the various trials, especially of Appleyard, that are due to take place. Those trials may provide information about Appleyard at least
as interesting as that on others. Hopefully, readers in Yorkshire will consider this matter worthwhile enough to attend the cases
and report the outcome.
MORE RECENT EVENTS IN BRADFORD
As an illustration of how complex the situation in Bradford is,
consider one final development. This is the short-lived intervention by the English Nationalist Movement (ENM) in the area, alluded
to in a widely distributed (anonymous) 'Urgent Message' of March 1998 issued by 'The Heaton Defence Group'. According to this message,'Heaton in the Bradford West ward is a white enclave surrounded by a heavy Asian population. This is where the action is." The authors
issued a once in a life time offer to "all genuine racial nationalists who are serious about the cause to move into the Bradford District".
They went on to say (in what is possibly an understatement) "There's never a dull moment here. Something is always going on!". The
ENM (now renamed the National Revolutionary Fraction) was attacked, though not mentioned by name "for security reasons". (p.2) This
was because they had allegedly "done a runner when things came on top with the police" indeed the Bradford project "is now under the
surveillance of Special Branch" and no doubt other agencies - why have a political laboratory without using it for experiments?
I
draw attention to this because aside from the attack on the ENM, who definitely had a presence in the area recently [29] it contains
a curious claim that "we were prepared to work with your group alone, so please don't use the BNP as a scapegoat for your 'hit and
run' antics." Yet the issue of Bradford Nationalist (local BNP publication) for the very same month, seems to indicate a remarkably
similar typeface and manner of arguing. Interestingly, there is a strong call to close down (guess what) the Bradford Resource Centre.
As Alice would say, curiouser and curiouser.
Bradford BNP seem to be quite active, producing a monthly bulletin capitalising
on local themes, acting as a magnet for BNP activists in Yorkshire and beyond. I suspect the consequences of that upsurge for local
anti-fascists and ethnic minorites will not be favourable. Of one thing we can be sure - events in Yorkshire will continue to require
careful observation. This story is updated in NFB issue 8 'Redwatch Revisited'--follow links below to purchase this.
FOOTNOTES
{1}
pages 42-46.
{3} Attitude Spring 1994 p.2
{4} Yorkshire on Sunday 29/5/94
{5}Here & Now 1996 issue 16/17 p.31
{6} June-July 1998 p.9
{7} see chronology in Yorkshire Evening Post 20/9/94
{8} no date: but
December 1994
{9} April 1994 issue p.3
{10} Green Anarchist 38 Spring 1995 p.12
{11} letter postmarked 28/7/95
{12} Attitude Summer
1995 p.10
{13} Red Action June/July 1998 p.5
{14} see Green Anarchist issue 40 February 1996 p.25 'A Bosnia of Consequence' for a detailed
refutation of 'A Bosnia of Trivia'. See also Here & Now issue 16/17 1996 & the response by me and others in Here &
Now issue 18 1997 p.42-44. That Here & Now granted right of reply is a big point in their favour--only spoiled by their
refusal to defend themselves or justify earlier lies.
{15} 'Special Bulletin' July 1997 p.2
{16} I say laughable because it was
a failed attempt to entrap Griffin into illegal activity, which degenerated into a shock-horror expose revealing astounding facts
like NF members are racist, and boosted Griffin's image as a serious contender for power within the far right. It even clearly
allowed him to articulate his racist message, unchallenged, at the end of the show. I'll return to this another time.
{17} see
'Orders to Kill' Carroll & Graf/New York 1995 p.343-44,375,430
{18} see Daily Telegraph 17/2/97 & The Guardian 6/4/98 respectively.
Other coverage of the matter is contained in The Observer 24/9/95 (Andrew Billen), Daily Telegraph 24/4/98 (David Sapsted) and The
Guardian 25/4/98 (Jonathan Steele). All three journalists deserve credit for covering this story.
{19} see Robin Ramsay 'Prawn
Cocktail Party: The Hidden Power Behind New Labour' Vision/London 1998
{20} Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall 'The Cointelpro Papers'
South End Press 1990
{21} Searchlight August 1997 p.3
{22} see details in my 'Searchlight For Beginners' (1996)
{23} his birth certificate
was in the name of that rather more well known practitioner of celluloid fiction Gerald Clarke Gable.
{24} Not as a victim some will
be sad to hear
{25} Watmough wasn't even in the area at the time
{27}Spearhead 351 May 1998 p.5. The relationship between C18 and the state I will look at next NFB
{28} Searchlight July 1997 p.10
{29}
As illustrated by the 'How Much Further' leaflet sourced back to PO Box 248 Bradford in 1995
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