Left students debate state bans on fascists
Submitted on 24 April, 2008 - 21:52
This year’s National Union of Students conference passed a motion from UCL Union calling for NUS to lobby the government to ban the fascist website Redwatch. Education Not for Sale has published two contributions to the debate from left students who oppose calling for state bans on fascists.
In the first article, Manchester University delegate Vicky Thompson explains why she opposed the UCL motion. In the second, AWL supporter Sacha Ismail responds to a letter in the 23 April Guardian from the three SWP/Respect councillors in Tower Hamlets which calls for a state ban on the fascistic Islamist group al-Muhajiroun. See here.
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oppose state bans, for workers' action to smash fascism
state bans serve the sate and are used against the left
far more Asian youth have been baged up and for far longer thsan fascists
but we should be- as I beleive the AWL are- for militant self-defence against fascism
and it should not be confused at all with the deeply reactionary but certainly not fascsist al_muhajiroun
we should be for the right of self-defence, for labour movmenet support for Black youth, for smashing facists ability to organise, leaflet or meet, for united fights against public services cuts, privatisation, crap housing etc, for winning Asian and Black youth away from reactionary Islamist politics for united working class politcs