A Selection of Memorable Events

St. James' Park Football Ground

With the help of local football fans we held regular pickets of National Front papersellers at St. James' Park football ground. NF paper-sellers have not returned since. TWAFA was the first group in the country to challenge the NF national campaign to recruit football supporters.

Gordon Stridiron

A local fascist working in the Post Office mail sorting office, was sacked following exposure in the local press for interfering with mail. In 1994, Stridiron was sacked from a job with Gateshead Council as a community worker that he was using to promote Nazi views amongst young people. TWAFA provided information that lead to his dismissal.

1990 - Anti-racist Anti-fascist Community Carnival held in Newcastle upon Tyne.

1991

For more than 2 years the British National Party, under the leadership of John Tyndall, stood candidates in local elections - Darlington, Sunderland and Silksworth, South Shields. TWAFA spearheaded the exposure of the BNP and their real agenda by organising leafleting in town centre shopping areas and on local estates.

1992

Exposure of three separate instances of British National Party's electoral malpractice.

1994 - Unity Carnival

Held in the West End of Newcastle upon Tyne the event attracted 10,000 people.

Publication of When Hate Comes To Town

1995

The organising of a successful programme of events to commemorate the liberation of the concentration camps and death camps, including exhibitions, films and a day-school.

1996

We witnessed the virtual extinction of BNP activity in the Tyne and Wear area after a period of intensive campaigning.

1998

Fifteenth Anniversary of Tyne and Wear Anti-Fascist Association. Celebrated with events and a party. Celebration of the birth of Paul Robeson with the screening of "The Proud Valley" at the Tyneside Cinema. 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht marked by a candle lit vigil in central Newcastle upon Tyne.

1999

Intensive victim support and the development of innovative anti-fascist anti-racist training with statutory authorities.

Autumn each year - Kristallnacht Remembrance