As a teenager in the 1980's, I pulled on my Doc Marten's, soaped up the spikes in my hair and protested. The Tories were in power, Labour was weak and various fascist organisations were looking to capitalise on the despair and frustrations of the time to gain new recruits to the philosophy that all woes are someone else's fault, (some "foreigner's" no doubt!)
Today, deja vu hits me like a bucket of water in the face and its not altogether unpleasant. The younger me has re-awakened. After two decades of disillusionment and frustration, I have hope again. Maybe this time, in opposing what we know we do not want, we will get that much closer again to what we do want. For all of us it will be a little different, but the general themes of fairness, equality, freedom and decency are common enough ground to build on.
First step for me is attending the Unite Against Fascism march in London on November 6th....now where did I put those Doc Marten's?
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