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The major headline this week has been the horrific event in Southport on Monday 29th July, and the events that followed both in Southport and around the country and there were (and still are continuing) protests, riots and anger directed mainly at the police and government.

 

The Attack on Monday

Without any warning, a man (now named by a court to be as Axel Rudakubana, of Rwandan heritage), burst into a children’s dance class in Southport, Merseyside, and began stabbing children at random, three of them to death and many more hospitalised, with some still in critical condition. It was a sick, senseless act of violence aimed deliberately at children, and the killer was apprehended by police after the attack.

 

In the aftermath, the virtually obligatory statements about the attack ‘not being terror-related’ were hard to believe, given the eyewitness accounts of the foreign origin of the attacker and the seeming lack of any other motive, and the fact that similar crimes across Europe keep occurring at the hands of ‘asylum seekers’, such as the mass stabbing of children in France last year.

 

It is known that there is a propaganda tactic know as ‘controlled spontaneity’, whereby a political authority will quickly take control of the narrative when events like this occur, in a bid to control public anger and outcry. The fact this routinely happens, like in the Nottingham attacks, makes people naturally distrusting of the words of local ‘leaders’ and police Superintendents. The attacker was not identified publicly until August 1st, and his name was concealed from the public for three days.

 

Protest and Riot

On Tuesday 30th, a large-scale public vigil was held for the victims in Southport, which intentionally avoided any discussion of the motives or actions of the killer. The unwillingness to tell people what the motive or identity of the killer was, led to rumours about who it could be, most of which turned out later to be false. If the police had released this information immediately, it would have at least prevented this problem, though the police would argue that it is for the courts to release that information. What this highlights is a systemic issue, with the legal system as a whole, where the rights of one individual are placed ahead of the rights of the entire community.

 

In the evening, a public protest was also organised in a street nearby to the killings, and rumour that the killer was affiliated to a local mosque, as well as the arrest of an individual at the public vigil who was carrying a knife, meant that the protest quickly descended into riot, with police preventing the crowd from attacking the mosque. In the ensuing riot, dozens of police were injured, property was damaged and at least one shop was looted, according to reports from both the mainstream media and attendees.

 

 On the 31st, further demonstrations turned into riots, most notably in Hartlepool. A planned protest at Downing Street reached a point where the police began mass arresting those present, for a variety of reasons. The indications are that many passers-by who were totally unrelated to the event ended up arrested in the crossfire. An over-reaction by the police, but a predictable one.

 

What lies ahead

In coming days, there are a litany of protests and demonstrations planned up and down the country, mostly relating to the killings in Southport in some way but also a general anger against the establishment. The events of this week mean that these protests and demonstrations are going to attract a heavy police presence, and some are likely to involve large-scale clashes with police. The frequency of these events, and the numbers attending, is likely to diminish over the next week as travelling attendees run out of resources, and prominent individuals who repeatedly attend are picked off by police.

 

The public anger at the situation which allowed the Southport massacre to occur – not solely immigration, but also the flagrant ignorance of the danger posed by individuals with destructive, asocial mentalities – will remain for some time. It is unclear as yet whether he was already known to police or social services, though if it is revealed that he was, it reiterates something which we have demanded for some time – that people whose pattern of behaviour and mindset indicates that they are likely to commit heinous crimes against society, should be detained BEFORE they can commit the acts, not afterwards, and only released when the threat appears to have passed.

 

How the Nationalist Community should respond

The public anger at the government is not going to dissipate, and it represents a far greater anger at the system and how it operates in a way which disenfranchises and exploits our native population, whilst making the people like Sunak, Starmer, Farage wealthier and wealthier. The task of the Nationalist forces here is not merely to highlight this anger, but to actively promote the solution to it.

 

Discussion of crimes against our people must always be followed with a clear presentation of what the solution is – a Nationalist Agenda, a full-blooded political programme with clear ideas and aims, and a clear vision of the society that we want to create to REPLACE the one we currently have. It is no good just demanding destruction of the current order, to do so makes us anarchists, not nationalists, and there is no place in a National Community for anarchy and carnage.

 

When events like the massacre in Southport occur, or events like the riots that followed, the first priority of the forces at our disposal must be to help those of our people who are suffering. Whether this means by supporting families of the victims, or by helping to repair the damage done to homes and businesses when our people suffer collateral damage from understandable public anger. As nationalists we must, first and foremost, support the wellbeing of our people. And it is our responsibility to come to them with a clear solution to their grievances, not just fuel on the fire.

Those who continue to fight against the injustices and crimes against our people, must be able to come armed with the defence of legitimacy. This means using things like political parties (including our own) to give ourselves this defence. It's MUCH harder for the government to crack down on us when we are organised with legitimate political groups, when we behave in a disciplined way and have positive objectives beyond just 'smash the system'. The defence of legitimacy is a powerful one, and it hinders the usual tactic of the establishment, which is to de-legitimise any protest or resistance, and thus destroy the reputations of the people involved.

 

The conditions that led to the Southport massacre are unlikely to be addressed without a total change of the political system, which means that until we are in a position to implement that, the same atrocity could occur at any time. And when it does, it must be met with a disciplined, but effective, response.

 

By Alek Yerbury,

 

Party Leader