There will therefore be, as promised, a protest at 3pm TODAY outside of City Hall:
NO BNP IN GLA!FYI: I got this message through the London Feminist Network mailing list.
Protest if the BNP get elected to the Greater London
Assembly!
The far-right, racist British National Party has been
polling just less than 5% ahead of Thursday’s vote. If
they get 5% on the list and they get a seat,
International Socialist Resistance and Youth Against
Racism in Europe are calling a protest outside the GLA
building, City Hall (nearest tube London Bridge) at
3pm on Saturday 3 May.
It is an important for feminists to be involved in
this campaign alongside other campaigners. Leading
members of the BNP are totally opposed to women’s
rights, as BNP member, Nick Eriksen, shows. He was
number two on their London list.
In August 2005, Eriksen wrote: “I've never understood
why so many men have allowed themselves to be
brainwashed by the feminazi myth machine into
believing that rape is such a serious crime ... Rape
is simply sex. Women enjoy sex, so rape cannot be such
a terrible physical ordeal.
"To suggest that rape, when conducted without
violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting that
force-feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous
offence. A woman would be more inconvenienced by
having her handbag snatched. The demonisation of rape
is all part of the feminazi desire to obtain power and
mastery over men. Men who go along with the rape myth
are either morons or traitors.”
In November 2005, in an item entitled ‘Give her a
slap!’, Eriksen approvingly quoted Noel Coward as
saying: “Some women are like gongs - they need to be
struck regularly.”! He later claimed that “the vast
majority of domestic [assaults] are initiated by the
woman.”
Eriksen also wrote that mothers “should never go out
to work” and described career women as “unnatural and
vile... it is a strange kind of woman who would want
to invest [her] energies into her job rather than into
a man.”........ ...
The author of the Sir John Bull blog, which stopped
publication last autumn, is not identified on the
website itself. But the Evening Standard established
that it is Eriksen by posing as a BNP sympathiser and
sending a message to the site’s contact email address,
johnbull@englandmai l.com.
Within two days, Eriksen replied, signing his name,
giving Mr Barnbrook's contact number and saying: “As
for your kind comments about the blog, I may well
restart this after the elections - we shall see what
happens! All the best, Nick.”
The BNP has refused to condemn his comments, or take
any serious disciplinary measures. If they get a seat
on the 1 May, a bold campaign against them and their
ideas will be necessary to make sure they know their
racist and sexist ideas are opposed by the vast
majority.
For more info see www.anticapitalism.org.uk or contact
ISR on 020 8558 7947.
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