David Edgar, whose play Destiny excited a lively debate in the national press, argues that a serious analysis of British fascism is vital for the labour movement.

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Front not only looks quantitively lease iT you're a white socialacteeral, Dat auso te becomes d qualitatively different beast. 1f BERTHIEWEDNCIR HILI Tor despairing poor white racismi, or as a repositor tor the working class protest vole equivalent to the Liberals for the middle class, or as a gensine if unpleasant populist movetent against the establishment (all views are held by Mr. Marlin STACE BENe as book The National Fronz and eisewhere), shen it is, of course, a very different phenomenon from POEIE MIRS COULET TEDIL sonary sbockloroe operating in ZULIAT agalnsı the proletariat.

Particularly, If the NF's amiestablisment rhetorle is believed and 1s class lunchon misuder stood, then the obwious logical rool extension is for those opposed to the NP to place happy confident reliance on the fores of the escublishment Press to Pa-lament to Lhe Police La supporter of the Lewisham 24 last month, as he held grimly on to the railings. There have boon a series of violent atlacks by the fascists on the South London campaign In defence of the 24 young black people who have been arrested on trumped up pollice to control them if they get out of hand. Moreover, the accept ance of the NF at their Face value may middle class to Caost cobbsm bot it aves the despalring lower-middle and unorganised or unemployed work ing class wide open to their demagogEry.

EXPOSURE which The Jactual, detailed Guardian in bis painstaking exposure demagogery, and thus of cheir ideological equivalence with preurgent task. It isa't cass, demagogery ia by definirion saying one Ling anober (cl.

Kamp/: Thetrade unions cannot be dispensed with9. Luckily, with the NF we need not (and should bot rely pictures of Tyndall and Webster and decked out in stormtrooper uniJorms in the barly 1550s, or from the that There is well excite the Ebera-lett SOTHE oppose their NI adresman ast Juls:

seerts lo nue TasCIst right-wing dictatorship" meaning A. Hitler in Mei anion moverens, the NF's any more solely ob unions", and the October Mein said the following: wazI Now the NF, National Party, and British Mavement have found a new basis for unity, rally lo be held in South London on ministers and a Labour MP have called for a ban on the NF march. Anti-lascists up and down the country should start preparing now fora massive counter-march machines'). We can turn, instead, to Tyndall writing in March 1976 Jewish con- by puttin UNTESE oudined in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion', and to the NF journal Spearhead', assertion (in fune/July) 1976) thar the Nazi deah campe were no more than la bissae of lies... manufactured poesis) from the persistent propaganda of the World Jewish Congress'.

Abd, even bore clearly, we can point to Jim Merrick (Bradford NF activisr and candidate) and marking: his open admission to the New I don't abject a bit if you call me a and exercised -This counlry needs a turned Britain Ie's even possible to detect, benesth ali the chietorio about being lo favour of the trade sonicching of TeSL Olang Tyndall admitted in September 1934 that 'our aim is to take over the trade 1976 demagoger edition of National Froes News 'The National Front is not OTaCI T BILIBI announcing the biggest ever 13 August. Two Agninst profits.. But profit is not HE Te absENC TEasE SEoE an end ta industrial CALTEL -LIU extreme left-wing influence in coulpulsars secret postal ballot and by instituring the priociple of one union for one industry" (my And all the NF's talk of tbe pensioners and the kiddies didn't stop the NF Deputy Chaicoan, ob 26 February this sear, reA Wellare Stare in Britain is a Farewell Scare... The Welfare State wich abandoned capitalism ha:

natiooat pauper of the world'.

DEMAGOGERY Bur even beyond what they openly come out with we must take care to expose the NF's men public and herefore disguiied when it drops through the letter-box. One cr ample is the NE's attack oo the GEC Municipal Hosing Debr,

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