Columns, Diary of a Domestic Extremist - Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:38 - 10 Comments

Diary of a Domestic Extremist – The EDL: Street fighting for the establishment

The last 18 months has seen the meteroic rise of the EDL. In two weeks, they are planning to organise a protest in Bradford, their 'Big One'. In his new piece, Mikhail Goldman provides a powerful analysis of the socio-political reasons behind the popularity of the EDL and provides a few pointers as to how the response to it should be; puncturing, in the process, a number of myths and illusions that are harboured by both EDL supporters and their opponents.