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Press release from Oldham Trades Council
NAZI BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY HIJACKS HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
CEREMONY DISRUPTED; ANTI-FASCIST TRADE UNIONIST ARRESTED
The British National Party (BNP) is a fascist party, an ally of the NPD in Germany and the Front National in France. Its leader, Nick Griffin, has spoken alongside politicians from both these organisations and has represented the BNP at NPD events in Germany.
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Philip Waker (Labour): 1,085 votes.
Lawrence Rustem (BNP): 935.
Kerry Smith (Conservative): 410.
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The municipal elections on 26 September in North-Rhine Westphalia - the north-west German state including Cologne, Dortmund, Essen, Bochum, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, and Bonn - showed no advance for the far-right similar to its gains in the east German states of Saxony and Brandenburg on 19 September.
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Note: this article includes details of the forthcoming by-election in Dagenham where the BNP threaten to win another seat.
Far right wins in E. London and soars in Germany.
Cut the roots of fascism - fight for a workers' government!
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By Joan Trevor
It’s difficult to say whether support for the BNP, or the far right generally, has peaked. It’s certain that anti-fascists cannot be complacent.
Look at these facts and figures:
- 808,200 people, 4.9% of those who voted, voted for the BNP in last June’s European election. The BNP failed to have anyone elected.
However, the nationalist and, in their election material and the pronouncements of Robert Kilroy-Silk, racist UK Independence Party won 16.1% of the vote and got 12 MEPs elected.
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By Sacha Ismail
How seriously does the British left take fighting fascism? Very seriously, if the energy devoted by the SWP et al to respectable liberal causes like Unite Against Fascism is anything to go by. Less seriously, if the recent National Front demo in Trafalgar Square is the standard of measure.
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Nazi thugs gain
Any thoughts that the BNP might be in retreat should be completely dismissed. In a Dagenham council by-election on 15 July the BNP got 31% of the vote.
This gave them more than the Tories, Lib-Dems and Greens put together.
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A letter from the Jewish Socialists' Group to Unite Against Fascism
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by Janine Booth
These notes are based on a speech I gave at the Workers' Liberty London Forum on Thursday 24 June.
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The fascist British National Party is fundamentally an anti-working-class, anti-democratic party:
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Letter from the Jewish Socialists' Group to Unite Against Fascism
Dear Friends
It is clear that whilst the British National Party (BNP) failed to make a decisive breakthrough in the various elections on the 10 June, they remain a major danger - a danger possibly masked by the success of UKIP.
