Racism & Fascism - new material (33)
01 May 2002
CARF. Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, no 67 (Summer) 2002, pp16.
This issue of the new-look CARF focuses on fundamentalism. An article by the Reverend Kenneth Leech examines "The Rise of Christian fundamentalism" while Arun Kundnani considers tensions in British Asian communities and how communalist groups utilise nationalist techniques of mobilisation derived from twentieth century Europe.
Europe shifts right, Graeme Atkinson. Searchlight no. 324 (June) 2002, pp.4-7.
The article examines the growth of fascist and anti-immigrant popularist parties, charting "the key organisations and their leaders."
Rostock - more questions than answers. European Race Audit, no. 41 (July/August 2002).
This article highlights the attempt by the public prosecutor to avert the trial of four neo-nazis in Rostock for their part in the racist pogrom that led to the burning down of a housing block inhabited by refugees and Vietnamese guest workers in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in August 1992. The trial did not start until November 2001, as the prosecution took three years to press charges and another six years to open the proceedings. The presiding judge Horst Heydorn explained the delay by claiming the court was "too busy" with "other pressing criminal proceedings". Proceedings against one of the accused was halted as the statutory period of limitation had been exceeded, and the trial against the remaining three has been marked by a down-playing of the racist motivations of the accused. There have also been difficulties in finding witnesses to shed light on the events, either due to fears of far-right recrimination or due to witnesses themselves being racist. Available from: Institute of Race Relations, 2-4 Leeke Street, London WC1X HS