Leave Them Kids Alone

Teachers in England should not be banned from membership of the British National Party or any group which may promote racism, a review has concluded. The government commissioned the report after a leaked list identified 15 BNP members as teachers.

Yeah because institutions full of young impressionable minds at the mercy of authority is just where you want fucking Nazis. How the hell is the parent of any child who is not white and straight (and let’s face it, male, don’t recall a lot of positive feminism from the BNP unless it is- outbreed the immigrants you chattel bints) trust a teacher who not only supports the BNP but loves fascism and racism so much they join the frickin’ party. And- any group which may promote racism- together with folding on faith schools is government education, education and education policy to just keep replicating the same idiocies and prejudices of their generation? (while denying future generations the funding for university they had in abundance… sorry kids we fucked your planet and your education but here’s the good news you are now so unhealthy from pollution and dumb from neglect you don’t give a shit, here have another prozac chew, to think you used not to able to buy these in sweet shops, progress!).

BNP Continue To Be Not At All Racist

A new piece of tat is added to their awful online souvenir shop-

(from Lancaster Unity) Queen Elizabeth I’s Blackamoore Expulsion Order It is not widely known that between 1596 and 1601, Queen Elizabeth I ordered the expulsion of all non-indigenous Third World people, whom she called “blackamoores” from Britain. Now, for the first time ever, Excalibur is proud to exclusively offer reproductions of the original expulsion orders…Both original handwritten orders have been reproduced in full on fine quality thick paper, suitable for framing or display.

Hmm, now why would a totally not-at-all-racist party be selling that so proudly?????

EDL’s Epic Fail In Wrexham

After the on the spot reportage now the Daily Post weighs in-

FOUR people were arrested at an anti-Muslim demonstration amid a strong police presence in Wrexham. Around 40 members of a group calling themselves the Welsh Defence League (WDL) shouted racial abuse and gestured towards locals, saying they were protesting against plans for a new mosque. Four people were arrested for public order offences, and North Wales’s Temporary Deputy Chief Constable, Ian Shannon said the day passed without “significant incident”. Meanwhile Unite Against Fascism held a counter-protest, near where the WDL gathered on Saturday.

And a Wrexham Communities Against Racism festival attracted around 200 people. Residents were joined by faith groups, the Wales TUC, Searchlight, Unison and members of Wrexham Council. Searchlight Cymru secretary Ian Titherington said none of the WDL protestors were Welsh, and they appeared to be members of the English Defence League (EDL). He said: “This was the final humiliation for the EDL’s disastrous visits to Wales. The only way they could hold an event was to bus in 30 from Bolton, who on arrival went to the nearest pub, got drunk and bawled out racist chants.

The EDL gathering did not exactly sell any local links, by displaying a Bolton Wanderers FC English flag and singing God Save the Queen.” The WDL was formed in June 2009 as an off-shoot of the EDL, which claims to campaign against Islamic extremism. The group insists it is not fascist. But at a march in Swansea in October, onlookers were confronted by jeering men giving Nazi salutes, and one was arrested for a racially aggravated public order offence.

An EDL supporter posted a short video (subtitled ‘Outnumbered and we still stand our ground‘ thus admitting their low numbers and it’s not so much ‘stand our ground’ as milling around where the cops said to stand so your small group doesn’t disrupt the traffic or any passing badgers) in which you can hear no Welsh accents, they chant EDL not WDL, plus the worst/funniest murdering of God Save The Queen I have yet to hear (a piece of music that is so droning, joyless & plodding it is almost impossible to wreck it, yet somehow…they do!). You almost feel sorry for them, I don’t think this is endangering any kind of no platform policy, propaganda’s meant to improve your image, not demolish it. Comedy gold-

Anti Fascists Outnumber EDL Morons 2 to 1

A good day for Manchester, would have been better if the EDL hadn’t bothered, but nonetheless, I suppose friendless bores & bigots rarely perceive when they are not welcome. Live site at the Manchester Evening News.

I would also add worth reading is this tangled tale that involves the racist senior EDL operator Paul Ray of the lamentable Lionheart blog, apparently forging online identities to create fake terror stories to smear Muslims with and the corporate media go along with it. No really, try to be surprised. This is in addition to the fine work of Tim Ireland @ Bloggerheads. Seems a number of racist fantasists form the backbone of a terror porn creating cabal that help keeps the war on terror bullshit flowing in tabloid land, all with a common trait of rabid Islamophobia. Of course creating incidents to gather support is a very old fascist tactic and that Patrick ‘once fired for racism‘ Mercer MP the Tory Chairman of the Commons sub-committee on counter-terrorism and erstwhile shadow spokes-mannequin for Fatherland ‘Homeland’ security is involved is so far being ignored by that same corporate media.

Hope Not Hate Says-

I’ve just received some bad news – the BNP have just won a seat in the European Parliament. It is terrible news for our country.

While the BNP will take a seat in Brussels they will not represent me – they are not going there in my name.

I’ve just launched a petition saying just that: BNP – not in my name. We will deliver this petition to the European Parliament on the first day that their MEP takes their seat. I’d like you to sign the petition as well – let’s show the rest of the EU what we think of this new MEP:

http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/notinmyname

I am disgusted that the BNP have at least one MEP.

We will deliver our petition to the European Parliament – I want you to add your name and then get your friends to join in as well.

Let’s send a deafening message of defiance: NOT IN OUR NAME.

http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/notinmyname

Thank you so much for all that did during the elections – but now our fight for Hope Not Hate must go on.

Stop Fascists With Your Vote

From SU–

European elections: There is a clear danger that low turnout could hand over first Euro seats to BNP fascists

Some political commentators have used recent opinion polls to write off or play down the threat that the BNP might get its first Euro MP seats next month. The Observer’s Nick Cohen says he found evidence of a BNP surge ‘hard to find’. Others have said that ‘the threat from the BNP has been overblown’.
Unite Against Fascism believes these arguments are dangerously complacent and run the risk of undermining the effort to mobilise the anti-fascist vote on 4 June. We think there is a very real danger of the BNP winning seats in the Euro elections.

Opinion polls tend to underestimate support for the BNP (In 2004 opinion polls placed the BNP at 3% but the party actually received 5%. Populus and ICM use phone polling techniques, which often underestimate BNP support. YouGov uses online polling.) and factors such as regional variations in the BNP vote and the higher proportion of BNP supporters that are likely to vote also have to be considered. These factors suggest that recent polling by Peter Kellner and YouGov, published by the Telegraph on 18 May, may be a more accurate predictor of BNP support. This places the BNP with 7% of the vote nationally. When this is adjusted for regional variations, this suggests that a low turnout would leave the BNP is on course to win three seats – though it would need a national vote of around 10% to win a fourth and around 12% to win any more.

More recent polls by Populus, published by the Times on 30 May, and ICM, published by the Sunday Telegraph on 31 May confirm the recent growth in recorded support for the BNP and also suggest the party is currently on course to win Euro seats. William Hill, the bookmaker, quotes odds of 2/5 against the BNP winning a seat (ie. they are strong favourites to win a seat).

The latest YouGov poll, published in the Daily Telegraph on 1 June, places the BNP on the same 7% nationally as in the previous YouGov poll. A regional breakdown has not yet been published. But the key reason why we need to take the BNP threat seriously lies in wider political factors rather than technical ones. Unemployment now stands at 2.2 million and look set to rise further. This creates a pool of anger and despair that can be rapidly sucked in by the BNP’s racist message of blaming migrant workers and ethnic minorities for the recession.

Moreover, growing cynicism about the integrity of major financial institutions has now spread to cover MPs because of the scandal over parliamentary expenses. This is being dramatically reflected in polling. Those commentators who suggest that ‘the BNP is struggling’ or failing to ‘gain from the expenses scandal’ have failed to recognise the recent gains the BNP has made in the polls.

The local elections in 2006 in Barking & Dagenham show how quickly support for the Nazi BNP can rise. That election saw the BNP go from almost nowhere to 12 councillors in the space of a few weeks. It stands as a warning to us all. Attempts at talking down the BNP vote will not cut any ice.

As Peter Kellner puts it, ‘It’s a tiny margin between getting no seats and getting three seats for the BNP.’ As in 2004, a higher turnout could stop the BNP from winning any seats. It is imperative that we raise the alarm and urge people to vote against the BNP fascists on 4 June.

In its Euro election campaign, the BNP has repeatedly made overt appeals to win the votes of those who support a racist political agenda that blames black and Asian people for the country’s economic and social ills. Nick Griffin’s description of black and Asian British people as ‘racial foreigners’ that need to be ‘repatriated’ shows that the BNP now believes it can be more open about its racist and neo-Nazi policies in order to consolidate its share of the vote.

The anti-fascist movement must respond to this political escalation with an urgent appeal to the anti-racist majority to use its vote and stop such policies becoming an ‘acceptable’ part of the political mainstream.

BNP Euro seats will lead to in racism being seen as a legitimate part of political debate. Every progressive cause will be under greater attack if the fascists manage to make an electoral breakthrough. And the lesson from mainland Europe is that stopping such a breakthrough is much easier than reversing it.

Fascism Is For Failures

The BNP are racists & fascists, who revel in violence and eugenics. If you vote for them, so are you. Don’t kid yourself, this isn’t politics, you’re a piece of shit. Clear?

The Guardian… the anti-fascist organisation Searchlight has spent months infiltrating the far right’s network of websites and chatrooms and found that many BNP activists share O’Sullivan’s views.

 They include:

 • Jeffrey Marshall, senior organiser for the BNP’s London European election campaign. Following the death of David Cameron’s disabled son Ivan, Marshall claimed in an internet forum discussion: “We live in a country today which is unhealthily dominated by an excess of sentimentality towards the weak and unproductive. No good will come of it.”

 Later, in response to comments made by others on the site, Marshall is alleged to have written: “There is not a great deal of point in keeping these people alive after all.” He said the comments were private and some had been paraphrased and taken out of context. He admitted making the former comment, but said he could not recall making the latter one in an email to the forum, a copy of which is in the Observer’s possession.

 • Garry Aronsson, Griffin’s running mate for the European parliament in the North West, posts an avatar on his personal web page featuring a Nazi SS death’s head alongside the statement, “Speak English Or Die!” Aronsson proclaims on the site: “Every time you change your way of life to make immigrants more comfortable you betray OUR future!” He lists his hobbies as “devising slow and terrible ways of paying back the Guardian-reading cunts who have betrayed the British people into poverty and slavery. I AM NOT JOKING.”

 • Barry Bennett, MEP candidate for the South West, posted several years ago under a pseudonym in a white supremacist forum the bizarre statement that “David Beckham is not white, he’s a black man.” Bennett, who is half-Jewish according to the BNP’s deputy leader, Simon Darby, continued: “Beckham is an insult to Britishness, and I’m glad he’s not here.” He added: “I know perfectly respectable half-Jews in the BNP… even Hitler had honorary Aryans who were of Jewish descent… so whatever’s good enough for Hitler’s good enough for me. God rest his soul.”

 • Russ Green, MEP candidate for the West Midlands, posted recently on Darby’s web page: “If we allowed Indians, Africans, etc to join [the BNP], we would become the ‘British multi-National party’ … and I really do hope that never happens!” Darby said he echoed Green’s sentiments.

 • Dave Strickson, a BNP organiser who helps run its eastern region European election campaign, carried on his personal “Thurrock Patriots” blog a recent report of the fatal stabbing of a teenager in east London beneath the words “Another teen stabbed in Coon Town”. The site also carried a mock-up racist version of the US dollar entitled “Obama Wog Dollar”. Darby said the BNP did not endorse these comments and described them as “beyond the pale”.

 When confronted in the past about the extreme views of some of its members, the BNP senior hierarchy has often tried to dismiss them as unrepresentative of the party’s core membership. But it appears that they run right to the top of the party.

 Lee Barnes, the BNP’s senior legal officer and one of Griffin’s closest allies, has posted a video on his personal blog of a black suspect being beaten by police officers in the US and describes it as “brilliant”. Barnes adds: “The beating of Rodney King still makes me laugh.”

 Barnes told the Observer his comments were “nothing to do with colour” but were merely a reflection of his belief that the police should have more powers to punish perpetrators of crime by “giving them a good thrashing”.

Racist Records

Via Complex System of Pipes this is a brilliant clip by Love Music Hate Racism, makes the point. Spread it around, make sure you vote on June 4th, make sure you help stop the fascist BNP.

Love Music Hate Racism                        Hope Not Hate

Update: Socialist Unity have the full rundown on the creation of the clip.

Tell Clear Channel Not To Profit Off Racism

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The BNP’s message of hate is being spread across the country by a small but dedicated band of racist activists.

But now, a commercial media organisation is seeking to financially profit from the BNP’s vicious campaign. Clear Channel – one of the UK’s largest poster and billboard companies – have sold the BNP adverts across the country.

They have provided the BNP with high profile sites – putting the BNP’s racist message on a pedestal and giving them the oxygen of publicity. In a matter of days these billboards and posters will be spreading across the country. But we can stop them if enough of us complain to Clear Channel and we get them to cancel their contract.

We have set an easy-to-use page so you can send a letter of complaint – will you send them a message of complaint?

Click Here

Kick Out The Fascists. Kick Out British Wildcats

The BNP have been trying to bend the strikes to their advantage, one particularly noxious plot has been exposed by the Ministry of Truth (complete with proof). The website calling itself britishwildcats.com (slogan, you guessed it:- British jobs for British Workers) is a BNP front-

Ministry of Truth:- I can exclusively reveal that the operator of the British Wildcats website, which featured on tonight’s Newsnight, is actually BNP ‘web guru’, Simon Bennett.

This is crucially important now because the unions are getting wise to this infiltration and migrant workers are joining the strikes, something fascists, the ruling class and the lazy corporate media really don’t want to see happen. (ht2 Penny Red, Stroppyblog)

Try To Act Surprised

Jobs where you get to wear a uniform and inflict violence (actual or structural) on those you have power over attract the most fascists. Next week- Creationists, are they shit at Physics?

Chart showing class make up of BNP Via Lenin.

Fascist Will Be Fascists

Via Chicken Yoghurt. A brilliant graph has been concocted by The Yorkshire Ranter, demonstrating how the idea increased immigration feeds BNP membership increase is a total load of crap, it’s at best an excuse (both conscious and subconsciously) and at worst an outright lie. Fascists will be fascists and convenient rationalisations are just that. It’s like the eternal excuse- I’m sorry I was drunk- when the actual answer is- I have an alcohol problem that exacerbates unrecognised mental distress. Although admittedly not as snappy as  ‘Binge Drinking Britain’, the stiff upper lip of denial abides…

But what treatment is there for bigotry?

Dense

The Grauniad have done a clever thing regarding the BNP membership list, they have created an interactive map showing the density of BNP membership nationwide, see it here. Avoids personal persecution but does display the metastasising of the nazi retards.

nb. I will not post links to the list or let comments include links, should any slip through they will be deleted when I find them. It is not impossible to find the list on the intertubes if you must, no one should be persecuted or molested because of their membership but asking people to justify their views and membership of a racist fascist organisation with ties to terrorists is perfectly legitimate. They should be challenged and debated openly. I am happy to rock my politics out in the open as should anyone. And if they are in a sensitive job (of course some professions prohibit membership anyway) it would be correct to review their behaviour and terminate employment if they were manifesting their racist and fascist beliefs to those they have power over or their work colleagues have felt to be discriminated against, as the law sets out.

Entire BNP Membership List Leaked Online

Via Unity@LC. Lancaster UAF have the story, excerpts-

…this breach of data security is startlingly bad for the BNP, not simply for the fact that the party has lost data – almost everyone seems to have managed to do that recently – but for the nature of that information.

Not only does the data, now available online, include the entire membership list with full names (and former names where there have been changes for any reason), addresses, contact numbers, email addresses and in many cases the member’s age, particularly where those members are under eighteen. Yes, that’s right. This list includes members as young as fourteen, male and female. Where a family membership is bought and paid for, the whole family is listed.

As if this isn’t bad enough, the notes that are attached to many of the entries leave a lot of the members open to difficulties in their jobs, some of them being in the armed forces or the police and the BNP too – an illegal combination, and where not illegal, frequently frowned upon. Other members are noted as construction managers, receptionists, district nurses, lay preachers, police officers, company directors and teachers among many others.

Like this wasn’t enough, the BNP has also listed hobbies or interests where for some reason they are deemed relevant. Thus we have short-wave radio hams, amateur historians, pagans, line-dancers and even a witch (male).

It’s been suggested that the party’s former treasurer John Walker is responsible for posting the list up publicly. We wouldn’t know but by doing so, the poster has stuck a stick of dynamite under Griffin’s rear end. The consequences and the repercussions may be interesting to watch.

Just as a complete aside, I should point out that we do not have a copy of this list, nor do we want one. The information we had was obtained online and appears suddenly to have been removed, at least for the moment…

nb. I will not post links to the list or let comments include links, should any slip through they will be deleted when I find them. It is not impossible to find the list on the intertubes if you must, no one should be persecuted or molested because of their membership but asking people to justify their views and membership of a racist fascist organisation with ties to terrorists is perfectly legitimate. They should be challenged and debated openly. I am happy to rock my politics out in the open as should anyone. And if they are in a sensitive job (of course some professions prohibit membership anyway) it would be correct to review their behaviour and terminate employment if they were manifesting their racist and fascist beliefs to those they have power over or their work colleagues have felt to be discriminated against, as the law sets out.

Pando Massacre Survivors Speak

Rodrigo Medina, Second Secretary of Land and Territory, Madre de Dios Peasant Federation

“I want to announce to the press that the persecution and death threats continue today in Pando., This is happening in the municipalities of Santos Mercado, Villanueva, Puerto Gonzalo Moreno, Filadelfia, Puerto Rico, and other communities, such as Ingavi de Pando.

“They are intimidating our people. Yesterday an event occurred – they shot the driver of Mayor Edwin Cuellar of the municipality of Santos Mercado, and he is wounded. A girl was raped by these same groups. Last night in the community of Piedras, they tied up and offended the honor of this girl, until the members of the community came to her rescue. She is currently in the house of a schoolteacher. Because of these incidents, women can not go to where they wash and bring water. People come down from the mountain, in what seem to be planned attacks. In the municipality of Gonzalo Moreno, the brother of the head of the city’s human resources department was run down with a motorcycle. Currently he is at the Hospital in Riberalta, this has also been done by the same group of men who were hoods over their heads. These are only the cases that we know about; but surely there are many which we haven’t heard about yet.

“For these reasons, we ask that the Martial Law authorities also maintain a presence in our communities where our peasant brothers find themselves unprotected.”

Abigail Adagua, Vice-President, Villanueva Vigilance Committee

“We came to the city of La Paz because we want to express that some of the mass media have converted themselves into the accomplices of the murderers of Pando. The [former] police chief comes across as a victim via the media, but she was complicit in the abuse against us.

“On that day, September 11th, if they had told us that we were going to Cobija to a battle, we would not have brought our children, our wives and our elders. We never thought we were going to confront a massacre, and now humble people are left traumatized.

“To the racist media we say that we too are human beings. We ask the media to help us to demand justice for all peasants, for the widows, widowers and orphans.”

Gerson Racua, President, Town of San Pedro Vigilance Committee

“I am one of the survivors. Surely some of the media know me because I said that Chiquitin Becerra gave me weapons and paid me. I said that because they tied me up and tortured me, they fired their guns to make me say those things. I am here today to refute things that some are being published in the media.

“The police chief who is making herself out to be the victim was one of the promoters of this shooting and killing of peasants – she went to verify the car we were in, checked for weapons and found nothing.

“To Pando authorities, political advisors and others, we want to say that we too are citizens of Pando and we want justice for the peasant sector. Another thing I want to denounce are the montages that have been made recently.”

Isabel Chicunawi, Councilwoman, Town of Puerto Rico

“I say today, in the presence of the media, that we are victims. What they did to us on September 11th is very sad. We ask the media to help us to investigate the deaths of the women and children. In the list of the dead the are only men, but where are the women and children that they killed?

“I ask the media not to be like the media of Pando, which has been bought out by the cacique [political boss] of Pando.”

Jorge Boroboro, Organizational Secretary, Bolivia Confederation of Peasant Workers

“I am also one of the survivors of the massacre of Pando. On September 11th, there was an ambush in which there was a clear intention to kill us; they shot me three times with a .22 caliber. Many of our comrades have died or have disappeared, but currently they continue with this subjugation in different communities in Pando.

“Many are lying, like for example the police chief [at the time] who is appearing in the media. She was an accomplice in the ambush and but is now saying that she is the victim.”

(ht2 Otto @ Inca Kola News)