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Neo-Nazi demo shut down in Leeds

Revo | 19.10.2008 12:09 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social Struggles

On Saturday 18th of October, the British People’s Party (BPP) planned a demonstration in Leeds, outside HMV. They intended to protest against “racist” black rap music, handing out leaflets demanding “rights for whites” and calling on the store to stock White Power music. Richard B from Leeds Revo reports.

This was what they planned to do at least… When anti-fascists got wind of it we spoiled the party.

Several hundred anti-fascists turned up, having been organised by Workers Power, Revolution, Unite Against Fascism, Antifa and some other left activists. There were two demonstrations, one marching from the university and the other congregating in the city centre.

The city centre demo marched up to the bottom of Land’s Lane and a few were quickly forced into a pen that the Police had arranged. Some managed to break away, including comrades from Revolution, and join the Uni march as it made its way down.

The Uni group had set off at 10.30am and were soon faced with an attempted police diversion, down a route that would have led to the pen at the bottom of Land’s lane. Had this happened, Land’s Lane would have been clear for the BPP to spread their fascist filth. But we anticipated the police’s plan and pushed through the police lines, forcing our way to the top of the lane. We then moved, together, to directly outside HMV - the exact spot where the fascists planned to leaflet.

We managed to hold this position for around an hour and, whilst a few people got picked off, the main demonstration stayed together, even in the face of the usual police brutality. One young female comrade was hit with a baton so hard in the eye, she had to be taken to hospital.

Just when things seemed to be calm down, one of the head officers in the police came to the front and announced that he would like a few minutes of our time to tell us how to join the Police force. This was, of course, just a diversionary tactic and, sure enough, the police then charged us from behind and began ripping individuals out one by one with brutal force.

Eventually, after a struggle they forced us down Land’s Lane after all. So, now, contrary to the police’s original plan, they were having to block both the top and bottom of the street - blocking any members of the public from coming through. The shops had closed their doors and we had dug in. We had been there since eleven, and it was coming up to half one.

But where were the fascists? Was this about to be a total victory? Were they not even going to dare and show their face?

We kept the chants going, as we had through the whole demo so far - “Fascist Scum, Off Our Streets!”, “Whose Streets? Our Streets!” etc, etc.

All the time we were wondering if the fascists would show.

Sure enough the BPP, at two o’clock - two hours later than advertised - came out.

They got into their tiny little, metal-fenced pen (all 15 of them) and began their demonstration - to nobody at all! There was not one member of the public on that street - just two crowds of Anti-fascist protestors at either end and hordes of police. The fascists had nobody to leaflet or shout at and no black brother and sisters to intimidate.

So there they were a handful of hardcore neo-Nazis, with the police defending their “right” to protest, and an empty shopping area with no one but 300 anti-fascists for company.

We stood strong, drowning them out with chants of “there are many, many more of us than you! There are many, many more of us than you!” and “What shall we do with the BPP, What shall we do with the BPP, What shall we do with the BPP, Early in the Morning? String them up like Mussolini, String them up like Mussolini, String them up like Mussolini, Early in the Morning!”

After an hour, they left through a police cordon with their tails between their legs!

If we had not been there and if we had not pushed through the police lines and occupied the street, the BPP would have had their leafleting and – who knows - could have gained some support, or just shouted their racist slanders at black and Asian people on the street.

As the economic crisis deepens – as mass unemployment looms large on the horizon in Britain – the capitalists are shore to look for scapegoats: Muslims, migrants and ethnic minorities will all be blamed for the failure of the system. History tells us that in times like this fascism can grow into a major threat. That’s why we have to fight to no platform the BPP – that’s why we did it yesterday.

But in some ways the BPP is not the major threat. They are a fringe neo-Nazi outfit with little chance of gaining mass support. We were 100% right to no platform them in their first attempt to crawl out of their hole into public politics. But the big threat are the “nice” Nazis: the BNP. They too will no doubt soon return to the streets as the crisis deepens and have to be treated just like the BPP: driven off the streets by force.

Yesterday’s demonstration shows the anti-fascists can win the battle. But it’s only

Revo
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BPP should count themselves lucky...

19.10.2008 12:57

that the 635/Antifa group didnt find em. Oi Watmough, we're coming to get you!

Antifash


From one who was there

19.10.2008 13:23

Actually, I was there yesterday along with other members of the public and the above report is not how it happened at all. The numbers are correct but that's it. I saw a few people with the leaflets so evidently they got their word out to various people.

From what I can see you're both as bad as each other, but they do have a point on this one. Ban all inflammatory lyrics or ban none. Leaving it as it stands with a perceived anti-white bias just garners support for the BNP and other, fringe groups such as the BPP.

Please be factual in future.

leeds liberal


Leeds Troll

19.10.2008 16:24

The post above sounds like its from a fascist troll, how on earth anti-fascists who oppose racial discrimination can be "just as bad" as a group of people who sympathise with the ideas of Adolf Hitler and Mussolini is frankly beyond reason.

bruisedshins


In the deluded world of fascism,Nazis are antiracist,protectors of minorities

19.10.2008 17:03

, seriously they really espouse this BS when they feel it necessary,sadly afew people uneducated in politics fall for it, for a short period. The BNPs Arthur Kemp is the Holy protector of this ideology in Britain with his tripe in "Clash of the Titans".
The BPP are one of the "radical" front of the BNP, with BNP working closely with BPP members using them as security at their events & to run Redwatch whilst covertly funding them.

In their wolrd mixed race people are a holy abomination, despite the scientific fact that in nature, hybrids are one of the ways how nature evolves & that we are all hybrids of the human race. White, black, asain people are never going to die out because, the climatic conditions they live is the prime reason they are the one shade or another, with small eyes or noses most appropriate.
No wonder Alicia Keys called herself a anarchist recently in the Gaurdian.
Heres to universal democracy

Pikey


In the deluded world of BPP&BNP,Nazis are antiracist,protectors of minorities

19.10.2008 17:18

, seriously they really espouse this BS when they feel it necessary,sadly afew people uneducated in politics fall for it, for a short period. The BNPs Arthur Kemp is the Holy protector of this ideology in Britain with his tripe in "Clash of the Titans".
The BPP are one of the "radical" front of the BNP, with BNP working closely with BPP members using them as security at their events & to run Redwatch whilst covertly funding them.

In their wolrd mixed race people are a holy abomination, despite the scientific fact that in nature, hybrids are one of the ways how nature evolves & that we are all hybrids of the human race. White, black, asain people are never going to die out because, the climatic conditions they live is the prime reason they are the one shade or another, with small eyes or noses most appropriate.
No wonder Alicia Keys called herself a anarchist recently in the Gaurdian.
Heres to universal democracy

Pikey


Re

19.10.2008 17:42

So I'm a fascist troll? Not at all. I'm just struggling - seriously - to understand whether you realise that you opposing the BPP makes it appear as though you condone the anti-white lyrics. If you'd said "We too oppose the anti-white lyrics or the blatant discrimination - our interest lies ONLY on preventing the fascists from having a voice" then I could have a little respect for your action.

As it is, to the ordinary bystanders, it looks like you are pro-"whatever the pertinent lyrics say" and that will turn ordinary people off and push them towards the people - however objectionable - who seem to be doing something about it.

I imagine you must get a fair few trolls on here - so I quite understand why you think I am one - but I am not. Your prerogative to think that though if you like - it's a free country. :)

leeds liberal


RE

19.10.2008 21:21

I understand the point you're trying to make leeds liberal but the impression that most ordinary bystanders left with on the day was that a tiny band of nazis had turned up in leeds and were made to look like the mugs they are. It's not about having a dialogue about the campaign that the BPP used as a pretext for their pathetic attempt at "taking back the streets" it's about making sure nazis and fascists aren't allowed the chance to return to street politics.

still chuckling


question for leeds liberal

19.10.2008 23:53

You say 'the above isn't how it happened at all'. If the report is innaccurate, could you please be specific and detailed about which bits are wrong and why? Cheers.

.


Leeds Liberal is a Fascist Troll

20.10.2008 08:59

If you check out the Stormshite website thread on this demo, one long time member claims he is going to have "fun on a certain website" with the very same argument "Leeds Liberal" makes.

Coincidence? I think not, especially when, as pointed out elsewhere on this thread, he makes wholly untrue and innacurate statements about the demo itself.

NO leaflets were handed out at all, we know it, he knows, the BPP know it. I was there, I know it.

And "Leeds Liberal"? Only a thick fascist could have come up with such a painfully transparent name as that!

I Hate the Fash


Leeds Liberal + Gun + Foot

20.10.2008 15:01

"Not at all. I'm just struggling - seriously - to understand whether you realise that you opposing the BPP makes it appear as though you condone the anti-white lyrics. If you'd said "We too oppose the anti-white lyrics or the blatant discrimination - our interest lies ONLY on preventing the fascists from having a voice" then I could have a little respect for your action. "


Which "anti-white lyrics" are you referring to? You've just given the clear-cut proof as to which side of the fence you stand as none of the "no platform" lot would have dropped in the phrase without qualifying it as being the view of the BPP/BNP. Also anyone but the BPP/BNP would have said that these "anti-white lyrics" are found in "gangster rap" or "hardcore rap" as opposed to "black rap music" in general so as to distinguish themselves from these loony bigots.

A good troll does not allow his own speech patterns to interfere with those of his pseudonym.

MonkeyBot


"Leeds Liberal"

21.10.2008 08:37

What a pathetic attempt at trolling! At least 600 people know what happened last Saturday, so you'd have to be pretty stupid to lie about it.

Antifascist


to lol

21.10.2008 16:33

did you have no friends as a child?
is this why your attention seeking so much on here?
want everyone to see that your the biggest twat in the twatathon,we'll its not you cos you've been upgraded to dickhead!

and do you really think that calling people middle class is gonning to make them cry?
im so hurt that you think im middle class i think im gonna cut myself and cry like an emo.
your quit a sad person really, i bet your perants are really proud of you aren't they.

go touched up some more children you douche

cry me a river

roddes


Again

21.10.2008 17:01

The BPP were on the streets, YOU didn't stop them.

That's so simple, even a red can understand it now.

LOL


Lol you really are sad

21.10.2008 19:43

Lol @ lol for being such a tosser. After all the proud boasts kate Mc Dimwit made about taking back the streets and launching her great racial holy war the hundreds of Nationalists she boasted would turn up etc. what we ended up with were about 13 sad shabby looking losers who no-one heard, gave leaflets to no-one and failed miserable to convince anyone of the valdity of their argument or stop HMV from selling rap music. The last point is most important you see lol, the whol point of the Brown Pants Parties sad little demo - if you can call it that - was to stop HMV selling rap music and convince the people of Leeds that this was right.
The Brown Pants Party failed, miserably, on both counts. No-one heard them, they spoke to no-one, no-one could read there sad little banners that they spent their time hiding behind - if the rows and rows of police Kate had to arsekiss and grass her so -called comrades to for protection weren't enough!

She needed protection from what she dismissed as the agents of zog AND had to be carted away by Asian taxi drivers - could they have sold out anymore of their so-called principles? Have they any left? As I have written on another thread on the same issue, if the demo had been banned they may have walked away with some sort of moral victory, unfortunatley as they were allowed to stand around outside HMV looking stupid and not actually convincing anyone of anything, or even getting the chance to spread their bullshit, did they
a) actually demonstrate at all?
and
b) Do thewmselves more harm by being there in the first place?

So Lol, you keep trying, in vain, to try to snatch back some sort of dignity for the Brown Pants Party, while we laugh at you and celebrate OUR victory, you arse.

I Hate The Fash


BPP (Brown Pants Party) - demo was a failure

21.10.2008 21:32

erm.. LOL you keep saying that we failed because the demo 'went ahead' - lets think about this - on most normal demos, people give out leaflets to passers by and talk to interested members of the public. The demonstrators show their placards to members of the public to get their point across - this is a normal demo.

NONE OF THIS happened on the Brown Pants Party demo - do leaflets, no contact with the public, therefore NO PLATFORM.

Just face it LOL you wanker, We won, the Brown Pants Party lost - their "demo" was a complete freakshow and a failure.

Red Star


"Victory"???!!!! LOL!

22.10.2008 09:18

Only the worst kind of deluded fascist idiot would try to make out the BPP achieved any kind of victory on Saturday. After months of gobbing off about how they were going to "take back the streets" and "smash the reds", calling a national mobilisation (to coincide with their "congress"), changing the date to suit the cops, grassing up Tony White, and kow-towing to the cops every whim, they managed to get out about 11 - that includes 2 kids the cowardly bastards hid behind. They hid, unwelcome, in a pub for over 2 hours, under police protection, then when a 'safe' area had been cleared for them 150m from the nearest normal person, they slinked out under a heavy police guard, with their heads down, looking as pathetic as they are. They did not shut HMV as is claimed, they merely inconvenienced shoppers going to the other shops on Lands Lane. They stood muttering behind the cops, being laughed at by all and sundry, for around 45 minutes, then snuck off quaking into the back of an Asaian driven cab. 'Master Race'? My arse! The only fascists who weren't protected by the cops, when identified, got a beating. If you mug trolls think the BPP had a victory in Leeds on Saturday, I'll look forward to the next one. Next time, maybe they'll have the guts to do what every other political group do, and leaflet without 200 cops - I doubt it though, they are pitiful cowards, without the courage of their supposed convictions, who lie and hide behind little kids. If anyone ever doubted that the BPP are cowardly scum, they would have lost those doubts on Saturday.

Black n Red


Fash Trolls...

22.10.2008 09:44

...make me laugh, seriously. Anyone with half a brain can tell from the posts on here and the videos on you tube what a shower of shite the fash were on Saturday.

Their winging on here is having two main effects:-
1) It shows how badly the farce has stung their pride, they whinge, moan and try to twist the facts like any 'good' politician does to portray themselves in a positive light. Problem is here is that they are clinging to the thinnest of straws to do so and making themsleves look so fucking desperate it beggars belief. Any casual observer on this forum would see the same its so blatantly obvious to anyone except the fash.

2) the sad as fuck trolling they do on here only results in us repeating the facts that the Brown Pants Party were laughed off the streets by a multiracial ant-fascist counter demo that occupied their space, put back their demo by 2 hours or more, cut their demo down to a pathetic 45 minutes and spent that 45 minutes laughing at them, supported by the public, the same public that the fash were trying to win over, and failed until they slunk away under heavy police protection, bought by McDimwit's arse licking and grassing of Tony White, leading ot a split with the BFF and RVF who won't touch them with a cattle prod and had to be driven away by Asian taxi drivers.

Where's the victory there then?

Fucking nowhere, that's where.

I Hate The Fash


Great day

22.10.2008 12:52

As one who was there, I have to say Saturday was, for the most part, the best natured antifascist demo I've ever been on. A great ethically-mixed crowd, having a good laugh at a bunch of nazi freaks. Even the cops were joining in! The BPP are a real joke to the people of Leeds.

Anti-BPP


Lol @ Lol

24.10.2008 09:40

Getting a bit narky now aren't we, just keep grabbing at them straws kid.

From one who was there I can safely say there were many black and asian people involved in the demo, many black and asian people from Leeds supporting us and in the Anti-Fascist movement altogether. Just check the Redwatch pages (if you're not the arse creating them) and you will see man, many black and asian, working class etc. people all sticking the V's up to Fascism. So that's that lie debunked straight away, hanging you with your own website.

As to the demo, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou once again for giving me the opportunity to repeat (cos I do enjoy it, seriously) how utterly shit your demo was. To be fair I do think that some of the credit for that should go to Kevin Spazmough and Kate McDimwit for being so utterly shit, but on the whole most praise should go to the anti-fascists, joined by the people of Leeds the very people the Brown Pants Party sort to recruit to their pathetic little cause who succesfully No Platformed your shabby little demo. A demo is not a demo unless you get the opportunity to get your message across to others, you my sad little Nazi failed miserably, not one leaflet given out, not one member of the public read your banners, not one member of the public heard Spazmough or any of his rejects-from-Deliverance drone into their megaphone. All that happened was that the very few remaining members of the Brown Pants Party who haven't been sacrificed ot the police or locked up for noncing kids, mugging homosexuals after engaging in sex acts with them or any of the other despicable lowlife crimes they like to commit when no-one's looking were drowned out and laughed at by the people of Leeds and our good selves. This must really have stung your Aryan Mastewrace pride musn't it, to see a group of working class radicals, students, and ordianry people of all ages and races laughing directly at you.

And don't give me this bullshit about not being part of or supporting the Brown Pants Party. If you have no link to then why are you so deperatly trolling Indymedia in support of them, making yourself look so sad and deluded as you do so? I think you are connected o them but you are just to ashamed to admit it. And hell who wouldn't be after that farce on Saturday?

Please pop by again and give me another chance to laugh at you, how sad and wrong you are, how deluded and desperate, and give me another chance to repat how utterly shoit and a failure your demo was because I really am enjoying it. I get to releive the victory we scored on you every time you put your piggy little webbed fingers to your special rubber computer.

Yours, in mocking laughter,

Mr. Hate the Fash.

I Hate The Fash


COWARDLY FASCIST SCUM

25.10.2008 17:29

Last Saturday we saw the fascists for the shameless craven vermin they are. Hiding behind cops, hiding behind kids, shitting their pants behind an Asian taxt driver. You are absolute cowardly scum, the lot of you. Many people saw that last Saturday, and will remember it. You can lie about it as much as you want troll, but claiming the BPP "demo" as a victory is pathetic. You scum won't always have the cops there to protect your worthless hides. Then we'll see how much you like the streets.

Anytime


LOL

27.10.2008 17:29

Go and cry in your beer you sad Nazi freak. The BPP don't have the 'street presence' to fill a phonebox.

Fascists Are Cowardly Lying Scum