National Front -a tiny Front!
Socialist Press1981 1981-01-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX. Printed by Morning Litho Printers, Lond Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist League.
The fascist National Front managed to cobble together a measly 100 or so desperate supporters for a march through Birmingham city centre on Sunday 18 January.
The police, as usual, had extensively prepared to protect the march which had as its slogans "British jobs for British workers" and "Support. the police, jail black rioters"
A counter-mobilisation of a few hundred anti-fascists assembled in the area determined to stop the Front from marching and would have easily done so if it had not been for the police who cleared the route and arrested at least ten antifascists.
If more anti-fascists had turned out the fascist march could have been stopped from going through Birmingham In the event all that could be done was to hound the NF along the route and infuriate their members with shouts of 'The National Front is a tiny little Front-Smash the National The previous day about 1500 people failed to stop a march of 40 so-called New National Front' members in Sandwell because the time of the fascist march was switched from the afternoon to the morning.
But with the massive unemployment in the Midlands which the NF and other fascist groups seek to exploit, it is more important than ever that all Nazi marches are stopped by massive labour movement resistance.