Thursday 30 June 2011

Jewish woman leaves English Defence League over its Nazi members.

Even a complete whack-job like Roberta Moore can no longer stomach the EDL.

From the Jewish Chronicle
by Jennifer Lipman

The hardline activist at the forefront of the "Jewish Division" of the extreme right-wing English Defence League has announced that she does not wish to be a part of it any longer because of Nazi elements within it.

Roberta Moore, who has led the Jewish Division since it was launched more than a year ago, was accused earlier this month of being a divisive figure in the EDL.

Ms Moore had attempted to co-ordinate her efforts with those of the far-right American Jewish Task Force, whose leader Victor Vancier has been imprisoned for terrorism offences. The move, in February, was heavily criticised by the EDL leadership.

In a statement which she posted on Facebook, the Brazilian-born Ms Moore said she had been offered work on "an international level" elsewhere and so had decided to step down from the Jewish Division.

Although she described the EDL as "doing a fantastic job" she said the party had been hijacked by elements who wanted to use it "for their own Nazi purposes".

Ms Moore said she still supported the EDL leaders and "all the genuine patriots out there who struggle to get their voices heard" but added that she no longer wished to be a part of it.

"I sincerely hope that the leaders will get the strength to squash the Nazis within," she said.

"They will destroy this movement if allowed to remain."

Mark Gardner, from the Community Security Trust, said: "This latest development shows, yet again, why Jews should not be involved in such circles."

Protest Against The English Defence League March July 16th.

A peaceful EDL demo.


Vigil against the EDL
Provisional details 12.00 noon. Guildhall Square.

The situation is still extremely confused,and we are still unsure what has been decided.From what we can gather the EDL are not to be allowed to have a wreath laying at the war memorial-but are to be allowed to march across the square.

After having been given assurances that the EDL would be denied use of council property, it now appears they have been given access to everything.


Below is a comment made by one of their demo organisers posted on our facebook page.

Jaco English

"By the way - The whole Demo has been 'sanctioned' :) We are working closely with the council, who have also given us Victoria Park to hold our Demo. They have also given us full use of coach parking in the city, free of charge. Your cries are falling on deaf ears, you deluded bunch - People agree with us, they relate to us. You are gaining no support - Time to call it a day :)"

Portsmouth Council take a bow.


We will be demanding use of Guildhall Square for an anti-racist vigil.
If we are denied this and forced to go elsewhere we want people to ask why they are being treated with such largesse.

However we assert our right to assemble in our own square.

Please write to the council and The Portsmouth News to ask what the hell is going on.

Tuesday 28 June 2011

Love Music Hate Racism: Unity Event. 9th July .Wedgwood Rooms


An Event is being organised as we speak the week before the EDL descend upon Portsmouth.We will be celebrating multiculturalism and the fantastic music it produces.

A facebook event page will be launched shortly.

We will update this as soon as we know more.

Wednesday 15 June 2011

No EDL at Portsmouth War Memorial .No EDL in Guildhall Square.



In the last couple of years the EDL have sieg heiled defecated and vomited their way accross the city centres of many towns.Now they want to pay us a visit.

The policy of UAF has remained the same,if they are given town squares we have national mobilisations against them.If it appears they are having their rally at the war memorial inevitably that is what will happen.

Their conduct is well known and it hardly needs to be discussed further.However,the tactics in dealing with their right to protest possibly do.

In recent months rather than allowing them to take over city centres and effectively close them for the local community ,they have been pushing their events into car parks and outskirts facilities.

This has had the effect of making their events less attractive and allowing everyone else to get on with their lives.

Last week in Dewsbury they did much the same and it minimised the impact of their presence considerably.The idea of them at The Guildhall War Memorial would be a huge step backwards.Apart from the fact that it would be unacceptable due to the large number of EDL who have fascist sympathies to use it as a platform,it would give a huge boost to them in giving them the focus they so desperately crave and would pull more of them into Portsmouth from far afield.


The other more salient point would be; What message does it send out? Some would see it as almost a reward for their conduct outside the Jami mosque before christmas,when fireworks, broken bottles bricks and roofslates were thrown at the people who turned out to defend the Mosque.





They haven't even waited for permission they are already publicising this event.This is also the same night as the graduation ball, and they are known for their hatred of students.Their wannabee Fuhrer Tommy Robinson,or whatever he's calling himself this week, seems to think they have a God given right to march anywhere,and that people should adapt to his plans.

At one point last year they were squealing that the incidents outside the Jami Mosque were nothing to do with them.Now it seems things have changed.




The promotional video for their demonstration,above,includes images of the disgraceful scenes outside the Jami Mosque last year.This begs certain questions.

Exactly what kind of people are they trying to attract?

Exactly what will be the nature of their event?

The Guildhall is about 10-15 minutes from the Jami Mosque,and on previous occasions they have broken through police barriers and rioted.To say this is cause for unease would be a masterpiece of understatement.

The presence of the EDL in the town centre is unacceptable.
UAF have protested about the nature of this event at the war memorial ,as has Portsmouth Trades council.
We urge everyone to write to their councillors, the Police, their local MPs and the media to voice their concerns and to demand this event is moved out of the town centre.

Tuesday 14 June 2011

Ratko Mladic has some friends.


Most people were delighted at the news that Ratko Mladic had finally been arrested.Most,but not all.

For those who might have forgotten, he was charged with war crimes and genocide.When he was indicted at the Hague Judge Fouad Riad speaking of his crimes referred to them as "Truly scenes from hell.Written on the darkest pages of human history"

He is standing trial for the murder of over 8,000 Muslim men and boys.They were stripped before being murdered and thrown into mass graves.The whole thing redolent of the atrocities of the Nazi Holocaust.

The EDL's messageboards have gushed with comments like "A sad day for the anti Jihad movement".When someone pointed out he was a mass murderer who should be denounced for his war crimes he was promptly banned from the EDL's main site.

This is probably going to be the most sensational trial of a War criminal since the Eichmann trial in 1961.

For the EDL he is a hero.

They are not supporting him because they think him innocent of the charges.

They are supporting him because they believe him to be guilty.

If any more proof were needed that they are just a hate group this is it.

Sunday 12 June 2011

Election Results: BNP Meltdown

Sunday 8 May 2011
This report from UAF

Elections 2011 report: humiliating meltdown for the fascist BNP
The 2011 elections have been a humiliating disaster for the fascist British National Party.

The results are a victory for all the antfascist campaigners who have distributed hundreds of thousands of UAF leaflets and tabloids urging voters to Stop the BNP. And the election disaster will only add to the scale of the crisis in the BNP.

Stoke wipeout
Stoke-on-Trent council, where the BNP had five councillors before the elections, is now Nazi-free, with every BNP councillor kicked out in a complete wipeout.

This follows the BNP’s obliteration in Barking and Dagenham council last year, when it lost all 12 of its councillors.

>> Election 2011 coverage as it happened

Across England’s local authorties, the BNP clung on to just two of the 11 seats it was defending, in Bradford and in Charnwood, East Midlands, where the party’s Catherine Duffy scraped in by just five votes.

In Burnley, the BNP now has just one councillor left – in a seat that wasn’t contested – in the town where it had eight councillors and was the official opposition in 2003.

Two English Democrat candidates – one of them a former BNP councillor – were elected on low votes of just 195 and 231 votes in the Fenside ward of Boston, Lincolnshire. But there were no other gainst for the English Democrats, the whute supremacist England First Party or the old-time Nazis of the National Front.

Votes plummeted
The two seats it has retained are all the BNP has to show for more than 260 candidates across the country. And its votes have plummeted, even in areas it had seen as strongholds.

In Stoke – once dubbed the BNP’s “jewel in the crown” – candidates for the BNP and its mates in the England First Party, took an average of 11.2%, slumping from the 27.4% the BNP averaged in the wards it stood in 2007.

Barnsley, where the BNP has been strong in the past, saw the party stand 19 candidates this time, polling an average of 8.8%, almost half their 16% average across 18 seats in 2007.

Slumped
Around the country, BNP votes have slumped, with candidates often reaching only half or less of the percentages they took in 2007, the last time the same seats were contested. And in cities such as Liverpool and York, every single fascist candidate got less than 5%.

In Wales, where the party hoped to lift its vote to secure a Welsh Assembly seat through the regional lists, their vote slumped from 4.3% in 2007 to just 2.4% this time. In Scotland, the votes for the BNP and the National Front were derisory, averaging no more than 1% of the poll.

Campaigning by local UAF groups and antifascists has ensured an electoral disaster for the BNP.

The victory particularly sweet in Stoke, where local UAF activists and the North Staffs Campaign Against Racism and Fascism have campaigne over months and years to break down the BNP’s support. A huge Love Music Hate Racism carnival in 2009 helped show that the majority of people in Stoke are against racism and fascism.

BNP crisis
The BNP was already reeling from crisis to crisis ahead of the polls. In March, longstanding Nazi and BNP MEP Andrew Brons, warned the party faithful that bitter infighting could bring the BNP to “an ignomius end before the end of this year”, and the party has also been wracked with financial and legal problems.

The BNP stood more than 260 candidates across the country – far fewer than the 655 it put up when the same seats were contested in 2007. And it struggled in many areas to get its campaign off the ground, with activists divided and demoralised and leader Nick Griffin under fire from his troops.

The results will further intensify the crisis and weaken the BNP – its future looks bleak, with more strife to come.

EDL danger
But antifascists cannot be complacent. Alongside the visible crumbling of the BNP over the last couple of years, we have seen the dangerous growth of the English Defence League – the racist thugs with fascists in its midst.


It is clear that BNP members drifting out of the stricken party are increasingly moving into and around the English Defence League, the racist street thug movement whose leader “Tommy Robinson” is himself a former BNP member. The BNP’s election collapse is likely to add to the drain of former members into the EDL.

Bookshop targeted
Fascist elements in the EDL have already been increasing their influence inside the organisation, “hardening up” its members and directing them against other traditional fascist targets, such as trade unionists and socialists as well as ethnic minorities.

This weekend, EDL members invaded the News From Nowhere bookshop in Liverpool – the area’s main trade union and labour movement bookshop – to intimidate staff and customers.

Every antifascist will celebrate the BNP’s miserable election results. But the growth and direction of the EDL are cause for grave concern.

Step up
The election campaign against the BNP has been important not just in driving home the party’s weakness, but also in beginning to undercut the EDL, which is strongest in areas where the BNP has previously had more of a base.

Leaflets like those distributed in many thousands in Stoke have labelled the BNP as the Nazis they are. But they have also argued clearly against the anti-Muslim racism on which the EDL as well as the BNP seeks to build.

We should cheer our success against the BNP – but we must also step up campaigning against the racists and fascists of the EDL.