Hundreds of protesters joined the Afrikan Reparations Day march in Brixton on Saturday 1 August.
The turn out is the largest for many years, as awareness spurred by the Black Lives Matter movement boosts support.
Joining the the protest for the first time was the FF Force – dressed in black and led by biker outriders.
A health worker is lucky to be alive after racists deliberately drove their car into him.
The man has been left traumatised and is too scared to give his real name – but performs music under the name Kdogg.
Those who witnessed the attack said a dark blue Honda was involved and was driven directly at the NHS worker, who works at Southmead Hospital, Bristol.
The assailants jumped out of the car and hurled racist abuse at the victim.
He is now unable to climb stairs, and said he is traumatised by the attack.
Witnesses told police that a dark blue Honda Accord was deliberately driven at K before two men shouted racial abuse at him and then ran from the car.
The attack is being seen by many as part of a violent racist backlash against the black lives matter movement by frustrated racists and fascists.
Bristol was the site of the now famous incident in which an overwhelmingly white crowd estimated at 15,000 protesters, tore down the statute of slaver Edward Colston.
Kdogg is being supported by the charity Stand Against Racism & Inequality (Sari).
He told the media: “People came to help me off the wall I was on and I just remember bleeding.
“As I was helped off, I got laid on the floor and bandaged up.
“I want to thank the people who helped me because of how quickly they responded and how they rang the emergency services because, obviously, if it wasn’t for them I’m not sure if I would be here.”
There has been a spate of serious violent racist attacks over the past few days, for example in Bishop Stortford where there is a protest by anti-racists today (Saturday 1 August).
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Three people were injured in accidental fire before the NFAC march took place.
In a speech to thousands of militia members and protesters Grandmaster Jay gave the city authorities four weeks to charge the officers who killed Breonna Taylor.
The fascist Three Percenters militia were heavily outnumbered on the day.
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On Friday 76 people were arrested in Louisville, Kentucky, in a police clampdown on peaceful protests in the city.
Protesters had blocked an intersection and the police responded with mass arrests.
The move comes before a threatened clash between black militia group the NFAC (Not Fucking Around Coalition) and fascist Kentucky Three Percenters militia.
The NFAC which came to prominence on 4 July with an armed march in Georgia at a location at which KKK white supremacist terror group supporters regularly gather to pay homage.
That paramilitary parade was entirely peaceful but there is a danger of clashes today, assuming the Facebook posts from the far-right are not just so much hot air.
From their actions on Friday the police seem to be making a statement about whose side they will be on.
Given the long traditions of racism in the force, the black militia can expect little in the way of facilitation as they exercise their constitutional rights.
No police officers has been charged for the cold bloodied killing of Breonna.
The avowed aim of today’s NFAC formation is to press for justice for Breonna Taylor, a black woman who worked as an emergency medical technician who was brutally murdered in her home by Louisville police.
The NFAC led by grandmaster Jay had originally intended to form-up at Central High School, where legendary boxer and activists Mohammed Ali went to school.
Those plans have since changed.
A police spokesperson says the NFAC militia will instead be assembling at Baxter Square Park at Jefferson Street and 11th and 12th streets at 12 noon and then march to Jefferson Square Park.
For two months there have been daily protests against racial inequality and police brutality in Portland, Oregon.
Police repression has not been enough to stop the protests and so Trump has upped the ante, as he makes a bid to turn law and order into an election issue from which he can benefit, such is his cynicism.
But last night saw thousands of citizens on the streets as the movement widens not just as a protest for black lives but against the violent repression of the Fed forces, in the shape of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol agencies.
Both agencies have become heavily militarised over the years and are now being used against ordinary US citizens, in action lawmakers condemn as illegal.
Federal units have been operating as if in a war zone and using the tactics and operational procedures befitting of a full-blown dictatorship.
Protesters have been snatched and arrested by individuals dressed in unmarked camouflage suits. Eighteen now face serious Federal charges, raising the stakes further.
Peaceful citizens, including the city’s major, armed services veterans and a peaceful contingent of all-women protesters, have been tear-gassed and/or clubbed by the Feds.
As seen elsewhere in the US, the press has also been a frequent target of law enforcement bodies.
So-called non-lethal weapons that can in fact be lethal depending on how they are used, have been deployed with wild abandon by Federal forces acting as an out of control occupying force in the city.
Attempts to get judges to rule the deployment of the violent Fed troops illegal have failed so far.
The protest movement is overwhelmingly white, and that’s what probably riles Trump and his stormtroopers more than anything else.
Activists are attempting to organise for strikes in the city to drive out the Feds.
Cutting off all services to the Fed buildings in the city and the associated troops that were brought in under the pretence of protecting that property, could be a highly effective approach.
The people of Portland urgently need solidarity of the BLM movement and others from around the US and abroad.
Watch this space for further developments.
Saturday 25th July
In support of Black Lives
Peaceful protest
Highgate Village
12:45 to 2pm in Pond Square
Join us to hear from local speakers and take part in a silent kneel
