Anti Nazi Protest - 28th January 2006

[michele cryer]

Dear London supporters, please help to support this protest against the National Front on Saturday, bring friends, colleagues, family and union banners etc.

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Counter demonstration against the Nazi National Front


We have heard that the Nazi National Front (NF) are marching from Woolwich Dockyard Train Station on Belson Road SE18 on Saturday 28th Jan 2006 at 1.30pm in their latest attempt to spread their poisonous racist filth in our area.
This will be the third year that they have done this. Each time the anti-fascists ( including school students, local residents, council workers, teachers, college students and workers ) black and white united have massively out numbered the nazis, sending a clear message that the fascists are not welcome in Woolwich.
Unite Against Fascism (UAF) is helping to organise a counter protest to oppose the Nazi NF thugs and again show that ours is a nazi free area.

The counter protest against the nazis will be on
Saturday 28th January 2006
12.30pm
at Woolwich Dockyard Train Station on Belson Road SE18.

As well as building and supporting the anti fascist protest it is worth contacting your local councillor and MP to protest at the nazi NF being given permission to march and spread their filth in our area.

Please forward this information to everyone you know.

Hope to see you on Saturday. Contact no. on the day 07952-874-275

Unite Against Fascism
020 7833 4916
[e-mail]
www.uaf.org.uk

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[michele cryer]

Please circulate widely - apologies for cross-posting



Protest at the end of BNP trial in Leeds
Counter demonstration to NF march in Woolwich
Latest UAF conference e-flyer


EMERGENCY PROTEST

OUTSIDE LEEDS COMBINED COURTS, OXFORD ROW, LEEDS

Called by Unite Against Fascism and Yorkshire and Humberside TUC



LATEST NEWS:

BNP TRIAL ENDS EARLY NEXT WEEK



The trial of British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin and BNP member Mark Collett is due to end early next week. UAF is calling a protest outside the court coinciding with the verdict. We need as many people as possible outside the court.



PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS INFORMATION MAY CHANGE.



Another email will be sent on Monday. At present it is still uncertain precisely when the trial will finish. We ask supporters to remain vigilant telephone the office on 020 7833 4916 for the latest information.



Counter demonstration against the Nazi National Front
Saturday 28th January 2006

12.30pm
at Woolwich Dockyard Train Station on Belson Road SE18.



We have heard that the Nazi National Front (NF) are marching from Woolwich Dockyard Train Station on Belson Road SE18 on Saturday 28th Jan 2006 at 1.30pm in their latest attempt to spread their poisonous racist filth. This will be the third year that they have done this. Each time the anti-fascists have massively out numbered the nazis, sending a clear message that the fascists are not welcome in Woolwich. Unite Against Fascism (UAF) is helping to organise a counter protest to oppose the Nazi NF thugs and again show that Woolwich is a nazi free area. As well as building and supporting the anti fascist protest it is worth contacting your local councillor and MP to protest at the nazi NF being given permission to march and spread their filth in our area.



Contact number on the day is 07952-874-275.






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[michele cryer]

Unite Against Fascism response to Griffin and Collett incitement to racial hatred trial verdict



‘We regret this important trial’s outcome. The BNP is a racist party, which has been described as a Nazi organisation by the Standards Board of England and Wales only last year. In the areas where the BNP target, racist attacks soar. They are intent on dividing our society, whipping up racism and hostility. We stand firmly against their hatred and division and will redouble our efforts against them in the forthcoming local elections.'

A further press statement will be issued tomorrow.

For further information, contact the UAF office on 020 7833 4916, Weyman Bennett on 07734 032 314 or Sabby Dhalu on 07980 921 076

[michele cryer]

Be warned...the BNP is setting itself up as a Union...see below:

The creation of a trade union signals a dramatic
departure for the fascist party. After years of encouraging
members to infiltrate existing unions in the hope of
seeking confrontation with officials, the BNP is now
setting up an alternative structure.
According to documents lodged with the Certification
Office, which regulates matters concerning trade unions,
Solidarity aims to “improve the relations between
employers and employees throughout all industries
served by the union”.
It will also strive: “to protect, assist and promote the
working and living conditions of the citizens of the British
Isles”.
It all seems above board at first appearance but a closer
look at the registration form makes its true agenda more
apparent. Solidarity will also, its documents claim, “resist
and oppose all forms of institutional union corruption”
and “promote freedom within and without the Trades
Union movement, protecting and promoting freedom of
belief, thought and speech, irrespective of political and
religious affiliation or creed”.
It also intends to set up a Political Fund and “print,
publish, issue and circulate” literature that “may seem
conducive to the … objects of Solidarity”. It will also seek
to “aid and join with any organisation, federation,
political representative or body … having for their object,
or one of their objects, the promotion of the interests of
workers or the furtherance of the political objectives
enshrined within the Political Fund”.
There is no reference in the documents to BNP
involvement but let there be no mistake about it, this is a
BNP front.
The “President” of the union is Clive Potter, a long-time
BNP activist from Leicester, who was expelled from
Unison for improper conduct. Other BNP activists
involved in the project include Jay Lee, who was recently
booted out of Aslef, and John Walker, the BNP’s national
treasurer, who has had his own troubles with the T&G.
The establishment of Solidarity appears to be a natural
continuation of the party’s turn to working-class politics
which began in 2000 and quickened over the past two
years. Although the BNP has achieved its best election
results in areas beset by racial friction, mostly in East
Lancashire and West Yorkshire, it has won growing
support in more traditional Labour areas where race is
much less of an issue, such as South Yorkshire, the North
East and the Potteries.
The majority of space in the BNP’s newspaper, The Voice
of Freedom, is now devoted to issues around migrant
workers, the decline of British manufacturing,
outsourcing and the impact of cheap imports. The BNP, it
claims, is now the only party standing up for the British
worker.
“Instead of defending native British workers against
the wage slave migrants who arrive on our shores
only to be exploited by greedy gangmasters and
employers, the Union movement is embarrassing and
betraying the rank and file membership by
welcoming migrants with open arms. Thus the
migrants are in direct competition with fully paid up
members of the unions.”
BNP: February 2005
An early intervention into working-class communities
was the campaign for a Miners’ Memorial Day, launched
by the BNP last year.
A time to complain
Solidarity operates in name but so far not in reality. For it
to be a proper trade union it will have to obtain a
certificate of independence. This is a long and
complicated process and one that will cost the BNP
several thousand pounds.
The certificate of independence attests that the union is
completely separate from employers and employers’
organisations and that it will operate solely in the
interests of its members. Without a certificate it is highly
unlikely that Solidarity could represent any of its
members in an industrial tribunal, court proceedings or
even in negotiations with employers.
In deciding whether a union is independent, the
Certification Office will look at whether the union was
formed with employer encouragement, the membership
base of the union, its organisation and structure, and in
particular how the rule book works in practice. The office
would also look at its negotiating record and funding
sources.
The certification process would involve a lengthy
investigation and include a visit to the union’s
headquarters, and scrutiny of the executive committee’s
minutes and details of recognition by, and negotiations
with, employers. Any member of the public has a right to
express an objection.
As a trade union must have a record of activity before it
can show that it is independent, Solidarity is unlikely to
be able to proceed to this stage quickly, if at all.
Searchlight Election Bulletin 23 January 2006
CONFIDENTIAL ISSUE 17
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BNP trade union unmasked
Searchlight can exclusively reveal that the British National Party has launched a trade union.
“Solidarity – The Union for British Workers” was registered with the trade unions Certification
Office shortly before Christmas. Solidarity claims that it will be a normal trade union
defending the interests of any British worker, but in reality it will be simply a front for the BNP.
The certification office can also deregister any union if it
believes that the organisation is no longer functioning as
a union.
Although obtaining a certificate of independence is
clearly some way off, the BNP already has plans to use
Solidarity as a political tool. Potter is currently looking
into ways to establish a political fund, as a means to
divert money to the BNP, and a public launch of the union
would seek to cause maximum embarrassment to the
TUC and its affiliates.
Searchlight’s exposure of Solidarity and its clear role as a
front for the BNP will hopefully encourage a more
thorough investigation by the Certification Office and
complaints from trade unions. More importantly,
however, the birth of Solidarity should remind the union
move-ment of the need to oppose the BNP and highlight
the incompat-ibility of racist politics with the ethos of
trade unionism, which is based on solidarity and unity.
■ The February 2006 edition of Searchlight will carry the
full story of the BNP trade union plus a comprehensive
article on the relationship between British fascism and
trade unions in the 20th century.
Searchlight Election Bulletin 23 January 2006
CONFIDENTIAL ISSUE 17
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[michele cryer]