BNP leader Nick Griffin is planning on speaking at a BNP Rally/Public Meeting at the Pure Night Club, Bridgewater Street, Leigh this Friday (13th March) at 7.30pm.
Steve Hall, a former Leigh TUC President and a prominent socialist activist of over thirty years in the town, is issuing an urgent appeal to every anti-fascist living within the North West to mobilise to stop this event from taking place, and to come and help kick Nick Griffin and his nazi scum-bag mates out of of the town.
"We've no idea how long this meeting has been planned, and how many BNP thugs he'll be bringing along, indeed for all we know it could be a regional or even national mobilisation for the BNP, so everyone will really need to pull out the stops given the extremely short notice, and help to try and build for the largest possible turnout of anti-fascists if we're at all going to have a chance of stopping the event from taking place", says Hall.
Anti-fascist forces are being asked to assemble at the Ellesmere pub on St.Helens Road in Leigh at 6.30pm (opposite Bridgewater Street).
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peter franzen · 14 March 2009
It's believed that the BNP "Battle of Britain" themed meeting, claimed to have been scheduled for Leigh and then cancelled, was held in St. Helens (Merseyside) on Friday evening 13th March 2009.
It’s not clear whether the BNP meeting was ever going to be held in Leigh or if the claimed venue was just a diversionary “red herring” from the outset.
Nevertheless it seems that the BNP was also intent on initiating “the battle of Leigh” on the same night.
At about 6:25 pm. a Landrover towing a Liverpool BNP advertising hoarding pulled up on St. Helens Road, Leigh near to Bridgewater Street, where anti-fascist demonstrators, including women and children, were peacefully demonstrating.
A gang of BNP Nazi storm troopers armed with baseball bats, hammers, and other offensive weapons piled out of the Landrover and proceeded to attack the peaceful and unarmed demonstrators. Known Nazi BNP thugs were identified by eye witnesses.
However, before they had chance to inflict any significant violence and injuries on the demonstrators the BNP Nazi storm troopers were defeated by outraged local people who resisted the BNP attacks and overcame them.
During the ensuing melee the BNP advertising trailer and hoarding was overturned and their Landrover was damaged.
It’s understood that there were several injuries and arrests.
Ironically the BNP were quick to call in the police of whom they have recently claimed to be so critical.
Within minutes the Nazi BNP thugs were protected by scores of Greater Manchester Police, who remained on the streets threatening peaceful demonstrators with arrest until after the BNP Landrover and trailer had been ignominiously carted away on a low loader to the jeers of ordinary members of the Leigh public.
Peter Franzen
Leader of the Community Action Party
hi hi · 19 March 2009
why dont you hit the people who suport the bnp in there pockets... this owner of pure night club dave rowland.... he owns jr taxis also get the word out about him being racist and suporting people who are racist etc... but also.. he sponsors leigh rugby league team too...i wonder what the rugby league will have to say about this.... worth a try...
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