The GMB Union in Barking and Dagenham are to be congratulated for turning up in force last night to protect councillors and members of the general public from the BNP goon squad bussed into town to intimidate local people.
Salud Comrades.
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Not surprised to read Richard Barnbrook in Nick Ryan’s article (‘Alien nations’, The Guardian, 10 December 2006) complaining about the presence of trade unions in Dagenham:
“I ask how he [Richard Barnbrook] is finding power. 'Power? Power, power... that's not a word I would use,' he laughs, hard and flat. 'We can't even get business cards!' He counts off points on one hand: 'We've got third-party interference, we've got the unions and we've got Ken Livingstone's pet project, Unite Against Fascism”.
So, Richard Barnbrook admits that the trade unions, the representatives of the working-class, are a obstacle to the rise of the BNP.
Language school run by Italian fascist leader
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/feb/29/thefarright.italy
Popular language college in London controlled by leader of Italian neo-fascist party with links to the BNP
· BNP leader Nick Griffin's parents do the accounts
· Students from Africa and far east at London college
A popular language college in London is controlled by the leader of an Italian neo-fascist party who has links to the British National party, the Guardian has learned.
CL English Language, a college in west London that teaches hundreds of foreign students each year, is controlled by Roberto Fiore, leader of Forza Nuova, an extreme right-wing party.
Fiore, who once said he was happy to be described as a neo-fascist and who is an old friend and mentor of Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, was appointed as a director of the college more than two years ago and became sole director in August last year.
Many of the students, who pay up to £30 an hour for tuition, are Italian, while others are from Africa, the far east and eastern Europe. None of those interviewed outside the college last week were aware of Fiore's involvement. Staff at the college have said there are usually more than 100 students there at any one time. Despite its size, however, its latest accounts show that it recorded a profit of just £2,214 during 2006, and £1,821 the year before.
The accountants for the college are Edgar and Jean Griffin, Nick Griffin's parents, who live in Welshpool, Powys. Edgar Griffin confirmed that the language school was a "substantial business", but declined to say why its reported profits were so small. "You must know that an accountant can't talk about his client's affairs to anyone, leave alone a newspaper," he said.
The BNP's spokesman and deputy leader, Simon Darby, denied the party received funds from the school. Asked about the party's relationship with Fiore he said: "If I did know I wouldn't tell you. I know that he knows Nick [Griffin]. I have never met the man." Fiore and his lawyer have repeatedly declined to answer questions about CL English, or about his relationship with Griffin and his parents. The college principal declined to comment on the college finances, but said: "There is nothing illegal going on."
Fiore arrived in Britain in October 1980 as a 21-year-old fugitive from the Italian police, who wanted to question him about the Bologna train station bombing two months earlier in which 85 people were killed and more than 200 injured.
He was reputed to be a member of the extreme right-wing organisation the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei, several of whose members were subsequently convicted of mass murder. After being arrested by Scotland Yard officers the following year, Fiore was brought before Bow Street court, but the authorities in Rome failed to secure his extradition.
Fiore settled in London and became friendly with Griffin; the two are reported to have shared a flat and are also said to have run a travel agency together.
In Rome, meanwhile, he was cleared of involvement in the bombing, butwas convicted of subversive association and jailed for nine years, reduced to five-and-a-half on appeal. The jail term was eventually "timed out" under Italy's statute of limitation laws, and Fiore was able to return to his homeland in April 1999.
He had already founded Forza Nuova, an anti-immigration party committed to revoking laws that ban the recreation of the fascist party. A year after his return he was quoted as saying: "If you call me a neo-fascist I won't kick up a fuss."
please add my thanks to the Unions both GMB and T & G who turned up in force on Wednesday to support their Members. What a great bunch they are, and what a pantomime they witnessed, "Puss in Boots" you really couldnt make it up.
Tulip
Please check out BNP website today they have put a full report on Diva Dickys drunken performance on Wednesday. LOL
I will try to put a report together for you so that you get the real picture and enjoy the pantomime as well.
Tulip
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