by
New Worker correspondent
MORE
than 100 local residents and anti-fascists turned out at short notice to bar
the progress of a short march by a tiny but toxic group of hard core Nazis in
Clapton, East London, on Saturday 18th April. Former National Front leader Martin
Webster was among them.
The
Nazi march was organised by Eddie Stampton, a man recently photographed by New
Worker journalists brandishing a large swastika flag in Whitehall.
He
had invited a collection of individuals from an assortment of fascist and
racist groups: Britain First, the British National Party, the National Front,
the English Defence League and others. But altogether they numbered just 22.
They
claimed to be marching in protest at the local Jewish community in Stamford
Hill being allowed their own “police force” – mainly to protect the community
from anti-Semitic attacks from the friends and associates of Messrs Stampton
and Webster.
Stampton
had wanted his rally in a park in Stamford Hill right in the middle of the
local Jewish community but police redirected their march from Clapton station
in the opposite direction to a corner beside the Lea Bridge Roundabout.
The
walk was only a couple of hundred metres but it was long and slow as energetic
and noisy young anti-fascists blocked the way and had to be forced back inch by
inch by police while the Nazis were surround by scores of police to protect
them from angry local residents.
Martin
Webster launched a vitriolic attack on Jewish community defence organisations –
while standing almost on the spot where, in the 1960s, a synagogue was
destroyed by arson perpetrated by members of the Greater Britain Movement – of
which Martin Webster and his colleague John Tyndall were members at the time.
A
group of six Polish fascists invited by Stampton arrived just as the Nazi
meeting was finishing.
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