When the BNP opened its "bookshop" in Welling,South London in the early 1990s racist attacks soon began to dramatically increase.These culminated in the savage group attack on Stephen Lawrence by a gang of racist thugs. Some 60000 anti fascists marched to get the BNP HQ closed down and to protest at the attacks.
More recently ,just a few weeks ago,Nick Griffin,stood at the very spot where Anthony Walker a young black teenager was brutally killed in Liverpool again by some race haters ,to say that the attack was not racist.
Of course we can educate and organise against fascists and indeed carry out the social justice policies on housing and jobs that can undercut their appeal but we also need to confront them when they start to march and organise. It is so much easier to defeat a handful of fascists rather than a marching column of the thugs.
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