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No Nazis In Leeds – Antifascists Picket BPP Mailbox

The 635 Group | 10.01.2006 16:49 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

West Yorkshire antifascists demonstrate against the Nazi British People's Party



Mail Boxes Etc - Accomodating the fascist BPP
Mail Boxes Etc - Accomodating the fascist BPP

BPP National Sectretary Kevin Watmough
BPP National Sectretary Kevin Watmough


Today West Yorkshire antifascists picketed the Leeds address used by
the Nazi British People’s Party (BPP) - Suite 267 at 57 Great George
Street, Leeds LS1 3JA. This is actually a mailbox provided by a company called Mail Boxes Etc (UK) Ltd, who have provided addresses for, in turn, the White Nationalist Party, the Nationalist Alliance, and now the BPP. The company specialise in providing ‘prestige’ accommodation addresses for small businesses, though we doubt that too many companies would think it prestigious to be sharing an address with virulently racist Hitlerite nut-cases like the BPP.

Today’s picket was organised by The 635 Group, who are affiliated to the militant anti-fascist network Antifa (  http://www.antifa.org.uk/ ). Around 25 people attended what was expected to be a peaceful protest. That was until local fascist scumbag Tony White drove past, and shortly after two thugs, one armed with a knife, tried to attack the picket. They were however summarily dealt with, and scuttled away to lick their wounds in whatever gutter they had crawled out of.

Despite the minor disruption, more than 300 leaflets were given out during the protest, and the response from the general public could not have been better, with a number of people going into Mail Boxes Etc (MBE) to challenge the manager’s decision to continue providing the fascist BNP with a Leeds address. Several people who were collecting also said they would be cancelling their contract with MBE, rather than share an address with Nazis.

Recently MBE branches in both Belfast and Brighton have taken a welcome decision not to play host to fascists, but so far the Leeds branch have refused to reconsider their position, despite being shown documentation on the BPP and their fascist activities. In view of that the 635 Group will be organising further protests.

Please help to fight organised fascism in Leeds by contacting MBE:

Tel: 0113 242 8715
E-mail:  info@mbeleedscity.co.uk


TEXT OF TODAY’S LEAFLET

Why We Are Here

We are here today to protest about the continued provision of a mailbox at this address for the Nazi ‘British People’s Party’(BPP).

Who Are The BPP?

Until recently the BPP were called the White Nationalist Party, but because they cannot register such an openly racist name with the Electoral Commission, they changed it. Their politics however, have not changed, they remain a Nazi Hitlerite party with the most vile and repugnant views on Jews, Muslims, black people, gays, and the Holocaust. They use fascist insignia, give Nazi salutes, promote race hatred, and are virulent supporters of Adolf Hitler.

Kevin Watmough

The BPP mail is picked up by their National Secretary Kevin Watmough. A long-standing Hitler supporter who likes to wear Nazi regalia, Watmough, has numerous convictions for racial violence and for attacks on fascism’s ‘political opponents’. He is also responsible for setting up and maintaining race hate internet sites ‘Redwatch’ and ‘The White Nationalist Guestbook’, as well as the ‘Combat 18’ site and the BPP’s own fascist website. The language on these sites is so vile that reproducing it on a leaflet would break the law, suffice to say that they contain a level of racist hatred that would make decent people feel physically sick and wonder why the authors are not held in an institution for the criminally insane.


What About Free Speech?

Fascists like the BPP do not believe in ‘free speech’. Their Mailbox address is not used for philosophical discussion, it is used for organising race-hatred, promoting violence, and for selling Nazi merchandise. We are here today to expose the so-called British People’s Party for the hardline Nazis that they are, and to ask Mail Boxes Etc to terminate their contract with them as the company has already done in Belfast and Brighton.

SMASH THE BPP! NO NAZIS IN LEEDS!

This Leaflet is produced by The 635 Group, militant anti-fascists based in West Yorkshire and affiliated to the international Antifa movement. We exist to confront fascist ideas, activities, and organisations wherever and however they occur.
The 635 Group, c/o Antifa, Box 36, 84b Whitechapel High St, London E1.
Email:  The635Group@mail.com
Answerphone: 07913 024596

The 635 Group
- e-mail: the635group@mail.com

Comments

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  1. nice one — concerned of gipton
  2. Oh Yeh — Your friends in Bolton
  3. whatmough — concerned of gipton
  4. pathetic — sandy
  5. Oh Sandy — 635 group appreciation squad
  6. Excellent — John Constantine
  7. Our time will come: — SHEFFIELD
  8. sandwhich — concerned of gipton
  9. Go for it — Sikh boy
  10. Concerned — Auntie
  11. bloody horrible — concerned of gipton
  12. nice work — Harehills Red
  13. Good Night White Pride — Black N Red
  14. Outrageous — Pete Todd - outraged investor
  15. Cleaning Up The Trash — Auntie
  16. The Nazi BPP — Auntie
  17. Well done! — Mike
  18. Ha! — Mentor
  19. hate — victor
  20. Victor — Lucy Bigspeak
  21. well done lads and ladies — Roger
  22. Leeds zombie look alike/alliance/front/group/splitters/snitches/party — concerned of gipton
  23. Fascist Hard-Men??!!! — Tonio
  24. Alone With The Microwave — John Oakes
  25. From the look of him... — Sicilian
  26. "Noncewatch" — Sam
  27. The BPP Leadership — Old Hand
  28. Nazi freaks fuck off! — Private Pile
  29. more fascist websites — Roger
  30. In denial... they say it never happened! — nutnut
  31. nutnut — Black N Red
  32. Realist — R. Ealist
  33. Broken Windows — Red N Black
  34. BPP Trash — Fred Bloggs
  35. Ade Brooks & Leeds meeting 2005 — Fred Bloggs
  36. Ade Brooks — Interested
  37. Nazis — Interested
  38. Info sought — Interested
  39. Interested — Vanguard
  40. The BPP have gone fucking mad! — Anthony
  41. Check this out — Auntie
  42. Out! — Coley
  43. Shocking — Nate James