Racism and fascism - new material (7)
01 March 1998
Electoral politics and the far right. CARF No 43 (April/May) 1998, pp9-11. This article looks at the changing political landscape of western Europe and observes that the far right is eating into the Conservative vote and the Conservatives are running scared and prepared to do deals with the likes of the French Front National's Le Pen.
The Powell effect. CARF No 43 (April/May) 1998, pp6-7. Examination of the career of Enoch Powell, the Conservative and Unionist MP, who made racism "respectable" when he unleashed his "rivers of blood" speech. With his recent death politicians and most of the media ignored the racist bigot to pay tribute to "a sincere man".
Ethnicity and Victimisation: findings from the 1996 British Crime Survey, Andrew Pacey. Statistical Bulletin (Home Office) Issue 6/98 (April) 1998, pp42. The findings in this report cover the areas of "Crime, victimisation and ethnicity", "Racially motivated crime", "Racial harassment" and "Fear of crime".
Police kept neo-nazi on payroll, Henry MacDonald. Observer 5.4.98. This piece, based on a World in Action documentary, recounts the demise of Charlie Sargent and Combat 18. Particularly interesting on the loyalist connection.
No port in a storm, Claude Cahn, Michael Foley and Jeremy Hardy. Index on Censorship Issue 1, 1998 pp40-51. These three articles cover the flight of victimised Roma from Slovakia and the Czech republic to Dover and consider the role of the media. Hardy concludes: "...the British government has used the media here and in the Czech and Slovak Republics, to tell Gypsies that it's no good fleeing poverty, unemployment, homelessness, discrimination and violence there, because they will face more of the same here."
Antifaschistisches Infoblatt no 43, 1998. Special issue on the rise of the Nationaldemokrtaische Partei Deutschlands (NPD), the role of its youth organisation Junge Nationaldemokraten, and its strong links to the nazi-scene.
Der Schatten von Blucher (The shadow of Blucher), Antifaschistisches Infoblatt No.43, 1998, pp52-53. Detailed article on the war between Combat 18 and the Swedish Nordland Movement over the control of the nazi rock music market.
Parliamentary debates
Irish people in Britain Commons 4.3.98. cols. 1016-1024