Catalogue description Right wing politics: National Front

File of loose cuttings from national newspapers, including 'Caribbean Times'; 'The Guardian'; 'The Voice'; 'The Sun';

The subject matter of articles includes: several reports about solidarity march in Thamesmead, south-east London, against the British National Party (BNP), 1991; civil servants stage a walk-out in protest at a decision to allow the National Front to register as a limited company, 1990; Commission for Racial Equality and the Coventry Council for Community Relations want the National Front to be prosecuted for trying to stir up racial hatred, 1990; National Front activists focus on members of Neighbourhood Watch schemes in the West Midlands to recruit and spread propaganda, 1989; ultra right-wing parties from several European countries, including Britain, are to meet at a 'Euroring Congress' in Kortrijk, near Lille, 1988; newspaper photograph of skinheads at National Front march in London, 1988; French Radical Party expels member who made a local alliance with the French National Front, 1987; report on different factions within the National Front, 1988; former National Front organiser gaoled for his part in a conspiracy that involved sending hoax bombs to newspapers, 1987; community workers in Derby claim that National Front were behind attacks on African Caribbean club that sparked off street violence, 1987; rate-payers in the West Midlands will have to pay for the policing of a National Front march, 1987; National Front indicates determination to continue its series of general election meetings despite a riot in Southall which resulted in the death of a member of the Anti-Nazi League, 1979; Bradford's black community facing continuous attacks by National Front members, according to the local pressure group Campaign Against Racist Attacks, 1986; National Front leaders deny trying to incite racial hatred through the pages of the movement's magazine, 'Bulldog', 1985; National Front succeeds in holding its annual general meeting at the National Liberal Club by using false names and a bogus company, 1985; company with links to extreme right-wing organisations, Skinhead Productions, offers skinheads for hire to carry out various services, 1985; several reports on the boycott of lectures and premises by students at the Polytechnic of North London who object to the presence of a National Front organiser at the institution, 1985; Martin Webster, national activities organiser of the National Front, found guilty on two charges of inciting racial hatred with articles in the National Front News, 1982; investigative report on election meetings held by the National Front, 1979; dispute between Conservative MPs Keith Joseph and Nigel Lawson and Conservative candidate Thomas Finnegan over his previous membership of the National Front, 1983; threatened confrontation over Scotland Yard's unprecedented invocation of the Public Order Act to ban an anti-Nazi march past the National Front's headquarters is averted largely due to a heavy police presence, 1979; councillers of the London borough of Southwark who refused to allow National Front candidate Martin Webster to use a council hall in defiance of a High Court order are found to have committed a 'monstrous contempt' by the judge, 1982; French National Front wins support in municipal by-election, 1983; report on evidence to suggest that the Conservative Party includes members with extreme right-wing sympathies, 1983; National Front given legal help by the Natilna Council for Civil Liberties, 1984; Jean Marie Le Pen, leader of the French National Front, to join National Front march through Maidstone on Bastille Day, 1984; Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, adopts conciliatory tone at the 10th anniversary of the Helsinki Declaration, calling for joint efforts to improve the political climate in Europe, 1986; Labour MP David Winnick calls for inquiry into allegations that the address of a leading anti-fascist journalist and campaigner was leaked by the security services to the National Front, 1990; Hull Council for Racial Equality expresses outrage that the 'Hull Daily Mail' allowed a National Front recruitment advertisement to appear in its pages, 1989.
The file also includes a small amount of literature produced by racist and fascist groups, including photocopy of a leaflet against immigration issued by extreme right-wing organisation 'Choice'; photocopy of publication by the National Front in Ulster, entitled 'British Ulsterman', undated.

Part of this file has been closed under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1988 until 2059 because it contains sensitive information about the political views of individuals. The remainder of the file is available for consultation.