This is terrifying. I did tell you the Right was going crazy.  Now, the racists have an opportunity to go on the rampage.  In Enfield, dozens of white men aged between 30 and 40 were out earlier, chasing down Hertford Road yelling "Get the p**is".  Paul Lewis reports:

I don't believe that this is just a spontaneous response to looters.  When the BNP membership list was leaked, it emerged that there were a number of members scattered around the lower middle class areas, and I wouldn't be surprised if they, along with local EDL supporters, were among those out tonight.  The emergence of racist vigilantism is not unique to Enfield.  It's also emerged that racist Millwall fans are supposedly 'protecting' Eltham tonight.  Apparently, the EDL have been marching through the area. [Update: local residents and Millwall fans both assure me that this is untrue, and that it's just locals protecting themselves.  Which, if true, is a relief - but one is still uneasy about vigilantes in football gear posing as defenders of the community.]  This is why we urgently need a political response to these riots that organises communities around the issue of justice for victims of police violence.  The IPCC have said tonight that Mark Duggan did not shoot at police officers.  This, to me, suggests that his death was an execution, and that the bullet in the police radio may have been post-mortem framing.  Either way, the police certainly lied about the circumstances of Mark Duggan's death, and this is a major cause of the anger in black communities, as it should be everywhere.  There urgently needs to be an intervention on this by anti-racists and the Left.

Update: Given that there are lots of unsupported rumours flying about, I think it's important to add a couple of important qualifications to this post.  A lot of the rumours going about are originating from the far right themselves - part of their propaganda about being men of action, etc.  And some of them could result in people getting hurt.  Naturally, I have no wish to contribute to either, so I'm just being cautious.  First of all, I have heard conflicting things about the far right being involved in Enfield, but as yet no proof of this has emerged.  It may well be just local racists.  Guardian journalist Paul Lewis is being careful to say he only witnessed a brief skirmish (though, from the footage I've seen, it was a really nasty, scary event).  Second, loads of people have been tweeting me to say it's not the EDL in Eltham.  (There is some footage of what appear to be EDL being kettled there, but not the 400-strong mob that the casuals were bragging about).  I'm still not okay with vigilantism, but there are degrees of danger.  I'm not arguing for complacency.  There are some real fascist efforts at stirring.  Most of it has been kettled by the cops so far, however.  So, I would bear these points in mind when you're scanning social media for updates.