Youth Against Racism in
Europe
9 July 2010
As has been widely covered in the media,
the BNP lost 27 councillors in the 2010 local elections, only retaining
two that were up for re-election. Although they still have 19 councillors
nationally.
Their biggest drubbing came in Barking
and Dagenham where they lost all 12 seats after it had been widely
reported that they could take control of the council.
On the surface it would appear the BNP
have been beaten, or even at least severely wounded but this is the easy
way to look at it.
More ...
 It
is New Labour who opened the door to the far-right, racist British
National Party’s success. The people who have benefited most under Labour
are big business and the super-rich. The rest of us have seen skilled jobs
replaced with part-time, low paid exploitation; privatisation destroying
the NHS, Royal Mail and other public services; council housing sold off so
virtually no one has access to it and private rents going through the
roof...
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Reprint 15/3/10
The Observer newspaper ran a
front page "expose" of the Metropolitan Police's "infiltration" of Youth
Against Racism in Europe during the battle to close the BNP's
headquarters in Welling in the 1990s. (14 March 2010, 'Undercover
policeman reveals how he infiltrated UK's violent activists' - see next
article below)
The Observer's video shows footage
of the YRE's campaign to remove the BNP from Brick Lane,
in Tower Hamlets, East London. It was this victory
by the local community against the BNP which motivated the Met Police to infiltrate the YRE,
according to the
video footage claim.
The only place the BNP had won a
council seat at that time was in Tower Hamlets, in 1993.
Youth against Racism in Europe
played an important part in defeating the BNP and driving them out
of Tower Hamlets at the time. While the situation we face is different
now, many of the ideas and methods that were used then are just as
appropriate and can be adapted to today's struggle.
This article explains the YRE's role in fighting
the BNP in Tower Hamlets during the 90s.
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The disgraceful article in today's
Observer (Undercover policeman reveals how he infiltrated UK's violent
activists, 14 March 2010) claims to 'expose' how "an officer from a
secretive unit of the Metropolitan police" was "working undercover among
anti-racist groups in Britain, during which he routinely engaged in
violence against members of the public and uniformed police officers to
maintain his cover."
By Lois
Austin, YRE chair 1992-1996; Hannah Sell, YRE secretary 1992-1996
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Say no to the BNP –
Fight for decent jobs and services
Support the fortnight of action 27 June - 10 July 2009
Joint statement by YRE and Youth Fight for Jobs:
The BNP have won two seats in the European Parliament with 943,000
votes across the country. Many people will be outraged and disgusted that
this far right, racist group has another platform to air their views.
Despite attempts to appear respectable in front of the media the real
nature of the BNP leadership keeps being exposed. Eddy O'Sullivan, a
candidate in the North West, was discovered with vile racist comments on
his facebook profile.
In London a black nurse was subject to a torrent of
racist abuse from a BNP activist when she complained about getting a BNP
leaflet through her door. The BNP and their views are opposed by the vast
majority of people. The election of two BNP MEPs needs to be met with a
wave of protest to make our opposition clear.
Read more ...
Euro-elections June 2009
Keep the BNP out!
far-right BNP shows weakness in North West
In a series of recent reverses, the BNP have shown their weakness in
cities like Manchester and Salford, while in opinion polls the BNP remain
below the percentage needed to win a seat. With one day until the
Euro-elections and some local elections, it is still possible to prevent
the racist right winning seats.
Read more ...
Refinery and power strike spreads:
The strike of
construction workers which began last week is continuing and looks as if
it is spreading throughout the country with Sellafield and Heysham nuclear
plants out. Workers at other plants, according to the BBC, have also
decided to stay out, these include Grangemouth and Longannon in Scotland.
Warrington and Staythope in Newark are also out as well. The strikes are
spreading from fiddlers ferry in Warrington to the Drax power station in
Yorkshire.
The media are saying that the strikes are
against foreign labour, while the government attacks striking workers for
wanting protectionism.
But as Keith
Gibson, one of the unofficial strike committee at the Lindsey Oil Refinery
(speaking in a personal capacity) said: “The workers of LOR, Conoco and
Easington did not take strike action against immigrant workers. Our action
is rightly aimed against company bosses who attempt to play off one
nationality of worker against the other and undermine the NAECI [National
Agreement for the Engineering and Construction Industry] agreement…
Read more
...
26 November 2008
BNP membership list
A weak divided party exposed
Despite the huge amounts of media coverage the British
National Party has received over the years, the publication of their list
of members, ex-members and others makes it clear that the BNP is a
relatively small party. In fact the very publication of the list by a
disgruntled member reflects the divisions and splits the BNP regularly
faces.
Read more ...
17 November 2008
Two peaceful demonstrators leaving Saturday’s Unite
Against Fascism demonstration in Blackpool required hospital treatment for
injuries received in an unprovoked attack from a politically-motivated
thug.
Read more ...
Mass protest against BNP camp
Sat 16 Aug in Derbyshire
Mass protest @ 9am
followed by
12.30pm rally in Codnor, Derbyshire
see the campaign website for up-to-the-minute details of
where to go:
http://nobnpfestival.wordpress.com/
The campaign against the far-right, racist British
National Party's 'Red, White and Blue festival' in Derbyshire is gaining
support. Many local residents are unhappy about the BNP trying to use
their area as a recruiting ground and have objected to the ‘Festival’...
Read more ...
BNP gain some seats in elections
build the campaign to
stop the far-right!
March against the BNP
Saturday 21st June 2008
Assemble: 12 noon, Tooley Street, London SE1 (behind Greater London
Assembly building, nr Tower Bridge)
Stop the BNP summer camp!
The BNP’s annual 'Red, White and Blue' festival is planned for
mid-August. We call on anti-BNP campaigners to join the protests against
this on Sat 16 August in Derbyshire.
More info...
Oliver Campbell is innocent!
Clear
his name now!
5-6 pm Monday 11 December 2006
Hackney Police Station
2 Lower Clapton Rd E5 0PA
To mark the 15th anniversary of a major miscarriage
of justice we are protesting outside the police station where Oliver
Campbell was first arrested.
More info ...
September
2006
Film Showing: The GAMA Strike
 Friday
1st September
7pm
London Irish Centre
50-52 Camden Square, LONDON NW1 9XB
Nearest Stations; Camden Road & Camden Town
à
Turkish GAMA Workers fight back against mass exploitation
à
Workers fight for millions of euros in unpaid wages
à
See Socialist Party MP Joe Higgins expose the scandal in the Irish
Parliament
Click here for more info and details of how to buy copies of the Gama
Strike DVD and pamphlet: "We are Workers not Slaves" (300k Word doc
opens in new window)
September
2006
Attack on British "scroungers" does nothing to help
migrants -- we need a living wage
and rights at work for all!
letter to The Independent, 24 August 2006
It's sad that in championing the rights of
migrants Yasmin Alibhai Brown feels that it is acceptable to attack the
existing population of Britain with the prejudices and assumptions often
directed against migrants: "too lazy or expensive",
"indolent...scroungers" (God bless the 'foreigners' willing to do our
dirty work, 23/8/06).
More ...
July
2006
THE FAR-right British National Party (BNP) achieved significant
advances in the May 2006 local elections, where they won 33 more
councillors bringing their total to 55 nationally. Their gain of eleven
councillors in Barking and Dagenham hit the headlines most but this was
not an isolated development.
More
...
June
2006
Play Review: Fair
"Dodgems – who needs them when we can go round
& round in circles by ourselves and get skint and whiplash in the
process?"
Read review ...
April
2006
Answering
the arguments of the BNP
Click
here to download the updated fact sheet rtf file
"Oliver Campbell should not have to wait a moment
longer for justice"
Kirsty Wark, Rough Justice,
January 2002
"I’ve been a victim of a
miscarriage of justice. If it takes me the rest of my life to clear my
name, I would do that." Oliver Campbell
Support
the campaign to clear Oliver's name!
More
...
16
September 2005
Greece:
Campaign to stop European nazi camp
In May
2005, four neofascist European groups (NPD from Germany, Forza Nueva from
Italy, Falanx from Spain and Chrisi Avgi from Greece) announced that they
would organize their first European Youth Camp on the 16 - 18 September in
Greece, without specifying the exact location.
More
...
1
July 2005
Protest against the G8!
End world poverty & racism - make capitalism history
As hundreds of thousands gather to protest against world
poverty and environmental destruction outside the G8 (group of eight
richest nations in the world) summit in Gleneagles, YRE looks at the
hypocrisy of Western leaders like Gordon Brown & Tony Blair posing as
the "saviours" of Africa and how refugees from around the world
are treated in Britain.
We also look at how workers in South Africa are showing a
better way to fight against unemployment and poverty, with a report on the
powerful general strike there on 27 June:
31
March 2005
Charles Pouaha must stay!
"I escaped and came to England on
the 26th of November 2002, but instead of finding refuge here I have been
drowning in problems; since I came to this country and presented myself to
immigration as an asylum-seeker, I have suffered the evils that I was
trying to forget yet again. I have been held in detention since the 29th
August 2003.
More
...
15th
March 2005:
"You
take your frustration out on them": Detention
Undercover: exposing racism & violence in the asylum system
Also: The
view from inside: detainees speak
10th
February 2005 Holocaust Week 2005:
who was responsible and what should we remember?
Friday
11 June 2004: local election results
May
2004 Anti-BNP
factsheet rtf file (264Kb file)
April
2004 Don't support the BNP: Unite
to fight for jobs, homes & services (Leaflet - text version)
Leaflet
in PDF version 388 Kb - click
here
September
2003: John Tyndall, ex-leader of
the BNP, expelled (briefly) from BNP
August
2003: BNP
cash in on disillusionment with Labour
No
Pasaran Youth against Racism in
Europe magazine: Summer 2003
>
On Line version >> Download PDF
print quality version (1.7Mb file)
May
2003: Neo-Nazi
BNP win 13 council seats - YRE and ISR statement
>
"STOP THE NAZI BNP" >> Petition
>> Leaflet
Stop the Nazi BNP!
 The
threat of fascism
- questions and answers about the Nazis in the 1930s and today
Tower Hamlets
- how the BNP were stopped in the 90s
Youth against Racism in Europe
Introduction
How
Hitler came to power
questions and answers
about the Nazis in the 1930s and today
A brief history of the
BNP
Tower
Hamlets
how the BNP was stopped
in the 1990s
Educational
resources
YRE
produces a range of educational resources aimed at combating racist ideas
and encouraging people to oppose racism and other forms of prejudice.
At
the moment we are updating our anti-racist education
pack.
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