PETER JENKS, Southampton Labour councillor and UNISON branch secretary, was beaten by five BNP thugs on Saturday 15 January, after going to the aid of SWP paper sellers.
Cllr Jenks, not known as a friend of the left, received a black eye and assorted cuts and bruises. One SWP member was hospitalised and later released with a dislocated shoulder.
The attack was inspired by John Morse, a leading BNP member who has deputised for John Tyndall while Tyndall was in jail.
Morse had been leading a recruiting drive at the Bitterne Brewery pub, near the scene of the attack.
The Nazis left shouting "seig heil' and giving the Nazi salute.
Morse's gang in Southampton are responsible for a series of violent attacks, including the desecration of Jewish graves, beating up an Asian bus driver and petrol-bombing Asian homes.
Morse works as a bus driver for Hampshire Bus. Southampton trades council and other union bodies have called for his expulsion from the RMT transport union.
But union leader Jimmy Knapp has shunted the issue to an organisational sub-committee, which has just put Morse on probation.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No.56, February 5 1994, Page 5