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BNP ON LODON ANTI-WAR MARCH

stevey | 13.02.2003 17:05

BNP ON LONDON ANTI_WAR MARCH. details from red action web site discussion page
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BNP on stop the war march
just off the BNP website..............STOP THE WAR MARCH
Sat 15th February

Central London
The biggest demonstration in Britain since the Countryside March! The BNP was on that one to support the rights and livelihood of rural Britain. And we urge our members to join in this massive demonstration against Blair’s planned war as well.

While we do not see eye to eye with many of the organisations in the Stop the War Coalition, we agree completely with the aim of this march. We need to add our weight to the campaign to pressure Blair & Co. into pulling out of a war that has nothing to do with the British people, and everything to do with US oil companies and the pro-Israel lobby which funds New Labour to the tune of millions of pounds every year. Blair plans to repay his financial backers with the blood of our soldiers – the ultimate in sleaze!

The British National Party opposes the war on Iraq for the following reasons:

It isn’t our war!
This war is about the personal vanity of Bush and Blair. It’s about securing bigger profits for American oil companies. It’s about the power of the Israeli lobby in the US media and in British and American politics.
Saddam Hussein may well be an unpleasant dictator, but that’s a problem for the Iraqi people, and not for us. The civil liberties of every person in Iraq and the security of Iraq’s Middle Eastern neighbours are not worth the bones of one British soldier.

There’s no case for this war!
Despite all the propaganda, Blair has presented no evidence for a link between Iraq and Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. Iraq wants to trade with Britain - exchanging oil for food, medicine and equipment to rebuild an economy shattered by a decade of Western bombing and blockades - not to fight us.

The terrorism and fundamentalist expansion that threatens Britain and British interests – including here at home – is financed and inspired from Saudi Arabia rather than Iraq. Saddam Hussein is a secular dictator, not an Islamic extremist. Bush and Blair are about, in the words of Winston Churchill, to “kill the wrong pig.”

National sovereignty, not internationalist meddling!
Every nation on earth is entitled to secure the weapons it needs to deter a potential aggressor. Iraq is as entitled to so-called “Weapons of Mass Destruction” as America, Britain or Israel. The U.N. and the ‘international community’ have no right to dictate to sovereign free peoples how to run their own affairs, or what weapons of deterrence they can have. We wouldn’t accept this One World meddling for Britain, so why should we force it on Iraq?

Blair’s war makes us all targets!
Being seen as America’s puppet makes us a target for terrorists. If it were necessary for British interests this would not deter us, but as this isn’t our war it’s madness.

The war could rip our cities apart!
Blair’s war will put a huge extra strain on community relations in our towns and cities. TV coverage of British warplanes frying thousands of Muslim conscripts will lead directly to a further surge in anti-white race attacks in places like Oldham, Bradford, Birmingham and Luton. This raises the spectre of a communal conflict that would see entire neighbourhoods go up in flames and ethnic cleansing riots. Again, if the war were in Britain’s interests this would be a price of the multi-racial society we would have to pay. But as it’s Blair’s war, not ours, it is a wholly unnecessary risk.

Blair’s war will add to the asylum flood!
The war will displace more than 100,000 additional asylum seekers. Many will come to Britain, adding to the asylum crisis. Britain can’t cope with the present wave of spongers, without adding 100,000 more refugees from an unnecessary war.

Blair’s war will cost us a fortune!
Blair’s war will place huge strains on the West’s economy and on the British taxpayer. When our own hospitals are falling apart, it’s hardly the time to spend £ millions destroying hospitals halfway round the world. The billions Blair is about to blow on his war should be used instead to rebuild our Health Service.


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Join the Stop the War March!
Assemble 12 noon to march off at 12.30 this Saturday.

Travelling from the North (A1/M1). Go to Tottenham Court Road tube and then walk to Gower Street to form up.

All the rest, including London, go to Temple tube and then walk to the Embankment to form up.

The march will be 3.5 miles, ending with a rally until 5.30 pm in Hyde Park.

from Red action discussiion page www.redaction.org

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and?

13.02.2003 17:16

So what? It's an anti war march so if they're against this war then they're welcome just as anyone who's against the war is.

I'll say it again, it's an anti war march, not a socialist workers party meet-up, so you'll have lots of different people of different political persuasions there.

who cares


Yes I know

13.02.2003 17:20

decided not to publish it though! Coalitions make strange bedfellows. see the charles kennedy stuff earlier on the newswire.

heather


old news

13.02.2003 17:50

This info was posted to indymedia yesterday and removed within hours.
Very cunning by whoever originally posted it here to then post it on the redaction site and simply make it look like a news post.
It is pretty obvious that the BNP wil try any angle possible to reel in the idiots that vote for them, this is not the place for BNP posts though.

Same as yesterday: please remove the post, it only serves to discourage peole from turning up and gives the mainstream media some dirt to spin.

xyz


don't know whether to laugh or cry

13.02.2003 18:06

The BNP, Nazis who see all black, Asian and Jewish people as 'race enemies', have no place on a march that has united people across all divides including race and faith.

Having said that, I'm not too alarmed. If they turn up 'incognito' then no harm done, they just swell numbers. If on the other hand they try to turn up with papers and flags, I can't see them lasting long!

kurious oranj


Stop the war is not an anti-war march!

13.02.2003 18:22

DO not be fooled that just because the march has
been organised by Stop the War coalition that it has
anything to do with stopping wars. The fact that the
BNP feels it can attend this march and support the
"aims of the march" shows that this march is and
allowed to be dominated by all sorts of idiots with
british national interests at heart. There will be many
on the march who do support war, only if allowed by
the UN or if there is a parliamentary vote for it. The
fact that the PR for Gulf war part 2 has been shoddy
is probably why there will be more people on the
march and the views of even people who supported
the last war, because it was a fight against an evil
dictator, can be absorbed in the so-called "stop the
war" coalition.

For that, I will think it better to describe the Stop the
War Coalition as a pro-war coalition. If we really want
to create a real anti-war movement in this country
then we should create a movement that is not only
against this or that war, but against all wars and
capitalism. Indeed we will have to go further and
include the struggle against all national identities
and states, against racism and fascism, and against
organised religion.

Anna key

anarchist


No Platform for Fascists

13.02.2003 18:25

It shouldn't really be a suprise that the BNP are planning on taking part in the anti-war demo this Saturday. They explain pretty clearly in their above posting why they oppose the war. My only hope is that their open rascism and - in particular - anti-semitism isn't tolerated. During the last big anti-war demo in London on 28th September most people seemed to positively celebrate the pressence of extremely reactionary groups on the demo (Islamic Jihad, Hamas etc...) as some kind of 'diversity' that should be embraced.

Groups such as these are far more dangerous than the laughable SWP, Globalise Resistance et al that people spend so much time attacking on this newswire.

On very practical thing that radicals, anti-capitalists, anti-authoritarians, anarchists (what ever we want to call ourselves), can do on the demo on Saturday is to make sure we are not walking alongside fascists, rascists, sexists and anti-semites. That we stop these reactionaries capitalising on the massive anti-war sentiment around at the moment. That we TAKE ACTION to prevent them taking part in the demo, and that we explain to others WHY. ...far more useful than lurking at the back of a demo dancing around a samba band or sulking inside your balaclava that their aren't enough red and black flags around!

asdflok


Stop the War Coalition and the UN

14.02.2003 16:45

The Stop the War Coalition is against all wars, not just this war. Individuals on the march may well have their own opinions, some of them will believe that maybe this war is ok if it is sanctioned by the UN. Thats a battle we will have to fight. I think the majority of people don't want this war, full stop, from what I've seen talking and listening to people. The UN is seen as impotent at best and seen as a conspiracy working for the oil companies, at worst. But a march, should as suggested by Anna, would be a very small march indeed. If people are taking the 'its ok if its the UN' position, then its up to us to change their minds. A few facts might do it. I wouldn't worry to much about the BNP, like has already been said, if they start flag-waving, they will be lucky to last five minutes.

heather


I take that back.... (bits of it!)

14.02.2003 17:03

Not all of it just the 'very small march indeed' bit. I just re-read it. "Indeed we will have to go further and
include the struggle against all national identities
and states, against racism and fascism, and against
organised religion". My answer to this, is yup, absolutely, but we have to start somewhere. Tomorrow is probably a good day to begin.

heather (again)