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THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF OXFORDSHIRE: DELIVERED TO 115,000 HOMES AND BUSINESSES LYN KEMENY Dember:

The witch-hunting Oxford Journal front page Other material was obviously not destroyed. Socialist i Press has received photocopies of internal branch documents and other material which exposes virtually the entire local membership of the Front...

A covering letter with the photostats said that the originals had been returned to the fascists to avoid the possibility of police raids on anti-fascists.

Opportunism

Despite the success of the raid it has also shown the deep seated. opportunism and sectarianism of the Socialist Workers Party who, because the action implied a clear class position of no platform for fascists, were forced to march under their own banner instead of that of the pacifist ANL.

Incredibly, and without informing any of the other groups involved, the SWP had invited along what they regard as a "progressive section of the capitalist press in the shape of a reporter and a photographer from the Oxford Journal. Journi Th had t indistr homes page o Boots Th began:

demor eight from i were Mond: suppol punchi and br upside Thi ponsib single I It i immer: pacifis • The the wo gressivi bourge in politic: presen1 witch-t HEAD OFFIC BY NORM were not present, the al had itself a field day. le next Friday the SWP heir reward. The Journal ibuted free to 115,000 ; in Oxfordshire, carried a une splash story Mob Law Out NF"

"progressive" story , mob of ultra left wing astrators forcibly ejected National Front members a council hall where they holding a meeting on ay night. : The Front rters were kicked and ed; their leaflets scattered arned; and the hall turned ¡ down." is criminal piece of irresility by the SWP is not a mistake. is the logical outcome of sing themselves into the + ANL. eir natural allies are not arking class, but the 'pro• sections of the ¡oisie. the event the individual al leanings of the reporter t counted for little. The lunt was the result.

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MORE P2 a-loit wing demoz. bly ejected eight members from a where they were * on Monday night. irters were kicked and ete scattered and burnt; apside down. otographed for the antibeing burled out of DonCentre.

Front men dersonairatore burst into the hall.

Blows were exchanged as the National Front members were hustled out of the building.

Organisers were heard to shout: "Cool it. we just want to got thems out," but violence flaired.

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VIOLENCE flareo... Me decsoostrator burne a mase of National Frowd Litersture. Circled in a Front supporter who wel the Donnington Community Centra. Abore left: The firel parch files eo the "Revolutionary Left" surrounds a Frant rge Anderson Members of the WSL saw the d'' SWP group approaching the hall and immediately entered the er building with them. IS After it was all over, and it might be reasonably expected Inal police cars were on their way to the hall, the IMG were at that very moment, and according to plan, marching straight towards the building.

• The criminal sectarianism of the SWP could have resulted in large number of arrests.

The results of the raid have been highly productive. The fascists have been badly disorganised and frightened by the strength and numbers of the opposition.

Collect information One fascist from the Cowley Assembly plant, confronted with several car workers immediately declared that he was there to collect information against the fascists!

He is a member of the notorious 5/837 branch set up by local TGWU official David Buckle to attempt to break the strength of the 5/293 and 5/55 branches.

Copies of the documents sent to Socialist Press reveal that the NF is a ramshackle small organisation of not more than 25-30 members throughout Oxfordshire-but that they have been receiving inquiries and money from new supporters.

Most of their members do not come from Oxford itself, where a history of class struaale has not allowed the fascists to grow, but from. isolated smali villages around the county. not to expel fascists unless "the National Executive were satisfied that the member concerned had broken the rules"

He called the AFC letterwhich was a pretty tame and timid approach-"an intolerable interference in our organisation".

He said that he had no complaints of ill treatment from members at Brasenose. The letter ended with a tiring piece of rhetoric on his committment to 'equality', making it clear that Anderson would take no action.

Now the documents make it clear that Young is the driving force behind the Nazis locally.

• Bank statements made out to the National Front, Oxford and Area Group, also carry the address T.W. Young, 80 Hugh Allen Crescent, New Marston, Letters from members to the same address come in envelopes addressed B.W. Young.

There is also evidence that Young has drawn around him at least one other member of NUPE.

Clearly if the NF can be said to have an industrial base in Oxford at all it is within this NUPE University, branch, which at a time when similar low paid workers have been fighting for union organisation all over the NF leader 'yndall • NF thugs in Battersea country has declined dramatically in membership over the past few years due to the sabotage of Anderson and other officials.

On the ANL in Oxford the Stalinists block with the SWP. Now it is revealed that Anderson has been defending the leading NF member in the area!

Another. name to crop up regularly is Mrs Isla Atherley of Hazel Cottage, Charlbury.

She has for a decade bombarded the letters column of the Oxford Mail with her poisonous views on Rhodesia, race, birching, and other NF favourite subjects.

None of her letters has admitted membership of the National Front.

In the bundle of photostats is a £10 cheque from her made out to the National Front.

A covering letter says this is for 'election expenses' , confirm. ing that the NF intend to try to stand a candidate locally.

Atherley writes:

"| am delighted at the purchase of a London HQ. It sounds as it if were a magnificent building."

The WSL now intends. to campaign for labour movement action over the Front and to demand that the Trades Council and Labour Party take united class action to prevent. the standing of an NF candidate. . : Theoretical Journal o Workers Socialist Lea

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OXFOI OU No. 304 November 17, 1978 THE IMPEREMPENT YPICE OF MOB BOOT

• Punches fly as National

take a beating

... SOAPS Stalinist NUPE official Geoi On the night the SWf IMG and WSL each gathere separately, supposedly to strik fogether. The SWP had othe ideas and set off ten minute