Model motion on BNP
The 5 May local election results showed a disturbing rise in support for the British National Party, particuarly in Barking and Dagenham. This, despite the hard work by anti-fascist campaigners. They will be able to use these results to make further gains and shift the political agenda so that racist and xenophobic ideas are part of the mainstream, especially negative ideas about asylum seekers, but also, and increasingly, migrant workers. The increased BNP base has to be a cause of great concern to the trade union movement, creating as it does the potential for division among workers and the...