EDL Uses Manic Street Preachers' Anti Fascist Song To Promote Rally

EDL Chooses Inappropriate Song For Promo Video
Manic Street Preachers EDL
Manic Street Preachers EDL
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The Manic Street Preachers are said to be taking legal action against the English Defence League for using one of their hit songs to promote a demonstration.

The EDL have chosen an anti-fascist song, If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next, in the background for a video ahead of a protest against "radical Islam" in Birmingham.

The song, written about the Spanish Civil War, even includes the line: "If I can shoot rabbits, then I can shoot fascists".

But that didn't deter Tommy Robinson's group, which has been mocked and criticised for its choice of backing music.

The Manic Street Preachers are not happy

Michael Wongsam, the Chair of West Midlands Unite Against Fascism said: "We are appalled to discover that the racist and fascist English Defence League has used the anti-fascist song 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next' by the band the Manic Street Preachers…This song takes its title from an anti-fascist slogan used during the Spanish Civil War where anti-racists and anti-fascists from all over Europe tried to stop Franco’s fascists from taking over the country."

A spokesperson for the Manics told NME that the band were "horrified" that their track was being used and that the label had demanded the video be taken down immediately.

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