Trade unionist injured in racist attack
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The Liverpool Echo reports that on Thursday 18 May: "A leading trade unionist was slashed in a knife attack in front of his two young daughters in their Merseyside home.
Anti-Fascism
Union action against Birmingham fascist “victor”
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The BNP “won” its first seat on Birmingham City Council due to a mistake which led to tellers counting BNP votes twice in Kingstanding ward.
After the council elections: Breakthrough for the BNP?
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By Dave Landau
In most parts of the country the BNP’s results are disappointing (for them). For all their efforts in the West Midlands — where they put up 86 candidates — they had a small handful of gains.
Unite the rational left to stop the fascists
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Fascism — rampant, unashamedly racist and would-be pogromist fascism — is now stronger than it has been in Britain since the 1970s. In the number of council seats held by the fascists, it is stronger now than in the 1970s.
Fighting the Fascists
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The BNP has launched a trade union. It doesn't have much more than a paper existence, and what paper there is doesn't mention the BNP, but rail workers will be familiar with some involved. Remember Jay Lee, expelled from ASLEF? Or Pat Harrington, kicked out of RMT? He is now president of ‘Solidarity’, this would-be union "for patriotic and nationalist British workers".
How to fight the BNP
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In the council elections on 4 May the fascist British National Party (BNP) is standing 350 candidates, hoping to make a small breakthrough.
They appeal to those who feel themselves “despondent, depressed, angry, ignored, abandoned, forgotten, ripped off, exploited, overtaxed, unrepresented”. They say that the crisis in the Health Service shows “the profit motive outweighing patient care”, and denounce “private gain for public service”.
What is fascism?
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In order to beat the fascists we need to understand what they are — what fascism has been, and what it is now. Daniel Murphy outlines the arguments.
Trotsky on fascism
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Leon Trotsky, writing before and after Hitler came to power, tried to warn the labour movement about the policies of the, then very strong, German Communist Party, policies which proved to be disastrous.
The threat from the fascist BNP
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On 26 May in Oldham there was bitter fighting between Asian youth and the police.
Lewisham: a turning point
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On 13 August 1977 the National Front tried to march through Lewisham in south east London, where many black people live.