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BNP supporters disrupt school with demo and picket at gates

Lancaster UAF | 04.09.2007 01:27 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | Liverpool

BNP demo at Sunnydale

Monday morning saw the disruption of the first school day of the new year as the British National Party and two of its many front groups, Civil Liberty and Solidarity, gathered together outside Sunnydale Community College in County Durham to protest at the suspension of teacher Mark Walker.

Walker, BNP election candidate and agent for the former BNP's Andrew Spence in the recent Sedgefield by-election, was suspended from Sunnydale for 'misuse of school computer equipment', rumoured to be related to his visiting far-right websites during lessons while the children were getting on with their work.

The idiotic Phil Edwards, ever available to distort the facts on behalf of the BNP, was quoted in news reports as stating; 'The reason he's had this action against him was because he allegedly looked at the BNP website on the school's computer. It is disgraceful that anyone should be suspended for looking at the website of a perfectly legal political party. We are certain this action would not have been taken against someone who had looked at the websites of the Commission for Racial Equality or the Green Party.'

Well no, but neither the Commission for Racial Equality nor the Green Party attack Muslims using any pretext (or lie if a pretext isn't available), despise our multicultural society, seek the 'repatriation' of people with different skin colours who could be third or fourth generation UK born, oppose sexual diversity, demand the return of both corporal and capital punishment, have a Hitlerite background, a record of anti-semitism, an astonishing collection of criminals, liars and thieves in its ranks nor constantly steal money from its supporters...

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No disruption - just legitimate protest

07.09.2007 16:41

I was at the picket because I followed the call by our General Secretary, Pat Harrington, for a low-key protest. We didn't 'disrupt' the school. We let everyone pass in and out without blocking the drive. At the request of the police we kept a low-profile when the kids went in at 1000. The atmosphere was friendly.

Our Brotherhood is very angry though. We feel Mark Walker is being unfairly treated. Some 'left' sites are taking the reactionary view that you shouldn't picket or demonstrate outside a school. A school is not just an educational establishment but a workplace and a part of the community. Our Union will take the flak and stand up for a member. Many parents and ex-pupils joined our protest because Mark is a good teacher.

This case raises many issues of freedom of expression and the right to privacy (even at work). Our Union doesn't shun hard cases.

Hatred of the BNP shouldn't blind people to what some empolyers are up to.

Flying Picket


Scab Union

22.09.2007 21:40

Solidarity is a scab union that doesn't even represent its own members. Check out the Lancaster UAF website for the truth about Solidarity, and how they don't give a shit about anything except Nick Griffin.

Cottage-Patch Doll


Who are the scabs?

26.09.2007 10:47

I had to smile when I saw Solidarity described as a 'Scab' Union. Solidarity has said that it will respect the picket lines of other Unions. The TUC, in contrast, has issued a statement that it will cross any Solidarity picket line. I well recall that the TUC tried to lead a 'back to work' march seeking to break the Ulster Workers Council strike in the 70s. The TUC is quite happy to scab and back scabs if it suits them politically it seems. So TUC = scabs, Solidarity = old style Union values.

Memoryman


Soft totalitarianism

17.01.2008 21:07

This is "soft totalitarianism" in action trying to force out a teacher simply because he is a member of a legal political party. Totalitarianism uses every institution to enforce its views, from schools to universities to the media. We haven't yet got prison camps or political executions but more and more people are being silenced by threats and laws.

I read that "United Against Fascism" is distributing CDs in schools - a front group of the openly Troskyist SWP that wants to emulated the bloody Russian Revolution. So Trotskyites are allowed to distribute CDs in schools yet a teacher is suspended for simply being a member of the BNP, not having done anything wrong or tried to brainwash children like the totalitarian UAF et al.

Ed