Anarchists, socialists, communists, social democrats and liberals do not seem to grasp the issues fuelling the rise of the BNP among the white working class.
It is certain that campaigning to Defend Asylum Seekers and calling for Open Borders certainly won't stem the growth of the far right. The politically correct left in all it's guises is incapable of acknowledging this.
The BNP are spreading wider and deeper roots across England. See Stop the BNP site for list of all candidates. The failure of the left to create a credible electoral alternative for the white working class has led to this sorry state of affairs.
We can only cross our fingers for the May 4th local elections and hope that the protest votes for the BNP won't be too great.
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Socialist values
03.05.2006 19:56
True socialist parties have abandend the working class in favour of asylum seekers and islamic causes, even some black british admited in a survey they will vote BNP.
They are putting up second generation immigrants, arabs and jews for candidates (london and Bradford) blowing the white theory wide open, we need to wake up and learn a new word
Inclusion, for many many working socialist minded are following the BNP .
We must get our act together quickly or face the wrath of the ugly side of socialism
NATIONAL SOCIALISM !
shamen
BNP or Nu Labour - Coke or pepsi
03.05.2006 21:23
Perhaps once those who indulge their racism by supporting Griffin find that life under any type of elected politicos is still shit, they'll start looking at alternatives.
If our alternative is only doing what the racists want, then its no alternative at all.
Fuck Racists
Don't fight the far right by becoming the far right
03.05.2006 21:45
Rather than trying to move closer to the BNP, like the mainstream have, I'd rather see those on the far left stay true to their own beliefs and make anyone voting for the BNP face the fact that they aren't casting a protest vote, they're making a conscious decision to vote for fascists. You've always got the choice to stay at home on polling day.
Not Backing Down
Not Really, The Left, or Socialism
03.05.2006 21:49
What needs to happen is for this new Social Justice Movement to stop referring to itself in the Right's lingo, and to make their voices heard on vital issues.
Enforcement of Existing Laws/Rules Are Key
re BNP
03.05.2006 23:23
Jameson
DON'T VOTE - ORGANISE
04.05.2006 01:24
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WHITE WORKING CLASS - ONLY CLASS TRAITORS
WHO HAVE HAVE SIDED WITH THEIR OWN RULERS AGAINST THEIR OWN PROLETARIAT
SO FAR THE TOOLS OF ORGANISATION HAVE REMAINED IN THE HANDS OF THE RULING CLASS
BUT THIS WILL NOT LAST BECAUSE COMMUNISM IS INEVITABLE
NEITHER SOCIAL NOR CENTRED
Stop the Fascist BNP
04.05.2006 09:48
And to our Uncle Joe, you might want to consider the way your (sincere but OTT) attacks on the 'liberal-Trot-Left' play into and blur into the message the Fash want to sell.
Hey ho. Stop the Fascist BNP:
Mr Spoon
RE: Jameson, which white working class?
04.05.2006 10:07
2. Yes SWP are useless but luckily they ain't the 'left' just an aunt sally, which if it did not exist then the state would have to invent so people like you could knock them down.
3. There are currently 1.1 million white East Europeans guest workers in the UK, mainly in 'traditional' blue collar or service jobs and another 152 000 immigrants of all colours were allowed into the UK last year. It is not 'ethnics' who the British working class are 'loosing out' too but their fellow white Europeans who are prepared to work for less money.
4. You use the term white working class as a racial type or a classification. However, most cockneys for example have combinations of Irish, French, Polish, Somali, Welsh, Maltese, Chinese, African, Scottish, Indian, Scandinavian, Dutch, Flemish, Jewish, German, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Russian ancestors. So what do you mean by white?
5. White working class people are neither thicker nor more intelligent than anyone else. There are plenty of upper and middle class idiots as well.
6. What was traditional 'white' working class culture built around? 1. Mass employment in traditional heavy industry. 2. Council or social housing. 3. Church or Chapel plus social clubs. 4. Trade Union membership. 5. Strong local or regional identity. 6. Nuclear family. All of these have been destroyed in the last 30 years but not by the 'left' but by the changing demands of a capitalist economy. Globalisation means that the traditional jobs performed by the 'white' working class are now in China and McDonalds wants it shops to look the same in Bejing or Burnley.
7. Just remember the majority of the white working class will not be voting BNP today and we don't need the BNP to tell us how screwed we have been. However, if you think a fat, landed gentleman and farmer from North Wales is the saviour of the British white working class you really are thick.
Ned Kelly
ned kelly.
04.05.2006 12:37
jameson
Or...
04.05.2006 12:48
less waffle
oh dear
04.05.2006 14:51
That'll be all 'blacks' then eh Jameson?
You're a racist - the BNP should suit you down to the ground.
Nick Griffin's one eyed monster
one good thing.....
04.05.2006 15:03
nobody in particular
Informed Centre, Not "Left"
04.05.2006 18:22
Socialism isn't really the issue, since most of what the Hard Right deems "Left" are actually just the ever-growing Informed Middle. The Right calls us the "Left" in order to disguise how far to the Right, how far outside the mainstream they, themselves really are, as well as misrepresent their Opposition and silence its criticism, and keep the rest of the middle from identifying with them.
What needs to happen is for this new Social Justice Movement to stop referring to itself in the Right's lingo, and to make their voices heard on vital issues.
Not Left, Just Reasoned and Informed
Fascists
06.05.2006 16:15
Why fight fascists with fascism?
Sally
The far left is helpless
07.05.2006 22:25
simon