Maryport Against Racism

The old blog was a bit stale so we decided to spruce it up a bit. In fact, we've moved it over to Wordpress. It's more lighthearted and piss taking than the last blog as well as informative and in time we're hoping to develop it into a decent resource.

Take a look at it here.

Sick And Heartless

The parents of a heroin addict who died as a result of her addiction are to take legal action against the BNP after they used an image of her dead body in a leaflet that also called heroin addicts "nasty pathetic parasites". The leaflet was an attempt by the BNP to blame the Muslim community for the drugs trade despite the fact that the girl Rachel Whitear was white.

Rachel's parents released the image of their daughters body to remind people the dangers of drug abuse although they never intended it to be used by any political party, never mind the BNP.

To defend this sick and heartless action by the BNP, Simon Darby said, "That image is in the public domain.

"There are legal frameworks saying there is nothing wrong with using a photograph that is in the public domain.

"I have quite a lot of respect for the parents for what they've done, because they've saved people's lives by releasing this picture.

"But no, we have nothing to apologise for. I am not going to...apologise for the truth."

The truth is that the BNP don't have to go as far as the Muslim community to find the drug pushers but merely check over their own membership lists.

Let's hope that the parents of Rachel Whitear get their justice for this selfish and immoral act by the BNP.

Cheeky Bastards

Just looking over on the Solidarity scab union website. I noticed a while ago that they've nicked the IWW (my union)'s slogan, One Big Union, but now they're comparing themselves to them. The IWW, the militant left wing direct action fuck shit up etc. union, compared with some tiny group of ex-apartheid and NF members running some bureaucratic union as a front for the BNP with only a handful of members, all apparently fash too. All I can say is cheeky bastards.

The BNP On Class

Only a short post again today, I'm still really busy at the moment.

I was just looking over at local thug and fascist Clive Jefferson's blog as I sometimes do. It's usually good for a laugh, usually how the BNP has triumphed over the liberal left and the communists because they've had a couple of letters printed in the local press. But today he has a review on the newsnight that was on last night that was linked in with the white working class thing they are doing at the moment. I missed it because I was at work but Jefferson's revue is interesting. He goes off on a rant about how we are not equal. I can agree with this, we are obviously not equal, there are people living on the streets, there are un-employed, there are single, working class parents on minimum wage and then there are the likes of Royal family, the over payed MP's, Nick Griffin etc. But what Jefferson seems to be arguing is that there isn't really anything wrong with this. This is part of the core of any fascist party.

Fascism doesn't necessarily have to be racist. The BNP use racism as a means of distracting from the class issue and by spouting off mildly socialist rhetoric, they are able to seem the natural party of the working class but as Jefferson has shown, the BNP have no interest in the working class whatsoever. By using this superficial image of an anti-system party they are also able to steal the platform of any genuine opposition from the left. The enemy of fascism aren't the blacks Asians or Jews. They're just used to make it easier to blame something on that's a result of social divisions. The real enemy of fascism is a class conscious worker.

It seems that the BNP may have changed their image to the representatives of the working class but they haven't changed there beliefs. We only have to look at quotes from ex-senior members of the BNP to see their true feelings to the working class.

Tony Lecomber - "The rich are genetically superior to the poor".
Simon Smith - "I'm no apologist for white working class scum"
- "White working class scum will be swept away by a future BNP government."

The only way to fight against class divides is to fight as one class. Strikes, riots and revolution is the way, not voting for some pompous Nazi thugs.