This afternoon’s planned protest against east London’s controversial Jack the Ripper Museum has been cancelled, its organisers have announced.
A statement on the Class War Official Facebook page posted last night reads: “We believe the police are intending to make large scale arrests tomorrow – egged on by a press campaign and the mass presence of journalists from round the world.
“We would be highly irresponsible to our comrades if we put them at risk of arrest. We are therefore cancelling tomorrow’s demo.”
The “Women’s Death Brigade” had planned to try and shut down the museum for the afternoon alongside Class War.
The Whitechapel museum, opened this year, had been advertised to planning chiefs as a women’s history exhibition – but instead turned out to be what campaigners called “a gory, grubby museum” that “glories” violence against women.
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