Love Music Hate Racism

The publication on the internet of the British National Party (BNP)’s entire party membership list should be welcomed by anti-fascists. The BNP had previously won a court order banning the publication of the list. The reason for this is simple – they know that membership of this fascist organisation remains something to be hidden, not proudly proclaimed. Decades of successful anti-fascist campaigning have ensured that the BNP – despite some limited electoral successes and modest increase in membership - continued to be viewed as pariahs associated with the genocidal politics of Hitler and Mussolini. Despite their efforts to “modernise” (read: lie), they are still known as out-and-out racists who incite violence against non-whites, and as homophobes whose ideas led one former member David Copeland to murder gay people with nail bombs. This is the key problem for their now-outed members in the public services – do we really want racists teaching our kids, policing our communities, or serving in the army?