November 30, 2011

Salem's Lot

Nick Griffin, chairman of the BNP is off to Sweden in December it seems and it isn’t for a spot of Christmas shopping.

Griffin has been invited to speak at the annual Salem march on December 10th held near the Swedish capital Stockholm. The event is held every year in commemoration of Daniel Wretström, a 17-year-old skinhead who was beaten and stabbed to death in December 2000. Over the years it has brought together a whole menagerie of racists and Nazis from across Scandinavia and the rest of Europe. This year is no exception.

Let’s take a look at some of the more interesting characters sharing a platform with the BNP chairman.

Dan Eriksson


Eriksson’s involvement in far right politics goes back a number of years. He first hit the headlines when he along with a mob of violent Nazis attacked the Stockholm Gay Pride march held in 2003.

Following this he moved over to the violent “Info14” network run by Robert Vesterlund, who was linked to the murder of the trade union activist Björn Söderberg in 1999. Eriksson, who is a regular speaker at the Salem march, peppers his speeches with anti Semitic sentiment, once describing Holocaust Memorial Day as “The date which, for several years now, has made the most disgusting of sewer rats crawl out of their filthy holes, kneel to the star of hate and lick the blood splattered feet of the new world order”.

He doesn’t just direct his poison towards Jews however, describing immigrants in Sweden as a “black-brown, spice-stinking slew that should be sent packing”. Not surprisingly Dan Eriksson once described Adolf Hitler and the Nazis as a “Breath of fresh air”.

Daniel Carlsen


Hardline Neo Nazi, Carlsen was until this year a leading member of the Danish National Socialist Movement (DNSB). He left in February of this year to form his own political party “The Danish Party”.

Carlsen appears to like having his photo taken with a swastika flag and once told Swedish Newspapers in 2008 that he saw Adolf Hitler as “a great man” and although there were Jews who died because there was war, “the systematic extermination in gas chambers, I do not believe” Carlsen also has a violent past, having been arrested on a number of occasions for assault and violent disorder.

Magnus Söderman


Söderman was until recently the deputy leader of the Neo Nazi Swedish Resistance Movement (SMR) and also attempted to launch a Swedish section of the US white supremacist movement “The Aryan Nations” which the FBI has labelled a terrorist threat.

A regular visitor to the Salem march, Söderman spoke in 2003 where he concluded his speech by leading the crowd in chants of “Sieg Heil”. Also in 2003 Söderman was one of the speakers at the annual Rudolf Hess rally in Wunsiedel,Germany.

Ken McLellan

Providing “entertainment” to the Salem rally is Ken McLellan, singer with the notorious Nazi rock band “Brutal Attack”. McLellan is known to have a violent temper and in 1999 gave a fellow Nazi and former Nick Griffin lap dog Adrian Woods, a horrific beating at a pub in the Derbyshire.

Woods was formerly the leader of the “Surrey Border Front” as well as having stints in the NF and the BNP. He moved to the East Midlands in 1999 to start a new life after falling out with Griffin’s followers, and after a fight with McLellan, suffered a broken jaw and several broken ribs and was reported to have been rushed to intensive care.

The violence took place following an argument where Woods mocked McLellan for singing nationalist songs when he had fathered two children with a black woman.

With thanks to our colleagues at EXPO in Stockholm.

Hope not Hate


20 comments:

NewsHound said...

BREAKING NEWS, HOPE NOT HATE: TIM ABLITT AND BRITISH FREEDOM PARTY: -
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/1499/tim-ablitt-and-british-freedom

Anonymous said...

Liam Pinkham has been spotted the nazi coward beating up Occupy Liverpool supporters including females in Liverpool City Centre, the cowardly Hitler-worshipping thug!

John P said...

Pinkham is a cowardly little prick who likes intimidating women.

Anonymous said...

He has Swastika tattoos on his dick, someone told me.

Pretty much sums him up, actually!

So he's now with the NWI. They are trying to out-nazi the EDL.

Antifascist said...

Searchlight-bashers (no matter how subtle they think they are) are not welcome here. If anyone wants to slag off Searchlight or any other anti-fascist group, they can fuck off and do it elsewhere. Zero tolerance from now on.

Marcus Janes said...

"If anyone wants to slag off Searchlight or any other anti-fascist group, they can fuck off and do it elsewhere."

Good for you. There have been a lot of anti Searchlight comments here lately. Good riddence to them.

Anonymous said...

Searchlight-bashers (no matter how subtle they think they are) are not welcome here.

Agree and Searchlight do a great job but there are some legimate concerns.

People have paid for subcriptions to a magazine that they are not receiving.

Anonymous said...

STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED
FELTHAM and HESTON Constituency by-election December 15th

http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/statement_persons_nominated_dec11.pdf

Anonymous said...

"Searchlight-bashers (no matter how subtle they think they are) are not welcome here. If anyone wants to slag off Searchlight or any other anti-fascist group, they can fuck off and do it elsewhere. Zero tolerance from now on."

I'm amazed it 's taken you so long but bravo anyway.

NewsHound said...

RACE RELATIONS IN MODERN BRITAIN REPORT: -

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nabeela-zahir/my-tram-experience-race_b_1119605.html

VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE EXPOSING NON-REPORTED RACISM SADLY PREVALENT IN SOCIETY

NewsHound said...

LONDON BNP IMMIGRANT CANDIDATE SAYS IMMIGRANTS WILL RUIN THE UK: -
http://liveraf.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/london-far-right-mayoral-candidate-thinks-immigrants-will-ruin-uk-and-hes-from-uruguay/

NewsHound said...

SALFORD BNP MAN WASTES BRITISH TAX PAYERS MONEY: -

http://edlnews.co.uk/edl-news/gary-tumulty-salford-bnp-wastes-40-80000-of-british-tax-payers-money-on-spurious-foi-costs

NewsHound said...

EDL LEADER AGREES WITH INSANE BREIVIK: -

http://edlnews.co.uk/edl-news/edl-leader-agrees-with-anders-breivik-but-psychiatrists-declare-breivik-insane

NewsHound said...

GARY TUMULTY AND THE FAKE BNP ASYLUM LETTER: -

http://edlnews.co.uk/edl-news/gary-tumulty-and-the-fake-bnp-asylum-letter

Anonymous said...

The BFP's manifesto on their website is long and winded if any anti-fascists gave bothered to read the fucker, however it's worth doing so to counter the party in local and general elections.

It actually talks of "repatriating dark skinned minorities who aren't deemed to be English enough".

"Fluffy fascism" my fucking arse!!!

Anonymous said...

Re Searchlight, surely, some explanation for the sudden exit of the previous editor is in order.

Like others, who have been around, you can clearly smell that something has gone on. I aint had my mag for November yet! To the nazis who read this, fuck off and die. You are losers and always will be. Re Searchlight, whats the story?

Searchlight Magazine said...

"Agree and Searchlight do a great job but there are some legimate concerns.

People have paid for subcriptions to a magazine that they are not receiving."

Apologies for the delays in producing recent issues of Searchlight, which are the result of recent staff changes. We are trying to get back to publishing the magazine near the beginning of the month. Meanwhile please rest assured that we are producing a magazine each month and every subscriber will get the 12 magazines they have paid for. Although the October and November issues have appeared late in the month, they contain up-to-date news up to the publication date. Most subscribers should have received the November issue today.

We are also redesigning our website so that we can post up-to-date news and comment and in due course expand it to include more information about far-right groups and other resources. We hope to launch the new website later this month.

B31 Antifascist said...

It actually talks of "repatriating dark skinned minorities who aren't deemed to be English enough".

Brett Anderson of the group Suede once said if you don't believe the BNP and their ilk are a fascist racist party, take time out to read their online policy statements, and every single word - and discover the truth for yourself.

The BFP sure are more representative of Seventies nazism in a Fifties Britain than the country in which they live in 2011. They, like the BNP are out of date!!

Antifascist said...

@ Searchlight Magazine

Thanks for the explanation - I'm sure readers will appreciate your coming on here to update the situation. More power to you. :-)

B31 Antifascist said...

Searchlight-bashers (no matter how subtle they think they are) are not welcome here. If anyone wants to slag off Searchlight or any other anti-fascist group, they can fuck off and do it elsewhere. Zero tolerance from now on.

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