Jeff Lowe ON NOVEMBER 8th the fascist National Front are holdIng their annual 'Remembrance Sunday' parade to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall.
November 8th is also the anniversary of 'Krystalnacht when the Nazis murdered Jews and smashed up their homes, shops and synagogues. Today their followers attack refugee hostels in Germany. Attacks on foreigners are now so common place they are no longer deemed news-worthy.
Throughout Europe anti-fascist and anti-racist organisations are holding demonstrations and rallies to mark the anniversary of 'Krystalnacht and to oppose the rise of fascism in Europe.
In Britain the fascists are using the despair of unempioyed white youth to try to spread their influence. In Nottinghamshire the Nazi ' cultural' outfit Blood and Honour is active in the towns threatened by pit closures.
At the for Mineworkers' fringe meeting at Labour Party conference Arthur Scargill warned of the dangers of the spread of fascism throughout Europe. A successful struggle by the miners Assemble Westminster City Hall, Sunday 8th November, 1pm sharp BOBBY SEALE, co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence, spoke to a packed meeting of over 1,000 in Brixton on 4th October. 600 were unable to gain entry.
Highlighting media attempts to discredit him as those of a 'dangerous and violent revolutionary', he revealed A Turkish-run pub in the Westphalian town of Iserlohn was attacked and completely wrecked by up to 30 British soldiers last week. The proprietor was slightly injured and his car was destroved. It is suspected that the attack was in revenge for an earlier fioht in the oub.
also involving British soldiers.
in which several were injured. would massively reduce the ability of the fascists to spread their poison. A defeat would allow them to grow.
Part of the fight against the fascists has to be to ensure the miners win. But we also have to confront the Nazis on the streets.
Compared to some of the European fascist parties the National Front (and the British National Party) are very small. We have to ensure they don't get the chance to grow.
The NF suffered severe setbacks in the 1970s because we were able to pin the Nazi label them and because thousands turned out to stop them every time they tried to parade on the streets. We need to do the same today.
The 'They Shall Not Pass Committeé - supported by the main anti-fascist and anti-racist organisations - has called a demonstration to stop the National Front from marching.
On the anniversary of 'Krystalnacht' we must ensure that the anti-fascists slogan of the '30s - 'They Shall Not Pass' - becomes a reality.
For further information contact the "They Shall Pass Committeé at Box 11, Centreprise, Kingsland High Road, London E8. Or telephone on 071 277 0817. Demonstrate!" Victoria Street, London WC1 aspects of his life which eloquently dispelled the reactionary myth and propaganda.
Seale works from Temple University Philadelphia and lectures on African history throughout the USA. He was trained as a builder by his father from the age of 5, became an architect at 18, and later was an aerospace designer working on satellite rockets, a jazz drummer and a "damn fine Bar-BQue chef"!
He impressed upon the meeting the need for the self determination of Africans all over the world, and for the unity of all peoples subjected to racism and colonial exploitation He stressed the requirement to study the sciences, mathematics and political thought as a basis for the hard work of organising the people so that they may change the terrible conditions that thev are forced to endure. "Empty slogans" he said "were not enough His experiences and his message were relished by the eager minds of the predominantly young and black audience: a new generation obviously inM ATU ATU