I am relived to see that a growing number of people are beginning to see what I think is the real way to fight the BNP. Although a lot still don’t seem to ‘get it’.
First we must look at why people vote BNP.
It’s not that people are getting anymore racist. It’s that the working class don’t have anyone they feel they can vote for anymore! Look at who votes for the BNP. It’s almost always from traditional Labour voters! I live in the West Country which Labour don’t do that well, and never have. It’s all Libs and Cons and the BNP poll awfully down here. One BNP counsellor did get in once but that was before revealing he was in fact tied to the BNP! When that was found out they promptly got kicked out!
Now this is very important when we look at groups like the UAF, Searchlight and groups like these strageies to counter the BNP. These groups activly form collations with literally any other group who wishses to fight facism. Now this isn’t some sort of sectarian rant, far from it. However if you join forces with lets say mainstream poltical parties like Labour, Libs and Cons then your associating with the exact reason why people are votiong BNP in the first place! That they don’t have a potlical party, and even if you do agree with the mainstream parties on that one point siding with them makes it look like you are like them, which anyone on the real left shouldn’t be!
Th BNP has done a very good job at making themselves out to be the party for the ‘white working class’, the forgotten group. The working class are indeed the forgotten group but thats ALL working class, not just white working class. The BNP play on these strings, there’ll speak out about how it was bad what happened to the miners, talking about needing better public services, etc. While doing the oppsite of course!
This is why firstly, on the left, we should not be working with the establishment at all, history has taught us this only makes things worse. Using trade unions and left parties we must build our own working class party and reject the Capitalist parties. The mainstream parties are the parties of the rich, and we need to show that the BNP are no different to the mainstream parties. Nationalists don’t give a shit about the working class because they devide people by nation rather then the real division which is class. We, the working class, have far more in common with workers from Polland, France, Germany where ever then we do with the Freedie Godwins of this world! To steal a quote from our friend Bob Crowe!
Secondly we should not give them any opportunity to ever say their freedom of speach is being encourhced.
The thing is they just use this as a weapon and secondly once you remove this weapon from them they have nothing else to say as their arguments have no logic. Engage with the idiots statements, dismantle their arguments. The problem is if all you do is run around shouting fascists it begins to lose it’s meaning, it just washes over people. Engage with them, ask them for real example, ask them to explain why immigration concerns them when Britain has been a multi cultural society for hundreds of years, why they single out Muslim when you could find text from any religion that’s a bit hateful, they have no answer. Ask them some pretty basic questions about British history and you’ll soon see that basically what they mean by british culture is waving a flag on a march, it’s nonsense they haven’t a clue, drag this out of them, show it to others! Of course arguing one on one with hardened BNP members is pointless they won’t concede any points but I think we must take platforms with them, to show others their nonsense and lies!
Reason and logic is on our side comrades, use it!
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