A crowd of 500 strong anti-fascists including trade unionists, students, members of the black community and local residents came together on Saturday 9th December in Central Park Dagenham to protest against the Fascist BNP.

The BNP showed themselves to be the minority in Barking and Dagenham by only mobilising a crowd of 50 or so activists after several weeks of campaigning, boasting that they had leafleted all the wards in the borough which advertised the Rally.

Since before the elections the BNP have spread the racist myth that African immigrants are receiving grants to move into the borough. This was the main issue of their rally, calling for local residents who were fed up with immigrants getting housing before the white ?