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17th January 2010
BNP member from Yorkshire jailed for 11 years on explosives and terrorism charges
Also see Daily Mirror report for further detail
The jailing of BNP member Terence Gavan for 11 years on explosives and terrorism charges highlights the true nature of the British National Party, anti-fascist campaigners said today.
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1st January 2010
Holocaust Memorial Day January 2010
Please see the Holocaust Memorial Day website for details of events in your locality.
The theme for the 2010 Holocaust Memorial Day is the Legacy of Hope. The breakthrough by the BNP in the recent European elections and the growth of fascism across Europe only serves to underline the importance of the testimony of Holocaust survivors and our responsiblity to remember all those who were persecuted and murdered by fascism.
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27th December 2009
Unite Against Fascism 2010 national conference
Register now! See the national UAF website for more detail
Unite Against Fascism is holding its annual national conference on Saturday 13 February at the TUC Congress Centre in central London.
This will be a crucial event for everyone who opposes the fascist British National Party and wants to prevent it from making gains at the next General and local elections. It will also be a focus for all those resisting the rise of racist anti-Muslim groups such as the English Defence League.
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2nd November 2009
Regional UAF statement on the Leeds UAF rally on October 31st
Celebrating and defending our multicultural society
The English Defence League [EDL] action in Leeds on Saturday 31 October is the latest manifestation of the rise of racism and Islamophobia over the last two decades.
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28th October 2009
Celebrate and defend multicultural Leeds
Join the peaceful rally on Saturday 31st October from midday outside the Art Gallery
Anti-racists, politicians, faith leaders, trade unions and community leaders and have signed the statement opposing the EDL marching in Leeds and calling for unity to celebrate and defend multicultural Leeds.
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26th October 2009
BNP defeated by big increase in the anti-fascist vote
A report on the Athersley, St Helen's by election in Barnsley held on October 15th
The decisive factor in the BNP's defeat was the big increase in turnout from 2008 to 2009. This ensured that the BNP were soundly defeated, even though their vote fell by only 45. With turnout boosted by nearly 450, the anti-BNP vote coalesced around the party best placed to defeat them. Consequently, the victors increased their majority over the BNP from 330 to 930.
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25th October 2009
Ken Livingstone speaks out against “the BBC’s gift to the BNP”
Ken Livingstone, former London mayor and chair of Unite Against Fascism, writes in the Guardian
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1st October 2009
Student Unite Against Fascism Northern meeting
Thursday 15th October 2009, 3pm-5pm University of Sheffield Union of Students
The election of two British National Party MEPs is the biggest electoral breakthrough for a fascist organisation in British history and represents a huge threat to our diverse and multicultural student communities.
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27th September 2009
Shame on the BBC for inviting Nazi BNP leader Nick Griffin onto Question Time
Statement from Unite Against Fascism www.uaf.org.uk
The BBC has confirmed that it is inviting Nick Griffin, leader of the fascist British National Party and a man with a criminal conviction for denying Hitler's Holocaust, onto its flagship Question Time programme on Thursday 22 October in London.
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23rd September 2009
Defend multicultural Leeds from the racist English Defence League
Leeds Unite Against Fascism is holding a rally to celebrate multicultural Leeds on Saturday 31st October outside the Art Gallery on the Headrow at midday. We are also calling for the banning of the anti-Muslim protest planned by racist bigots, including the English Defence League (EDL) in Leeds city centre on the same day.
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18th September 2009
John Denham is right to condemn the English Defence League as an anti-Muslim hate group
Article from Unite Against Fascism website www.uaf.org.uk
John Denham, the secretary of state for communities, is right to compare anti-Muslim hate groups such as the English Defence League (EDL) to the fascists that marched against Jews in the 1930s.
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13th September 2009
Victory for anti-fascists as thousands turn out to defend Harrow mosque from far right groups
Article from Unite Against Fascism website www.uaf.org.uk
The huge turnout from ordinary people of all ethnic backgrounds meant that the racist groups simply could not get anywhere near the mosque. Anti-fascist protesters chanted “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “We are black, we are white, together we are dynamite.”
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13th September 2009
BNP come fifth in York council by election
Latest news from York Unite Against Fascism
York UAF campaigned strongly in the recent council by election to urge people to use their vote to stop the BNP. On election day the BNP won 6.7% of the vote.
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9th September 2009
Say no to the fascist BNP on Question Time
Make a formal complaint to the BBC here
We are appalled by the BBC's decision to invite Nick Griffin, leader of the fascist British National Party, onto its flagship Question Time programme. Griffin is a noxious racist and neo-Nazi. He has a criminal conviction for incitement to racial hatred for publishing an antisemitic magazine that denied the Holocaust.
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8th September 2009
The Nazi BNP’s chilling words: “A brick through the window is a British method”
UAF has produced an A4 poster to warn people of the real face of the BNP
Epping Forest resident Noor Ramjanally has had his life threatened and his home firebombed after the BNP launched a hate campaign to stop Muslims from praying in a local community centre.
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16th August 2009
A day to remember in Codnor as anti-fascists drown out the BNP’s festival of race hate
Anti-fascists were jubilant on Saturday after over 2,000 protesters marched and rallied in Codnor, Derbyshire, against the British National Party's "Red, White & Blue" rally being held in area that weekend.
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16th August 2009
BNP supporter attacks coach full of protesters
A coach full of anti-Nazi protesters travelling from south London to Derbyshire was attacked by a BNP supporter.
A coach full of anti-Nazi protesters travelling from south London to Derbyshire was attacked by a BNP supporter. The attacker threw a large rock at the coach, shattering a window, before running off.
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26th July 2009
Converge on Codnor to stop the BNP rally
Email info@yhuaf.org.uk for regional transport arrangements
Unite Against Fascism is calling on anti-fascists across the country to converge on Codnor, Derbyshire, at 9am on Saturday 15 August to protest against the British National Party rally taking place in the village that weekend.
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6th July 2009
Stop Britain’s Nazis: come to Unite Against Fascism’s national conference on Sat 18 July
Saturday 18 July, 10am to 5pm, Manchester Central Hall, 4-5 Oldham Street, Manchester M1 1JQ. Get involved in the campaign against the fascist BNP in your area and across the country.
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6th July 2009
Unite to defeat the fascist BNP
Article by John Campbell, Chair of Yorkshire & Humber Unite Against Fascism
The election of two fascist MEPs is the biggest electoral breakthrough in the history of British fascism.
The 2009 election result is the latest example of a relentless rise in the BNP’s vote. In the 1999 European elections the BNP won 100 000 votes. In 2004 they won over 800 000 votes. This year it won nearly 1 million.
This advance by the BNP will boost its attempt to establish itself as legitimate, national party like similar parties across Europe. During and following the election the process of normalisation of a fascist party has increased.
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16th June 2009
Big success for Yorkshire and Humber Unite Against Fascism rally and march
Six hundred people attended the Unite Against Fascism regional rally and march in Leeds on Saturday June 13.
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28th May 2009
Campaigners and faith leaders call on BNP Euro candidate to be disbarred
Following press revelations about a British National Party European election candidates shocking views of the Nazi death camps and Holocaust denial, faith leaders and campaigners in Yorkshire have condemned the BNP’s decision to include Marlene Guest on its Yorkshire and Humber Euro election list.
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26th May 2009
Sound the alarm - All out to stop the BNP on June 4th
Every vote counts as the campaign to stop the BNP intensifies
Unite Against Fascism groups in towns and cities across Yorkshire and the Humber are stepping up their campaign to stop the BNP.
Anti fascists in our region are supporting the national call for leafleting of railway stations on Friday 29th. Over the coming weekend local groups are also making a big push to remind voters of the threat posed by the BNP.
Please email info@yhuaf.org.uk to be put in contact with your local group.
28th April 2009
Not in my city, not in my street
Leaflet your local street stop the BNP
Yorkshire & the Humber Unite Against Fascism has launched its 'Not in my city, not in my street' campaign.
If you would like to leaflet your local streets, please email info@yhuaf.org.uk to be put in contact with your local group. Unite Against Fascism will arrange leaflets to be dropped to your door.
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