Tom Williams

Tom Williams is a tutor in trade union studies.

From The Blog
4 June 2026

Out-of-towners, including Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox, merged with locals outside Southampton police station to form a crowd of several hundred. The troubling speed with which the protest was organised caught the city’s small but diligent antifa and its broad coalition of anti-racists by surprise. Given the severity of the rioting, it might have been for the best that we didn’t have time to organise a response.

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