BNP coming to UCC

cork | rights, freedoms and repression | news report

Tuesday January 13, 2004 11:28

by Michael - Socialist Party Dublin

No platform for the Nazi BNP

Fresh from being stopped in Trinity by a group of no platform for racial hatred and Nazis , the Law Society in UCC has invited Tony Wentworth, the youth organiser of the British National Party, to speak in UCC at the end of January.

The BNP is a neo-Nazi organisation responsible for numerous brutal physical attacks on immigrants, gays, trade unionists, socialists and all opposition on the left. They have been linked to the racist attacks on Chinese people in Belfast in December.

The BNP are not interested in debate. Whenever fascists get organised, democratic rights of ordinary people come under immediate physical attack. The BNP would like to see a similar organisation set up here in Ireland. This cannot be allowed to happen!

Socialist Youth and the Socialist Party are running a campaign to stop the Nazi BNP coming to UCC. We have taken the initiative of launching a broad-based coalition of all groups and individuals opposed to the invitation of the BNP to UCC to act as a united front to stop the meeting going ahead.

This group is active both in Cork city and in UCC. We are holding regular activities over the next few weeks and we plan to hold a large demonstration on the night of the meeting to shut it down!