On Saturday, several comrades and I decided to set up a stall in Wrexham town centre. The BNP had been in the town the previous Saturday, so our intention was to hit two birds with one stone - to combat the divisive and racist politics of the fascists, and to promote a trade union backed alternative to both the fascists and the capitalist establishment.

We set up stall in the appropriately named Hope Street, the busiest shopping street in this resolutely working class town, at ten am, and immediately passers-by began stopping for a chat. We began to leaflet with the help of two comrades, from PCS and Unite respectively. The response to No2EU was excellent; the response to Socialist Party, and particularly Campaign for a new Workers' Party, literature was ever better!

At midday the fascist BNP turned up and set their stall out directly opposite ours. However, their luck was out - the people of the town emphatically rejected the BNP's credo of race hate, and in fact this brought even more people over to our stall, angry at the fascist presence and determined to stop them. We must have got rid of four of five leaflets to every one they pawned off on naive passers-by, and numerous working people made their feelings towards the fascists quite obvious! In fact, a fellow comrade and I even stood either side of their stall distributing leaflets at a rapid pace, whilst they stood behind us ignored by almost everybody!

After several hours, with the fascist presence increasingly allowing the mask to slip and the streets emptying as everybody drifted off to watch the Cup final, we decided to head home - we had run out of almost all of our leaflets and literature, and we had brought lots!

A very successful day, in which we had not only got the message out loud and clear, but in which we had also witnessed the BNP receive a most unfavourable response from the people of Wrexham! We even had a couple of people express an interest in joining the Socialist Party. We also succeeded in annoying the fascists so much that they uploaded a video to youtube, in which Ennys Hughes, on the ticket for the BNP for the Europeans, and Bill Murray, the regional organiser, who were visibly shaken, made a number of ridiculous claims about both our conduct and our politics - a video they chose to remove shortly after, no doubt because not only did it libel them but also showed them for the angry bigots that they are!

An excellent day that highlighted to the socialists and anti-fascists present that not only do the majority of working people oppose racism, but that people are hungry for a genuinely socialist alternative. People are cynical, unsurprisingly, after two decades of neo-liberalism and the recent corruption of the capitalist politicians, and it is this cynicism we need to overcome, by communicating to workers that we are an anti-capitalist, inclusive, socialist party. One thing is certain however; the majority of working people on the streets of Wrexham reject fascism and reject the BNP, and want a New Workers' Party to represent them.