📷 Mounted officers cross Pero's Bridge. The police presence in and around West Street in Old Market is growing, but otherwise the streets remain quiet, with the majority of shop fronts closed or boarded up. Follow our live report: bit.ly/4dAkW9U

✊ Hundreds of counter-protesters have now arrived and gathered on West Street in Old Market, with chants breaking out and no sign of the far right. It's early days but currently it's clear who has turned up and who hasn't... Live blog: bit.ly/4dAkW9U

CALL TO ACTION! CALLING ALL ANTI-FASCISTS! 🚨 JOIN OUR COUNTER DEMO! 📣 We have information that the fascists have called for a riot in Cardiff outside the Motorpoint Arena at 1PM, this Friday, 9 Aug. Meet at the lightning bolt outside St David's 2 at 12PM (near Admiral). ⚡️

Since Margeret Thatcher is trending, Ken Loach speaks for us all here 👇

The UK's Oldest Cinema Birmingham's The Electric 115yrs old Survived the Birmingham Blitz, the billion attempts to redevelop Birmingham, 3 New Street Stations, 25 Prime Ministers. Will it survive @Glenbrookprop and their 50floor buy to let tower erection?

Our dear brother Ash needs a little help at the moment. If you’re able to, please support. Thank you. X Link to support - gofund.me/ae9d8737

Happy Labor Day! “If we raise the minimum wage, then prices will go up.”

Anyone who has met Ash is always a little richer for it. One of the original good eggs in our biz, and tragically it always seems to be the good ones who labour while the bad sorts prosper. He's had a rough time of it for a good while now and never asked for anything.

An interesting thing that happened during the slave revolt of the Haitian Revolution, is that about 500 Polish soldiers, after realizing they were being used by the French to suppress a slave revolt, joined the Haitians instead and fought on their side.

I've worked in 'hospitality' all my life but this also means a lot of pubs and bars. And for a while I was security. I was forever on the door at a place I used to be part of called 'Fungus Mungus' in Battersea. Over the years you sort of discover some rules. Mostly unwritten.

A Guy Called Gerald has been honoured with a blue plaque for creating "the first British acid house track" —'Voodoo Ray' Full story: mixmag.net/read/a-guy-cal…

Today is the 88th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, when thousands of East-Londoners stood alongside Jewish and Irish communities to drive out Oswald Mosley and his fascists. Never forget: working-class unity can defeat the far right for good.

Derrick Geelijah on bands 🟨

Irish people have been peacekeeping in southern Lebanon for so long that the local Lebanese people have full Irish accents

Barry White on us being Gods

Comedian v Trump supporter

POS MADE THE BEAT FOR A NAUGHTY BY NATURE REMIX FOR FEEL ME FLOW AND TOMMY BOY PASSED ON IT, DAVE HEARD IT BY ACCIDENT AND FELL IN LOVE WITH IT AND MADE IT HIS SOLO SONG AND ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER. De La Soul I STORY TELL WITH EDITS.

we deeply need class consciousness to understand none of this stuff disappeared, you are simply not part of the social class that has access to it