Rotherham asylum-seeker hotel attacked as riots sweep Britain
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rotherham-asylum-hotel-attacked-as-riots-sweep-britain
RIOTERS stormed a Holiday Inn housing asylum-seekers in Rotherham today and attempted to set it ablaze, marking the latest in a series of horrific far-right attacks.
Violence has escalated across the country after fascists seized on the fatal stabbing of three young girls in Southport to whip up hatred and incite riots.
Over 35 rallies supported by the far right took place across Britain and Northern Ireland at the weekend, with anti-fascists mobilising in opposition.
On Friday gangs burnt a Citizens’ Advice bureau to the ground and attacked a mosque in Sunderland after a rally held under the slogan “Enough is Enough.”
Unrest spread to Hull the following day where another hotel housing asylum-seekers was attacked while mobs looted shops on the high street.
In Liverpool, a library that serves one of the country’s most deprived communities was torched by youths in Walton.
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Senior Labour figures including Cabinet ministers pandering to racist right
Home Secretary and Defence Secretary – as well as their boss Keir Starmer and ousted colleagues – validate anti-refugee bigotry
Labour government figures have spoken against the far-right’s racist violence and destruction – but the red Tory faction running the government and party have an appalling record of pandering to and inciting the anti-immigrant bigotry now running rampant on our streets.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was behind Labour’s infamous racist ‘controls on immigration’ mug – and was rightly lambasted for it by thousands of respondents after she went through the motions of condemning the fascist violence:
