On Saturday April 3rd members of the recently set up Fascists Out! Campaign prevented fascists from the White Nationalist Party/Combat 18 from distributing leaflets in Portrush.

Anti-fascists confronted the four fascists in a car park near the Dunluce Centre and insisted that they hand over their material. After a brief confrontation, which saw one of the ‘storm troopers’ on the verge of tears shouting “Help, help, I’ll tell the police”, these ‘aryan freedom fighters’ legged it in different directions.

Leaflets and other fascist material including a WNP flag were seized. This material from the WNP and Combat 18, with swastikas prominent, shows the real nature of these groups.

A spokesperson for the Fascists Out! Campaign commented;

“For some time we have been monitoring the activities of the White Nazi Party in the Coleraine, Ballymoney, Bushmills and Ballymena areas. These people are spreading racist filth and encouraging the cowardly attacks, including the petrol bomb attacks, against members of minority communities.

“Hitler scapegoated the Jews and these modern Hitlerites are trying to scapegoat racial minorities. Like Hitler they stand for a “pure Aryan race”.

“The problems of low pay, cuts in services, lack of jobs especially for young people, lack of affordable housing etc. are not caused by immigrants. They are caused by the current economic system that puts profit before need, and by government policies that are dictated by the interests of big business.”

The spokesperson continued;
“We do not want fascists organising here. We have enough problems in Northern Ireland with the sectarian conflict without having fascists stirring up more trouble.

“We are organising against them because we know it is dangerous to be complacent in face of the threat of fascism. The lesson of the rise of Hitler is that the German fascists should have been taken on when they were small. The White Nationalist Party/Combat 18 have no support. This is the time to defeat them so that we make sure they never get any bigger.”
We cannot allow this scum any room for development and we congratulate the Fascists Out Campaign on their first successful action. It is necessary to keep up the pressure, to show the WNP that they cannot organise on our streets without confrontation and active resistance. Since April 3rd Anti-Fascist activists in Ballymena and Ballymoney have been postering and distributing Anti-Fascist leaflets.
Jason

WHAT IS THE WHITE NATIONALIST (NAZI) PARTY?

You’ve read worriedly about BNP councillors in the British press and seen National Front and Combat 18 logos crudely sprayed and scrawled on walls, but hot on their bigoted heels comes a smaller, more extreme racist group which has been holding ‘recruitment drives’ and spreading race-hate propaganda in their efforts to become “the fastest growing political party in Northern Ireland” - the ‘White Nationalist (i.e. Nazi) Party’. According to their own website, they are the United Kingdom arm of ‘Aryan Unity’, formed in May 2002 after apparently “recognising that none of the existing Nationalist groups in Britain offer a full programme of White Nationalism”. This means they consist mostly of former BNP members, disgruntled with what they perceive to be a softening of policy and “attitude toward gays, race issues, asylum seekers”, a “compromising of principles for the sake of trying to look respectable” (which they vow never to do). They commend the National Front as a “decent White Nationalist group”, demanding repatriation of immigrants, but criticize their ‘weak’ structure that hampers expansion.
A visit to their website results in a bombardment of information including their version of how things are (what’s wrong with our ‘enforced’ multi-cultural society today), and of course how things should be put right. These self-styled “Aryan freedom fighters” will introduce you to the essence of their beliefs in “eight principles of white nationalism”; and their blueprint for achieving their aims, the “five phases to power” (may it never happen). Their arguments throughout this admittedly well-presented website are confused and confusing – but in case the ‘revolutionary’ language deflects you from realising exactly who you are dealing with, I quote from founder member Eddy Morrison: “For National Socialists the Second World War did NOT end in May 1945 - that wasn't the end of the war, it was just one lost battle amongst many”.
Of more immediate concern to us than their ideological short-comings are their recent attempts to gain public support. In local predominantly loyalist areas, stickers proclaiming “stand by loyal Ulster, hang all IRA scum” and other blunt sloganeering playing on people’s tabloid-induced fears: “hang paedophile scum”, “warning - asylum seekers”, “no to Islam in schools” and the like have appeared. They have been holding ‘events’ to attract support in places like Coleraine, Portrush, Ballymena. Back on their website they proudly display cuttings from local newspapers mentioning these activities. They seem to think ‘no publicity is bad publicity’, including the Sunday Life article entitled “the rise of the racists” which after mentioning recent attacks on minorities claims “many of the racist bullyboys in the White Nationalist Party also belong to the local nail-bomb brigade”. They fail to include, though, a more recent Sunday Life clipping which detailed WNP members scampering home with their tails between their legs after encountering resistance as they tried to spread their fascist race-hate propaganda in Portrush…

Paul

No “Blood & Honour” concert here!

“These thugs have announced that they intend to bring a fascist “Blood & Honour” band over from England to play in the North Antrim area. This concert should not go ahead. The Fascists Out Campaign are asking every venue in the area to refuse to let fascists use their facilities. Make sure every door in the area is closed to these Hitlerites.”

Contact the Fascists
Out Campaign:
fascistsout@hotmail.com