A-Infos (en) Britain, Anarchist federation "Resistance Festival Special" August 2008

Smash the scumfest ---- Coach loads of people are expected to arrive from all 
over the country to oppose the British National Party's annual `Red, White and 
Blue' festival, taking place in Derbyshire. --- Despite having no drinks and
entertainment license, the BNP are still going ahead with their scumfest, 
scheduled for 15­17 August on land belonging to BNP supporter Alan Warner, just 
off the Codnor­Denby Lane. --- The event is an opportunity for the inbreds of 
the party membership to organise their continuing and divisive assault on the 
working class people of Britain and beyond. --- Anarchists and anti-fascists 
have been hard at work taking action to stop the event. The threat of militant 
protest has already caused the BNP to have their drinks and entertainments 
licence refused on two occasions.

Back in June, Alan Warner woke one
morning to find a torrent of abuse daubed
on his garden wall: "`BNP Scum' was
painted in big letters on my wall, along with
swastikas and other offensive slogans," he
told a local newspaper, whilst three bike
locks had been attached to his gates.
More recently anti-fascists in Derbyshire
have targeted the suppliers of the
festivals toilets. STS of Chesterfield had
locks on their premises glued and walls
were graffitied with `BNP = shite'.
But opposition to the fascists is by no
means focusing only on their annual
scumfest. Despite reports in the
mainstream media that the BNP are
continuing to gain support, opposition
right across the country is steadily
growing also.
In May, South Yorkshire anti-fascists
treated a local BNP election candidate and
his supporting officers to a complimentary
paint job on their cars. Is it a Ford? Is it a
Vauxhall? No it's a `Nazi Scum'!
A spontaneous demonstration surrounded
a BNP stall in Lancaster preventing them
from handing out leaflets. They were
shouted down and jeered before a passer-
by emptied two cans of fizzy pop on their
stall. Unable to operate they packed up
and left town completely demoralised.
Make no mistake, the BNP cannot be
smashed by an annual turnout to oppose
their scumfest or by `rocking against
racism' listening to your favourite band.
This disgraceful event must be stopped.
But the real work is in our communities
the length and breadth of Britain, day in,
day out, opposing the fascists by exposing
their ideas and physically preventing
them from organising. Most importantly,
the fascists will be defeated by a solid
working class movement that fights
against inequality and injustice in all its
forms and creates a society of freedom
and equality for everyone. The BNP are
a dangerous and divisive party that has
only the interests of the ruling elite at its
heart. They must be stopped h
Visit www.antifa.org.uk for more information on
militant anti-fascism in Britain.
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Stop the BNP's SATURDAY 16 AUGUST -  Red, White and Blue festival 

Meet at Codnor centre, Derbyshire at 9.00am
See nobnpfestival.wordpress.com and www.antifa.org.uk for more information
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Roma facing persecution from Italian state

In Italy the Berlusconi government is starting
to resemble that of the fascist Mussolini in its
treatment of ethnic minorities. The murder
of over a million Gypsies and Roma, starting
in 1926, involved the collection of data
distinguishing them from `true' Germans or
Italians. This made it easier for the state to
isolate them.
Roma have been settled in Italy since the 14th
century. Although they are usually thought
of as travellers, many only move because of
persecution. New laws in Italy forbid Roma
from begging, washing car windscreens and
even from living within 30km of some towns.
Instead, rather chillingly, they are being forcibly
removed from towns to `solidarity villages'.
They are also being burnt out and even children
have been beaten up by neo-Fascists with the
support of local councils, who portray Roma
as anti-social. Italy's highest court has recently
condoned this racist persecution because, it
said, "all Gypsies are thieves".
Now the Berlusconi government has begun
to fingerprint Roma. This policy started with
children, supposedly to identify and protect
them from parents who would send them
out to steal. The outcry from NGOs at this
victimization of children merely allowed for the
extension of the policy to adult Roma as well.
Now the government says it will fingerprint all
Italians, merely starting with the Roma. The
state's true intentions are clear.
But the Roma are self-organised and defend
themselves with the support of sympathetic
groups including anarchists. Roma occupied
an empty building in Milan for four years and
later a country house in the region along with
anarchists. There they were able to defend
themselves better from attack. Other anarchists
are living with Roma in their camps to help
keep out neo-fascists. Anarchists have also
demonstrated against the Red Cross because
of its involvement in this early phase of `ethnic
registration' and in migrant detention centres
more widely.
Anarchists throughout the world identify with
and try to support self-organised minority
groups, be they seen as a threat in racial,
national, social or economic terms by the
right-wing and the state. British people must
take action against the representatives of the
Italian state in the UK
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Campaigners
fight against
new academy
Anti-academy campaigners
in London have re-occupied
a sports ground to prevent
building work on a new City
Academy school.
A tent city has been set up
on the Wembley Park Sports
Ground by the group `Grass
Roots Alliance for Social Spaces'
to carry on where teachers and
local supporters had left off after
Brent Council evicted them from
the site in mid-July.
GRASS intend to stay on site
for as long as possible to resist
attempts to start construction
work. They are calling on
people to join them to help
save the sports ground and
green spaces and fight UK
school privatisation.
Food bills too
high?
Forget Aldi's 69p fruit and veg
offer, if you really want to save
some money on your groceries
then don't bother paying at
all--just like the Greeks.
Disgruntled workers in Athens,
faced with rising food costs,
filled their trolleys high before
walking out of the supermarket
without parting a penny. The
goods were then handed out
for free at a nearby market
along with leaflets calling for
other `shoppers' to do more of
the same. Now that's what I
call a bargain.
Billboard workers
to strike
Over       100     workers    on
London's underground are to
strike for four days over a sub
inflationary pay offer.
Around 130 RMT members
working for CBS Outdoor
contracted to put up posters
on the tube network are to
strike after voting by a margin
of nearly eleven to one for
industrial action.
Workers have rejected a 3.8%
pay rise, conditional on a
10% raise in productivity, as
it fails to meet the current rate
of inflation at 4.6%
More work for less pay? You
can stick yer posters!

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Capitalism and all oppression to
create a free and equal society. This is
Anarchist Communism.
We see today's society as being
divided into two main opposing
classes: the ruling class which
controls all the power and wealth, and
the working class which the rulers
exploit to maintain this. By racism,
sexism and other forms of oppression,
as well as war and environmental
destruction the rulers weaken and
divide us. Only the direct action of
working class people can defeat these
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liberation movements as they fail to
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