ANTI-Fascists are to launch a campaign today to defeat the British National Party in this year's European and local elections in the North-west.
Campaign group Unite Against Fascism were meeting at Manchester Town Hall with an array of speakers.
They included Coronation Street actor Julie Hesmondalgh, Gary Titley MEP, Manchester City Council leader Richard Leese, and Henry Guterman, a holocaust survivor. Gary Titley MEP, Labour group leader for the European Parliament, based in Radcliffe, said: "I very much welcome the launch of Unite Against Fascism in the North West.
"We must miss no opportunity to expose the BNP for what they are and show that they're message of intolerance and hatred has no place in the North-west."
BNP leader Nick Griffin has announced his intention of standing in the North-west for the European elections.
Julie Hesmondhlagh, who plays Hayley Cropper on ITV's soap Coronation Street said: "I believe that most right-minded people oppose the principles and policies of the racist BNP. This is a definite instance of people's votes counting."
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