April 28, 2007

Addressing the threat of the BNP: A student debate (Lancaster University)

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Addressing the threat of the BNP:
A student debate (Lancaster University)


Addressing the threat of the BNP: A student debate
As part of Love Music Hate Racism

Furness Lecture Theatre 2
5:00pm – Monday week 2 (April 30th)
(Followed by ‘Love Music Hate Racism’ at Sugarhouse from 8:00pm)

Behind the facade of suited respectability, the BNP is a fascist organisation in the tradition of Hitler's Nazis. It was created from a split in the openly fascist National Front and is funded from neo-Nazi donations, festivals and music sales. Its aim is an all-white Britain, which could only be created using mass violence and an end to democratic freedoms. Many of its members have convictions for violence and racial hatred. Nick Griffin, the BNP leader has been convicted of incitement to racial hatred after he denied the reality of the Nazi Holocaust that resulted in the murder of 15 million people including Jews, trade unionists, Roma, black, lesbian, gay and disabled people.

The fascist BNP is standing a record number of candidates in local council, Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections on 3 May, including one in Lancaster. The BNP's vote has increased by more than 75 fold in just six years - from just over 3,000 votes in 2000 to over 238,000 in 2006.

The BNP can be stopped - The vast majority of people oppose the BNP's politics of race hate, violence and division. The fascists rely on a low voter turnout to win elections, so by supporting anti-racism events like this and going to vote on May 3rd you are sending out a message that the BNP are not welcome either on campus, in Lancaster or anywhere else.

Speakers from: National Union of Students, Amicus, Love Music Hate Racism and Unite Against Fascism (UAF).

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