1. THE THREAT THE FASCIST NATIONAL FRONT constitutes a real danger to the workers movement, It is a threat which must be vigilantly and vigorously combatted.
But the danger is not primarily a military or physical one. The NF's bully boys are not about to start smashing up the British workers movement. It is a political threat that the Front poses.
A failure to understand this will lead to a misunderstanding of the real significance of the anti-fascist struggle for the class struggle 15 1. whole.
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For example, in their recent pamphlet on the National Front the International Socialists write: *The Special Patrol Group and the jailing of building workers and dockers are far more important at present than the National Front.' It is this view that previously led the Inter national Socialists to dismiss the fight against the fascists as a "diverpeople who vote for them in elections, the hundreds of thousands who share their racist and antlcommunist views, and the millions who are influenced by the reactionary ideas poured out by the capitalist press and political parties.
Of course, if it is able to build such a mass movement, the Front will turn to physical attacks against the workers' movement, But it can only do this once it has succeeded in its political task of winning over large numbers of workers.
Indeed the ruling class will not try to take on the workers movement physicully until it has first defeated it politically, and broken up its unity and fighting spirit. Alter all, even the German ruling class in the 1930's did not dare outlaw and dismantle the mass organisations of the German working class until after the workers movement had suffered a series of political defeats with the rise of Nazism, and the crushing blow of the sec how the struggie against the NE must be conducted. This struggle must centre around the slogan No Platform for Fascists' - the workers" movement must not allow the fascists to freely conduct the public activity which will allow them to build up a mass movement.
Two dangers in particular must he avoided. The first mistake would be simply to undertake small minority operations against the Front (an error which certain elements at the recent Leicester demo tended towards.) This might serve to show up the military weakness of the Front, but does nothing to expose them politically.
We cannot assume that the workers to whom the Front addresses its propaganda are basically pure of mind and heart, and just being con taminated by the NI's propaganda. Many of them sympathise with the NF's ideas, and actions which allow the Front to pose as the poor victims of a tiny handful of violent Red plotters may serve to increase, tather than reduce, such sympathy.
Equally futile would be an interminable succession of marches with no object other than to continually prove that anti-fascist demos the coming months.
Windsor - strategy to deal with the Front in these arcas, and the organisation of a practical campaigo within the workers" movement to carry it into effect, is the job which the antifascist movement must undertake in We must bring the mass hostility which workers feei against fascisma to bear in all these areas. This is the way to rip the National Front out, of our political soil, root and branch.
we must not let such scene happen in Hyde Park this weekend. upheaval and resentment in wide secti Front tries to makes its presence felt.
Meetings, leaflets, door-to-door can political campaigns are used by the NF cach particular crisis. The material is p whichever group the NF is addressing Their leafless for schools are mark ed School Students' and play on the theme of violence in schools. Prop aganda for industrial workers- headIMG SAY