The Gloucester Arms on Leighton Road in Kentish Town has been subjected to protests by anti racists following the landlord, John Coyne's decision to let organised racists hold meetings in the pub. There will be a week of email and telephone action on the week of 25th - 29th Jan asking that Camden council remove the pub's licence especially as they play hardore porn in front of kids.The far right group Jobbik Party, part of a racist group "The Alliance of Nationalist Movements" drafted by the BNPs Nick Griffin, have been holding meetings in the pub. The pub's walls were recently daubed with Close BNP Pub and local people are sick of the loud music being played at full volume all night and hardcore porn dvds being played in front of children in the bar.
During protests held by Camden Anarchists and covered by the Camden New Journal the lanflord John Coyne came out and told them to "go whistle" before allowing the meeting to go ahead. The landlord is believed to have links to racist right wing groups formed in Ulster.
Contact Camden Council and ask that they remove the pub's license.
Write to or phone Camden Council on 0207 974 4444
Camden Town Hall
Judd Street
Camden
London
WC1HJEhttp://www.camden.gov.uk/
The Gloucester Arms is at 59 -61 Leighton Road, Kentish Town, Camden NW5 2QH
You can upload a letter from here to post of to the council.Boycott Fascist pub in Camden week of action 25th-29th Jan 2009 update
e-mail: camdenantifash@yahoo.co.uk
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Boycott fascist pub in Camden week of action 25th-29th Jan 2009 update
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Monday, 28 September 2009
Bectu Union supports members refusing to work if/when BNP are on Question Time
free speech? why Nazi Nick Griffin should not be allowed on question time and protest date
Dear Everyone
Unite Against Fascism is not the only organisation which believes that the Nazis should not be allowed to appear on the BBCs flagship political discussion programme, Question time. The TV technicians' union has attacked the BBC's decision to invite BNP leader Nick Griffin on to Question Time and pledged to join a demonstration against the recording of the programme.
THE PROTEST WILL BE ON 22ND OCTOBER LATE AFTERNOON IN LONDON—DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED BUT BOOK TIME OFF NOW TO COME ALONG IF YOU CAN GET TO LONDON
Bectu said it would support any of its members who refused to work on the programme, which will be transmitted on October 22.General secretary Gerry Morrissey said: "We believe there should be no media coverage of the BNP and I have raised this issue with the director general, Mark Thompson.
"He said they have been invited on to the programme because they have won elections, but we strongly disagree.
"We will be arranging a demonstration and lobby outside the Question Time studios and we will be working with anti-fascist groups to ensure there is a significant turn out."
We know that it sounds bad to say we want to stop the views of someone from being aired--but you have to ask yourself are Nazis the same as others with whom you disagree? And the answer is no. they are not just people with offensive views. They are Nazis. And Nazis engage in mass murder when they get power. They also shut down every kind of democratic organisation in civil society.
The argument that they must be allowed to be on TV to expose them is mistaken for two reasons
Firstly: it is not necessary to have Hitler to speak in order to expose his views. Therefore it is not necessary for Nick Griffin and the Nazi BNP to be given air time on the state TV to expose them. We already know they are racist and fascist
Secondly: like Hitler, Griffin intends to use the platforms afforded in a democratic society to hide his true nature until it is too late. He won't be exposed on the BBC. He will wear a suit and lie. he will use parliament and the BBC and legal methods , distancing himself from the thugs who commit racist attacks up to the point when he feels strong enough, as Hitler did, to smash all of that and emerge as a dictator.
By then it will be too late.
Even now, when Nazis speak people die because the thugs gain confidence. Racist attacks increased when the BNP organised in east London and had their bookshop in south London. Stephen Lawrence died during a spate of racist attacks and he died not far from the BNP bookshop--his alleged killers later being found to read the BNP paper. David Copeland the nail bomber in London was a BNP security force member.
So.. nazis alone should not be given a platform--the muder of 6 million jews is not a matter for polite debate. if you wouldnt tolerate Hitler on the beeb.. LETS STOP NAZI NICK from getting the space to organise murder
Elane Heffernan
Cause Creator
Dear Everyone
Unite Against Fascism is not the only organisation which believes that the Nazis should not be allowed to appear on the BBCs flagship political discussion programme, Question time. The TV technicians' union has attacked the BBC's decision to invite BNP leader Nick Griffin on to Question Time and pledged to join a demonstration against the recording of the programme.
THE PROTEST WILL BE ON 22ND OCTOBER LATE AFTERNOON IN LONDON—DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED BUT BOOK TIME OFF NOW TO COME ALONG IF YOU CAN GET TO LONDON
Bectu said it would support any of its members who refused to work on the programme, which will be transmitted on October 22.General secretary Gerry Morrissey said: "We believe there should be no media coverage of the BNP and I have raised this issue with the director general, Mark Thompson.
"He said they have been invited on to the programme because they have won elections, but we strongly disagree.
"We will be arranging a demonstration and lobby outside the Question Time studios and we will be working with anti-fascist groups to ensure there is a significant turn out."
We know that it sounds bad to say we want to stop the views of someone from being aired--but you have to ask yourself are Nazis the same as others with whom you disagree? And the answer is no. they are not just people with offensive views. They are Nazis. And Nazis engage in mass murder when they get power. They also shut down every kind of democratic organisation in civil society.
The argument that they must be allowed to be on TV to expose them is mistaken for two reasons
Firstly: it is not necessary to have Hitler to speak in order to expose his views. Therefore it is not necessary for Nick Griffin and the Nazi BNP to be given air time on the state TV to expose them. We already know they are racist and fascist
Secondly: like Hitler, Griffin intends to use the platforms afforded in a democratic society to hide his true nature until it is too late. He won't be exposed on the BBC. He will wear a suit and lie. he will use parliament and the BBC and legal methods , distancing himself from the thugs who commit racist attacks up to the point when he feels strong enough, as Hitler did, to smash all of that and emerge as a dictator.
By then it will be too late.
Even now, when Nazis speak people die because the thugs gain confidence. Racist attacks increased when the BNP organised in east London and had their bookshop in south London. Stephen Lawrence died during a spate of racist attacks and he died not far from the BNP bookshop--his alleged killers later being found to read the BNP paper. David Copeland the nail bomber in London was a BNP security force member.
So.. nazis alone should not be given a platform--the muder of 6 million jews is not a matter for polite debate. if you wouldnt tolerate Hitler on the beeb.. LETS STOP NAZI NICK from getting the space to organise murder
Elane Heffernan
Cause Creator
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Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Protest against Channel 4 giving platform to convicted Holocaust denier - Tuesday 9th Dec
Channel 4's offshoot channel More 4 is planning to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by giving a platform to the Nazi sympathiser and convicted Holocaust denier David Irving.
Irving has spent his entire miserable career peddling apologetics for Hitler in far right and fascist circles.
To present him as a hero of "free speech" is a grotesque travesty – his entire life has been dedicated to those who would crush all human freedoms.
More 4 plans to show its 90 minute documentary, An Independent Mind, on Tuesday night. But we can stop them if enough people register their anger and disgust.
Call 0845 076 0191 to complain to Channel 4 and demand that they stop handing over airtime to Nazis and Holocaust deniers.
Unite Against Fascism has called two protests over More 4's Irving documentary, this evening and tomorrow evening.
The Royal Society of Arts is screening the documentary tonight, Monday 8 December. To protest assemble at 6pm outside 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ (Covent Garden tube)
UAF has also called a protest outside Channel 4's headquarters on Tuesday 9 December. Assemble at 6pm outside 124 Horseferry Rd, London SW1 (nearest tube St James's Park).
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Monday, 24 November 2008
Seize this opportunity to send the Nazi BNP packing
The leak of the membership list for the fascist British National Party (BNP) is an opportunity for trade unionists and anti-fascists to drive home a blow against Britain’s largest Nazi organisation.
The BNP membership list, dating from late last year, was posted online last night. BNP leader Nick Griffin admitted today that the leak came from inside the organisation. A disgruntled former senior BNP employee was to blame, he said.
The fascists are in no position to complain about their privacy being invaded. They have long used hate sites such as “Red Watch” to publish personal information about anti-Nazi activists. Now they are turning these same tactics on themselves.
Read more at SW here
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Sunday, 23 November 2008
Friday, 14 November 2008
Nazi Gangs Attack Protesting Students in Rome, Italy
Protesting students in Italy are attacked by fascist gangs with help from the police.
Friday, 26 September 2008
Hampstead Town ward by-election results-WE SMASHED THE BNP
The results of the by election are as follows:
| Candidate | Party | Votes cast |
|---|---|---|
| Linda Chung | Liberal Democrats | 1242 |
| Stephen Dorman | British National Party | 29 |
| Stephen Phillips | Conservative | 1114 |
| Anya Reeve | Green | 140 |
| Larraine Revah | Labour | 289 |
Linda Chung was duly elected borough councillor for Hampstead Town ward. The voter turnout was 36.70%.
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
Family flee 'neo-Nazi' rally in Somerset
Watch coverage at the BBC
A young family fled their Somerset home when hundreds of people, some draped in swastika flags, took over a field near their garden.
A young family fled their Somerset home when hundreds of people, some draped in swastika flags, took over a field near their garden.
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
United against the fascists in Rotherham
Photo copyright Guy SmallmanThe fascist British National Party (BNP) is on the march again – but we can build a mass movement to stop them in their tracks. That was the message last weekend coming from Rotherham and Stoke-on-Trent, two key targets for the BNP Nazis.
Some 4,500 young people turned out last Saturday in Rotherham for an indoor carnival against the fascists organised by Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR).
Meanwhile in Stoke, a coalition of anti-racist organisations is calling on people to demonstrate against a planned BNP “national rally” to be held in the city on Saturday 20 September.
The Rotherham carnival – LMHR’s largest indoor event to date – was headlined by The Kaiser Chiefs and included sets from Reverend And The Makers, The Courteeners, hip-hop act Fallacy and poet Skint & Demoralised.
Bands and speakers spoke out against the BNP from the stage and urged the overwhelmingly local and working class audience to get involved in the campaign against the Nazis.
Campaigners with Rotherham Unite Against Fascism (UAF) plan to build on the carnival by leafleting Brinsworth, one of the two wards in the town with a BNP councillor, this weekend.
Read more in the Socialist Worker here
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Open meeting: How do we stop the BNP?
Open meeting: ALL welcome.Euromed Cafe, 225 Kentish Town Road, NW3
Call Clare on 07958 034 181 for more details. I am meeting people beforehand so call me if you want to meet a bit earlier to go together.
Unite Against Fascism
When I sent this flyer below to the printers the woman who worked there said her boss had a fit when he saw it in the inbox coz he thought it was FOR the BNP...I asked her whether he would have printed them: 'You must be joking: absolutely NO WAY', she said.
United Against Fascism We Stand
Click on this leaflet for 5 lies the BNP tell
Monday, 8 September 2008
Unite against the fascist BNP in Hampstead campaign
The campaign in Hampstead got off to a good start this weekend with leafletting on both Saturday and Sunday covering a big chunk of the ward. The Labour Party had our leaflet on their stall and all the candidates have agreed not to share a platform with the BNP.
Further leafletting will take place on Tuesday evening meeting at Belsize Park tube at 6:30
It has been agreed to have a stall in South End Green on Saturday at 12:00. A volunteer is needed to organise this - a table, resources from UAF, leaflets, petition, collection box, etc.
We also need to leaflet Belsize Park tube, Hampstead tube, and Hampstead overground either in the morning when people are going to work or in the evening when they return. Please let me know your availability for this and I will coordinate.
We need to get letters into the Ham & High and CNJ - not to long - basically who the BNP are and it does not matter who you vote for get out and vote to keep the BNP out.
This is the first time the BNP have stood in Camden - the NF did back in the late 70's - but we must not let them get a toe hold here now. That means in the longer term we must be prepared for them standing in other wards when the council elections happen. With this in mind we will be holding an event/meeting after this by-elction with a view of setting up a UAF group in Camden.
Trade Unions - A motion will be going to Camden Unison Branch Committee on 19th.
Donations from individuals would also be most welcome
Could all of you forward this to your contacts, if people e-mail me I will add their names to a distribution list and let me know if you can leaflet tomorrow or do the stall on Saturday.
Further leafletting will take place on Tuesday evening meeting at Belsize Park tube at 6:30
It has been agreed to have a stall in South End Green on Saturday at 12:00. A volunteer is needed to organise this - a table, resources from UAF, leaflets, petition, collection box, etc.
We also need to leaflet Belsize Park tube, Hampstead tube, and Hampstead overground either in the morning when people are going to work or in the evening when they return. Please let me know your availability for this and I will coordinate.
We need to get letters into the Ham & High and CNJ - not to long - basically who the BNP are and it does not matter who you vote for get out and vote to keep the BNP out.
This is the first time the BNP have stood in Camden - the NF did back in the late 70's - but we must not let them get a toe hold here now. That means in the longer term we must be prepared for them standing in other wards when the council elections happen. With this in mind we will be holding an event/meeting after this by-elction with a view of setting up a UAF group in Camden.
Trade Unions - A motion will be going to Camden Unison Branch Committee on 19th.
Donations from individuals would also be most welcome
Could all of you forward this to your contacts, if people e-mail me I will add their names to a distribution list and let me know if you can leaflet tomorrow or do the stall on Saturday.
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
The Fascist BNP standing in Hampstead. Campaign details coming soon.
Socialist Worker Guide to Fighting Britains Nazi Party
Action agreed so far:
Sunday, Sept 7th, 2pm leafletting the ward. Meet Belsize Park Tube station. Look for the Unite Against Fascism placards
Tuesday, September 9th, 6.30pm leafletting the ward. Also meet Belsize Park Tube.
Call Clare 07958 034 181 if you are late or can not find us.
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The fascist British National Party are standing in the Leafy ward of Hampstead on September 25th. Having changed tactics from bover boots and skinheads to pinstripe suits they clearly aim to attract the upper, middle classes of this well-to-do area.
Nazi parties such as the BNP usually do well if voter turnout is low so we need to do mass campaigning with as broad a team as possible. Please start spreading the news at every meeting you attend and to all your contacts and I'll keep you updated with campaign meetings.
Read F is for Fascism
Unite Against Fascism
On May 1st the BNP won a seat on the London Assembly. We, the SOAS Students' Union, agreed to make Anti-Fascist campaigning one of our priority campaigns for the coming academic year. We booked in a film showing to kick off the campaign and it turns out that the date we have booked is the day before the election in Hampstead. SO, we will do mass leafletting directly afterwards. More details to follow. Please join us to make this as affective as possible.
SOAS Freshers Event, hosted by LGBT, Women's, Disabled and Black students officers.
Private showing of Shane Meadows film 'This is England' . An inspiring film, based on the real life experiences of Shane, about a troubled young lad who joins the BNP but finds that they are not all they make themselves out to be.
Date: September 24th
Venue: Renoir Cinema
Time: 2pm
Meet on SOAS steps at 1.30pm. We will walk round to the cinema with you all.
Sorry, unusually for a SOAS event, and due to limited space, this event is for SOAS students only.
Action agreed so far:
Sunday, Sept 7th, 2pm leafletting the ward. Meet Belsize Park Tube station. Look for the Unite Against Fascism placards
Tuesday, September 9th, 6.30pm leafletting the ward. Also meet Belsize Park Tube.
Call Clare 07958 034 181 if you are late or can not find us.
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The fascist British National Party are standing in the Leafy ward of Hampstead on September 25th. Having changed tactics from bover boots and skinheads to pinstripe suits they clearly aim to attract the upper, middle classes of this well-to-do area.
Nazi parties such as the BNP usually do well if voter turnout is low so we need to do mass campaigning with as broad a team as possible. Please start spreading the news at every meeting you attend and to all your contacts and I'll keep you updated with campaign meetings.
Read F is for Fascism
Unite Against Fascism
On May 1st the BNP won a seat on the London Assembly. We, the SOAS Students' Union, agreed to make Anti-Fascist campaigning one of our priority campaigns for the coming academic year. We booked in a film showing to kick off the campaign and it turns out that the date we have booked is the day before the election in Hampstead. SO, we will do mass leafletting directly afterwards. More details to follow. Please join us to make this as affective as possible.
SOAS Freshers Event, hosted by LGBT, Women's, Disabled and Black students officers.
Private showing of Shane Meadows film 'This is England' . An inspiring film, based on the real life experiences of Shane, about a troubled young lad who joins the BNP but finds that they are not all they make themselves out to be.
Date: September 24th
Venue: Renoir Cinema
Time: 2pm
Meet on SOAS steps at 1.30pm. We will walk round to the cinema with you all.
Sorry, unusually for a SOAS event, and due to limited space, this event is for SOAS students only.
Sunday, 31 August 2008
BBC recruiting for the BNP again
Compare 2 versions of a story about years of racist torment and provocation. First this one by the BBC's Phil Mackie:Politics Fragments Stoke
As an Asian man from Stoke-on-Trent begins a jail term for killing his British National Party activist neighbour, what impact has the case had on the city?...Mr Brown's death and the subsequent trial have become an important part of British National Party (BNP) campaigning.
The party believes that had the roles in the fatal fight been reversed, Mr Brown would be serving life for murder. Its bloggers rail against a judicial system they say is hamstrung by political correctness and dominated by a middle-class liberal elite.
We've always known that the BBC has a tendency to distort stories of this ilk, but this takes the piss.
BNP leader, Nick Griffin, even attended Mr Brown's funeral.
Mr Griffin told mourners that Mr Brown's family was subjected to a reign of terror by racist neighbours and their gang friends. (emphasis my own)
...to this one:
Racists made life hell by
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
BILLY BRAGG & MARTIN SMITH: CAN IDENTITY POLITICS BEAT THE NAZIS?
Thanks Comrade Ady for this brilliant video of Martin thrashing out the political arguments of flag waving patriotism
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