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Fascists hoist Union Jack against Troops Out demonstration The much publicised internal warfare of the National Front has taken a dramatic new turn, with an open statement in the NF's monthly journal Spearhead about a fight for control of the Great Eastern Street headquarters building 'Excalibur House'.

The faction around Deputy Chairman Andrew Fountaine, which seems to base itself on a common hatred of Martin Websterthe NF's National Activities Organiser' appear to have found a crucial weakness in the Front's constitution.

No control NF Fuhrer John Tyndall has discovered, to his alarm, that the NF has no legal control over the property company set up to run the headquarters and the chain of NF premises across the country which is one of his cherished dreams.

Kavanagh This is particularly ironic because, in a recent series of articles in Spearhead, Tyndall argued strongly for the NF to concentrate on building a strong basis of material assets-buildings, social clubs, publications.

"The Excalibur Club must and will become a model for the opening of similar clubs in every town and city in Britain", he wrote last July.

How bitter then, to have to admit in September that the Excalibur Club had served an injunction against him.

This confusing state of affairs is blamed upon one Fountaine Paul Kavanagh, who was supposed to have dealt with the arrangements for setting up the property company:

As a result, the majority faction has gone onto the offensive.

On July 29 the Directorate removed three trustees from the property eompany, including Fountaine and former NF President J. Harison-Broadley.

On August 5 the Directorate demanded the agreement of the minority to the principle of NF ownership of Excalibur House-isolating Fountaine, Kavanagh and two of their supporters.

Webster By August 24 they had passed a motion of no confidence in Kavanagh.

It seems that, temporarily at least, Tyndall and Webster find themselves on the same side.

Many of the attacks against Webster are based on the hatred of gays by many fascists, and there is evidence that the British Movement is intervening on this basis in the NF faction fight.

A tecent issue of the BM's paper 'British Patriot' offered assistance to the anti-Webster groups NF.

Certainly the BM appears to have made some growth among the skinheads and lumpen elements, at the expense of the NF.

However, even in the BM there are factional problems.

Former BM leader Colin Jordan continues his endless search for ways to unseat Michael McLauchlin. and other BM organisers navé recently been exposed as having joined the tiny SS Wotan grouping.

Obviously the crisis in the British extreme and fascist right caused by the General Election PDI beginning to go very deep.

It will go further under the pressure of continuing economic depression.

This does not mean that the danger from fascist organisations has passed, far from it-as BM attacks against the Persons Unknown benefit dance show.

It is increasingly clear that the fascists are turning to physical attacks on left wing events and there is an obvious need for creating seriously organised workers defence forces in threatened areas to defend immigrants and the labour movement.