A-Infos (en) US, Michigan, They Shall Not Pass! Shut Down BNP's Nick Griffin - by Solidarity & Defense*

Join others to Shut Down British Far-Right Politician’s Michigan Lecture Nick 
Griffin, chairman of the fascist British National Party (BNP), will be speaking 
at Michigan State University Friday Oct. 26th at 7pm. The MSU event is part of 
Griffin’s U.S. university tour. Griffin is being brought to the campus by the 
MSU branch of the Young Americans for Freedom. Griffin is a high profile fascist 
organizer. Neo-nazis from around the country have stated their intention to 
attend the event. A challenge must be made! We issue this call in solidarity 
with the organizers of this event. --- Friday, October 26th 6pm, at the Rock 
(Michigan State University Campus on Farm Lane across from Bessey Hall), with a 
March to Veterinary Medical Center (Griffin will speak in E100 Vet Med Center).
For more information see: http://maws.wordpress.com/

Griffin is a long time British fascist, cutting his teeth in the 70’s and 80’s 
with the publishing of various journals for the neo-Nazi National Front. Griffin 
has worked to mobilize fascists both in the streets and into political 
campaigns. With the smashing of the National Front at the street level by groups 
like Anti-Fascist Action, Griffin has concentrated on transforming the BNP into 
a political party with its sights on Parliament.

Griffin has taken the BNP from booted neo-nazi fringe group to a slick 
suit-and-tie outfit that champions “Rights for Whites” and the “voluntary” 
repatriation of citizens not born on British soil. The BNP offer a popular 
program appealing to notions of law and order, jobs for “indigenous” Britons, 
national isolationism, and a restructuring of the economy and social aid 
programs to benefit a limited section of the populace: White Europeans.

The BNP, still small nationally in Britain, is nonetheless making gains in local 
districts. Many regions once prosperous with heavy manufacturing or ship 
building now see unemployment and an increase in anti-social crime. The BNP lays 
much blame on people of color and has organized a large percentage of the White 
vote on the promise of change. In a period of global war, increasing 
uncertainty, looming recession, cuts in social aid, and government failure, the 
BNP offer a reactionary vision. Scratch below the surface and we see the true 
character of the BNP. The BNP is part of an international tendency, linked to 
the U.S. based National Alliance, former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the KKK 
David Duke, the French far-right National Front, and the German electoral 
fascist NPD. The BNP, like these other movements, represent more than racism and 
anti-immigration politics, they represent a broader attack on the working 
classes. These groups would eliminate independent unions and workers defense 
organizations. They would use force to separate communities and families of 
mixed cultural backgrounds, they aim to mandate how people live and love, and 
would outlaw opposition groups.

The focus of Griffin’s lecture at MSU is on halting immigration into Europe and 
specifically that of Arab and Muslim peoples. Griffin’s approach is first 
through parliamentary law where possible, and inciting street pogroms when 
“legal” measures fail. This has its parallels here in the U.S. with the 
far-Right and fascist movements waging war against working peoples and their 
communities: raids on immigrants, deportations, vigilante border patrols, and a 
rhetoric that is thoroughly racist and anti-worker.

The far-right and fascist movements are remaking themselves and contesting for 
power in the streets and ballot box. We must resist them through mass, 
multi-racial, and popular direct action. This direct action is based on our own 
initiatives and is outside and against the rule of the State. Workers, students, 
communities, and the people in the streets must build fronts for class combat. 
We must resist intra-class competition and instead develop programs aiming for 
solidarity and renewal of community.

-issued by Solidarity & Defense, Motor City, MI sd@riseup.net
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