BNP moles infiltrate left parties

(Thursday 19 August 2004)

Louise Nousratpour

MANCHESTER peace and anti-racism campaigners branded the recent infiltration of the left in the city by the racist BNP as a "desperate idiotic stunt" yesterday.

The Manchester branches of the Respect coalition, Unite Against Fascism and the Socialist Workers Party discovered that two of their activists - students Joe Finnon and Diane Stoker - are really far-right moles.

They warned people who had campaigned alongside these infiltrators to be vigilant about security, as the racist party has a long record of violence and thuggery.

However, campaigners said that they are not worried about any vital or confidential information being leaked by Mr Finnon and Ms Stoker "because our activities are public knowledge."

The groups noted that the infiltration was a desperate ploy by a defeated fascist group which has lost out to the left in the north-west.

Respect national secretary John Rees said that he regretted the incident, but pointed out that, ironically, the infiltrators did "more to help than stop us from fighting fascism."

He added: "We got more work out of them than anything else. They even actively helped us organise the protest against Le Pen."

The BNP issued a triumphalist statement on its website, crowing about its two members' "achievements."

But, as Mr Rees put it: "It was hardly News of the World. A good cure for insomnia though."

UAF joint secretary Weyman Bennett highlighted that the anti-fascism campaign in the north-west had been the key reason for BNP leader Nick Griffin's defeat as a European candidate in the June 10 elections.

He said: "The BNP thought that June 10 would be their day, but it was far from that as the fascists failed miserably. Now they are licking their wounds by infiltrating and attacking our campaign."

"Such idiotic stunts will not stop us from continuing our effective campaign against racism and fascism," Mr Bennett urged.

"Every person in this country needs to be vigilant about the BNP because these fascists attack ordinary black people on the street, never mind anti-racist campaigners.

"We need to campaign wholeheartedly to root out racism and the BNP if we want to sleep soundly at night," he added.

This was posted to  http://urban75.com/ from a Manchester SWPer:


As soom one named in the article perhaps people will listerned to me on this one. I'm going to say very little as its our internal issue and frankly non off your business. I'm also going to ask SWP members not to post on this issue yet for obvious reasons.

I am on the same course as the "lad" and was active in the same branch. His politics and attitude to others were not great and he was not always popular in our branch. his willingness to take time consuming jobs on meant he often got them (as no one else wanted them) he never had much influence a mild spanner in the works at best.

Both were incredibly active and helped build many campaigns the BNP would despise. I am personally wounded at this if true, but it is not a big issue politically. The SWP unlike the BNP is an open party with nothing to hide. We wear our politics openly and there is nothing an "infiltrator" can find out that any of you couldn't by turning up to the odd forum STWC meeting. We are proud of our open recruitment policy and the fact that we aim to get new members as involved as possible. The fact the BNP have chosen to do this shows that they are not the force they were. This is a trick of the open far right and not of a party that months ago was looking at MEps.

If anyone in either branch is worried contact the party

And later

Remember that your evidence is a BNP article mine is that he's in my laboratory and my course for the last two years. This is an internal matter and non of your business. There are definatley no lists for people beyond the two branches involved so it is of no concern beyond the SWP.

official reaction from the swp is that under the data protection act, if found guilty in a court of law, prosecution should follow...

interesting response from a revolutionary socialist party don'cha think?

..for obvious reasons. Stay away from these brain dead drongos kids.

PROTECTION!

JAH LIVE!

King Amdo.

if you had a basis for sueing + perhaps bankrupting the BNP, wouldn't you?

Whatever next. Goodbye press. ha ha. Bout time the trots called it a day. You papar was rubbis anyway.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Progressives infiltrated by the state. Bet that has never happened before. My sect is more pure tham yours. Tell you what, I'll talk about you and then I won't have to connect to the real world.

It is surely a sign of how success-starved the vermin of the BNP must be if they call this a coup. These two little shits managed no more than to be accepted in Manchester's rag-tag SWP - hardly the stuff legands are made of, let's face it. Considering the highly damaging subversion of the BNP on countless occasions, it would be a mockery to describe Stoker anf Finnon's "achievements" as even the scantest kind of consolation.

Surely though the biggest joke of all was the claim that Finnon and Stoker heroically prevented the "rent-a-mob" from disrupting scumface Le Pen's viist to Altrincham. How these cretinous individuals can make such asinine statements, while their onw website provides glorious colour images of Le Pen's humiliating rout at the hands of the good people of Manchester is a mighty fine testament to the cerebral qualities of these stunted retards.

The SWP don't appear to be taking this to seriously. Manchester SWSS website still lists Diane as the contact address, and searching through back issues of Socialist Worker it is littered with letters from the pair of them.

Bizarre how a couple of fascists can get so easily into a supossed revolutionary organisation -how easy must it be for various state moles to become completely embedded -although it might explain a lot of the shit that SWP/Respect currently espouse.

So touching, this concern. As an SWP member I COULD NOT CARE LESS WHAT THE BNP OR MI5 OR ANYONE ELSE DOES IN THIS REGARD. Woooooooooooooow two BNP members got to run around for months doing some hard yards and report their activity to the BNP. Wooooooooow. What a story. Im almost falling asleep writing this...