolutionary, that's what the role of fascism...
00:03If you look at the role of fascism in the 1930s, it was to push back the workers' movement,
00:07to smash the workers' movement. That's what they're about.
00:09They're anti-socialists, they're anti-trade unionists, they're racist and all the other things,
00:13and they're actually counter-revolutionary and counter all the things that are positive in this world.
00:18That's what we have to be clear about.
00:19So when they change and morph, they change their names, they change their organisation.
00:24That's why I don't think Keir Starmer's strategy of repression and banning is the answer.
00:29All it does is they change their names and the rest of it.
00:31And often the laws they bring in are used against the left.
00:34You look at the just-for-oil people who've got five years of predictions, you know?
00:38So I don't think that's the answer.
00:40The real answer is doing what we're doing here today,
00:43showing we absolutely outnumber them on the streets.
00:46We've got this war on the streets.
00:48We've got the yellow flag up.
00:50Our streets and our squares have been taken over by fascists and far-right thugs.
00:55People are getting caught up with conspiracy theories and all that nonsense.