Racism & Fascism - new material (18)
01 May 1998
Racial inequalities in the North, Deepa Mann-Kler and Hidden racism in the post-colonial society Patrick Yu. Fortnight No 370 (May) 1998, pp21-24. These articles summarise the results of a research project and report on the experiences of women and young people from the Chinese, Indian, Pakistani and Traveller communities in Northern Ireland.
European Race Audit. Institute of Race Relations Bulletin 27 (May) 1998. Compilation of news and information from around Europe; covers events around racism and fascism, asylum and immigration, citizenship and minority rights, police and military.
New alliances on the right, Mr Lucas. Animal Issue 3 1998. The Countryside Alliance and links with the fascist British National Party.
A torpedo aimed at the boiler-room of consensus, Stuart Hall. New Statesman 17.4.98., pp14-19. This piece looks back thirty years to racist politician Enoch Powell's infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech and considers how many academics, journalists and politicians found excuses to defend him following his recent death.
Racism goes global. CARF no 44 (June/July) 1998, pp2-4. Looks at globalisation ("the relentless drive towards the integration of markets on a global scale [which] is shaping every government decision - from the dismantling of the welfare state to the privatisation of prisons, from the introduction of restrictive immigration and asylum laws to new codes on human rights") and why anti-racists must align themselves with the fight against globalisation.
An unbiased watch? The police and fascist/anti-fascist street conflict in Britain 1945-1951, Dave Renton. Lobster (Ramsay) Issue 35 (Summer) 1998, pp12-19. This interesting article considers three interpretations of policing following the "marked revival of fascism" between 1945-1951. The first view "is...that the police acted as a constraint against fascism"; the second interpretation holds the opposite view "that the police were a hinderance to anti-fascists, acting always on the side of the fascists"; the third view asserts that "the police acted as neutrals". Renton uses interviews and statistics to reach his conclusion that: "...the police had a function: to protect property, and to obstruct anyone that threatened it. The police saw the anti-fascists, connected them to the political left, and believed they were the greater threat. The police saw the fascists, with their stress on law, order and discipline, and believed that the fascists were on their side."