Socialist Fight

No Platform for All Fascists!

No Reliance on State bans, no capitulation to the TU bureaucracy!
Only the Independently mobilised strength of the working class can stop the fascists!
Against the cross-class Popular Front of UAF!
Fight for the United Front of workers’ organisations ONLY!
Build a militant anti-fascist organisation!

T
here is no question that the weeks lobbying the
English Defence League (EDL) is City Council to Ban the
a fascist organisation: the exact EDL who had promised
degree of links between the to try and march for a
EDL and the BNP is unimportant as both third time this year....
organisations use the same brand of but had their own
racist politics and scapegoating, and are meeting banned in-
obviously "two sides of the same coin". stead by use of the
powers that UAF were
Socialist Fight agrees with and argues lobbying in favour of!
for the "traditional Labour movement
response" to fascists, which is that they UAF contains the lead-
Birmingham Asian youth force the fascists EDL off the
are allowed No Platform: they may not erships of most TUC
streets AGAIN on 5th September whilst the ‘law abid-
march, hold public meetings nor distrib- unions, with affiliation
ing’ UAF were appealing to the police and the Council
ute their racist, xenophobic filth and we from Trades Councils
for protection. The EDL say they will not go back there.
are in favour of the mobilisation of or- and TU Branches and
ganised workers in alliance with other Stewards' Committees. For this reason when workers are on strike, and
anti-racists and anti-fascists to ensure it is important that militant anti-fascists through the union Branches and Com-
that the fascists have no opportunity to do not turn their backs on these mass mittees. Of course this is not so easy,
gain oxygen. organisations that presumably have the but it has to be very political - taking up
ability to mobilise the millions of work- 'social' questions like "jobs" and
More important than halting the EDL is ers that are TU members. "housing" at the same time as militantly
the matter of what kind of anti-racist,
confronting the fascists.
anti-fascist organisation exists now - However, it is not possible right now to
and what are the problems with it, what mobilise for militant anti-fascism within The Left groups, socialists and revolu-
kind of organisation we need? the TU-dominated UAF, and there does tionaries, Marxists, Trotskyists and An-
not seem to be much left of the old AFA archists have the greatest
The problems of Unite Against
responsibility to see that this
Fascism (UAF) are; it is controlled Whoever does not believe in the capacities of the
working class, or in the necessity of its liberation militant anti-fascist organisa-
by the TU bureaucracy, it lacks
tion comes into being, and the
internal democracy reflecting the from the yoke of exploitation; in a word, whoever
Left groups all go on a lot
bureaucratic nature of the unions does not believe in the revolution and is by that
about "democracy" (not the
(which are the mass organisations very fact against it, will certainly declare the build-
voting once every five years
of the workers); it is popular fron- ing of the Fourth International to be ‘Utopian’. On
for which capitalist govern-
tist i.e. it seeks alliances with the the other hand, all those who believe... that lost
ment rules us!) so should be
capitalist class; Tories and
battles reveal lessons which enable victory to be able to work it out amongst
"celebrities" Lord "you're fired!"
won one day, these people know that the question ourselves!
Sugar; Tory leader David Cameron
is a member!; further, UAF always of a world revolutionary organisation is posed: the
We need to build an organisa-
seek compromise, which again is International—Pierre Broué, French Trotskyist. tion that has its roots in the
true of the trade union leaders: anti fascist action mobs, so militant anti communities as well as in the workers'
instead of fighting job losses they just -fascists need to build an organisation movement: an organisation that can
want to increase redundancy payments! of militant anti-fascism: this has to be take on and smash the fascists, and that
democratic from the start and should has political positions against the union
In Birmingham UAF and their allies (e.g.
seek to influence the workers in the bureaucracy in the workers' movement:
Respect Councillor Salma Yaqoob) spent
unions at the base, i.e. at picket-lines A START HAS TO BE MADE!!
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