Racism & fascism - new material (25)
01 January 2000
Race crime revisited, Sean Howe. Police Review 7.1.99., pp19-21. This article covers the decision to reinvestigate 380 "racial and homophobic incidents" by Merseyside police following recommendations by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and the Macpherson report into the racist murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence.
Demos No 59 (Winter) 1999, pp3-15. This issue includes a round-up of nazi groups and their personnel in Sweden, Blood and Honour in Norway and the "Echelon" system in Denmark. Available from Demos, Postbox 1110, 1009 Kobenhavn K, Denmark; email demos@demos.dk
Race investigations: the families' perspective. CARF No 54 (February/March) 2000, pp2-5. A year on from the Macpherson report into the racist killing of Stephen Lawrence, CARF reassesses the policing of racist violence. It contains a table of known/suspected racist murders since 1997.
Das Blood & Honour Netzwerk - Entstehung, Entwicklung und Bedeutung des Nazi-Skin-Netzwerkes, [Blood & Honour - the formation, development and significance of the nazi-skin network]. Antifaschistiches Infoblatt, no 49/99, pp22-28. Taking as its starting point Ian Stuart's observation that "Music is the ideal tool to bring youths closer to national-socialism" this article examines the Blood & Honour scene in Germany. It concludes that, "important as the recent development of Blood & Honour in Germany seems to be, it would be rash to talk of a success story. Behind the legendary stories there is...greed, arrogance and self-interest and the consequent quarrels, especially about the distribution of profits." Order from AIB, Gneisenaustr.2a, 10961 Berlin, Fax: 0049(0)30-694-6795, e-mail: aib@mail.nadir.org.
Anti-racism: an Irish perspective, M Tannam, S Smith & S Flood, December 1998, pp64, ISBN 0-9534561-0-2, IR?5. "It is only by naming racism as a potential problem that conscious preventative measures can be taken and that monitoring and responsive systems can be put in place. Otherwise, anti-racism is left to chance...". The authors give practical guidelines for anti-racist activists in Ireland today. From Harmony, c/o 41 Morehampton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, Ireland, Tel: 00353(0)1-492-5567 or 00353(0)1-843-3141, e-mail: tannam@indigo.ie or suzannes@indigo.ie
The Irish are friendly, but...- a report on racism and international students in Ireland, G Boucher, 1998, pp199, ISBN 0-9523498-6-8. This research paper was commissioned by the Irish Council for International Students and takes a comparative look at racism in Ireland and Europe and concludes that "the recent Irish combination of economic boom, increasing immigration and rise in racism were far from unique, but seemed to follow a similar pattern to events occurring forty years earlier in other EU countries". The report includes the results and analysis of 48 interviews conducted with international students from three Irish universities in 1997 and their experiences with racist discrimination in Irish society. The report can be ordered from the Irish Council for International Students, 41 Morehampton Road, Dublin 4, Ireland, Tel: 00353(0)1-6605233, e:mail: office@icosirl.iol.ie.
Act against racism: conference report. Commission for Racial Equality, December 1999, pp10. This report covers a conference held in November 1999 which debated the Race Relations (Amendment) Bill, the government's response to the Stephen Lawrence inquiry report. The bill, which is described as "disappointing", extends the direct discrimination provisions of the Race Relations Act to public bodies, but excludes "indirect discrimination which may leave institutional racism immune from legal challenge."
Straw in the wind, Michael Mansfield QC. National Civil Rights Movement, 22.1.00, pp10. This is the text of a speech given by Mansfield at the first conference of the NCRM. It traces the beginnings of the Movement and considers the impressive activities of its first year in relation "to the state of civil liberties in t