thuggery gan that fascism needs. If you fish around in the slime of a cess pool you will tind sludge and muck. l you look at the National Front you will find a rag-bag of violence, race-hatred ar d The new leadership of the National Front is desperate to try to 'clean" up the SS-gforified a pimp who like NF public face of the NF. First casualty is Hitler-worshipper John Tyndall, who has now been stripped of his executive powers. But removing Tyndall to try to give the NF a new image is like trying to cure cancer with an aspirin The race-hating, anti-working class ideas of fascism attract a particular kind of scum. Brian Hosie, the NF member recently schicnced m lasgow tor mur dering a black man, is the kind of hooliMr Keith Squire, the NF parliamentary candidate for Wood Green in the October 1974 General Election, is another. Squire has just been fined a total of £125 for hitting Terence John Donaldson on the head with an amplifier. Squire was reported to have had three previous convictions for assault, causing bodily harm, receiving stolen property, and stealing a vehicle and its contents Squire, Hosie and Tyndall are not exceptions to the rule. The whole outfit is full of people like that. The NF, like all fascist organisations, cannot function without thuggery and violent racism. Hitler's SS drew towards itself all the dregs of society who were able to work out their perverted cruelty on the working class and racial minorites. The Horst Wessel--marching song of the member Hosie lived off unfortunate OSTETE No matter how much the more sophisticated new leaders of the NF try to put on a show of cleaning up the image and applying a cosmetic touch of respectability it will always remain Kingsley Read, the new "white' hope is currently being charged by the Race Relations Board and stands for the violent whipping of so-called deliquents Last week in Glasgow when he met the pickets outside his meeting he too dropped his pretence and gave the Nazi Bob Gordon
Red Weekly1975Red Weekly No. 104, 5 June 1975
'CLEAN-UP' BID FAILS
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