Nottinghamshire Stop the BNP's Red White and Blue festival Newswire Archive

According to Leicestershire BNP Regional Meeting Minutes.

I posted picture here:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/08/436296.html

Thousands of British citizens came together today to blockade the BNP's 'Red, White and Blue' festival. Protesters blocked roads with their bodies, physically stopping BNP card-carriers and possible new recruits from reaching their festival.

Photos from one of the groups blockading a road to the RWB and the joint march back to town.

Derbyshire police have released the cost of their operations in policing the BNP's Red, White and Blue festival in August. The cost of deploying 400 officers and a helicopter came to quarter of a million quid. Locals are rightly disgusted that a fascist piss up has wasted so much public money.

Here is a letter from Simon Goodricke of the BNP, which was sent to the Anarchist Federation. Goodricke has a bit of a funny relationship with the police, you see... he used to be a detective, but then got put away for perverting the course of justice, and defrauding a pensioner of £1000. He was also arrested earlier this year,  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3828122.ece

A report in a national paper reveals that the BNP has been teaching kids as young as 12 how to shoot, use knives and make other weapons at its Hitler Youth camps. They are also taught how to deal with "Marxist teachers" like National Union of Teachers members.

From the forthcoming issue of the Antifa newsletter 'No Pasaran!'

Anti RWB Protest Codnor & Denby 16-08-08

A critical look at the events of last weekend.

On Saturday 16th August, people gathered to protest at the BNP event there.

On Saturday 16th August, people gathered to protest at the BNP event there.

After many weeks of bitter sectarian backbiting the demo against the BNPs Red White and Blue festival (RWB) finally went ahead. Upon reaching the event I was greeted by local IMCer Tash who informed me that there was a clear two way split in the assembled anti fascists. “Only two?” came my reply. There has never been a single campaign so effective at dividing the left as anti fascism. I suppose if nothing else our modern day Peoples Judean Fronts should be congratulated on their consistency. In the end they did manage to stage an official march on the hate-fest while elsewhere more militant anti fascists took the cross country route…