anti-fascist is usually their code for Muslims.
Not in this case, the BNP are genuine fascist(unapologetic about it) freaks.
Or Communists.
I mean I hate fascism as much as anyone, but people that go around defining themselves as "anti-fascist" generally are just the other side of the same coin.
No anti-fascist is code for anti-muslim and anti-fascist. As in anti-government, the British government is fascist.
It's probably a rainbow gathering of balaclava-wearing anarchists and assorted hoodlums. The same sort we see at all the WTO protests and G8 summits.
I would take anything in wikipedia with a handful of salt.
Unite Against Fascism{Their site}
I notice their protest signs are all printed. That is a sign of a financed group.
Here is the Wiki on them.
"..Unite Against Fascism is an anti-fascist organisation that campaigns against fascist organisations in Britain.[1] Its chair is the former Labour Party mayor of London Ken Livingstone[2] and its joint secretaries are Weyman Bennett of the far left Socialist Workers Party and the Anti-Nazi League, and Sabby Dhalu, formerly of the National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR).
The organisation has signatories and members from all of Britain’s leading political parties, including Conservative Party leader David Cameron, former Conservative MP Sir Teddy Taylor and former Ulster Unionist Party MP Rev. Martin Smyth.[3] Another notable signatory is Holocaust survivor Henry Guterman.[4].."
The BNP is a dead end. It has a racist reputation going back to the sixties. It is like trying to reform the reputation of the KKK.
The British National Party (BNP) and Its Origins
"..Born in 1960 out of a merger between Colin Jordan's White Defence League and John Bean's National Labour Party, the original BNP was led by Jordan and Andrew Fountaine. Pro- nazi and anti-semitic, it split in 1962, when Jordan left to form the National Socialist Movement. It was one of the groups which merged to form the National Front in 1967. When former NF leader John Tyndall launched a new party in 1982, the BNP name was resurrected. It is now a few hundred strong, and publishes _British Nationalist_ and _Spearhead_.
The book also includes a photograph of Jordan and Tyndall wearing stormtrooper-style uniforms with the following caption:
Colin Jordan and John Tyndall at a 1962 (?) camp organized by 'Spearhead', the paramilitary wing of the British National Party. Both were later gaoled for their 'Spearhead' activities.
Tyndall also helped found the National Socialist Movement in 1962. Among his exploits, he was also fined for a 1964 assault on Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta; in 1966, he was jailed for illegal possession of a firearm. [_The National Front_, by Nigel Fielding, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1981, page 19] He split from the NSM in 1964 to form the Greater Britain Movement. He later served as Chairman of the National Front from 1972 to 1980.
Tyndall has tried, much like David Duke, to explain his openly Nazi period as youthful exuberance. But in 1978, he still defended the German Nazi social and economic programs, their _lebensraum_ justification for war, and their race theories, balking only at defending their dictatorship and extermination policies. [_The National Front in English Politics_, by Stan Taylor, The Macmillan Press, Ltd., London, 1982, page 57] However, Tyndall still promoted the expulsion of non-whites from England.
In fact, the National Front issued a _Statement of Policy_ which claimed that:
The NF upholds the wish of the majority of the British people for Britain to remain a White country and for this reason opposes all coloured immigration into Britain. It further advocates the repatriation, by the most humane means possible, of those coloured immigrants already here, together with their descendants and dependents... .."