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National Front getting rattled?

Red Weekly No. 26, 9 November 1973 · p. 2 of the scan · 663 words

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The thugs guarding the National Front's election rally in Hove Town Hall last Saturday (3 November), and the Icaflets, obviously prepared in advance, denying that they are fascists, indicate that the Front is rattled by recent counter demonstrations, and the routs they have suffered. They gave wide Part of Saturday's demonstration against the National Front in Hove organised by the Brighton Ad-Hoe Committee Against Fascism would result in an attack on their inceting.

The Ad-Hoc Committee had chosen this NF election rally, the high point of the Front's LERUN for a national strike, and massive pressure put on the executive to this effect. For the coming wage battles conferences should be sponsored by shop stewards committees, inviting delegates from all sections of workers who will be going into struggle to discuss how to unite the full force of the working class against the Tory Gorernment and how to prepare the labour movement to go beyond its official leadership and carry this struggle through to victory. JIM WILSON in Germany during World War Two.

OR THEE IT OF ENCLAND LAVOTE FOR THE NATIONA FRONT SA VOTE •FOR FASCISM attend.

Ruth Morgan have died there'.

in the by-election. campaign, in order to expose the NF as a fascist and racist organisation, despite the 'respectable" image which it is trying to put over with its candidate, Squadron-Leader Harrison Broadley, a former prisoner of war Speakers who addressed the demonstration Hore area LIVERPOOL Photo: Ezra Nathan (Red Weekly)

groups, trade unions, student uniuns - indeed anyone concerned with breaking the hold of reactionary ideas over the working class — should Last Saturday the anti-abortion group LIFE (set up by members of the Catbolic Church) staged a 300strong demonstration against the opensng of a burd control centre in Leamington Spa. The demonstrators held a silent march to the Blackdown Clinic where they laid a wreath 'in memory of the babies who A counter-demonstration was organised by the the IMG, IS, Communist Party, and the Communist Party of England (M-L.). a Maoist group who have put up a candidate The Anti-Fascist Ad-Hoc Committee considers that it achiered its main objective in exposing the real nature of the National Front, but this demonstration was only the beginning of a campaigo agninst the racist and tascist activities of the Front in the Brighton and An attempt by the National Front in Liverpoo to hold a private meeting for members and supporters was met by a picket of over 50 anti-fascists. A Frout supporter who arrived in a car with two large dogs was surrounded and forced to drive away, and the fascists were only able to enter the meeting when the police arrived and escorted them through the picket, This anti-fascist mobilisation would have been much bigger if it had not coincided with an important public meeting on Chile The picket was called by the Merseyside AntiFascist Committee, which is receiving broad support from the local labour movement. The Committee includes representatives from the Liverpool and Birkenhead Trades Councils Merseyside Womens Liberation Group, and local student and political organisations, it is pledged to oppose fascinm within the trade union movement, to respond actively to fascists meetings and demoustrations, and to respond to altacks by the fascists on any section of the population, political group, or individual. It recognises that anti-fascist action must go hand in haod with struggle against the problems of unemployment, bad housing ete, which the fascists exploit for their reactionary and divisite propaganda has now spread to Kings College Hospital, where a committee of nurses and medical students has been formed. Co-ordinated action between the hospitals, in the form of boycotts and mass meetings, has been organised.

The joint committee which has been set up met the management, and demanded a 25% decrease in food prices for all hospital workers. no furtber price increases, and workers representatives to inspect food standards and catering department accounts. Manugement refused all the demands, but subsequently sent a letter to

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