Riots erupt in Hamburg at anti neo-Nazi march

HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - German police arrested 60 people after 12 officers were hurt in riots that broke out during a left-wing march against the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) in the night, police said on Saturday.

About 6,000 left-wing supporters marching against an NPD gathering in the northern port of Hamburg had tried to break through barriers to reach the roughly 90 neo-Nazis, said a police spokesman.

The left-wing protesters hurled stones and iron bars at the police and set fire to barricades and rubbish bins near the main station. Police fought them off with truncheons and a warning shot was fired when rioters attacked a patrol car. continues here

Riots across Europe fuelled by economic crisis

Tension over the global economic slump have fuelled May Day protests and riots across Europe with trouble breaking out in Germany, Greece, Austria, Turkey and France.

Police in Berlin arrested 57 people while around 50 officers were hurt as young demonstrators threw bottles and rocks and set fire to cars and rubbish bins. There were also clashes in Hamburg, where anti-capitalist protesters attacked a bank.

In Turkey, masked protesters threw stones and petrol bombs at police, smashing banks and supermarket windows in its biggest city, Istanbul. Security forces fired tear gas and water cannon at hundreds of rioters and more than a hundred were arrested with dozens more hurt. There were also scattered skirmishes with police in the capital, Ankara, where 150,000 people marched.

The government had declared May Day, traditionally marked by rallies by labour unions, a public holiday this year under pressure from unions.

In Greece, officers fired flash grenades to disperse rioters in Athens after attacks on banks and traffic cameras. Transport strikes disrupted bus, train and ferry services as well as flights by Greek carrier Olympic Airlines.

Twenty people were injured and five arrested after police clashed with demonstrators at a traditional labour day rally in Linz in northern Austria. The incident came after police intercepted some 50 hooded protesters among a procession of up to 700 people at a Communist Party rally.

In France, unions joined forces for the first time since the Second World War, but turnout was not as high as a protest day in March in which up to three million attended 300 rallies against President Nicolas Sarkozy's economic recovery plan.

Some politicians have warned of the threat of "revolution", following radical action such as "boss-napping" factory executives and an ongoing strike that has crippled dozens of French universities.

They are wary of the growing power of leftist radicals linked to the New Anti-Capitalist Party of Olivier Besancenot, a Trotskyist postman.

There were also marches in big cities in Spain, burdened with the highest unemployment rate in Europe. More than 10,000 people gathered in the centre of Madrid in a demonstration organised by the country's two largest trade unions.

In Italy, union leaders shifted rallies from major cities to the earthquake-stricken town of L'Aquila as a sign of solidarity with thousands who lost their jobs after last month's deadly quake.

In Russia, about 2,000 demonstrators gathered by a statue of Karl Marx in Moscow waving banners and red Soviet flags and calling for a return of communism.

In St Petersburg, birthplace of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, police arrested about 120 members far right militants armed with knives and knuckle dusters, police said.

Cuba's ailing former leader, Fidel Castro, chose May Day – a key event in the Communist calendar – to attack Barack Obama, the US President, saying the United States only wanted Cuba to return "to the fold, like slaves."

There has been growing concern among European governments about a groundswell of social unrest and violent street protests that have spread amid the economic downturn.

Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Greece and Iceland all faced social unrest and rioting earlier this year as unemployment soared and countries were forced to impose severe cuts to government spending. continues here

Evil comes in many forms, many guises, perhaps its most insidious form is represented by the left, that reprehensible creed, a cover for all ills, this creed maintains current orthodoxy through fear. It scares all away from voicing truths, banking, the clergy, government, media, business, of course academia and many other sectors, have all been infiltrated by the left, now however, the left simply cannot steamroll their way through the people, at least not yet and so, they resort to trickery, deceit and yes violence, in order to maintain their idea of society.

I could of course go into some length, depicting the activities of the left, their manipulation of truth, their mass attacks upon brave individuals and paradoxically their intolerance, however, I am somewhat pushed for time, instead I shall link you to a story. A story of a brave lady, a lady that has placed her head above the parapet, I am not a supporter of the BNP, instead I am one of many, considered independent nationalists. I adhere to racially conscious nationalism, whilst the BNP chose another route.

However, in the eyes of the world, The British National Party are racist, far-right and depicted as really quite evil, so it takes a brave soul to risk their all, to come out in support, so we must applaud Ms Lauren McAvoy for doing just that. Ms McAvoy is a fashion model, although it appears that she has brains aswell as looks, as she holds a diploma in civil engineering. Ms McAvoy has placed her career in some considerable peril, as can be evidenced here, the far-left do not take kindly to individuality, or difference of opinion, one must either toe the line, that is to say capitulate, or suffer the consequences. 

I do not normally link to leftist sites and I apologise for doing so now, however, the insidious nature of the article and the thinly veiled threat implicit in the writing, is I feel a must read, remember whilst reading though, that the bully must never win, that we have an absolute right, to cultural and racial freedom and that some of us will never kneel to them. I sincerely hope that Ms McAvoy manages to keep her career however, the left will stop at nothing to prevent our much needed renaissance, in light of this, Ms McAvoy is now well and truly in their sights. 14

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