With less than two months to go until the May elections, the campaign to rid Stoke-on-Trent of all its fascist British National Party councillors is building momentum.
The stakes are high in Stoke. The city has all-out council elections in May, and antifascists have a chance to repeat last year’s success in Barking, when all the Nazi BNP councillors were kicked out. But if the fascists are allowed to win or keep seats, then there will be BNP councillors in Stoke until 2015.
Get involved
Last Sunday saw another successful day of action, organised jointly by North Staffordshire Campaign Against Racism & Fascism (NorSCARF) and UAF. Campaigners have now leafleted most of two key electoral wards.
Now you can help make the next days of action count in the battle to get rid of the BNP. To get involved, please email NorSCARF or UAF or phone 07817 688 835.
NorSCARF and UAF need the help of as many activists as possible. They are asking antifascists to come to Stoke on the next days of action:
Sunday 3 April
Sunday 17 April
Stirring up
Since the BNP first won council seats in Stoke, they have been stirring up anti-Muslim racism. The fascists opposed the building of Hanley’s Regent Road Mosque – which suffered an arson attack in December.
The BNP attempted to hold a fascist rally in the city in 2008 and local BNP councillors were present at the racist English Defence League’s violent, anti-Muslim demonstration in Stoke in January 2010.
We need to campaign to get the vote out against the BNP and kick them out of Stoke-on-Trent once and for all.
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