Swansea Pride 2014
Stop the Nazis
Fight Homophobia & Transphobia Don't let racism and fascism divide us
Unite Against Fascism (UAF) is a broad coalition that organises to stop fascist organisations from growing. It has led major campaigns and protests against the British National Party (BNP), the National Front (NF) and English Defence League. Following the 2014 European and English-council election results, all anti-fascists will have celebrated the news that the BNP lost their only European Parliamentary seat. This defeat shows that the majority of people rejected the BNP’s message of hate. However across Europe far-right and fascist parties made significant gains. There can be no room for complacency here in Britain. UKIP ‘s election victory is a very worrying development. Though not a fascist party, UKIP creates a racist climate where nazi parties could grow. The rise of fascist and far-right 'populist' parties are a warning to us all - rights that have been won from past battles need to be defended. Pride takes place because it was fought for - but would, for example, a UKIPcontrolled council try to ban it? Hundreds of thousands demonstrated recently against gay-marriage in France, partly thanks to the growth of the fascist Front National. Persecution old and new: Lesbians and Gays were murdered in the nazis Holocaust (top); over 350,000 demonstrated against gay-marriage in France last year, supported by the fascist Front National (middle); Nigel Farage, leader of the racist and homophobic UKIP (bottom)
Fascist and racist parties cut their teeth on anti-immigrant racism and Islamophobia. However filthy prejudiced ideas about LGBT people, women and others lurk just beneath the surface and come more to the fore as the right grow in confidence. In Swansea we have had an NF 'white-pride' event for the past two years - the NF would love to attack events like Pride, or target individual LGBT people, if they are allowed to grow.
Unite Against Fascism is proud of the role it has played over the last decade in helping defeat the BNP and more recently the racist English Defence League. But we are clear our job is far from done. Over the coming months we will continue to ensure that fascist parties do not make any gains in British politics. We also believe that it is vital we campaign to stop the rise of racist and fascist parties across Europe and along with other campaigning groups we will be combating the rise of UKIP. The anti-fascist fight therefore demands unity - between gay and straight, black and white, Christian and Muslim - to combat the nazis threat. Join or sign-up to our contact-details below and we will keep you informed about future anti-nazi events. Swansea UAF on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swansea.uaf Swansea UAF on Twitter: @SwanseaUAF Swansea UAF: swansea_uaf@ntlworld.com UAF Wales email: secretary@uafwales.com
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