workers felt justifiably sO.
Socialist Unity, spread argued that During the was to of Dunlop; an unprecedented scale.
that DOLORE unemployment: Sotive.
traffic in capable of impact.
campaign of May 1978 'IN these months before the general election the Nazis will seize on every opportunity to propaganda. cent. itself, National Front candidates will because be entitled to equal TV and radio time to the major parties. tion "The British electorate will be exposed to Nazi propaganda on This the must not go unopposed. thunder.
These are the words of the founding statement of the Anti people 10 Nazi League. A mass propaganda campaign of leaflets and posters during the election was the League's immediate objecCASSS The events after the first ANL Carnival showed it was real *Nazi'.
Carnival took The place during the local election - and when it came to the poll there was a significant fall in the National Front's vote.
They slumped from 5 per cent in the GLC elections (May 1977), and 5.7 percent in the Ladywood by-election, to 3 per Of course this was not just ANL. The rightward lurch on immigramarked by Thatcher's the Select Committee Report stole some National Front's And the resistance of black symbolised by the struggle to forced many Labour and trade union leaders to speak out against the successfully la behed the Was But it was the ANL ANL had a plan of action to beat the NF then, but it is surely lacking one now. Octobertine ANt conference Expecting election last had planned a major Carnival and demonstration for September. A trade union conference was planned for the autumn.
Every ANL branch and supporter had clear nationa focuses around which the local leafleting and postering could take place. There is no such focus now.
A plan of action is needed:
* There should be a national mass demonstration on the weekend before the general should ask every Labour and working class candidate to allocate some of their election spending entitlement to the ANL to leaflet againsi the Nazis * We should also ask them to join the AN in sponsoring local rallies involving all labour movement organisations to put against NF's policies.
Time is short — the ANL must be ready!
Socialist Challenge 29 March 1979 page 3