Herbert Read said:
Its not just about street fighting such as cracking heads, but limiting the capacity they have to hold meetings by targeting property, attacking the organisation is central to minimising their ability to organise in a confident and co-ordinated manner.
Waiting for certain conditions before you physically oppose fascism is like swpies waiting for the stated conditions for the perfect revolutionary moment.
But most of the contemporary examples of this kind of activity seem to be directed not at the BNP, but at other tiny far-right sects. And they seem far from 'confident and co-ordinated.'
It has often been said on these boards that demonstrations held by today's NF usually seem to be made up, at best, of about fifty people, and that they appear to be roughly the same fifty people no matter which part of the country the demo takes place. What does this say about the level of threat they represent? They don't even seem to be able to attract the more extreme elements of the BNP who are disgruntled by the "modernisers'" approach in any significant numbers. There has recently been a thread on Stormfront in which a cross-section of fascist opinion seems agreed, to one degree or another, that the NF is past it's sell-by date. The best that even NF members themselves seem able to offer is that 'everybody must be encouraged to contribute in their own way' (where have I heard that one before?), or that at least the NF isn't the 'sell-out' BNP, with its Jewish and Turkish candidates and alliances with Sikhs etc etc.
Meanwhile, is there any evidence that the WNP/Nationalist Alliance/BPP, or whatever they are calling themselves this week, actually have any membership beyond the small bunch of discredited individuals that make up the central core? (Has anybody noticed that, when they put photos of their rallies online, it's more or less the same line-up of platform speakers, no matter where the meeting is claimed to have taken place-and even the room in every photgraph looks similar to...the last photo.)
Again, where is the fascist threat here? The venom of the BPP is obviously directed, primarily, not at immigrants or the working class but at the BNP.
And while all this is going on, the BNP continues to gather support in working class areas, where a large percentage of the local population feels abandoned by the mainstream parties. If they can portray themselves as victims of violence for doing nothing other than campaigning, in a legal and peaceful manner, for the interests of local people (what they actually do about them is beside the point), what is the view of the average punter contemplating voting BNP going to be regarding the perpetrators of the violence? This is especially problematic when no coherent alternative to what the BNP is offering is ever put to these people. Which is, of course, the crux of the problem.
Where is the political analysis?
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