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Winter 2010
December 5th saw the EDI. circus roll into town: a As usual, their organisers had already struggled to
shabby coalition of cryptofascist populists, stifle the frequent outbreaks of racist chanting in
fuckwitted Ingerlund lads and beergut nasis. They front of the onlooking media. But the high tension
hoped they would have the run of the city, riding of day increased the strain on the already shaky
the wave of jingoism surrounding a march of union between the pub patriots and their
returning troops, and stamping their brand of 'respectable' organisers, with their aspirations of
white-male-Britishness on the city centre. But movement--building and their quest for the approval
there were plenty of local autonomous antifascists of 'England: love it or leave it’ types, stirred by
who had different ideas, and the EDL were greeted the sight of the St George cross but repelled by the
with insults, scuffles, abusive graffiti, banner sight of a crowd brawling with the ‘brave bobbies"
drops and hostile leaflets.
Before and after their rally the EDI, spent their
Chaos reigned in the city centre as police poured
time in the pub, making occasional trips into the
resources into keeping the EDI. apart from our
streets for bouts of unimaginative chanting. Here
‘welcoming committee’. Nervous coppers had already
again, it was vital that they were made to feel
spent the previous week despatching squad cars to
uncomfortable. Ho thanks are due to the BAP who -
take down anti-EDI» posters and pressurising local
having early in the day contrived to march 200
‘community leaders’ with s mixture of lies and
"yards to get into the prepared police kettle, where
Ythreats in order to try to keep antifasciste at
they could settle into their time-honoured role of
ihome. On the day our threats of trouble were still
comfortably ineffectual official opposition -
enough to ensure that the only people who had to
proceeded to shuffle off home later in the day,
endure the sound of the EDI. frothing themselves
seemingly satisfied with having made their token
‘ into a boring frenzy of foot-stamping outrage were
gesture. Up stepped some local youth who gathered
ithe EDI. themselves, some mainstream journos and s
in lively groups later in the day to chase the 3101,
thick ring of cops, as their rally was shunted out
around, eager to present them with s ‘physical
lof the city centre and cordoned off.
petition’ suggesting they leave town.
A This enforced close attention from the cops -
Among the lessons to be learned from the day is
; combined with taunts from outside the cordon -
this: symbolic opposition is next to worthless, but
proved too much of a provocation for many in their
even a few people actively fighting back is enough
crowd, and before long we were treated to the
to totally change the character of these events.
heartening sight of the filth and the fash at each
If the EDI. show their faces again let's show up in
other-‘s throats. This played on the tensions within
numbers and make sure we get our point across
the BBL, between organisers and the day-trippers
forcefully.
that comprise the bulk of their numbers.
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SIHG HEKBERS IF DROVES
FEB 1 Bed White and Blue (RIB) festival organiser,
David Shapcott, is serenaded in the middle of
The two recent leaks of the BNPs membership
the night by half a dozen personal attack
list allowed antifascists to e xamine the part
alarms planted about his property by
fortunes over the intervening year By
antifascists
comparing names from the 2007 and 2008 lists
1 RIB host, Alan Warner, has his farm gates is possible to see that the
glued shut and RACIST BHP scum’ painted on
BHP is losing members at an astonishing rate
his walls
almost 60 left during the course of the year
tingham, a reduction of 35$
BAR 1 BHP fundraiser in Liverpool attacked by
antifascists with hammers who total vehicles
and attack BHP activists Particularly badly hit were Long Eaton,
E E Clifton and Carlton with losses of 45-60% of
the membership The combination of a party
APR x BHP activists in Leeds and Bradford receive
that is unable to secure its members details
night-time visits from antifascists who glue
and sustained antifascist pressure has cost 1
locks, damage cars and paint BHP scmf on
walls and doors BNP dearly
x Two Gloucestershire fascists work vans
The party has fared little better in
have locks glued and a repaint Job
traditional strongholds such as Eastwood,
Brinsley and Ashfield where there are also
x South Cambridgeshire BHP stall mobbed by
significantly fewer BHP members than before
antifascists who destroy their leaflets
(27 fewer in 2008) A very small number of an
have seen gains though - Cotgrave, Ripley an
HAY x BHP blocked from entering European
Heanor all have more BHP members than befor
election hustings in Bath for over an hour
and should be targeted by antifascists in the
x Postal workers across the country refuse
ture
to deliver BHP propaganda, despite threats
from bosses.
Even before the partys latest headaches ove:
allowing non-white members and the freezing
x BHP election billboards destroyed
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of the membership list, the local BNP were ix
poor shape and their supporters were deserti
JUN I Shrewsbury BHP activist, Alan Cole, has his
them in droves A bit of extra pressure from
union flag set on fire in his arden The
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antifascists will help to send the BHP into
burning flag was, in his words, "the final
act of a three-night campaign of abuse...
x Hick Griffin pelted with eggs at his
victory speech in Parliament Square
JUL x Alan Warner gets another visit Gates 3)..
locked and DEAD NAZI' spraypainted on the
wall
1 Hick Griffin has pint poured over him in
Gloucestershire
QUG x Over a thousand anti-fascists protest the
BFP8 Red. White and Blue festival Attempts BTl'=s,issuesnickoiég\e.
are made to block roads leading to the site
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DCT x Griffin pelted with eggs in Lanarkshire
H0? x BHP paper sale surrounded by antifascists
in Newcastle Missiles thrown at fash
DEC 1: EDL march in Nottingham met by militant
opposition I-ledflatorsceive:
*PZZA
1 Protesters at BHPs Trafalgar Club dinner
IKXS
in Ross-on-Wye attempt to block members
*DOGSI'I'I'
entry and pelt cars with eggs
1 BB? pull their Freepost address after only
Illqluiasrpluendauesls
a few months following sustained abuse and
illegal activity from their political
opponents.
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