Racism & fascism - new material (16)
01 December 1998
Fighting Talk Issue 18 (December) 1997 pp24. The latest issue of Anti Fascist Action's journal contains reports on countering the NF in Dover a report back on an international conference in London at which an "International Network of Militant Anti- Fascists" was set-up and a piece on the demise of the BNP on the streets and their electoral ambitions.
No safety for the Roma. CARF No. 41 December 1997-January 1998, pp4-6. CARF asks: "How is it possible just 50 years after the Holocaust to revile the Gypsies of Europe?"
The case of Stephen Lawrence Brian Cathcart. Granta 59 (Autumn) 1997 pp145-186. This piece examines the events that followed the unresolved racist murder of Stephen Lawrence who was stabbed to death in April 1993.
Memoirs of a street-fighting man Nick Ryan. Independent on Sunday 1.2.98, pp4-8. Interviews with C18 leader Charlie Sargent prior to his imprisonment for murder. Unfortunately they perpetuate the myth that C18 controlled the streets of London when in fact they proved incapable of mounting anything other than the most secret operations due to anti-fascist vigilance.
War of the nazis Mark Honigsbaum. Observer review 25.1.98., pp3-4. Article on the jailing of C18 leaders Charlie Sargent and Martin Cross.