Introduction

Welcome to the website of the Anti-Nazi League.

The Anti-Nazi League is a broad based, mass organisation.  Anyone who wants to stop the Nazis can join, regardless of political belief, religion or creed.  We have one single aim, to stop the Nazis reaching a wider audience and growing.

This is done by pinning the label of NAZI clearly on the likes of the BNP and NF.  They have the same aim as Hitler's Nazis.   Far from believing the Holocaust never took place, they wish to repeat it.

We fight them in many ways, by use of propaganda, demonstrations and counter-mobilisations.

This way, if they plan a public meeting where they hope to reach an audience, we will expose them in the local press, inform the venue and try to get it cancelled.  Finally, when faced by a huge counter-demonstration many of their supporters will think twice about attending their rallies.

This ensures that the Nazis get no platform for their racist ideas.

Why was the Anti-Nazi League launched?

Statement made on the relaunch of the Anti-Nazi League in 1992

FOR the first time in a generation Nazis in Europe are making significant advances. Both in Eastern Europe and in Germany, Belgium, Norway and Austria, Nazi candidates are gaining votes and respectability for their ideas. This is happening above all in France where Jean-Marie Le Pen, who called Hitler’s Holocaust ‘a mere detail of history’, now threatens to pollute the atmosphere of French politics.

Le Pen’s recent visit here was an attempt to give new impetus to Nazi ideas in Britain. It has taken Britain’s Nazis more than a decade to begin to regroup from their almost total eclipse at the hands of the Anti Nazi League in the late 1970s.

Against a background of unemployment and growing social decay, Nazi organisations like the British National Party are making a concerted bid to gain a fresh toehold in political life in Britain. While Nazis in Britain are still much weaker than in the rest of Europe, developments there should serve as a warning to us all.

This means that wherever Nazis in Britain try to organise they need to be opposed and their ideas exposed for what they are. To this end we, the founder members of the Anti Nazi League, are calling for the relaunching of the organisation and for the widest possible support.

Paul Holborow, Peter Hain MP, Ernie Roberts for the ANL Steering Committee, January 1992