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01 August 2002

El Ejido revisited. Equal Voices, issue 8, April 2002, pp.32. This issue returns to the scene of racist disturbances two years ago in southern Spain, where North Africans were attacked by mobs and many had their homes and shops burnt down. It finds a desolating picture in which no one has been charged, only one aid organisation has remained in the town, whose head suffers daily threats and believes that "People are behaving as though they have won a war", and Moroccans keep a low profile. Some compensation has been paid, and 40,000 residence permits issued in the area, but the housing problem has not been solved and plans to make farmers build living quarters on their land are criticised as establishing "bonded labour in a more sophisticated form". A special report on "Racism, Football and the Internet" looks at the websites of 455 prominent supporters groups from eight European countries (Germany, UK, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, France and Portugal). Thirty-two were found to have latent racist content, nine featured recurrent racism and nine more where categorised as having strong and well structured racist content. Four of these were in Italy (including Irriducili Lazio, Juventude Crociata Padova and Pro Patria), the only country where some websites had links to a neo-fascist political party (Forza Nuova), two in Switzerland (Koma Kolonne 88 and Commando Ultrá 88 Lugano), one in Spain (Mods e Skinheads Real Madrid), one in Austria (Rapid Club Wels) and one in Germany. Available from: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), Rahlgasse 3, A-1060 Vienna, Austria.
The Battle of Wood Green, David Renton, Keith Flett & Ian Birchall. Haringey Trades Union Council 2002, pp.20 (ISSN 0-9531179-4-X) £2.50. In April 1977 a 1,200 strong National Front march through Wood Green, north London, was confronted by 3,000 anti-facists. The ensuing clashes saw 81 people arrested, 74 of them anti-fascists. This pamphlet, with essays by Dave Renton, Keith Flett and Ian Burchill attampts to explain "what the National Front was, where it came from, and why so many people felt that it should be opposed."