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[quote="Anonymous"][size=18][b]United Against Fascism – Greek march[/b][/size]
[img]http://www.eugreeka.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/BNQhV.jpg[/img] Saturday, 19 January 2013; 12:00pm.

Unite Against Fascism (UAF), Britain’s leading campaign against the far right and racism, is throwing its weight behind an international call for action against the threat of fascism, following a serSaious attack on an MP of the official opposition party, Syriza, on Sunday 16 January.

There will be a national rally against fascism on 19 January in Athens. UAF is supporting that and sending a delegation, as well as organising a protest at the Greek embassy in London as part of the international solidarity action on the same day.

Dimitris Stratoulis MP was assaulted by three members of the fascist Golden Dawn party when he attended a football match in Athens on Sunday. The attack follows daily physical assaults on immigrants, minorities and oppositional voices by the Golden Dawn party, which entered the Greek parliament this year and is now third in the opinion polls.

Golden Dawn does not hide its fascist regalia nor its affinity to the party created by Hitler. Its symbol is crafted to resemble a swastika; its members parade in blackshirts and it is openly anti-Semitic as well as Islamophobic, racist and contemptuous of democracy.

“This attack on an MP of the main left opposition party should sound alarm bells,” says Weyman Bennett, joint secretary of UAF. “There is a rising threat from the far right and of racism across Europe, but nowhere more so than Greece. UAF stands in full solidarity with all the victims of the fascist Golden Dawn in Greece and we are supporting the gathering international campaign to halt and reverse its rise.

“We are mindful of the threat of fascism, xenophobia and racism in Britain too. That’s why in acting on 19 January in solidarity with the growing anti-fascist movement in Greece we will also be drawing together a range of communities and civil society organisations to counter real, though as yet thankfully less developed, threat here. It will signal the start of a massive campaign to get the BNP and far right out of the European parliament at the elections in 2014 and to prevent racism and xenophobia polluting politics here.

Fellow joint secretary Sabby Dhalu adds, “UAF had already been contacted by a broad umbrella of immigrant and anti-fascist groups to support the call for action on 19 January. Now this attack underlines our determination to do just that.

“We are circulating a statement which we will have published in the new year highlighting the threat. There is already a very positive response from a range of trade unions, BME and immigrant organisation, MPs and prominent cultural and intellectual figures.

“The threat of fascism in Greece is serious. We will do all we can to stand with the majority of people in Greece and in Europe who are recoiling in horror at this resurgence of racist hate.”

The movement for 19 January in Greece is cross party and very broad. There has already been a silent demonstration on 15 December which had support from the main centre-left and left parties, including the equivalent of the Labour Party in Britain.

The President of Greece has felt obliged to remove a Golden Dawn MP from a delegation to the Council of Europe, which is meant to safeguard human and civil rights across the continent.

UAF looks forwards to strengthening links with all those fighting fascism in Greece and across Europe.

For further information contact Kevin Ovenden 07449976819
Assemble Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park, to march to the Greek Embassy in London[/quote]

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