Fascists Out! Campaign shuts down Nazi mail box

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Friday August 26, 2005 13:12

by Gary Smith - Fascists Out! Campaign

fascistsout at hotmail dot com

PO Box 505 Belfast BT12 6BQ

Picket victory

Below is a press release sent out yesterday following the picket. I'll try and put some photos up soon.

Thanks to everybody who joined the picket.

NO PLATFORM FOR FASCISTS!!!!

Fascists Out! Campaign
PRESS RELEASE - 2pm 25th August 05

Anti-fascist picket forces closure of Nazi mail-box
Members of the Fascists Out! Campaign today succeeded in closing down a mail-box used by the far-right Ulster Nationalist Alliance.

The White Nationalist Party, a neo-nazi group which has been linked to racist attacks across Northern Ireland, recently changed it's name to the Nationalist Alliance in order to stand in elections in the UK. The group's organisation in Northern Ireland, now operating under the title 'Ulster Nationalist Alliance' were using a private mail-box in Belfast as a point of contact as well as to distribute race hate material.

A spokesperson for the Fascists Out! Campaign claimed today's action was a blow to the ability of fascists to grow in Northern Ireland. "The Nationalist Alliance advertised on their sick website their mail-box in Belfast. We immediately approached the manger of Mail Boxes Etc on Botanic Avenue in person to explain that a Nazi group was using it's mail-box facilities. We provided proof and urged the shop to close it down. After repeated warnings to the shop, we were forced to picket Mail Boxes Etc.

Our campaign will not allow fascists to organise here. They are responsible for attacking ethnic minorities across the North. Fascists do not offer any solutions to the problems faced by working-class people. Their agenda is to destroy all democratic rights, trade union rights and establish a totalitarian regime of terror. They use racist ideas to blame ethnic minorities for unemployment, lack of housing and other problems facing working class communities. The Fascists Out! Campaign believes working class people should unite and fight for our common interests. Today's successful picket is a warning to all businesses not to facilitate any neo-nazi groups in future.'

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Fascists Out! Campaign - PO BOX 505 Belfast BT12 6BQ
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