ANL-unity of the graveyard

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finally forced to admit to alised Post Office, but that they also operated an illegal price-fixing deal between them to ensure that these "Rock around the clock-preferably with a Tory" was the message which came from the inaugural meeting of the Anti Nazi League at Winsford last week.

This pathetic 'solution' to deal with emerging fascism was supported by the Socialist Workers Party, the Communist Party and one WRP supporter who seconded the motion to set up the branch.

Almost immediately the meeting started, WSL members were accused by the SWP speaker of 'disruption' for bringing "politics into it" , presumably thereby sowing seeds of discontent.

Indeed the SWP speaker thought this was precisely Bidwell why the Nazis seized power in Germany: "The German people just couldn't agree" he said.

At the beginning of the meeting the chairman read out a letter from the local Conservative Party rejecting an invitation to join the ANL on the grounds that they (the Tories) were against the "curtailment of the freedom" of the NF to speak and to organise themselves-indeed had the Tories thought about it they might have reminded the Stalinists that this was their joint position at the recent NUS conference.

WSL members wanted to know why Sid Bidwell left' Labour MP and a leading spokesman for the ANL could equate being against the racialism of the NF and yet be a supporter of the notorious Parliamentary Select Committee Report on Race and Immigration which even forced fellow Labour MPs to describe it as a "gift to the NF"

The contradiction of having Labour MPs who voted for Labour cabinet policies which produced the conditions for fascism to grow and yet could sign the ANL founding statement was not resolved.

The ANL is an organisation whose lack of principled politics will certainly lead them to a unitya unity of the graveyard.