IF THE National Front through with its declared aim of standing 280 candidates in the general election, it will have one DaLCular objective in mind: the publicity that Front national and local media.
This was spelt out in the NF's Socialist Challenge internal bulletin last summer, which maintained that quantity must override quality in the selection of a sufficient number of candidates to secure radio and TV coverage.
Some news bulletins have parties will be running in the no prizes guessing the fifth.
Yet the Front is by no means confident that media workers will obligingly relay its racist message. That's propaganda includes attacks on the media unions and demands for "press freedom'.
The NF's latest move is to take the Camden Journal to the Press Council for omitting any mention of the Front's candidate in a Greater London Council by-election last month.
Most of une meata unions have toughened their opposition to racism.
A joint agreement between the National Graphical Association and the National Union of Journalists, for example, *recognises the members to withold their labour on grounds conscience because employers are providing a platform for racist propaganda Journalists on a number of local papers have set excellent precedents. Papers such as the Hornsey Journal and Ender in London pro fascists our in local fascists during elections and NF demonstraOther journalists and media workers need to be persuaded to adopt this approach.
Local ANLs should be arranging nOW discussions with media workers about their election coverage, taking up the demand of the ANL nationally and of the Mass pickets are every Saturday. goes for Against state marassment DAon].
Campaign Against Racism in the Media for no uncritical coverage of fascists and racists. Pickets should be the order of the day where the press, radio, TV promote the NF's campaign. Back up for anti-racist media workers is also needed. On the Islington Gazette, for instance, where journalists have refused LO publish NF of except in a critical context, the editor inserted an quoting at length the local NF candidate on 26 March.
This led to an immediate 24-hour strike by the journalists on the Islington Gazette East and two other papers in the have same North London group A major focus will be the local Front's party political broadcasts, scheduled for 25 April on radio and the following day on TV.
CARM and the ANL are calling for 'No Plugs for NF Thugs. A picket hold casting House in London W1 has already been called 6.30pm on 26 April, and local ANLs are being arrange pickets of regional A HUNDRED people picketed Brixton police station last Saturday calling for an end to the 'sus' harassment of black people. The picket was called by Blacks broadcasting centres.
Webster has been allocated five minutes on TV to promote the Front's racism. effectively policy would be to demand a counter-broadcast anti-fascist answer the NF's lies, expose their Nazi connections, calling for mass actions to deal Statemens with the Front.
The mass article presented itself as the defender democratic policies The demand for policies. right of reply would allow the labour movement to explain mat it is me democratic oppressed.
If a reply is refused, pulling the plugs on the NF broadcasts would then be widely understood by millions whose sets would go of Broad- blank.
Many broadcasting workers for are unhappy to give Webster free rein of urged to Pickets would encourage them to take the action that's needed. fight East