The Jewish Socialists' Group raised these issues with a leaflet to the UAF conference in February.
People who spoke against us either misunderstood or misrepresented us accusing us of parochialism, sayıng that people need to support each other across regions and across the country.
Of course. That is not the argument. If the BNP can understand the relevance of grass roots campaigning to making gains nationally then why can't we? Community Defence - They Shall Not Pass:
Ethnic minority communities must not be left to become either victims of fascist bands nor be criminalized for fighting back as happened in some of the north-west towns when the BNP campaigned in 2001. We have to organise through UAF and trade unions to defend communities and stop fascist intimidation and
Hopefully these questions can be raised a proper conference that unites all anti-fascist campaigns and discusses resolutions. A political alternative:
The BP have capitalised on the failure of mainstream politics and the disappointments of many communities in the new dawn promised by New Labour.
To some extent the United Front is part of the answer to that because simply bringing working class communities together points to the answer, it reminds people of what genuine community cohesion means rather than the Blair/Blunket's nonsense.
But because such a campaign rightly brings together different political currents as well as different sections of the community, it cannot present a political alternative. We need people who go out on the doorstep putting socialist politics, promising to champion demands that reflect the real needs of the communities who were immigrants decades ago, in terms of crime and in terms of the dilution and disappearance of 'British Culture'.
They talk about new immigration in terms of a threat to jobs, undermining wages and conditions, access to services. Certainly all united front campaigns need to dispel the myths this propaganda is based on.
But this is not enough. We will be asked, 'what are your policies on immigration, who will you let in or keep out, what rights should they have?'
The challenge to socialist organisations, to Respect and to campaigns for migrant rights is to challenge the fundamental idea of immigration controls - against the idea that people born elsewhere should have rights any different from anybody else.
We must argue that the world is grossly unequal, that the government funds despots and bomb countries when they have fallen out with those despots, so many people will want to come to the UK for a better life and
TER Schroeder's SPD.
They have three ministers including Joschka Fischer, the country's foreign secretary. The German Greens have held this coalition together during the biggest attack on the German working class since the war -through privatisation and deregulation.
In 1999 Joschka Fischer