tor Its fascist style.
other Sunday again to intimidate immigrant communities will South London when Southwark.
The new series activities are This school for the activities remain Anti Nazi League.
The sordid -. are split in its ranks.
by Herbert, Peoples' Party which he argues public face of the Front.
4.25 Seamy inillion BPP project and membership Midlands. clibililly the been defending • Re enquiry complaints quarters.
Typical of the seamy would crossing that goes not worth that These two, known as the Gang of Three. Fountaine, Front by Tyndali, fully fragmented the "Gang'. the tongnise the Directorate Webster.
Assets
and Constitutional faction.
the fascist National Front took to the streets and harass in the borough of of NF of Front trustee), designed to reestablish their waning fortunes, diverting attention away from the internal crisis that has been tearing the organisation apart since their poor showing in the general These problems aré related to of the anti-fascist movement and in particular the LETSLEE.
gangsterism that characterises the power struggles in the NF has recently led to another Anthony Reedhead of the INt'S legal department, has taken steps to launch a new nationalist party, the British free the trappings and associations of Nazism has damaged the Unlike the previous 1975 split the appears to have the support of a substantial section of the particularly in the policies • Ironically white Reed-Herbert was split, he was: also NF at. the public Hackney into the against the use of Excalibur House as the party headdoubleon in the NF corridors of power, it appears there is a link-up between Reed Herbert and Andrew Fountaine's "Constitutional Movement', a faction still inside the Front which has been slugging it out on the national Directorate with the dominant Tyndall/Webster faction.
. with Richard Verrall, are expelled from the IS leaving his options open, although hę has sucessand isolated Tyndall was forced to resign from his post as chairperson at meeting in mid-January, despite offering to get rid of The power struggle on the Directorate hassfocused on who controls the party's assets. Legally NF Properties is controlled by trustees loyal to the Atstimes this struggle has taken he form of a pantomime. One suci nterlude is the so-catled 'piss in th boots affair'.
Philip Gregan, an NF solicitor, arrived at Fountaine's Norfolk farm to serve a writ concerning possession Properties (Fountaine is and was so frustrated at Fountaine's refusal to open the door, that he pissed in a pair of nearby wellingtons.
furious Fountaine. complained to the Law Society over unprofessional conduct. was lucky he did not suffer the same facester NF National. Organiser Webster Organiser) who, on a similar mission to another had a bucket of cold water thrown at him.
Power It would be quite wrong, however, to dismiss the NF leadership as a bunch of irrelevant fools. The current power struggles do not appear reflect differences on strategic policy, but rather on tactics and emphasis in building a mass fascist patty today.
In a lengthy letter announcing the formation of the BPP, Reed-Herbert ...Let us make clear immediately that our nationalist policies are in no way in issue here... but whether the National : Front as political movertient is capable of taking these forward power implementation by constlulls an election winning, mass movement. (Searchlight No 56.)
Reed-Herbert still wants a party that puts forward Nazi ideas of race and nation'; still sees a purge of the against immigration controls be produced?
in the wider movement against these racist laws?
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later Gregan to 'enemy within" (blacks reds) as a prèrequisite for 'national regeneration'. Neither mentary and constitutional procedures seen as a substitute for a 'mass movement'.
In the same letter he says: «We criticise the leadership of the NF for its past, the Nazi image it has in the minds of the electorate, image of violence that the media has How can you organise successfal local campaigns to prevent people being deported? How can more effective and informative propaganda What role should the Campaign Against the Immigration Laws play These are the kinds of issues that will be discussed at the CAIL Annual Meeting which will be beld at Waterloo Action Centre, Baylis Rd, London SEt from 10am to 6 pm on Saturday 15 March.
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RECENT weeks have seen a sordid power struggle for control of the National Front, Britain's largest fascist party. Today the very existence of the NF hangs in the balance, as does the fate of führers John Tyndall and Here Dave Hudson examines splits and fusions
FIGHT THE TORIES RACIST LAWS WHAT expotly is being changed by the new Tory Immigration Rules?