9 May 2013 — New Left Project
When the racism and bigotry fuelling the EDL-backed UK Independence Party were finally revealed to public view, the results were never going to be pretty. So it proved last week, as the threat to the Tories prompted a huge dirt-digging operation, exposing a party bringing far-right extremism into the mainstream. Continue reading
2 February 2012 — Anonymous reveals links between US and British white supremacists — RT
The latest campaign from hacktivists with the online collective Anonymous involved divulging a trove of emails between members of a noted white supremacy group.
2 February 2012 — Anonymous reveals links between US and British white supremacists — RT
The latest campaign from hacktivists with the online collective Anonymous involved divulging a trove of emails between members of a noted white supremacy group.
29 November 2011 — Update from the Electronic Intifada
Bono must ditch Belgian maker of warplane parts for Israel
By David Cronin, 27 November 2011
The firm that installed screens and lightning on U2’s stage for its world tour also supplies components to Israel’s war industry.
http://electronicintifada.net/blog/david/bono-must-ditch-belgian-maker-warplane-parts-israel
5 August 2011 — Hope Not Hate
Ever wondered why people join fascist organisations? We are giving you the chance to find out. Our supporters have the opportunity to buy an advance copy of Hate – the story of Matthew Collins’ former life inside the National Front, BNP and Combat 18.
This excellent book is about a young man growing up on a council estate in south London in the 1980s. Disruptive at school, bored with life and alienated with a changing society around him, Collins was an angry young man drawn towards the race hate politics of the British far-right. They spoke his language, described a worldview he could understand and targeted opponents he could hate. Over the next few years he rose through the ranks of fascist groups. He became the Chairman of south London NF and a close confidant of the party leader; he then went on to volunteer at the BNP’s HQ in Welling south London; and he was active on the streets with Combat 18.
25 May 25, 2011 — Global Research
If you want to know where the true power center of the world lies, follow the money – cui bono. According to Global Finance magazine, as of 2010 the world’s five biggest banks are all based in Rothschild fiefdoms UK and France.
Continue reading
22 September, 2010 – Hope Not Hate
Over the past year we have achieved some major victories. We annihilated the BNP in Barking & Dagenham and Stoke-on-Trent. We defeated 26 of its 28 councillors up for re-election, removing the BNP from council chambers across the country. More recently, in seeing off an English Defence League march in Bradford, we built such a large campaign in the community that a new, more positive spirit has taken hold in the city.
This is all down to you.
Thousands of you got involved in our campaign – leafleting, signing petitions and giving money. Over 1,500 people got involved in our Barking & Dagenham campaign alone and over 7,000 of you made donations.
But the fight is not over. We are living in difficult times and as the cuts begin to bite so the likelihood is that the BNP will begin to regroup.
I have written a campaign memo about the coming dangers and I would like you to be the first to read it.
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/HOPE-not-hate-campaign-2011
However, the threat from the far right is not just in the ballot box. Racism and Islamophobia is rising in our society as people become more scared and insecure about their own situation. The racist English Defence League is tapping into this darkening mood. We need to work in the communities to win people away from these racist ideas and, through community organising, use the threat of the EDL to actually bring people together.
I will shortly be letting you know how you can get involved in our campaign, but for now I would like you to read the campaign strategy I’ve mapped out that can beat the BNP at the ballot box and see off the EDL in our communities.
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/HOPE-not-hate-campaign-2011
This year we have achieved an amazing amount but there is still work to be done. With your help and involvement I have no doubt that we can win again and ensure that HOPE triumphs over hate.
Thanks
Nick
5 May, 2010 — Hope Not Hate
Hours ago, BNP candidate Bob Bailey – the party’s top official in London – viciously attacked a young man in the street.
A camera team caught the attack on video – you need to watch it and then share it with everyone you know.
Watching Bailey mercilessly kick a young man in the head isn’t for the faint of heart.
But I urge you to watch it – then take action to make sure the BNP’s jackboots don’t march into power tomorrow:
The man shouldn’t have spat on Bailey. But it’s clear this moment unleashed the streak of violence that underpins the BNP’s entire political agenda.
Just look at the pleasure Bailey took at attacking this lad – and continuing to pummel him as he lay on the ground, defenseless and bloodied.
Bailey and his thugs could be running Barking & Dagenham by this weekend.
Thanks.
Nick
5 May, 2010 — Hope Not Hate
Hours ago, BNP candidate Bob Bailey – the party’s top official in London – viciously attacked a young man in the street.
A camera team caught the attack on video – you need to watch it and then share it with everyone you know. Watching Bailey mercilessly kick a young man in the head isn’t for the faint of heart. But I urge you to watch it – then take action to make sure the BNP’s jackboots don’t march into power tomorrow:
The man shouldn’t have spat on Bailey. But it’s clear this moment unleashed the streak of violence that underpins the BNP’s entire political agenda. Just look at the pleasure Bailey took at attacking this lad – and continuing to pummel him as he lay on the ground, defenseless and bloodied. Bailey and his thugs could be running Barking & Dagenham by this weekend.
I have never been so determined to defeat these racist thugs than I am right now – with polls opening in less than 12 hours. Please, forward this email to everyone you know tonight.
Thanks.
Nick
18 November, 2009
By now it must surely be obvious to everyone that a vast gulf exists between the rulers and the ruled, so much so that the ruled have all but given up listening. The ruling elite are now so desperate that hardly a day goes by without some political dinosaur telling us that ‘we have to reestablish the trust of the people, a trust that has completely broken down’. But it ain’t ain’t working and with good reason.
Enter the British National Party (BNP).
30 October, 2009 — The Morning Star Online
Sometimes in politics what is absent is more revealing than what is present
Negative space is a concept that artists are more familiar with than either politicians or the BBC. This is the space between objects that helps to define the objects themselves. Often what is absent is far more intriguing and revealing that what is present.
This is the notion that has stayed with me long after the BBC’s inclusion of British National Party leader Nick Griffin on its Question Time panel.
The law and not the BBC will ultimately decide whether the BNP is a legitimate political party or not.
The recent court ruling that its constitution is racist will test whether the party’s desire for a platform will override its more visceral appeal to ignorance and prejudice.
What the BBC decided, however, was that the BNP was both legitimate and significant.
Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons of the British National Party will be taking their seats in the European Parliament tomorrow – but they are not there in our name. I’ll be going there as well, to hand in our petition – and I want your name on it. http://notinmyname.tv
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Over the past few months the Hope not Hate campaign has led the fight against the BNP. You helped build the largest anti fascist movement in Britain – your support built this movement. Now it’s up to you to decide how we move forward:
http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/tellusyourideas
So how should we organise? How involved in the campaign would you like to be? And what messages and campaign tactics do you think will be most effective against the BNP?
Your feedback is essential to how we structure Hope not Hate – it’s your ideas and passion that will drive our movement forward. And at the end of the day it’s you and the people on this email list that will stop the BNP.
And while it is devastating that the BNP won two seats, never forget that without our campaign they would have won many, many more. In the days following the election results over 60,000 joined our campaign – we need to make sure that we have the right stratergy in place to make the most of all these new supporters. That’s why we need your experience and advice, what can Hope not Hate do better?
Please take a moment to complete our short survey:
http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/tellusyourideas
Thank you,
Nick
13 June, 2009 – Socialist Workers Party
An Open Letter to the Left
from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP)
Labour’s vote collapsed to a historic low in last week’s elections as the right made gains. The Tories under David Cameron are now set to win the next general election.
The British National Party (BNP) secured two seats in the European parliament. Never before have fascists achieved such a success in Britain.
The result has sent a shockwave across the labour and anti-fascist movements, and the left.
The meltdown of the Labour vote and the civil war engulfing the party poses a question — where do we go from here?
The fascists pose a threat to working class organisations, black, Asian and other residents of this country — who BNP führer Nick Griffin dubs ‘alien’ — our civil liberties and much else.
[Ever in favour of presenting an alternative take on events, here is a very different view on the exposure of the BNP’s membership list by the Wiki posse. As Mick Hume of Spiked says, there was a time when it was us lefties who were the subject of witch-hunts. Oh, and reprinted without permission, so sue me. Ed.]
19 November 2008
The furore over the leak of the British National Party’s membership lists ‘reveals’ some home truths about democracy as well as the far right.
The leaked publication of the details of 12,000 members of the British National Party (BNP) appears to have created almost as much fuss and front-page news as the British state’s recent losses of data on millions of people. This confirms the misplaced political obsession with the BNP, and the peculiar place that this small far-right party occupies in public life today. Many of those who were outraged by the authorities’ loss of disks containing personal data seem almost gleeful about the way that this leak has ‘exposed’ the BNP’s membership.
An angry Fuhrer learns his name’s on the leaked BNP membership list …
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WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE (English)
For Immediate Release.
Fri Nov 21 09:11:21 2008 GMT
“BNP leak rocks Britain”
The leak of details on the 12,801 secret members and contacts of the far-right British National Party continues to rock British politics, with over 1,315 English press articles appearing since Tuesday:
news.google.ca/news?ie=UTF-8&tab=bn&ncl=1271913659&hl=en
In the 24 hour period between covering Tuesday and Wednesday between upto six million people attempted to download the list from Wikileaks.
The story has spread to Australia:
What the UK political landscape looks like in a week is anyone’s guess; but surely satire has so far said it best:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUNUuqlG1a0
Wikileaks has now released several additional BNP related files which can be currently seen on the front page:
These include two BNP internal emails and a number of visualizations of the membership data, one of which has its own site as:
See below:
For Immediate Release.
Tue Nov 18 08:38:31 2008 GMT
wikileaks.org/wiki/British_National_Party_membership_and_contacts_list%2C_2007-2008
British National Party (BNP, a far-right nationalist party) membership and contacts list. 12,801 individuals are represented. Contains contact details and notes on selected party members and (possibly) other individuals. The list has been independently verified by Wikileaks staff as predominantly containing current or ex-BNP members, however other individuals who have donated to the BNP or who have had other contact
(not necessarily supportive) with the BNP or one of its fronts may also be represented.
According to AFP, BNP spokesman Simon Darby stated (18 Nov 2008):
“Someone out of malevolence or treachery has published it,” — “It’s a very sinister thing for someone to have done. It’s because we are regarded as a particularly strong threat in the forthcoming European elections in June.”
The New Dark Age 