A
fringe meeting with Ken Livingstone, Barry Camfield TGWU, Keith Sonnett UNISON,
Sue Bond PCS, Lee Jasper NAAR, Weyman Bennett and Sabby Dhalu UAF joint secretaries
took place at this year's TUC with a strong message for unity within the anti-fascist
movement. Speakers stressed the importance of the broad alliance necessary
for success in pushing the BNP back in areas where they have advanced, using
the startegies that worked in towns such as Oldham since 2001 and in Millwall
in the early 1990s. This alliance must include at its heart the trade unions,
African, Caribbean and Asian communities, all faith groups, lesbian and gay
communities and disability rights campaigners as well as all those who oppose
the division and hatred peddled by the BNP.