Fighting fascism

By Ken Livingstone

Morning Star, 28 April 2007

THE local elections next month provide an opportunity to reject the racist politics of the fascist British National Party.

The BNP is a fascist organisation.

At the general election, the fascists stood convicted criminals as candidates in some seats, only removing them when they were exposed as such.

The BNP is racist. The BNP stands for an all-white Britain, which could only be achieved by using violence.

David Copeland, who carried out the London nail bombings in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho, said: “My aim was political. It was to cause a racial war … then all the white people would go and vote BNP.”

Six million Jewish people were murdered in the nazi Holocaust, but BNP leader Nick Griffin was convicted for inciting racial hatred after a magazine that he published denied the reality of the Holocaust.

The BNP has scored more electoral success than any other British fascist party in history and it is essential that the anti-fascist vote is mobilised.

The BNP wishes to present itself as a respectable party but, in fact, this is just a lie – it is engaged in a deception of the public and the media.

Writing in 1999, Griffin revealed his strategy for the BNP, which was to cloak the party in respectability in order to take the fascists closer to their ultimate objectives.

“Politics is the art of the possible, so we must judge every policy by one simple criterion – is it realistically possible that a decisive proportion of the British people will support it?

“If not, then to scale down our short-term ambitions to a point at which the answer becomes ‘yes’ is not a sellout, but the only possible step closer to our eventual goal.”

Griffin sees short-term fake respectability as a tactic towards ultimate goals that have not changed.

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Muslim community leaders united with anti-fascist campaigners during Friday prayers yesterday and called for a vote against the far-right British National Party on May 3.

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Lester Holloway exposes the race hatred of far-right blogger Jill Barham, the woman behind the “mega mosque” petition.

Blink is urging its readers to email Downing Street to urge that this petition is amended to remove the reference to “terrible violence and suffering” and that the words “KILL ALL NIGGERS” are removed from the signature list.

Blink news article, 26 April 2007

Update:  The “English Rose” blog is now back online under the rather more straightforward title of “White Information Link“.

A plea for racial tolerance has been made after a British National Party leaflet claimed people in a West town had been denied the chance to comment before a “mosque” was given planning approval.

Plans for an Islamic centre above and behind a kebab shop in Yeovil was given planning permission in 2003 after an application was made for a change of use from office to religious meeting rooms.

The BNP leaflet claimed the public should have been told the use was specifically for an Islamic centre or mosque, and that failure to do so showed a “culture of institutionalised silence and deceit” by officials and councillors. The leaflet, promoted by Robert Baehr, a BNP candidate in South Somerset district council elections, has already been delivered to hundreds of homes in Yeovil.

Candidates from other parties yesterday dismissed the BNP’s claim as “rubbish”. John Grana, one of 12 candidates standing under the banner of the Central Committee, Local Residents Working Together, said:

“This sort of leaflet is laughable and divisive. We stand for religious tolerance and freedom of thought. Yeovil welcomes people from everywhere. If I trace my own ancestry, I find Italian, Irish, Scottish and English blood. There is a richness in the mix we have.”

Simon Gale, the council’s head of development and building control, said: “In planning terms there is no requirement to state the distinctive religious use.”

Western Daily Press, 25 April 2007