Communities like Clonmel have fought back against the far right. Here's how yours can too

When the far-right started organising in Clonmel in 2024, Dean Buckley wasn't an activist. Learning from Roscrea's experience, his community fought back 
A family get into a PSNI vehicle after being rescued from houses which caught fire in Lendrick Street in east Belfast after disorder flared last week in the city. 

A family get into a PSNI vehicle after being rescued from houses which caught fire in Lendrick Street in east Belfast after disorder flared last week in the city. 

The anti-migrant violence in the North last week may have been sparked by a brutal assault, but was a product of the organisational infrastructure of mass violence that networks of far-right loyalists have developed for decades. 

The speed with which communities moved to support and protect their targets is a testament to the infrastructure of mutual aid and human solidarity people have had to build to resist this violence over generations.

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