In an attempt to smear the anti-fascist movement, the BNP claims that the ANL supports the legalisation of paedophilia and supports terrorism ( http://www.bnp.org.uk/anl.html). It also claims that the British flag is 'ceremonially burnt' at ANL meetings! They must be desperate to try this tactic.

Jack tells us his BNP mates are "rough diamonds"! Assault, attempted murder, possession of illegal weaponry, organising paramilitary groups, possession of explosives, and oh yes, the Soho and Brick Lane nailbombs were planted by a BNP member, weren't they? Diamonds..

Nazi Jack claims that his BNP leaders are 'rough diamonds', dismissing their long list of convictions for violent racist assaults. Of course, actively assaulting people and inciting murder is far less important if it's against blacks in this country and if its committed by a dirty gang of fascists.

That Labour Party is scary! I'm tearing up my membership card now, I might even vote Champagne Socialist Alliance

There is a hell of a lot of difference between someone who is convicted for vandalism or shop lifting as a kid and a member of a racist organisation like the BNP who has been convicted of race-related crime. The fact that Nazi Jack's sturmbahnfuhrers have served time for violent crime (and not so long ago) belies their claim that they are sweaky clean crusaders for Laura Norda. If leopards can change their spots, they don't do it that quickly and they don't continue prowling around their old backyards searching for prey. Animals like Griffin and Lecomber should be revealed for the violent thugs they are. And if you don't like that Jack, I suggest you fuck off.

Yeah so a load of BNP are football hooligans ..so what... just cos you middle class politicos never get in trouble with the police you think that a criminal record is so bad..of course these people are scum but that's differrent ..the real issue is why 5 million people (in 1988 1995 and 2002..their vote isnt going up much) in France and an increasing number of working class people here would vote for fascists..when it appears obvious that fascism will fuck your life not make it better...Because they see no alternative!!..they have been let down for years decades by the socalled left..the Wilsons Callaghans and Blairs who are no differrent from the Right..and the far left ..come on.. the only time you see a lefty on a council estate is when they are lecturing you on why you shouldnt vote NF BNP etc..(apologies to the decent member of swp/militant out there...dump the middleclasses mate!)..it's fuckin obvious that the only way we are going to change anything is as and with working class people black or white employed unemployed This is the strategy the Front National has employed (as a middleclass movement fascism has always understood you need to get large groups of workers on your side..pity the trots dont see that!)..and what the BNP are trying here...The IWCA Indeependant Working class Asssociation and numbers of anachist groups have been trying to push this too...
Fascism can not be beaten or educated off the streets...it will only be beaten when it is no longer seen as the alternative for ordinary people..thats the choice we have Make anti-capitalism relevant..make anarchism relevant..make our politics real and working class again..there is a class war in this country and the world..its just that people no longer believe that we can win or help them win.. other wise like the Nazis did some day the fascists will make us irrelevant

"Student Gwant types", so where the fuck does that leave Grffin an Oxbridge graduate, and Mark Collett (youth BNP leader) about to graduate from Leeds (red brick) University. Fucking little turds.

I agree with much of what has been said, and I'd like to offer three concise and precise ways to defeat the nazis.
1: Crowbar the 'soft' racists away from the far right. The stories about the criminality of leading BNP members that appear in the news, (Bennet, the gang rapist in the Sunday Mirror) are good, but clearly not enough. Leafletting, petitioning, flyposting (no, shurely not!) and other methods are needed to inform voters of the history and true politics of the BNP - holocaust denial and all.
2: Launch a campaign against racism tout court. The soft racists are swallowing myths peddled by the media and certain politicians like David Blunkett about the 'tide' of immigrants coming to this country. The fact that a majority of respondents to an opinion poll believed asylum seekers received £113 a week as opposed to the miserable £35 a week they actually get in the form of vouchers run by Sodexho (which gave money to the Labour party, but there's obviously no connection whatsoever). When the far right march and try to stoke up racism, then physically intervene, fuck them up if you get the chance. These demonstrations are designed, in the words of one very famous nazi, "to make a caterpillar feel like a dragon". Noone feels like a dragon when they've got punches being thrown at them and hundreds of protesters desperate to get their hands on the scumbags. Join the committees that exist to defend immigrants. Join the anti fascist movements, (obviously the ANL is probably the most effective, although there are others with differing strategies and strengths even if I'm not going to do any advertising for them).
3: This one is for the left. The left, comrades, we have to recognise, is partially responsible for this. I don't mean this in the sense of that idiotic exhange earlier in which a pro-Israeli accused opponents of Israel antisemitic - obviously one cannot conflate Israel with the Jewish people. No. The left is responsible in a much more fundamental way in the sense that it has abandoned much territory that is fertile at the moment and which the far right are attempting to hi-jack. Obviously the main culprits are the social democratic parties of Europe, the parties of the Second International, who have capitulated to the agenda of privatisation and spending cuts. 90% of what the BNP say has to do with just these issues (even if we know in reality their ideology is to oppose the welfare state), and Le Pen was often seen denouncing 'unpatriotic' multinationals and announcing that every Frenchman was entitled to a job. The radical right, in the form of Buchanan in the US, often says what the mainstream left dare not. That capital should be controlled, that the US should stop trying to run the world ("extricate ourselves from Empire" as Buchanan had it following 9/11), that there should be zero unemployment etc... If we cannot provide a clear, united alternative on a number of different fronts, one of which has to be electoral, then people can all too easily be won over by the serenading of the far right. The Socialist Alliance in Britain is instructive. Notice that the far left in France did well in the elections, but with the typical extravagance of revolutionaries had three candidates. This is stupid and serves noone but the political right.
That's my programme.

Its a shame but I'm not entirely surprised that candidates with records for violence are able to stand - but people who have been done for electoral fraud! What the hell is going on? Even people at Electoral Services (or whoever accepts candidate nominations) have got to question the logic