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Sick of
privatisation, low pay and crumbling public services…?
The BNP have no solutions!
Don't
support the BNP -
Unite to
fight for jobs, homes & services
The BNP
have no solutions!
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The BNP said that they would fight against cuts in many local
services and oppose above-inflation rises in council tax.
Then why
did BNP councillors in Burnley allow the council to push
through over £1 million of cuts in services in March 2003
without opposition, at the same time as council tax bills were
rising above inflation. The BNP had three councillors in Burnley
at the time, but not one of them turned up at the council
meeting to vote against the proposals!
The BNP pledged that they would oppose privatisation and fight
to reverse existing privatisation schemes.
Then why
did Adrian Marsden, BNP councillor in Halifax, fail to vote
against a Private Finance Initiative (PFI - privatisation)
scheme covering five schools in Halifax?
The BNP say that they support workers' rights and the trade
unions.
Then why
does the BNP oppose the firefighters' right to strike? The
right to strike is the last resort for workers to defend
themselves from bosses who won’t listen or negotiate.
But during
the firefighters' strikes, when the government was out to
smash the fire brigades' union, the BNP said that firefighters:
‘must forego their ambiguous position of
using strike action as a means of leverage in pay
negotiations.’
(BNP website, 13 Nov 2002).
Trade
unionists demonstrating for the introduction of the minimum
wage. Where are the BNP?
The BNP say they aren't racist; that they just want to
represent white people who have been neglected and abandoned
by the establishment.
Working-class people of all races and cultures have been
neglected and abandoned by the establishment. We are left
with low pay, job insecurity, crumbling public services,
social disintegration and crime. These problems are serious.
But they come from the fact that we live in a class society,
where the rich and powerful (big business, and their friends
the career politicians) exploit the rest of us.
The only
way to solve these problems is for working-class people of all
races and backgrounds to unite and fight together for a better
life. The BNP's policy of trying to bring everything down to
race increases racial tensions and divisions and makes it
harder to build united campaigns to improve our lives.
The BNP say that they are democratic and don't threaten
anybody
Then why
are so many BNP activists still linked to Combat 18, the
paramilitary neo-Nazi organisation set up by the BNP in the
early 1990s. The numbers stand for the first and the eighth
letters of the alphabet: A and H, or Adolf Hitler.
Most
long-standing BNP activists are hardened neo-Nazis, who
believe in building a mass movement to smash the trade unions,
workers' organisations, and the democratic rights we have won
through decades of struggle.
The BNP
have changed their public image because they were fed up of
getting no support. But the leadership and main activists of
the BNP still support the same ideas and are quite prepared to
threaten their opponents if they think they can get away with
it.
The BNP say that they are 'the only party that will make a
difference'.
Where the
BNP have been elected they haven't offered an alternative to
the main three parties. In Halifax the BNP have even allowed
a long-standing Tory Geoff Wallace to join them as their third
councillor!
Will
ex-Tory Geoff Wallace now pledge to oppose Tory policies like
privatisation and cuts?
The BNP
ignore the fact that in some areas socialist candidates have
been elected as councillors and are putting up a genuine fight
to represent local people. Socialist councillors in Coventry
and Lewisham are making a real difference.
Socialist
councillors have opposed privatisation - not just in an
election leaflet like the BNP but in practice - campaigning
day-in and day-out alongside trade unions and local
communities; giving working-class people a voice in the
council chamber and voting with their principles.
Where has
the BNP been when socialists, trade unionists and young people
have been campaigning against poverty pay, privatisation,
tuition fees and other issues that affect us? They criticise
the problems that exist, but they don't have any solutions.
Don't
support the BNP -
Unite to fight for jobs, homes & services
ISR calls
for trade unionists, community campaigners and socialists to
stand in elections to put a genuine alternative to the pro-big
business policies of the main parties. Together we can build
a real alternative.
We need a
new party that represents working-class people of all races
and cultures. We need an end to the rule of the fat cat
bosses and the career politicians. We need a society run for
the needs of the millions, not for the profits of the
millionaires.
The BNP
with its neo-Nazi leadership and divisive methods, has no
solutions to the problems we face. They will only make things
worse, increasing divisions and tensions in our communities
and making it harder for us to fight back. We need to stop
the BNP and unite to build a real alternative.
If you
agree with what we are saying, please contact ISR and get
involved. We need your help!
What is ISR?
End low
pay
increase
the minimum wage
an end to
exemptions and lower rates of pay for young people
No
to cuts in services; Stop council tax rises
campaign
for the money from central government
No
to top-up fees – free education for all
No
to racism – unite to fight for a better life for all
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