16 December 2000 Margate
NF rounds off year of failure
This year the Nazi National Front planned to increase their
numbers by marching in towns across Britain. They have not succeeded.
Last Saturday in Margate was the latest in a long line of
National Front failures: it was their smallest demonstration yet. The Nazis
wanted to attack the Warren Court Hotel because the Refugee Support Centre holds meetings
there. Around fifty people from Margate ANL occupied the road outside the
hotel. Kent police - who have wasted thousands of pounds enabling the NF to march
this year - built a pen on a green behind the hotel to put the Nazis in.
 The handful of local Nazis who
tried to approach the hotel were driven away from the hotel and into the pen by the
ANL,
where they were protected by the police. In spite of National Organiser Terry
Blackham's desperate pleas for support on their website this week, he was still only able
to muster a dozen thugs from London. In an act of bravado, they tried to march along
the pavement opposite the hotel. They were confronted by Margate ANL and driven back up
the street and into the pen with the local Nazis. Humiliated by this, they tried to
hold a rally which was drowned out by Anti-Nazis. They stayed for only half an hour.
In spite of their threats the National Front have failed to mobilize local people.
However it is clear that the only thing that has stopped them from building a bigger
National Front has been opposition on the streets, every time they try to
organise. In 2001 the NF intend to stand candidates in the General Election.
They hope that
members of the BNP disillusioned by the splits in that organisation will join them to
carry out their race hatred on the streets.
To stop them, it is crucial that we mobilise
locally every time they raise their ugly heads. We must never be complacent - join us in building a bigger Anti-Nazi League - in Margate and
across Britain!
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Friday 8 December 2000 Haying, Herts
BNP campaign flops
The BNP campaign to target low turnout seats fell flat
yesterday when voters in Haying ensured that the BNP came last in the Three Rivers
(Herts)
council elections.
The BNP only managed 37 votes!
Earlier this week the Watford
Observer revealed that the BNP had been running a fraudulent campaign.
Of the
BNP's eight nominators six were in their 80s or 90s and were duped into signing the
forms. One nominee had been told she was signing a petition about cutting grass
verges, another signed to make the BNP activists go away.
Even using these tactics the BNP have failed.
This has been a tactic repeatedly used by the BNP in local elections. If the BNP try
to stand in your area make sure that you check out the list of nominees: they may have
been lied to about the form they have signed.
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Tuesday 5 December 2000 Somers Town, London
NF forced to cancel march on pub
The Nazi National Front was humiliated last night when they were forced to cancel their
demonstration and retract their threat "to shut down The Cock Tavern for good".
Over one hundred people turned out to support the ANL, while a paltry ten Nazis gathered
in a nearby pub in preparation for their march. According to the police on duty, the
NF asked them to escort them to The Cock Tavern, as "they were afraid of the greater
numbers of the Anti-Nazi League" - perhaps following the outburst of local anger
directed against them on the streets last week.
As Anti-Nazis rallied outside the pub, the police announced that the march organiser
(Terry Blackham) had decided to cancel the NF's demonstration, effectively giving up on
their much-trumpeted campaign to close the pub down. The tiny group of Nazis was
later seen fleeing the area by tube, with a police escort to protect them.
The ANL was joined by Camden Black Workers Group, Camden
Unison, two Camden borough councillors, the Socialist Party and Camden Playworkers Against
the Nazis. Camden ANL will now build on this victory to ensure the Nazi NF never
marches in Somers Town again!
*The ANL would like to thank the Omagh Support Self Help Group for their statement last
week.
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| Thursday 30 November 2000
The Omagh Support Self Help Group have issued the following statement to the
Anti Nazi League in response to events that have taken place at "The Cock
Tavern" since last Saturday. They wish us to publicise this statement as widely
as possible:
"We
went to London to contact a group of people fundraising for the people who bombed Omagh
and have carried out the four bomb attacks since the Omagh bomb in London.
It was never our intention to cause any
disruption to the people in the premises or in the neighbourhood we went to.
We think it would be wrong if anyone uses
these circumstances, whatever their reason, to inflict their views on anyone else.
We would like to thank the local community
for their support on that occasion.
The families within our group are not
motivated by politics or religions but by the love of their lost relations, and we respect
the right of all cultures, religions and people of political beliefs."
Michael Gallagher
Chairperson of the Omagh Support Self Help Group
Thursday 30 November 2000 |
28 November 2000 Somers Town,
London
NF attack on North London pub fails
Over one hundred and fifty Anti-Nazis and local residents
prevented the Nazi National Front from attacking a pub with a tradition of trade union
meetings in North London tonight.
 On the pretext that The Cock Tavern, Somers Town, had been the
venue for a 32 County Sovereignty Movement meeting last week, the NF had threatened to
"shut it down for good". The dozen Nazis who turned out to do this
encountered lively opposition: six of them escaped local anger and were allowed to
march towards the pub with a massive police escort, but were prevented from reaching it by
the ANL presence.
They would not have been able to hold any march at all had
it not been for the protection of the police who cited their "human rights" as
justification: Nazis with convictions for race hatred and violence were escorted
into a multiracial area with the protection of around one hundred police, dogs and riot
vans, while local residents of all cultures had their freedom of movement and the right
not to be abused by racist thugs disregarded for the evening. Many local people -
including two local councillors - joined the anti-Nazi protest in disgust.
After
ten minutes the NF scuttled away with their police escort. The ANL
counter-mobilisation was well-received by people in Somers Town - and another NF
"march" ended in humiliation for the Master Race!
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23 November 2000
By-election results: BNP performance
West Bromwich West
Adrian Bailey (Lab) 9,640 (51.06%)
Karen Bissell (C) 6,408 (33.94%)
Sadie Smith (LD) 1,791 (9.49%)
Nicholas Griffin (BNP) 794 (4.21%)
Jonathan Oakton (UKIP) 246 (1.30%)
Labour majority 3,232. Turnout: 18,879 (27.60%)
*National Democrats (Nazi) vote in 1997 was 4,181 (11.39%)
Preston
Mark Hendrick (Lab) 9,765 (45.71%)
Graham O'Hare (C) 5,339 (24.99%)
Bill Chadwick (LD) 3,454 (16.17%)
Terence Cartwright (Lancs Socialist Alliance) 1,210 (5.66%)
Gregory Beaman (UKIP) 458 (2.14%)
Richard Merrick (Green) 441 (2.06%)
Peter Garrett (Preston All) 416 (1.95%)
Christian Jackson (BNP) 229 (1.07%)
David Franklin-Braid (BBCAP) 51 (0.24%)
Labour majority 4,426. Turnout: 21,363 29.39%
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12 November 2000 London
Nazis disgrace Cenotaph
Over 150 Anti-Nazis protested against the Nazi National
Front in central London today. The NF had been given permission by the police to march to
the Cenotaph and lay a wreath on Remembrance Sunday.
This is the same NF whose website claims "Hitler
should have won the war". Outrageously the British Legion refused to condemn
the Nazi wreath laying. Yet every year the British Legion refuses permission for
OutRage to join the
official wreath-laying ceremony to honour lesbian and gay ex-servicemen and victims of the
Holocaust, having dismissed such commemoration as "distasteful" and "bound
to offend many former soldiers"!
Mayor Ken Livingstone expressed his concern to the police
but said he was powerless to stop the Nazi march.
Around 70 Nazis marched but, unlike in previous years,
their "one minute silence" was drowned out by cries of "Nazi
scum!" Veterans and members of the public looked on in horror as the
Nazis laid their wreath. Many took ANL stickers. The ANL protestors included
members of the Jewish Socialist Group Searchlight and the Socialist Party.
The National Front place a great deal of importance on the
Cenotaph demonstration. It is crucial that we start to campaign now to get them
stopped next November. Write and complain to the British Legion. The campaign
starts now!
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28 October 2000 Klagenfurt
United anti-fascist march in Haider's
heartland
 Over 3500 people took to the streets of
Klagenfurt, southern Austria, to protest against the Nazi Jörg Haider and the Freedom
Party. Old and young, trade unionists and international delegations marched together in
the heart of Carinthia where Haider is governor and gets 40 per cent of the vote. Haider
had boasted that since he took office no leftwingers have dared to protest against him (in
Klagenfurt). This quotation therefore featured on many of the placards carried by
protestors right past his head office.
In October Haider mobilised a demonstration of 15,000
people in Klagenfurt who marched under the banner of the SS "Die Ehre Unserer
Soldaten Heisst Treue" (the honour of our soldiers is their loyalty). Now local
people are gaining confidence to organise against the FPO.
The protestors listened to speakers from SOS Racisme (France), Rifondazione
(Italy), the Anti-Nazi League (Britain) and SOS Mitmensch.
Klagenfurt was inspirational - as one local speaker put it:
"This is only the beginning. It may be the first demonstration but it will be the
first of many".
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26 October 2000 Oxford
No haven for little Haiders!
Over 150 Anti-Nazi demonstrators ensured that the
Oxford University European Affairs Society's platform for leading FPÖ MEP Peter
Sichrovsky was a complete flop today!
Far from the huge learned audience expected, Peter
Sichrovsky had to be smuggled in to the meeting by police to address fifteen people. In
the week leading up to this meeting the OUEAS closed its membership, clearly apprehensive
about the questions that might be asked by those curious about why such an august
institution had invited a representative of a populist NAZI party to
address them. OUEAS had already lost the original venue when Trinity College cancelled it
in embarrassment, and they were forced to re-arrange the time of the meeting by protests.
They were even too nervous to let the press in. Fascist sympathisers failed to gain
entry because the ANL blockaded the building. Outrageously, Oxford University gave
official backing to the meeting in a press release, claiming it was "defending
freedom of speech". Whose freedom of speech? Apparently not that of
everyone at Oxford University - one proctor told the ANL that black and Asian students
"should stay away while Sichrovsky was there".
Anti-Nazis ensured that those in the meeting, security
guards and police were unable to leave the building for over three hours. The ANL was
joined by members of Labour Students, Oxford University Student Union, Oxford University
Jewish Society and telecommunication workers from the CWU. Sichrovsky was finally
smuggled out of the building in humiliation, abandoning his car in the process.
The official opening of the first Holocaust memorial in
Vienna was boycotted by the FPÖ this week, just days after Haider's latest invective
calling for the "elimination" of foreigners from Austria. However Oxford
ANL has sent a clear message of solidarity to anti-fascists in Austria today: the Freedom
Party is not wanted here!
*Oxford University European Affairs Society ignored
all requests to reconsider their decision to give a platform to Peter Sichrovsky, a member
of the racist Freedom Party. Perhaps OUEAS members and sponsors should reconsider
their support for such an organisation. OUEAS's major sponsor is the computer chip
multinational Intel. Let's tell them how their money is being spent:
Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd., Pipers Way, Swindon, Wiltshire SN3 1RJ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1793 403000
Fax: +44 (0)1793 641440
Leading OUEAS members are:
Professor Archie Brown, St Antony's: archie.brown@socstud.ox.ac.uk
Professor John Burrow, Balliol, Honorary President: no email
Sir Julian Bullard, All Souls: no email
Dr David Butler, Nuffield: david.butler@nuf.ox.ac.uk
Lord Butler of Brockwell: lord.butler@univ.ox.ac.uk
Mr Keith Chapple, Intel (UK): no email
Dr Christopher Davies, Wolfson: christopher.davis@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Dr James Forder, Balliol, Senior Member: james.forder@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Timothy Garton Ash, St Antony's: no email
Sir Marrack Goulding, St Antony's: marrack.goulding@sant.ox.ac.uk
Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, Chancellor of Oxford University: no email
Dr Anand Mennon, St Antony's: anand.menon@socstud.ox.ac.uk
Mr Chris Parr, Intel (UK): chris.d.parr@intel.com
Professor Peter Pulzer, All Souls: peter.pulzer@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
Committee members OUEAS:
President: Jennifer Evans, St. John's: jennifer.evans@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Secretary: Max Lang, Brasenose: maximilian.lang@bnc.ox.ac.uk
Events Secretaries: Heidi Strebel, Christ Church: heidi.strebel@chch.ox.ac.uk
PR Secretary: Guido Wolf, Mansfield: guido.wolf@mansf.ox.ac.uk
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21 October 2000 Margate
Pathetic turnout for National Front rally of
hate
The National Front attempted to hold a rally outside the Nayland Rock Hotel in Margate
today. The Nazis were joined by twenty local people hostile to asylum-seekers. The NF
leader - and violent criminal - Terry Blackham had his speeches of hatred against the
asylum-seekers drowned out by a sixty-strong counter-demo of local Anti-Nazis.
Outrageously, Kent police prioritised protection for the Nazi National Front over the
defenceless refugees inside. Having allowed the NF to incite violent racist attacks by
granting permission for the rally in the first place, they told the asylum-seekers to stay
inside and away from the hotel windows since "they could not guarantee their
safety". They even arrested an anti-Nazi before the picket had started for taking a
Nazi sticker off a lamp-post. The police did nothing to remove a swastika and NF graffiti
daubed on a car, yet tried to assist the NF speakers - who were being drowned out by the
ANL counter-chanting - by moving a van in front of them so their speeches of hate and
incitement could be heard.
Asylum-seekers could none the less be seen at the hotel windows cheering on the ANL
counter-demo. Earlier in the day, Margate ANL held a well-received petitioning stall
in the town centre and had convinced some local people who had intended joining the
anti-refugee rally not to go - some even came with the ANL instead, and we are rapidly
getting our message across to the whole town: that the National Front is a Nazi front and
their claims about asylum-seekers are racist lies. Join
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7 October 2000 Berlin
 Thousands march to close down
the Nazi NPD
On Saturday a delegation from the Anti-Nazi League in
Britain joined over 8,000 protestors to close down the headquarters of the NPD in the east
Berlin suburb of Köpenick. 63% of Germans now want this most violently Nazi
organisation - which receives state funding - banned. The demonstration included
trade unionists, anti-fascists and local people who want the HQ to go.
The ANL delegation included members of the NUS, MSF, Communication Workers Union and
UNISON. The ANL spoke at the final rally and gave a message of support and
solidarity on behalf of Glyn Ford MEP.
The demonstrators marched to the NPD HQ but were held back by riot police and water cannon
which had been used on protestors earlier in the day when the march reached a detention
centre for asylum seekers. The police in Berlin are seen to protect the Nazis and
their headquarters, just as the British police did when the BNP HQ was in Welling. The
rally resolved that the campaign will continue until - like the BNP HQ in Welling before
it - the NPD is kicked out of Berlin for good.
Anti-fascist news from Germany
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26 August 2000
Leicester
Forty Anti-Nazis held a stall and leafleting in Leicester
city centre on the same day the NF had threatened to hold a demonstration.
They
leafleted with members of the Indian Workers Association to get local Nazi activist Clive
Potter sacked from Leicester Royal Infirmary. There was a brilliant response from
local people who are furious that he is still employed at the hospital. The
campaign to get rid of this Nazi is growing, but he is still a member of UNISON.
If
you are a UNISON member you can help rid your union of Nazis for good by raising the
demand for Potter's expulsion in your branch: Nazis must be prevented from organising in
our places of work as well as our streets.
The Lord Mayor's Office is still refusing to deny rumours
that Clive Potter has been nominated for Leicester's Citizen of the Year award.
Ring
their office to complain to councillor Mrs Barbara Chambers on 0116 252 6060 or fax on
0116 252 6063.
Local opposition on Saturday ensured the National Front failed to show up.
Nottingham
Over 300 Anti-Nazis turned out to stop the Nazi NF holding
a march in Nottingham including the ANL, Nottingham Anti-Fascist Alliance, the Green
Party, Nottingham County UNISON and Nottingham City UNISON. Around 35 NF members
showed up but where unable to leave the park where they had assembled for over an hour
because of the demonstration against them.
Nottinghamshire police had a massive mobilisation to ensure that the NF could march,
including a helicopter, dogs, horses, and extra police from South Yorkshire.
In
spite of this the Anti-Nazis managed to occupy the area in front of the prison and stop
the Nazis reaching the end of their march.
Nottingham ANL have launched an open letter from residents in the area condemning the fact
that the Nazis were allowed to march and calling on local MPs and councillors to state
that they will oppose any future march applications from the Nazi NF.
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29 July 2000
United against prejudice!
NF humiliated in Leicester
 Hundreds of people marched through Leicester on Saturday 29 July on the Unity
Against Prejudice demonstration. UAP was organised because the gay Mardi Gras had been
cancelled due to pressure from the far-right. People defied the Nazis who had again
threatened to stop them on the day.
Around 20 NF thugs descended on the town centre and were joined by the Leicester Nazi
Clive Potter and his "Silent Majority" campaigners - all five of them.
 The
NF were protected by the police, who attacked the 150 ANL demonstrators. The police
allowed the NF and Potter to move towards the head of the UAP march. They were only
prevented from attacking it by the swift action of ANL protestors.
The public in Leicester were horrified and disgusted at the Nazi presence and many hurled
abuse at them.
Clive Potter has been a Nazi acitivist in
Leicester for years. He has high public profile due to local press interviews and the
publication of his letters. He works at Leicester Royal Infirmary, where there is
currently an ANL campaign demanding his sacking.
The ANL believes that Nazis have no place in our multiracial and multicultural
NHS. Join the campaign to sack Clive Potter.
Download the leaflets. Petitions are available
from the ANL office. Show your solidarity: sign the petition
and take it round your family and friends, estate, or workplace.
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17 June 2000
NF abandons Margate marches
Victory for ANL
The National Front had their worst turnout yet for
their third attempt to march in Margate today. Their national mobilisation managed a
grand total of exactly 30 Nazis, who were given massive police protection. The road along
the entire route from the station was completely barricaded, yet the ANL presence
none the less stopped them reaching the Clock Tower again.
As the march halted on the seafront, the pathetic
gathering heard gun-running leader Terry Blackham describe his turnout as
"disappointing". He then admitted they will probably not be returning to
Margate. The NF were then turned around by the police and forced to run back
to the station. The whole affair was over within twenty minutes of their arrival,
with local people demanding to know why Kent Police have spent over £150,000 protecting
these Nazi demonstrations.
It is just as well the NF will not be returning, as
the ANL will be ready for them if they ever try to spread their racist filth again.
To join Margate ANL contact us here.
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10 June 2000 Worcestershire
BNP cancel meeting
A meeting of the Nazi British National Party in
Tenbury Wells, at which leader Nick Griffin was to speak, was cancelled after the
ANL called a demonstration against them. The BNP are attempting to create a veneer
of respectability for their fascist politics. They are desperate to emulate the
electoral success of their counterparts in Austria and France, and want to avoid any open
confrontation with Anti-Nazis. The publicity would be particularly damaging for them
in the same week as a Nazi is on trial for the London nailbomb murders. This does
not fool us however: the ANL will ensure these Nazis stay where they belong - in the
gutter!
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3 June 2000
Nazi march halted in
Margate
Over 150 Anti-Nazis stopped the Nazi
National Front marching along the seafront today. For the second time in two months
the NF have attempted to demonstrate, exploiting local tensions over asylum seekers.
About fifty hardened NF thugs descended on Margate and were protected by over two hundred
police. One of the banners on the NF march was from the Ulster Defence Association -
which Terry Blackham, the NF's National Activities Organiser, has previously been jailed
for gun-running to.
The NF had fewer numbers than at their last
effort in Margate, and only a handful of local supporters. Margate ANL have pledged
to build a mass base to prevent the Nazis peddling their race hatred in the town again.
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20 May 2000
Zero NF turnout in
Hastings
Three hundred people attended the ANL rally
in Hastings, including local Labour MP Michael Foster and the leader of the local
council. One thousand people signed the petition against any NF march in the town,
bringing the total number of signatures to more than 7,000. Despite their threat of
a march or mass-leafleting, no Nazis dared to show up anywhere.
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13 May 2000
East Anglia rejects the NF
Victory for Anti-Nazis
The Nazi National Front had been given
permission to march in Wisbech, Norwich and Ipswich in support of jailed farmer Tony
Martin. However Tony Martin's solicitor gave a statement to the ANL saying:
Mr Martin has done nothing to encourage the
National Front and is very offended to hear that the extreme right are taking up his
cause. He does not support the NF march and wants to distance himself 100% from the
NF"
The NF then called their marches off at the last minute claiming in the local paper:
"The Anti Nazi League have said they are going to turn up wherever we go and
we have decided to change our tactics."
Local ANL supporters rallied in the three towns to ensure that they remained Nazi-free.
In Norwich over a hundred people marched where the NF had hoped to be.
Eighty
marched in Ipswich. The ANL leafleted in Wisbech and were joined by Eli Frankham,
president of the National Romany Rights Association. However we must be
vigilant. The NF hope to try for Wisbech again soon. We will be there
to stop them.
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6 May 2000
ANL routs NF in Worcester - again
 The Nazi National Front were prevented
from marching in Worcester by the ANL for the third time today. Over two hundred local
people gathered in the town centre to protest against them. When they arrived, they were
escorted to the outskirts of Worcester by the police, where they attempted to give out
leaflets. This is the second time in a fortnight local people have mobilised to ensure the
Nazis do not gain any platform for their racist ideas.The Nazi National Front were prevented
from marching in Worcester by the ANL for the third time today. Over two hundred local
people gathered in the town centre to protest against them. When they arrived, they were
escorted to the outskirts of Worcester by the police, where they attempted to give out
leaflets. This is the second time in a fortnight local people have mobilised to ensure the
Nazis do not gain any platform for their racist ideas.
Despite the inroads Nazis have made
in the local elections this week, the lesson from Worcester is clear - they can be stopped
by mass protest!
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5 May 2000
Local Elections
The Nazis' results across Britain must serve as a warning to us
all. On the back of the hysteria around asylum seekers they have increased their
votes in the West Midlands and gained nearly 50,000 votes across London.
We must be ever vigilant in our fight
against the Nazis, whether they try to march on the streets or gain electorally.
They will not be allowed to divide our multiracial and multicultural society.
Our task in Britain is to stop them whilst
they are this small because they want to emulate Nazis like Haider in Austria and Le Pen
in France.
Black and White unite and fight! - Join the ANL!
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30 April 2000
Vigil after Nazi desecration
 The
ANL held a vigil on 30 April following a disgusting desecration of a Jewish Cemetery in
Prestwich in which over 90 graves were attacked.
Seventy local people attended including the
MP, the leader of the council, and representatives from the Reform Synagogue, the
Holocaust Educational Trust, Manchester Black and Jewish Forum, Bury Pensioners
Association, Greater Manchester Pensioners Association, the Jewish Socialist Group and
trade unions including Natfhe and Unison.
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22 April 2000
West Midlands protests against the National Front
Hundreds of people protested
against the Nazi National Front across the West Midlands on Saturday.
Home Secretary Jack Straw had banned the National Front's planned march in
Worcester. The NF arrived late in the day on the outskirts of the town in a vain
attempt to hold a leafleting and march, but were stopped. They were then escorted by
the police to nearby Bromsgrove where they were allowed to march.
They were greeted by local protestors, angry at the heavy police presence and police
protection afforded to the Nazis. The NF had planned to march in several towns and local protests were mounted to stop them.
Over 80 people gathered in Kidderminster, including the leaders of the District and County
Council, local church leaders, councillors and others.
In Worcester, where 300 stopped the NF last year, the ANL gathered in the town centre.
In Bromsgrove many people spent the whole day vigilant against the NF and protested when
they were allowed to march.
This was not a successful day for the National Front - it was only because of the police
presence they were able to march anywhere at all, and the message from the West Midlands
is that Nazis are not welcome here!
The Nazis are standing in many
seats in the local elections on May 4th. Download leaflets and posters against them here.
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April 2000
Nazi BNP gains council seat in Herefordshire
One year after the Nazi
nailbomb attacks on Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho the BNP have gained their first council
seat since Derek Beackon was defeated in May 1994. Humiliatingly for the BNP he
only won the parish seat because it was unopposed. However the BNP will see this as a
victory. They want to build electorally, especially in the West Midlands.
They
are standing candidates in the local elections across Britain, for the London Assembly and
for Mayor. The Anti Nazi League will not rest until we have kicked this Nazi out.
Download resources
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11 April 2000
IRVING LOSES LIBEL CASE
 Leading
Holocaust-denier David Irving has lost his libel case against Professor Deborah Lipstadt
and Penguin Books.
The judge has ruled that Irving's reputation as a Nazi liar was not libelled by
Professor Lipstadt's book, Denying the
Holocaust.
See Irving
pelted with eggs. (BBC report: RealPlayer required.)
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8 April 2000
NF STOPPED IN MARGATE!
 The ANL prevented the Nazi
National Front from marching their full route in Margate on Saturday. Despite the
outrageous police use of dogs and batons against anti-nazi protestors blocking the march,
the NF were unable to march more than 200 yards from the railway station and gave up
reaching the Clock Tower for their rally of filth against refugees. The NF's
national mobilisation of 50 Nazis then turned and ran back to the station with the
protection of hundreds of riot police, pursued by anti-fascists and angry local people.
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29 February 2000
HAIDER RESIGNATION
THE POWER OF PROTEST!
Haider has been forced to
resign as head of the Freedom Party and one of his ministers is in psychiatric care.
A mere nine days after 300,000
protested against Haider, his party is literally cracking up under the strain.
Haider has tried to portray his resignation as a tactical manoeuvre and as a step towards
being Chancellor of Austria. This has fooled no-one. The leader of the SPÖ
(like the Labour Party) has called for the pressure to continue until the coalition
government falls. The FPÖ Justice minister, Michael Kruger, has been admitted to a
psychiatric hospital. He is a long standing member of the FPÖ and one of the hard,
inner core of leading members. Who says that protest doesn't work! We must
continue to build a campaign in Britain to force our government to back the international
condemnation of the FPÖ and to continue our solidarity with those who are resisting in
Austria.
WIDERSTAND!
300,000 demonstrate against Haider
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