Video of SWP Bookshop invaded by "alt right"

This morning it was reported that fascists had attacked  The SWP bookshop Bookmarks and intimidated staff. It wasn't clear until now what actually happened.

The SWP Press release read:

Bookmarks in central London, a socialist bookshop and also the TUC’s official bookseller, was attacked on Saturday (4 August) by around a dozen far right supporters.

Some carried placards reading “British Bolshevik Cult” and one of them wore a Trump Mask. Books and magazines were ripped and torn, with displays wrecked.

A Bookmarks staff member said,

"Books on Islamophobia were ridiculed and thrown around. They chanted about Muslims and paedophilia, and called us traitors. While not mentioning Tommy Robinson the links are there to see.”

The far right activists also shouted about Corbyn and anti-semitism and then took Abram Leon’s “The Jewish Question” off the shelf holding it aloft as proof of the anti-semitism of the left.

The attackers also make threats to return and “show what they can do”.

Michael Bradley from Stand up to Racism said:

“Luckily no one was hurt this time, but this is a sinister development that indicates the growing confidence of the far right who feel they can attack a bookshop in central London in broad daylight. Attacking a bookshop also exposes their claims to be defenders of free speech as hollow.”

For those who do not know Bookmarks in Bloomsbury Street is just around the corner from the TUC (Great Russell St).

For information "Stand up to Racism" is an SWP front organisation.

The perpetrators, Make Britain Great Again,  uploaded a video of the event which as soon as I had watched and posted to this blog had been taken off-line. I would imagine for legal reasons..

These people are not "fascists", but supporters of the Alt Right that has grown over the last few years.

However Red London has posted a copy which is shown below.