Hope not Hate
Anti-racist, anti-fascist march and rally in Wrexham
Wrexham Trades Union Council organised an anti-racist, anti-fascist march and rally in Wrexham on Saturday 12 April as part of the Hope Not Hate fortnight.
This week four BNP community councillors were returned unopposed in the local elections in Wrexham county. With Gordon Brown saying things like ‘British jobs for British workers’, with the Daily Mail and most of the rest of the mainstream media promoting bigotry and hate, and with a draconian and punitive immigration policy which treats victims of torture and other asylum seekers as criminals and locks them up in detention centres under appalling conditions, the BNP is seeing more and more of its views ‘legitimised’ in the mainstream, to the point where it felt able to have an election stall in the middle of Wrexham. After the event, a group of the marchers went back into town to counter-campaign. Our ‘End Fascism Now’ banner was held up in front of the stall and hundreds of anti-BNP leaflets were given out to passers-by.
Hopefully, this will not be an isolated event, but will mark the start of an active anti-racist movement in Wrexham.
