Racism & Fascism - new material (19)
01 September 1998
Lawrence inquiry: Keeping up the pressure. CARF 45 (August-September) 1998, pp2-5. Interview with the Lawrence family solicitor, Imran Khan, and Suresh Grover, coordinator of the family campaign, after the close of the first phase of the Macpherson inquiry into the racist murder of black student Stephen Lawrence.
Tackling race hate crime needs better training, Police Federation. Police August 1998, pp6-9. This is the Police Federation's evidence to the Lawrence Inquiry. It argues that while "the police service has made progress with regard to responding to racial incidents in the past few years" there should be "a review of training provision to improve multi-cultural awareness" and a review of training "to deal with the aftermath of racial incidents".
Skinhead violence targeting Roma in Yugoslavia, Serguei Chabanov. Roma Rights Spring 1998, pp25-34. Comprehensive account of racist attacks on the Roma and the inadequate reaction to them by the police and judiciary.
The London Monitor. The Monitoring Group Issue 1 (Spring) 1998, pp4. This is the first timely issue of the quarterly newsletter of the (Southall) Monitoring Group, which grew out of protests against the National Front during the 1970s. It contains thoughtful pieces on the racial harassment of the Paul family, an interview with Suresh Grover and Imran Khan of the Stephen Lawrence campaign, an update on the Ricky Reel campaign and a piece on Hit Racism for Six, the campaign against racism in cricket. Available from TMG, 14 Featherstone Road, Southall, Middlesex UB2 5AA.
The battle for Chapel Market. Fighting Talk Issue 19 (April) 1998. This article records the clashes between National Front fascists and militant anti-fascists for control of Chapel Street market, Islington, north London, between 1976-1981. After five years of struggle the NF were finally run-out of the market after a decisive clash in August 1982, although they continued to drink in the area until their pub was closed down in 1984.
Gypsies: life on the edge. Index on Censorship Vol. 27, no 4 (July/August) 1998. This issue features a number of pieces on the Roma emphasising "a new generation of Rom intellectuals and activists in Europe [who] are forming organisations, demanding recognition and cultural autonomy, setting up broadcasts on radio and TV, establishing museums of Gypsy life."
Proposals for legislative measures to combat racism and to promote equal rights in the European Union, Isobelle Chopin & Jan Niessen (eds). Commission for Racial Equality 1998, pp52. Contains chapters on: "The Treaty of Amsterdam and its clauses on immigration, asylum and anti-discrimination"; "The need for a community directive on racial and religious discrimination"; "Third country nationals: the need for a community directive" and "Voting rights for Third Country Nationals".
Eliminating racism from football: a report submitted by the Football Task Force submitted to the minister for Sport on Monday 30 March 1998. Football Task Force 1998, pp53, ?10.
Out of the shadows: an action research report into families, racism and exclusion in Northern Ireland, Deepa Mann-Kler. Barnardo's et al, 1997, pp95.
Report on the provision of a facilitation for focus groups of ethnic minority staff in the Home Office (non-prisons). Final version. Home Office & MaST Consultancy Services (March) 1998, pp28.
In the ghetto, Linda Grant. Guardian Weekend 25.7.98., pp17-22. Article on the plight of the Roma in the Czech Republic - "stripped of citizenship, thrown out of work by the new capitalist bosses, unable to get jobs in a society deeply prejudiced against people with dark skin, denied benefits, made the principal target of racist attacks by skinheads and the parties of the far right, and victims of a conspiracy of silence about their own history."
Safe haven, Gerry Gable. Guardian 4.8.98., pp6-7. As successive governments have imposed increasingly impossible criteria for the admittance of refugees and as