Civil liberties - new material (39)
01 June 2000
SchQuall: SchNEWS and SQUALL back to back - the best of UK independent media in the mix. Justice?, June 2000 (?7). ISBN 09529748 3 5. Fifty issues of SchNEWS (the weekly newssheet) and the best of Squall magazine with a detailed index. Covers direct action, civil liberties, anti-racism, public order and terrorism legislation. An excellent resource, available from SchNEWS, c/o On The Fiddle, PO BOX 2600, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 2DX, UK. Both groups also have websites http://www.schnews.co.uk and http://www.squall.co.uk
Strange Ways. Centre for Studies in Crime and Social Justice, Vol 3 no 2 (June) 2000, ppl2. The most recent issue of the newsletter contains pieces on "bogus" asylum seekers (Renton & Alexander); corporate manslaughter and the Paddington train crash (Louise Christian) and male violence (Helen Jones). CSCSJ website: www.ehche.ac.uk/study/schsubj/mass/csj/index.htm
Gruppo Abele Annuario Sociale 2000 (Social Yearbook 2000). Feltrinelli, May 2000, pp762 (L32,000, Euro 16.53). An essential reference book by Gruppo Abele, an organisation that works in the field of social deprivation in Italy. Divided into categories including AIDS, environment, youth, justice and prisons, Mafia and criminality, drugs, immigration, social deprivation, and world poverty, conflicts and rights. Each chapter starts with an analytical essay, a day-by-day account of events in the field during 1999, followed by explanatory tables on major developments and a wealth of statistical data. Available from Gruppo Abele, via Giolitti, 21, 10123 Torino, Italy or www.gruppoabele.it
Justice and the General: people vs Pinochet, Frances Webber. Race and Class vol 41 no 4 (April-June) 2000, pp43-57. Places the attempts to extradite Pinochet in the context of the movements demanding justice for the families of the deceased and
disappeared in Chile and, discusses the "fraud" of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Available from IRR, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS; Tel +44 (0)20 7837 0041
Anonymous witnesses, Ruth Costigan and Phil Thomas, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (2000), Summer, forthcoming. The article deals with the police use of anonymous witnesses which "has its roots in an exceptional trial in Northern Ireland but which has progressed swiftly through the process of normalisation so that it now affects routine prosecutions throughout the UK."
MITTEILUNGEN der Humanistischen Union e. V. - Zeitschrift fur Aufklarung und Burgerrechte no 170, June 2000, pp55. This newsletter introduces a new regular feature which reports on European Union developments. Also includes a statement on the planned EU Charter on Fundamental Rights drafted by a network of German human rights and civil liberties' organisations. It was presented to the EU Committee of the German parliament on s April. Available from Humanistische Union e.V Tel 0049-30-204502-56; Fax 0049-30-204502-57; hu@ipn-b.de,
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