🐱 Left Hook: Anti-Fascist Self Defense

Every week in a secret location in Brighton, a group of hunt saboteurs, antifascists, students and other left-wingers spend a few hours teaching each other how to defend themselves at anti-fascist demonstrations or when out sabotaging hunts. Left Hook is one of the longest running anti-fascist self defense clubs in the UK, taking inspiration from similar initiatives in Germany, Poland, Italy and Greece. Over the past few years other clubs have popped up across the country with similar missions - if you’re going to attend an anti-fascist demonstration, make sure you know how to protect yourself and others if confronted. Since the Brexit vote in 2016 there has been a dramatic rise in hate crime incidents and far-right terrorism, making the training taking place at Left Hook all the more necessary for those willing to stand against racism. Practicing a mix of boxing, Muay Thai and MMA techniques, Vice travelled down to Brighton to see the training firsthand and hear from those taking part.

 

[Lysol]

Its all fun and games until they get zerg rushed by a group of coked up chavs waving flicks and broken bottles at you.

No, it's all fun and games until you have someone who knows how to mix common household items into chemical/kinetic bombs who is too pissed off to deal with crowds and has a list of alt-left names and addresses. These idiots need to quit this political violence bullshit before it escalates any further, but I guess you can't really deescalate tensions if nobody's allowed to just fucking talk to the other side of the aisle without being branded some kind of "traitor to the cause".

 

[Irwin M. Felcher]

Couldn't a right-winger sneak in and learn the "Anti-Facist Self Defense" guides themselves?

Nah, the cloven feet would give them away.