Comments on: photo-report of al quds day demonstration

By: arash

arash — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:09:54 +0000

my friends and I as people who have always opposed war see no reason to align ourselves with people who live in the past. We are grateful for Azarmehr who managed to bring together all these different groups to shout for the cause of democracy and human rights.

People like you who think you are good and everyone else is bad have no appeal for us.

On that day Potkin Azarmehr had so much appeal for everyone and raised our spirits so much that I myself embraced him twice and so did many others there. It is everyone’s right as a human being to embrace another good human being. The likes of you want to even decide who can embrace who based on ideologies.

Here is also a picture of Potkin with Clare Short:
http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/2006/07/meeting-with-clare-short-mp.html

and here is me embracing him when I was released form the detention centre:
http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/2008/09/arash-is-released.html

By: johnathan rook

johnathan rook — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:33:32 +0000

“the SWP used the slogan “We are all Hizbullah” at the 2006 demo”

Wrong. Swing and a miss.

By: Sacha Ismail

Sacha Ismail — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:44:28 +0000

Hi Sean,

You really are delusional. You say “unity against the fascists”; yes, but it was Potkin’s ‘comrades’ that had the numbers to actually drive these scum off the demo, yet they didn’t. Nor did they even move away from them. By the end Potkin’s crowd and the March for England people were intermingling – hence the photo of him and the MfE leader embracing.

No one is claiming that Potkin is a fascist, just that he is an idiot.

Not right-wing? You know Potkin recently posted on his blog a picture of himself shaking hands with Richard Littlejohn, with a comment about how great this far right, homophobic, racist bigot is?

How would you characterise Potkin’s politics? You think because he is against the Islamic Republic he can’t be right-wing?!

By: Sean Delaney

Sean Delaney — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:15:55 +0000

You boys at Commune really need to grow up. It was difficult for Potkin to contain the situation on the day, and a lot fell on his shoulders. I look foward to the day your organisation grows the balls to organise something as incendiary as this. As for the pathetic ’slur’ that he is ‘right wing’ – when your balls do finally drop and daddy cancels the slush fund, we’ll see what colour your flag is then, won’t we.
Always – unity against the fascists; but I don’t remember seeing anyone selling your piece of shit offering to square up against the thugs, but your long on giving other people advice. Do yourself a favour – get back into bed and snuggle up with your favourite Trotsky novel with a nice coco. Thats about your level.

By: Mahsa

Mahsa — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:47:41 +0000

Typical white bourgeoise kid who has become an international communist because he is embarassed about his inherited wealth.

White face Josfen wants to decide for us brown skin immigrants what is racist and what is not!

If someone thinks shouting ‘terrorist bombers off our streets’ is a racist remark and a reference to brown skins then HE HIMSELF is stereotyping brown skins as terrorists by assuming terrorists are brown skinned.

By: internationalcommunist

internationalcommunist — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:55:56 +0000

John B: the SWP used the slogan “We are all Hizbullah” at the 2006 demo, and of course have also repeatedly met with Hizbullah representatives (like at the Cairo conference) and paraded the editor of a Hizbullah newspaper around Britain on Stop the War platforms.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:53:30 +0000

“We are all Hizbollah” made popular by the SWP? How’s that then when they’re clearly not SWP banners?

I am not anti-Hizbollah in the slightest incidentally – just pointing out your, perhaps deliberate, error.

By: Bahramerad

Bahramerad — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:30:06 +0000

Josfen – Let’s invite all the ‘terrorist bombers “and ” Jahadi non-Muslim killers ” into Britain and give them british passport, Feed them, clothes them — give them social security, free housing, provide them with mosques and send their children to school and let them become London bombers. … that would satisfy your little brain wouldn’t it?

By: KK

KK — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:17:53 +0000

I think it’s worth mentioning that the biggest group present at the counter demo were Iranian student activists who were not simply right wing liberals, that’s an unfair and ambiguous statement.

Also it was not necessary to post that picture of Potkin being ‘embraced’, especially if you want to keep the commune clean from lefty gossip as you intended to do. He is clearly not a fascist or pro-fascism as the first thing he said to the English nationalists were that “We don’t want fascists or nazis here”.

By: josfen

josfen — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:01:00 +0000

In todays Britain shouting “terrorist bombers off our streets” at a crowd of people with brown skin is obviously racist in inspiration. No question about it.