Self-defence is no offence
The best way to “reason” with the thug who comes after you with a knife or a broken bottle in his hand is — as Leon Trotsky once put it — to “acquaint his head with the pavement". There is no guarantee that bouncing fascist heads off pavements will make them see sense or turn them into decent human beings,0 but there is no other way to “reason” with them. And it is better for fascist heads to learn the hard “lesson of the pavement" than that the heads of innocent black people, Jews or trade unionists should. The right to self-defence is basic. That means that we have the right to stop fascists...