'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.

Transcript

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.