Racism and Fascism - new material (10)
01 October 2008
Struggles for Black Community, Colin Prescod. Institute of Race Relations 2008. This DVD is made up of four seminal films set in different locations of the UK – Cardiff, Southall, Ladbroke Grove and Leicester – each of which portrays a particular black community in historical struggle. “Tiger Bay is my Home” shows that in nineteenth century Cardiff, as in other ports, black communities began with colonial seamen. The film documents the official and everyday physical harassment faced by the black community which culminated in the race riots in 1919 through to the Butetown community in the 1930s. The second film “A Town under Siege” documents how Southall mobilised to resist organised racist attacks between 1976 and 1981, starting with the community organisations of the 1950s created to combat workplace racism. Extracts from “You Were Black You Were Out” describe the grassroots resistance to white racist mob attacks in 1958 in Ladbroke Grove, and the emergence of a number of Black Power organisations. The final film focuses on the Imperial Typewrites industrial dispute in Leicester, where black workers faced opposition not only from the bosses but also from some trades unions also. The DVD is available from the Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London for £13.
Growing Terror, Det. Sgt Andrew Stainforth. Police Review 13.1.09, pp. 28-29. This is a rare article that deals with right-wing terrorism in the UK, based on January’s arrest of Nazi activist and bomb-maker, Nathan Luke Worrell.
Putin’s worst Nightmare, Luke Harding. Observer Magazine 8.2.09, pp. 32-40. Overview of Russia’s far-right which examines some of the 350 murders for which it is responsible since 2004.
The BNP Insecurity Team, Simon Cressy. Searchlight No. 400 (October) 2008, pp. 10-11. This article takes a look at Nick Griffin’s “private army”, the BNP’s security team.
Discrimination claims against the police: procedure and remedies, Heather Williams. Legal Action December 2008, pp. 46-49. This is the second part of two articles on discrimination claims against the police (see Statewatch Vol. 18 no. 3) and it focuses on the remedies available and the procedural issues that arise.
Women and the Spanish Civil War. Searchlight Extra, October 2008, pp12. This supplement pays tribute to the women who defended the Republic, fighting against Franco’s Spanish fascism, tyranny and war. It has an extended essay on this, a piece on the role of women in the British anti-fascist movement today and extracts from a forthcoming book of eyewitness accounts and poems from the front line of the Spanish civil war. It also has a piece on fascist women and Franco’s “medieval attitude” towards them.