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The Unite Against Fascism (UAF) is registered with the Electoral Commission
as a ‘Third Party’ political organisation. The organising committee consists of:
Chairman: Ken Livingstone (New Labour Party)
Joint Secretary: Weyman Bennett (Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Alliance)
Joint Secretary: Sabby Dhalu (NAAR)
Treasurer: Bill Hayes (Official of The Communication Workers Union)
The Unite Against Fascism (UAF) claims support from (amongst others) David Cameron MP (leader of the
Conservative Party); Peter Hain MP (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and of Wales); Tony Benn; Diane
Abbott MP; Keith Vaz MP; Glenys Kinnock MEP; Leroy Logan (Chair, Metropolitan Black Police Association); Afzal
UAF Chair, Ken Livingstone
Khan (Muslim Council of Britain); and Dr. Siddiqui (Leader, Muslim Parliament of Great Britain).
The organisation Unite Against Fascism (UAF) was formed in 2004.
gay and disabled people; and all democrats”.28 This fiction can have only one purpose – to incite fear and extreme hatred within the
minority communities towards BNP members and supporters.
The hate mongering strategy for the UAF takes the form of crude caricature, false stereotyping and telling outright lies.
Again, it is highly significant that this vitriol is directed only against people from the white, indigenous (native) community. There is a clear,
irrefutable anti-white racist agenda behind this hatred.
The picture opposite, featured on the UAF website shows the ‘poison bottle’ imagery used on much of their
campaigning literature. Some of the chosen imagery is totally bizarre – such as that of figures dressed in Klu Klux
Klan robes (?). The use of the epithet ‘fascist’ is habitually used, preceding the references to the BNP on almost
every occasion. This is a classical example of attempts at ‘conditioning’ the public mind. There is no attempt at
analysis or sensible debate – in fact the objective is to stifle such activities and to reduce all behaviour to knee-jerk
responses.
The UAF deliberately targets the minority communities with its propaganda with the clear intention of inciting
hatred towards members and supporters of the BNP. The images and words are carefully chosen to trigger an
extremely adverse reaction from members of the minority population. The objective is to incite hatred.
The UAF also engages in what can only be seen as threatening and insulting behaviour.
The UAF lists on its website the full names, and the areas they represent, of all elected BNP local councillors 29. Why? The UAF repeatedly
promotes its position of ‘no platform’ for the BNP, and makes every attempt to disrupt the democratic process. Clearly the UAF does not
want members of the public and BNP councillors to engage in any kind of dialogue. The UAF refuses to accept the people’s choice of
elected representative. Therefore there can be only one sensible conclusion – that the publication of this list is an attempt to harass and
(implicitly) threaten the elected BNP councillors.
In the city of Plymouth, during the period leading up to the 1 st May 2008 local council elections, hate literature originating from the local
UAF group was distributed around the city30. These leaflets contained lies, abuse and deliberately provocative statements – unquestionably
intended to incite a visceral (possibly violent) response against local BNP members and election candidates. This hate material included a
warning that the election of BNP candidates in Plymouth would result in the bombing of the city. The implied threat towards the local
Plymouth electorate was very clear. This was approximately 3 weeks before the Plymouth student ‘Nicky’ Reilly (who is known to have
been a close friend to at least one local UAF activist – see previous section ‘Appeasing Islamic Fascism’) attempted to explode three nail
bombs in Exeter city centre. It subsequently emerged that Reilly had considered bombing other targets in Plymouth itself, including the large
city-centre shopping mall (Drakes Circus), the city centre police station, and Devonport Royal Navy Dockyard.
The purpose of the UAF material is obvious – it is to make people too scared vote for, or to actively support, a legitimate political party.
By way of example these are some of the ‘fascistic’ evils which now blight our society, but which supporters of the UAF are clearly too
afraid to confront: extremist Islamic Fascism (terrorism, the social subordination and subjugation of women, the obscenity of ‘honour’
killings); institutionalised anti-white racism; the preponderance of anti-white racist violence; political corruption (the organised use of
electoral fraud, political funding); the growth of political intimidation and violence; the insidious use of political correctness (thought
control); the exposure of our very young children to political indoctrination (via the politically directed schools curriculum); the introduction
of authoritarian new laws for social engineering purposes (public order offences and ‘speech’ crime); the dismantling of Constitutional Law
(Habeas Corpus, the right to Jury Trial); the erosion of basic civil liberties such as freedom of speech and freedom of association.
To challenge these evils often requires a significant amount of personal courage – a willingness to ‘stand out from the crowd’. And to
challenge some of these evils can also require a willingness to risk personal harm (or worse).
It is therefore most notable that the UAF, and their followers, are so very careful to avoid any serious campaigning on these issues.
Instead members of the UAF concentrate on directing their hatred against individuals who do, actually, dare to challenge the political
orthodoxy – young ballerinas, elderly veterans of the Second World War (and other wars), teachers and university professors. The UAF also
target those members of the BNP who are prepared to put themselves before the electorate, even though the UAF dare not stand candidates in
these same elections and therefore subject themselves (and their actions) to the same rigorous public scrutiny.
The UAF ‘celebrities’ (especially) behave in ways indicative of extreme moral cowardice.
[8] Summary
The UAF is fundamentally an extremist (totalitarian) political group that opposes true democracy. It supports the criminalisation of dissent,
of ‘speech crime’, and promotes ‘no platform’ policies against its political opponents. It is also a racist organisation – it indulges in inciting
hatred only against political parties and movements that represent the interests of the white, indigenous community. The UAF is a Marxist
organisation that uses Nazi methods to pursue its purpose.
The UAF targets individuals – it attacks their personal reputation and content of character, and deliberately misrepresents the beliefs held by
those individuals. It indulges in the fiction of a latent tendency for neo-Fascist, neo-Nazi behaviour within the indigenous community - and
uses this to create false stereotypes for attacking (exclusively) members of the white community.
The UAF wallows in a cultural of denial – a refusal to accept the wretched failure of multiculturalism and hyper-diversity. It denies the
reality of racist violence in the UK – of the hugely disproportionate number of white victims (including white victims of racist and interracial
homicide). The UAF pursues a policy of ‘shoot the messenger’, and therefore enjoys widespread support from the ‘mainstream’ political
establishment.
The UAF exists for a particular purpose – to incite hatred against targeted members of the white community. It continually manufactures new
opportunities to continue with that hatred, and thereby provide justification for its continuing existence. It enjoys the patronage of the rich
and powerful elite, including many MPs, union leaders and political pressure groups31. The UAF promotes hatred – and feeds upon its
effects.
1
Lucy Bannerman, The Times, 13th January 2007
2
http://www.uaf.org.uk/news.asp?choice=61115
3
As reported to by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia; with reference to an investigation on the massive growth in anti-Semitism in
present-day multicultural Europe, by the Centre for Research on Anti-Semitism, at Berlin Technical University
4
The Times, 20th April 2006
5
UAF Founding Statement at http://www.uaf.org.uk/0401MOfoundingstatement.pdf
6
see: R v White, Times Law Report 13 March 2001
7
Crime and Disorder Act 1998, section 28
8
Email communication with the Communications Adviser, Standards Board for England, Tuesday 25th November 2008
9
David Harrison, Sunday Telegraph, 10 September 2006
10
Martin Bright, The Observer, Sunday 30th July, 2006
11
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1548786,00.html
12
Sermon at Unar-Bin-al-Khattab Mosque, Doha, Qatar, 1st October 2004
13
GLA Document, January 2005, ISBN 1 85261 701 2
14
See www. galha.org/briefing/qaradawi.html
15
Reported in The Western Morning News and in The Herald, 24th May 2008
16
Socialist Worker online, archive, 6th December 2003, issue 1880
17
From a report by the Swedish Parliament, to the Council of Europe – as reported in The Times newspaper, 1st January 2006.
18
Anti-Nazi League – encyclopaedia article, extracted from Wikipedia 8th May 2004, see: http://www.pro-researcher.co.uk/encyclopaedia/english/anti-nazi-
league
19
Martin Bright, The Observer, Sunday 30th July, 2006
20
see, for example, The Sunday Telegraph, August 13th 2006
21
Martin Bright, ‘When Progressives Treat With Reactionaries – The British State’s Flirtation With Radical Islamism’, Policy Exchange, London 2006.
Bizarrely the Home Office and Foreign & Commonwealth Office describe Islamo-Nazi groups in the following terms: “The root of the reformist movement can
be traced to the Muslim Brotherhood (Hasan Al Banna) and Jammati Islam (Maulana Maudadi) which was orthodox but pragmatic.” And describe these
‘reformist’ groups as: “nonliteralist, reason and logic based; liberal approach to traditional schools of jurisprudence and the literalist schools; proponents of a
flexible, balanced and moderate understanding of Islam; acceptance of democracy and the western paradigm in full; … willingness to form alliances with wider
non-Muslim movements.” [page 64]
22
Leo Mckinstry, ‘Labour’s Shameful Debt to Livingstone’, The Telegraph, 15th September 2005
23
UAF and LGBT pamphlet, May 2007
24
UAF and MCB pamphlet, May 2007
25
UAF newsletter, Barking and Dagenham, 2007
26
‘Racist Violence in the United Kingdom’, Human Rights Watch (Helsinki), Ed. Holly Cartner, London 1997
27
http://www.met.police.uk/crimefigures/datatable.php?borough=kg&period=year
28
UAF A5-size ‘hate postcard’, 2008
29
UAF website, page: http://www.uaf.org.uk/news.asp?choice=70503
30
UAF local election leaflet (Plymouth, St. Peter and the Waterfront ward) April, 2008. Original examples held in archive.
31
Key signatories: http://www.uaf.org.uk/aboutUAF.asp?choice=4