THE DEATH PENALTY FOR BREIVIK (BUT AT WHOSE HANDS?) – NO PLATFORM FOR FASCISTS!

Interesting editorial from the Workers Revolutionary Party demanding the death penalty for Anders Breivik.


"Breivik should have been executed on the isle where he created a mountain of corpses from the socialist youth, and he must now face the death penalty so that fascism is not seen as something to argue with or debate with, or decide whether it is insane or not, but as the vilest product of the capitalist crisis, as it was in the 1930’s, and that it must be destroyed, so that capitalism itself can be destroyed and society move forward from the ‘law of the jungle’ and ‘dog eat dog’ to a socialist society."


It is pertinent to note that one of Breiviks' victims was the daughter of the "socialist" Norwegian Defence Minister - who just weeks earlier had himself authorised a Norwegian Air Force attack which ended in the slaughter of Gaddafi's grand-daughters as they slept in their beds. 


So who killed more innocents? The fascist Breivik or the "democrats" of the NATO empire? Is it only fascism when it happens in Europe? 


Breivik's life is less than that of a fly to me. But I would not consider the demand that the killers of Gaddafi's grand-daughters to put him to death to be any kind of stand against fascism. 


If we have to wipe the likes of Breivik and his EDL cohorts from our society then that is our job and ours only. And by doing so we will be clearing the weeds that block the path to where the real enemy sits - wearing their "socialist", "liberal" and "democratic" clothes whilst inflicting and waging war, death and suffering on a global scale that fascists like Breivik and the EDL can only fantasise of. - The REAL Scottish Defence League

http://www.wrp.org.uk/news/7460

The News Line: EditorialWednesday, 18 April 2012THE DEATH PENALTY FOR BREIVIK – NO PLATFORM FOR FASCISTS!THE fascist who killed 77 people, the majority of them at a youth school of the Norwegian Young Socialists, in bomb and gun attacks in Norway last July has been given a worldwide platform by the Norwegian state to defend his actions, to declare that he is proud of what he did, and to recruit others to follow his example.

He boasted that ‘I have carried out the most spectacular and sophisticated attack on Europe since World War II,’ and told the court that he would do it all again, predicting that there would be an ‘escalation in the future’ and that the fascists would win in the end.

He claimed that ‘These acts are based on goodness, not evil,’ stating that he was not insane and that multi-culturism is the ‘insanity’.

Breivik is not insane. He is a fascist who has replaced the ‘Jewish Bolshevik conspiracy’ with the ‘Muslim threat’. His execution of Norwegian youth is only a semblance of what Europe’s fascists have in store for the working class, the trade unions, the youth and all those who favour multi-culturalism, that is living in peace with the Muslim people of the world.

In order that he should be given a ‘fair hearing’ and be able to propagandise throughout the world, a lay judge, who thought that he deserved the death penalty, was actually removed from the trial.

We repeat that Breivik is not insane. Fascism is that trend which comes on the scene when the ruling classes can no longer control the working class through bourgeois democracy and has to physically destroy working class organisations to keep capitalism going.

It makes workers’ organisations illegal and kills workers and youth in the streets and working class leaders in concentration camps, after splitting society by using either ‘The Jews’ or ‘The Muslims’ as a scapegoat for all of the problems created by the capitalists.

Hitler won the support of the German capitalist class, as the last resort against Bolshevism and Socialism.

Breivik and the various fascist and and ultra-nationalist movements in Europe, such as the English Defence League, are bidding for this same franchise.

And now they are being given a platform from which to recruit, with their leader of the moment, facing either 21 years in jail, about three months a life, or life in a mental institution, where he will be a living symbol for the fascist movement and part of its mockery of bourgeois democracy.

Breivik should have been executed on the isle where he created a mountain of corpses from the socialist youth, and he must now face the death penalty so that fascism is not seen as something to argue with or debate with, or decide whether it is insane or not, but as the vilest product of the capitalist crisis, as it was in the 1930’s, and that it must be destroyed, so that capitalism itself can be destroyed and society move forward from the ‘law of the jungle’ and ‘dog eat dog’ to a socialist society.

There must be no free speech for fascists, and the debate about whether fascism is a form of insanity or not must be junked in favour of mobilising the working class and the youth to drive them off the streets to prepare the way for the socialist revolution.

The idea that fascism can be defeated in a show trial where the issue is whether a fascist is insane or not, is itself insane.

Fascism is a product of the crisis of capitalism, the failure of bourgeois democracy and the refusal of the Labour and trade union leaders to fight for socialism.

No free speech for fascists! Bring in the death sentence for Breivik!

Mobilise the working class and the youth to drive the fascists off the streets!

Smash Capitalism! Forward to the victory of the socialist revolution! 

English Defence League forges links with America's Tea Party

Members of the English Defence League during a march in London against Islamic fundamentalism. Photograph: Rex

As the far-right group marches in Leicester, details are emerging of growing contacts with extremist US groups in a 'war on Islamification"

Mark Townsend
The Observer,
Sunday 10 October 2010


The English Defence League, a far-right grouping aimed at combating the "Islamification" of British cities, has developed strong links with the American Tea Party movement.

An Observer investigation has established that the EDL has made contact with anti-jihad groups within the Tea Party organisation and has invited a senior US rabbi and Tea Party activist to London this month. Rabbi Nachum Shifren, a regular speaker at Tea Party conventions, will speak about Sharia law and also discuss funding issues.

The league has also developed links with Pamela Geller, who was influential in the protests against plans to build an Islamic cultural centre near Ground Zero. Geller, darling of the Tea Party's growing anti-Islamic wing, is advocating an alliance with the EDL. The executive director of the Stop Islamisation of America organisation, she recently met EDL leaders in New York and has defended the group's actions, despite a recent violent march in Bradford.

Geller, who denies being anti-Muslim, said in one of her blogs: "I share the EDL's goals… We need to encourage rational, reasonable groups that oppose the Islamisation of the west."

Devin Burghart, vice-president of the Kansas-based Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, said: "Geller is acting as the bridge between the EDL and the Tea Party. She plays an important role in bringing Islamophobia into the Tea Party. Her stature has increased substantially inside the Tea Party ranks after the Ground Zero mosque controversy. She has gained a lot of credibility with that stuff."

Details of the EDL's broadening aspirations came as about 1,000 supporters yesterday gathered to demonstrate in Leicester, which has a significant Muslim population. Home secretary Theresa May banned marches in the city last week but the EDL said its protest would proceed, raising fears of violence. Parts of Leicester were cordoned off to separate a counter-protest from Unite Against Fascism. Officers from 13 forces were on hand to maintain order.

The Tea Party is expected to be an influential force in America's mid-term elections. Last month their candidate Christine O'Donnell romped to the Republican nomination in Delaware, following a stream of populist rightwing candidates who carry the movement's endorsement. Burghart says anti-Islamic tendencies have become far more marked in the grassroots organisation: "As we move farther and farther away from the Tea Party origins, that were ostensibly around debt and bail-outs, social issues like Islamophobia are replacing that anger, that vigour. The idea that there is a war between Islam and the west is becoming commonplace."

Another Tea Party-associated grouping, the International Civil Liberties Alliance, which campaigns against Sharia law, confirmed that EDL leaders have made "contacts with members of important organisations within the American counter-jihad movement". A statement said: "It seems now that America and Europe are acting as one, and united we can never fail."

With the Tea Party said to benefit from millions of dollars of funding from conservative foundations, experts warn an alliance between the EDL and extremist elements within the US movement could allow the English group to invest in wider recruitment and activism.

Shifren, a Californian senate candidate, said Britain's Jewish community should rally behind the EDL: "The Jewish community is paralysed with fear, exactly what most radical Muslim agitators want. The people of England are in the forefront of this war – and it is a war. One of the purposes of this visit is to put the kibosh on the notion in the Jewish community that they cannot co-operate with the EDL, which is rubbish."

The EDL's website relaunched briefly last week with new US links. Currently shut down for "maintenance", the site featured prominent links to a site called Atlas Shrugs, which is run by Geller, and another US-based site, Jihad Watch, which compiles negative news coverage of Islamic militancy.

In addition, two members of the EDL leadership, a British businessman called Alan Lake who is believed to fund the group and a man known by the alias Kinana, are regular contributors to web forum 4Freedoms. The forum claims to be "organising US activities" and has links to the anti-jihad group, American Congress for Truth, which in turn has supporters within the Tea Party.

Lake is also believed to have been in touch with a number of anti-Islamic Christian evangelical groups in the US. One posting by Lake on 4Freedoms warns that the UK of the future will start to fragment into Islamic enclaves. Lake, believed to be a principal bankroller of the EDL, which claims to be a peaceful, non-racist organisation, is understood to be keen on the possibility of setting up the UK equivalent of the Tea Party. At an event organised by the Taxpayers' Allliance last month, US Tea Party organisers outlined how the movement emerged last year, partly in protest at the US bank bail-out.

Those present included Freedom Works and the Cato Institute, one of the Tea Party's main backers. However, Simon Richards, director of the Gloucestershire-based Freedom Association, which is looking at developing a pseudo-Tea Party movement in the UK, said he was concerned the project could be hijacked by elements such as the EDL. Nick Lowles of anti-fascist organisation Searchlight said: "The EDL is an integral part of an international campaign against Islam. While some are fighting in a cultural and political arena, the EDL are taking it to the streets. The images of the EDL allegedly taking on Muslim fundamentalists on the streets of Britain is also delighting right wing religious organisations in US."