IN THE wake of the controversy surrounding the No Plugs for Thugs" campain to stop the getting airtime for Nazi propaganda. it was testing one the ne ANL carnival and the striking difference between the carly evening BBC-L report and the IN report a few minutes later.
I was at the carnival, and I thought the ITN report fair attendance at over 80,000 (hich there was no doubt about) healthy distaste for the NF and its march IO GE Eastern St. For once there was no equation between the NE and the anti-fascists, so often treated as rivals in some private game which is of no concern to ordinary, sensible, The and carnival had been arranged solely to disrupt this (in fact the reverse was true: the NF's march was a calculated but unsuccessful attempt to disrupt The BBC put attendarice at a mere 20,000 -below even the police's traditionally estimate, and ridiculous to anyone who saw the size of the crowd. In short, the BBCS report was a deliberate put-down of the ANL, and the usual equation was Perhaps the real reason the BBC so often tries to equate the NF with anti-fascist movements extremists* has nothing to do with supposed between, on the one hand, a bunch of Socialist ideologues and, on the other hand, a movement of people who are prepared to be noisy in the defence of certain principles, such as the brotherand-sisterhood of the human race.
The real reason is that both are, to a degree, a threat to the establishment - an establishment that is no better epiromised, and no guarded, than by the BBC LOUISMACKAY (London N8) *A slightly longer version of this letter was sent to the Guardian but has not so far been published. on condemned by their own immune fromthis rule.
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