Hope Not hate - part 2

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"Blogger" is being very temperamental with regard to pictures lately. Early attempts to post a picture of this T-shirt converted it to blue (It is also available in blue. Was Blogger giving me fashion advice?), and the previous post about the Hope not Hate campaign refused to accept the picture at all.

Anyway, You can buy it from Philosophy Football here, and a proportion of the profits go to Searchlights campaign against the BNP in the May elections

Hope not Hate

It seems that the BNP are running a record number of candidates in the May elections, with full slates in several local authority areas. The key battle ground will be West Yorkshire, where the BNP will stand in every ward across five councils, and the West Midlands, where the BNP are making a big push in Dudley, Stoke and Sandwell.

The BNP are also standing slates for the Scottish and Welsh regional parliaments, but their weakness in these countries is exposed by the fact they have had to run English candidates to make up the lists, including Staffordshire based West Midlands organiser, Simon Darby, who is standing in Wales. The party even put out an appeal for English people with Scottish sounding names to put themselves forward!

Searchlight’s campaign has got off to a swinging start with an 8 page pull out in the daily Mirror, and a “Hope not Hate” battlebus, touring the country. To find out more about the campaign against the BNP visit http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/

Searchlight continues to provide invaluable intelligence led information against the fascists. For example this month’s issue exposes how Councillor Chris Beverley, the BNP’s only councillor in Leeds and Yorkshire organiser, just attended a fascist conference in Germany, and Sandwell councillor, Ricky Lloyd, has had his pub closed down after refusing to cooperate with the police over shooting incidents and a machete attack in his pub.

As a way of boosting the campaign, and sending a clear message against the facists, why not but a Hope not Hate T-shirt? Available from www.philosophyfootball.com

HOPE NOT HATE 2007 - Brighten up neighbourhoods blighted by the BNP with this beacon of unity. And on the sleeve proudly wear your principles of 'Hope not Hate'.

SPECIAL LOW PRICE - JUST £12.99 with profits helping to fund Searchlight local campaigns against the fascists.

Shirt available in yellow or sky blue, sizes small (36inch chest/90cms), medium (40inch/100cms), large (44 inch/110cms), X-large (48 inch/120cms) and XX-large (52inch/130cms).

Commemorate those who fought fascism.

Philosophy Football have just produced this excellent T-shirt to commemorate the comrades of the British battalion of the International brigade.

Seventy years ago this week the British battalion fought in their first battle at Jarama. Volunteers from the British Isles totalled 2,300, of whom 525 died in Spain.

The 16th British Battalion was formed in December 1936 from new arrivals plus veterans of the battle for Madrid. It comprised volunteers from Britain, Ireland and from various Commonwealth countries and beyond.


The battalion was formally integrated into the Spanish Republican Army in January 1937 as part of the 15th International Brigade, itself part of the 35th Division. Initially it was named the Saklatvala battalion, after the Indian Communist MP for Battersea, but the name never caught on and it was known in Spain as ‘el batallón ingles’. From November 1937, following a reorganisation of the Republican Army the British Battalion became the 57th Battalion. It was withdrawn in October 1938.

The anniversary T-shirt features a superb reproduction of the British Battalion's original banner, the slogan reads 'Freedom, Democracy, Peace' with battle honours listed including Jarama, Brunete and Ebro.