Yesterday, Bristol Patriots announced that both Britain First and UKIP will be at tomorrow’s demo with Nick Tenconi as a speaker.

These two groups latching onto this demo is not a coincidence. Fascism and authoritarianism is growing, and these groups want to destroy the solidarity and strength we showed last summer. To them, it is more than just Bristol or attacking this specific location housing migrants, its building an international fascist movement.

Nick Tenconi and UKIP have been doing demos outside of refugee housing all summer. Tenconi himself was caught on camera doing a n*zi salute.

Britain First is partially responsible for Operation Raise the COlours, putting ridiculous amounts into funding nationalism across the country.

Both are committed to build a world that’s actively hosting to migrants, queer and trans people, and working class people.

Coming out tomorrow does more than protect this one hotel. And even if it were, we’d still be there.

They want to “take” Bristol because of the culture, the sense of community, the willingness to stand up and fight. Cities with similar reputations are getting targeted worldwide, so those positives can be replaced with corporate and fascist interests.

Showing up and not letting fascists and racists just do as they want is part of an ongoing fight against capitalism and state authoritarianism.

We are all Bristol Antifascists.

That means stopping fascism everywhere it appears and every form it takes.

Tomorrow, that means supporting migrants stuck in temporary accommodations getting directly targeted.

But in the future, that also means supporting racialized people, queer and trans people, women, unhoused and working class people, disabled people, s*x workers, ex-prisoners and many more in whatever forms those lived experiences take. We need to act in solidarity with everyone who has been oppressed until all of us are free.

So, we’ll see you out there tomorrow. Wear black, bring a friend and hopefully make some more friends.