agham, leaked to branch Chullenge.
CUTORSU movement. 1LBE DF THE 202 people who registered fer 1247 Wors of organisers, members and had been Directorate In Yorkshire, it micht be wrong to work in Rank and Fil coloured work round Yorkshire Forum with the sarilliles. la Scotland, the solid hold of the Broad Left down in yet huttle.
bureaucratic in hiring balls.
The important thing for meis do in lerms of building a That SITECT we're fighting for in the unions is a new way of looking at the defeat and not Just Conflicting adding in a bif more militancy BANGS National Teachers, East the campsign, The Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions and Rank and File are defunct.
political alternative, then you have to polilical pose an organisational alternamajor Socialist Challenge should look al ways of bringing wubtants in ditferent unions togetber on a than share ex- Instead periences and take decisions. individual disustrous Challenge for the 35-bour wock, then it would be a good the divided, establish that as which From the truth. would need to be co-ordinated TWEE the anti-fascist newspaper CARF by an NF organiser. The com Tades of CARF, whose next edition appears in September, available to Socialist Worker, Workers Achon are Sochs We have published it in full. Its content will come as na "ENC confirms what we have long heen saying 10: Chairman of the National FROM: Action Committee of London Branch Organisers We represent a growing section the National Front TANA-SHA-SCHOOSECIAL seriously concerned at the lack of leadership prevailing at the top of the party this year. As ordinary party look for poor performunce in thelocal council We believe that the fuctors pubbesapport for us were many conviction that they could have been overcomeif a positive lend the the Nationul It is true that we went into the clection with a greater degree of apposition, ranged against us than at any other time in our ten history it was s challenge we should have taken successfully given the widespread public antipathy to Immigration However a dearth of election Tween headquarters grussronts and abysmal relamust tuke the lion's share of the Hume meant that we were noi equal to the task. We were quite driven defensive and that is a poor pasition from which to fight any Many loeul newspapers did not havelists of candidates until five days before the poll and this ful deficiency can be put down to bumbledom HO. Then there were problems Tosomeextent chis was due to a more hardline attitude on the part of Luhour-controlled local authorities. Bad this has boen a constant obstacle which we have police surmounted on previous secu sions and we should not have let us this time led statements to newspapers From local officers and national spokesmen certainly did not unist mutters.
Altbough me were barred by law from marching in Greater London for the greater part o It should har DOSSInH 10 organise today some stage to keep the National Front al the centre of the stage. This neFer happened despite earlier promises from head office that a aedivity wonld attempt TY A made centrally to produce literuitire replying do the smears marke branches CORSHUCHE each other in public print.
This merely left the public Impression of warring party: impression not too far removed An additionn factor was the starling to say too: that the SHORETORESS A PTOE!
Thames TV's excellent World in Arion oroznimme or Monday and the 'dissident" NF conticin the Front's naliona leadershin have beer at pains to deny that those responsible CELIAL racist thuggery NF No doubt the NF will shortly indulge in its Night of the Long Knives". Continued mass action and a hard offensive against all forms of racism can deal the fatal blow behuviour party members who were quite of British Nationalism. Press TOOTLA nominees and loutish attacks by - 120 SOUT opponents meetings dragged us, in the public's estimation, down to the level of the Left and probuil prompled walers to cry: 'A Plague on Both Your Houses'.
Alain. none ol this nerd hav happened had there been firm direction from the lap An поге development management of parts fund Daly a Traction of the mone originally promised to underfunded braeches from HO ever materialised.
In view of the rumours that are rife within the ranks over finuncial mismanagement and subiscriptions moing astray, • full and searching inquiry needs to be undertaken, Conlidencein such anlaquiry would be greatl National Organiser Were exchided from ail stages of the proceedings Our overall conclusion is tha unless authority is restored o national level, the National Front will cease to exist by the end of the year. Organisation has all but disuppeared and anarchy reigns at all levels. In areas, structure exists only on puser and man! of the membership lists contain the masses of people who have long since lapsed.
Our name is only kept in the newsby gangs of bully boys whe rampage through the Hast End of London beating up Asians Despite our melti-racialism, sach disgraceacts ef illegality and brutality cannot be tolerated.
The mindless morons must b brought to book and in default of a statement of condemnation by the party leadership and expulsion of lawless elements, we shall onilaterally turn over a of troublemakers to the and inform the neespapers of our intentions.
The late AX Chesterton whe party such distinction in the difficult years of the 1960s once said: ...let us face it, we have an attraction for certain kinds of louts who unless kept in check, can and almost certainly will wreck any movement" His words are being proved tragically LIBE We do not as branch otficial: seck to absolve ourselves femin blame for what has happened to our party, bet me feel it oaly right to remind you of the statements JOU made regaining controt of the party in 1976. You said that the success of a movement such as ours derived mainly the leadership of the few and that the chairman of a political party must espect to carry the can if things go wrong.
We believe we must hold you do your word and request that Fou Convene, at the earliest possible opportunity followin the summer holiday, a specia party conference to discuss ibe future of the party and its leadership.
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