While some Black Lives Matter supporters call for the demolition of statues they see as representing white slave traders and promoters of supremacist attitudes, white supremacist groups are are rallying to defend them.

In London, as a group took on the police and used the Nazi salute. In line with the recommendation of organisers, most Black Lives Matter supporters stayed away, so as not to be drawn into a confrontation.

The movement that has grown rapidly around the world to combat discrimination and unity is being used by the backers of ultra right groups, to try to confuse and build politics of hate to a new level. To generate the fiction that people of a different colour or culture are to blame for the economic and social problems of today. This is the politics of divide and rule, manipulating a section of the discontented population to act against their own interests.

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