Leeds Market selling nazi Icons
anti-fash | 08.01.2010 20:18 | Social Struggles | Sheffield
A stall on Leeds Market is selling flags with the neo-nazi celtic cross symbol on. The celtic cross is a banned symbol in Germany, Italy (and some other countries) due to the wide spread use by neo nazis, not only is this gentleman selling the black on white celtic cross, he is also selling the Red celtic cross flag.
I URGE you ALL to complain to the market inspector, the office is convieniently next door to his stall. you can either go in and complain to the inspectors office, write to:
Market office
34 George Street
Leeds
LS2 7HY
call: 0113 2145162
at least email:
markets@leeds.gov.uk
Further information
The celtic cross is the symbol used by nazi group strom-front (www.stormfront.org)
According to www.crwflags.com "The celtic cross is probably the most popular symbol among (seemingly not only) european neonazis, even more than the traditional swastika (but that’s maybe because the swastika is banned or has its use “protected” in many countries). They base it in that Celts are “true” Europeans (i.e., of “pure” breed)."
http://www.crwflags.com/FOTW/flags/qt-z_sym.html
The celtic cross is also the basis for the KKK logo
http://www.mediamouse.org/wp-content/plugins/old-imgs/resources/i/rl/kkk.gif
Further information.
http://gbgm-umc.org/UMW/anti-hate/symbolsofhate.html
http://www.crwflags.com/FOTW/flags/qt-z_sym.html
http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Celtic-cross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_cross
http://hatemonitor.csusb.edu/hate_extremism_symbols.htm
Nazi groups using the symbol.
www.stormfront.org/forum/ Stormfront
www.bpp.org.uk The British Peoples Party
www.aryanunity.com A group Unifying white supremasist groups
Fascist uses of the symbol
http://www.hagatekst.no/eufimages/enteneller.jpg WW2 nazi propaghanda
http://politicalsoldier.netfirms.com/shop//catalog/images/stickers%20-%20fc%20cc.jpg
http://www.antifa.org.uk/nucleus3.32/nucleus332/media/1/20080922-bpp111.jpg
http://www.hagatekst.no/eufimages/leftistscum.jpg
http://www.farenet.org/images/news/57.jpg
http://www.bpp.org.uk/hangpaedos.jpg
http://europelostandfound.net/files/elf/images/NaziScum_NoviSad_0.jpg
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/20071106BelgianWNRat3.jpg
http://www.harunyahya.com/images_books/images_fascism/211c.jpg
http://www.whiteknightseuropa.de/Ku-Klux-Klan-Knight_&_Medieval-Knight_with_Celtic-Cross_Large.jpg
Nazi online stores selling the same flags.
www.ns88.com
www.9percentproductions.com
www.politicalsoldier.net
Market office
34 George Street
Leeds
LS2 7HY
call: 0113 2145162
at least email:
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Further information
The celtic cross is the symbol used by nazi group strom-front (www.stormfront.org)
According to www.crwflags.com "The celtic cross is probably the most popular symbol among (seemingly not only) european neonazis, even more than the traditional swastika (but that’s maybe because the swastika is banned or has its use “protected” in many countries). They base it in that Celts are “true” Europeans (i.e., of “pure” breed)."
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The celtic cross is also the basis for the KKK logo
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Further information.
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Nazi groups using the symbol.
www.stormfront.org/forum/ Stormfront
www.bpp.org.uk The British Peoples Party
www.aryanunity.com A group Unifying white supremasist groups
Fascist uses of the symbol
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Nazi online stores selling the same flags.
www.ns88.com
www.9percentproductions.com
www.politicalsoldier.net
anti-fash
Comments
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yeah
08.01.2010 20:28
passer by
more nazi shit on sale...
08.01.2010 21:27
Shakey Wakey
What are you going to do?
08.01.2010 22:51
You going to ban all that too?
The cross symbol has also been heavily adopted in the metal music scene too, you going to go round all the rock clothing shops and tell them to pull any clothes with the symbol on?
You're just being pedantic and pissy, like children. Fair enough you see a racist in this garb on the streets and you know for definite who he is and what he stands for then give him hell. But there's plenty of others out there on the streets who wear this symbol who aren't associated with the right.
Back to reality
? eh?
08.01.2010 23:27
nowhere sells nazi memrabillia, except run down army surplus stores, thats why this is news.
(A)
Yeah, your logic doesn't work (A)
08.01.2010 23:51
Roles reversed
(A) says...
09.01.2010 00:02
Never been to Download festival in the UK or Ozzfest in the US have you? The symbol has been widely adopted by the metal music scene and stripped of its racist connotations. You see a fair few of these on t-shirts and flags there.
"nowhere sells nazi memrabillia, except run down army surplus stores, thats why this is news."
Nowhere sells Nazi memorabilia? I've been in military surpluss shops all over the country (London, Portsmouth, Manchester, Peterborough, Newcastle) and seen nazi trinkets and relics on sale. Ebay is packed full of them, military enthusiast festivals are often full of them, auction houses up and down the country often get a fair amount of them too. I've increasingly seen military hats and uniforms worn by the Luftwaffe for sale in those indy clothes style shops. Lots of places sell items associated with Nazi Germany, but it doesn't mean that they're directly supporting it.
Back to reality
Can see the problem...
09.01.2010 00:43
T
Gold Star
09.01.2010 00:54
Its cute that you think "reversing roles" in this instance involves the hammer and sickle. Shows a good grasp of what symbols mean, and the relationship between anarchism and soviet state-capitalism. Have a gold star.
Smooth Move
Smooth Move
09.01.2010 01:31
They're more than happy to moan about celtic crosses being on display but when it comes to a hammer & sickle they don't really give a shit do they that millions were also killed under the guise of that? More than happy to share a march through London with teens and CPGB types waving it, albeit there's ideological differences but there's unlikely to be any physical altercations or real opposition to it.
It's hypocrisy.
Roles reversed
Nazi Merchandise
09.01.2010 01:34
UK Fightback
No comparison
09.01.2010 02:40
Owain
Owain? No comparison?
09.01.2010 12:17
How grossly offensive it is for you to say that there is no comparison. I dare you to walk around Kiev with it, maybe then people will talk some sense into you.
Roles reversed
What really goes on...
09.01.2010 13:04
As for the nazi things for sale, I personally don't mind them, but I fully support people who want to do something about this. This is my opinion, what was stated in the article was someone elses opinion, and we're both doing what we feel is right. This is what direct action is all about. We don't give a rat's ass about Lenin badges, because we're godless commie scum, so we're not going to do anything about it no matter how much of a pathetic loser each one of you who commented is. If you care so much, then why not let go of your 2-litre bottles of KY and go out there and do something about it? What are you waiting for? Zee Germans to come here?
Zee German
the rise of the flag
09.01.2010 13:22
The EDL display the israeli flag, the BNP openly support the israeli regime - I hope people will take alittle time to check out these facts. The so called 'terrorists', Hamas and Hezbollah are re-actions to israels terror regime. This isn't about jews, this is about zionism.
25,000+ jews live in peace in Iran. Before the israeli occupation of Palestine, the jewish people lived peacefully with the indiginous Palestinians.
Yes, the 'star of david' has been hijacked by the zionists, just like the swastika by the nazis.
Feeadore Schmertzl
@Back to reality
09.01.2010 13:35
Yeah the same Download festival where people threw banana skins at lethal b, no racism there at all...
Charlie
the Celtic Cross is a specifically neo nazi symbol
09.01.2010 17:57
This not a case of an arny surplus shop selling German Nazi memorabilia. This is clearly a Neo Nazi Celtic Cross. Its the exact same one as Stormfront's logo, its the same as countless nazi groups logo, its the fucking Celtic Cross - it is the symbol of neo nazism. There is simply no other interpretation of that particular symbol. There is no grey area here, it doesn't even slightly look like something else.
not a clanging retard
racists and nonces.
10.01.2010 12:02
The "metal scene" is one of the most racist (and sexist) subcultures! It's hard to find a gegger without a twisted, racist outlook on life.
Next you'll be telling us the neofolk scene isn't full of racists, fascists and nonces.
{A}
Racism? Yeah right.
10.01.2010 13:55
Charlie and {A} like to make nonsense claims that metal fans are racist purely on lone incidents like Lethal b having stuff chucked at him. Well this might be common sense here and little difficult for you to grasp seeing as you only work within pre-formed glass boxes but it's because he makes shit music. At download festival people pay good money to go see metal acts, if he'd been a metal singer the crowd would have loved him. The Killswitch Engage frontman is coloured, and funnily enough he doesn't get stuff chucked at him. Answer being: He produces decent music in the style the crowd wanted to hear. Funny that.
You want to leave your bedrooms every once in a while and travel the world and realise that metal is diverse, travel to South Africa's Cape Town or Detroit/Chicago in the US to hear some great metal acts fronted by black singers.
Mr Metal Head
gi' your head a wobble, kid.
10.01.2010 15:48
I make the claim that (many) metal fans are racist from over 20years of listening to metal, going to rock nights at pubs and going to festivals. The metal scene has a whole has a very right-wing attitude, and is (correctly) seen by most as an immature, racist and sexist scene.
Gotta love how "someone is 'coloured' and everyone loved him". Just like those neofolk artists and their "But I'm gay,how can I be racist" distractions.
Get a grip - there is some fantastic antifash metal, but their is also lots that is NS,along with the acceptance of racist by quite a lot of geggers. Maybe you should try leaving YOUR bedroom, you'll soon see it.
{A}
@the bedroom boys
10.01.2010 17:56
Was Sid Vicious a nazi for wearing a swazi on his t-shirt in the Swindle? - Maclaren is jewish
The wearing of a swazi by punks,bikers etc was to piss the squares off. Symbols are given their meanings by those who use them.Its a great tool for bringing together and dividing people and requires alittle forethought before signing on the dotted line,so to speak. See, you're all correct in a way,but don't let that stop the squabbling. Who gives a shit what symbol someone wears? It's what they do that matters.
There are plenty of hypocrites on all sides - look around. People wear crosses but carry out not a word of christs doctrine,same for those wearing jewish,nazi,masonic,military etc symbols, and thank f**k they dont.
If you're interested in symbols you could do worse than check out 'Signs and Symbols of primordial man' by Albert Churchward 1910, there's also some eye opening pieces near the back.
Many, many people are shackled by their pre-occupation with symbols, I wonder why.
Symbollox
Reality
11.01.2010 11:08
Antifascist
Safe Mr Metal Head
11.01.2010 11:27
Anyway the point wasn't that he got stuff thrown at him, people get bottled at festivals all the time, but that he got banana skins thrown at him, surely you can see the racism in that? This isn't about whether lethal b is shit or not but that it's pretty racist to say he's shit in the way that download decided to say he was shit.
Charlie
for fucks sake
11.01.2010 14:43
the swastika and the celtic cross both have original cultural meanings and symbolism from further away in time than modern nazi's and EDL/BNP twats.
i like both symbols for their ORIGINAL meanings, not the newer racist or supremacist meanings. but still, they are good, ancient symbols, we shouldn't hide them away, and we shouldn't just let right wing clag nut chewers claim them.they are ancient symbols of spiritual significance to celts/pagans and far eastern religions. I beleive the swastika is sanskrit/ancient indian.
dont take away these facts.
fran
@fran
11.01.2010 15:58
Feeadore Schmertzl
Reclaiming the jackboot
11.01.2010 16:52
Leeds anti-nazi
Words and symbols CAN be reclaimed
12.01.2010 01:31
It is possible for words or symbols to be reclaimed. e.g. the word "gay" used to be a term of abuse, now it is not.
It is a fact that the symbols used by neo-Nazis today have uses that long pre-date the Nazis or any fascist movements.
Having said that, I'm sure this stall isn't on a mission to reclaim symbols for pagan hippies, so they still deserve some shit. But I wouldn't dismiss the idea of reclaiming symbols out of hand.
anon
come on....
12.01.2010 02:21
nazi flags, hooligan hats. get him told, maybe he'll stick to his football flags.
thugwatch
@Leeds anti-nazi
12.01.2010 14:44
I treat this comment section under threads, as a place for people to share information and express thoughts, as long as they're non-sexist,non- racist etc. I try to imagine the people are in front of me and try and write with respect. So when you come out with ''Are you idiots for real?'' and ''Hitler would have loved you.'' it appears you have some communication problems.
1.I'm not an idiot
2.I have no respect,care,loyalty etc for hitler,churchill,blair,netenyahoo etc.
All kinds of people read these comments, so as this is our site I'd suggest constructive imput as abuse aimed at fellow activists will earn you the label 'troll' and quite rightly. By the way I agree the symbols on the photo are aimed towards the 'nazi' end of the fashion market and it was right to highlight this.
Feeadore Schmertzl
do it
12.01.2010 22:20
I bet about 2 people have complained and the market organiser has just talked calmly to them and said everything they wanted to hear..... and then, when the phone was put down, said "What a twat!"
it - not being sat on your hienies
Political correctness works bothways......
19.10.2010 16:51
The Celtic cross is not a symbol of white supremacy, White supremacists use this as one of there symbols. The Celtic cross is a powerful symbol still in scotland and Ireland to this day and should be flown more, not hidden away because of some moaning person with nothing better to do than complain when they should be getting a life.
The Celtic cross is a symbol of the Celtic people that lived here before anyone from europe invaded and predjudiced them. Its the ST georges cross and the union jack that symbolise racism in this day and age.
BC
B connor