We are delighted to announce that LMHR’s national 2009 Carnival will take in Stoke-on-Trent’s Britannia Stadium, on Saturday 30th May. The 30,000-capacity event, organised in partnership with Premier League football club Stoke City and Stoke City Council, will be officially launched at the stadium on Saturday 21st March before the club’s match with Middlesbrough – with tickets going on sale the same day. The LMHR Carnival 2009 website, with more details of the event including this year’s exciting line-up, local transport information and much more goes live in the next two weeks – watch this space for more news.
By Rose Whittaker. What do a bisexual black man, a Jewish immigrant from Poland and two Russian Jews have in common? They all appear on the nazi BNP’s Battle of Britain CD. Jewish immigants Irving Berlin, Bud Flanagan and Joe Loss and black artists The Four Vagabonds and Leslie “Hutch” Hutchinson have songs included on the compilation, which has been put out by the to raise money for the Nazi organisation’s campaign to get elected to the European Parliament this June. [click title to read on]
By S, Stoke-on-Trent LMHR….
The BNP have been preparing for their forthcoming European Election campaign and as part of this they have once again taken advantage of British history for promotional purposes. This time they’re campaigning under the slogan “Battle for Britain” using Second World War RAF imagery.
This has already seen the threat of legal action from Dame Vera Lynn, as the BNP are marketing an album of Second World War classic songs, including “White Cliffs of Dover”. Research has now revealed the album also includes contributions from black singer Leslie “Hutch” Hutchinson, as well as the composer Irving Berlin, bandleaders Bert Ambrose and Joe Loss and comedian Bud Flanagan, who were all Jewish. A more multicultural mix than the BNP may have realised.
They are also using a photograph of a Second World War Spitfire as the main image for the campaign. If this wasn’t already overstepping the mark, hijacking such an iconic image for party political purposes, the Spitfire in the picture – “Romeo Foxtrot Delta” is identifiable from its “RF” marking as belonging to 303 Squadron.
303 was a Polish squadron.
It appears that the BNP obviously do not know or care enough about the history of the Battle of Britain to get this detail right.
It seems to be an odd choice for the party currently circulating local election materials damning the present Government for opening “the doors of Britain to the hudled masses of Eastern Europe”. [click the title of this item to read on!]
The national Unite Against Fascism/LMHR conference on Saturday 21st February was highly successful, attracting well over 500 delegates from a;; areas of the country, and a broad range of guest speakers and organisations. People left the event with a real sense of determination to prevent the BNP making gains in this June’s European elections. More than 100 delegates attended the LMHR section of the conference in which more than 20 people spoke from the floor about how they had responded to BNP activity in their area by setting up LMHR gigs to spread the anti-fascist message, as well as holding protests and demonstrations against the BNP – joining panel speakers like Get Cape Wear Cape Fly and Jon McClure from Reverend & The Makers and Mongrel. For a full report and photos click the title of this item.
