Fascist Trades Union Formed
Submitted by PaulMarsh on Jan 26 2006 11:12
I won't post the link, but the BNP news page is promoting the formation of a union by Patrick Harrington (Third Way member, and a rail worker in Scotland if I recall correctly)
There seems to be BNP involvement as well (so much for Third Way and BNP not liking each other)
Jan 26 2006 11:46
#2
JDMF wrote:
You reckon they will get this off the ground and reach the 500 member target?
Not neccesarily - they would need to get a high percentage of the BNPs active membership to do that. Estimates of the BNPs membership vary between 4000-8000, and the number of activists must therefore be under a 1000. For Griffin's court rallies they have never had over 500 people.
One tactic they used to use in Burnley (which I thought was very clever) was going through the yellow pages and sending free papers and leaflets to small white owned businesses such as Painters and Decorators, Haulage firms, and Joiners.
Many such companies are family owned, perhaps employing as few as 4-5 people or many as 20-25 people. They are usually all white, with a hard working ethos and defensive about their own economic status.
In the right area, if there is racial tension at the time, you could see them signing up a company's staff en masse, and its boss.
Jan 26 2006 11:57
#3
ironic though if they would get this off the ground, but repeated attempts to get a syndicalist union together dont seem to get anywhere 
Perhaps the criticism of the syndicalist initiatives work in this in reverse: at least this might clean up some right wing scum off the existing unions to an easily defined and identifiable one?
Feb 7 2006 20:39
#4
JDMF wrote:
You reckon they will get this off the ground and reach the 500 member target?
There are a lot of disillusioned people out there and also people who have been personally failed by Unions or who hold personal grudges. Harrington has a lot of contacts (some claim even within the Security Services) and that is probably one reason the BNP have allowed him to take such a high position in the Union. I fear they will have few problems reaching their target.
We should assume that they will.
Feb 7 2006 23:03
#5
Hi
When the BNP start a union they offer the working class a payrise and cleaner streets. If we tried something similar, what would we offer? Vegan spaces? A united block on demonstrations?
What’s the “value proposition”? Ho ho.
Love
Steve
Feb 9 2006 20:37
#6
The Voice has published an interesting article on the Solidarity Union at:- http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=8444
they certainly are putting nationalism back to socialism...
Its called Solidarity as well
You reckon they will get this off the ground and reach the 500 member target?