Subject: M-G: The Internet Anti-Fascist: #45, Wednesday, 10 December 1997
From: tallpaul-AT-nyct.net
Date: 12 Dec 1997 19:30:03


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The Internet Anti-Fascist: #45, Wednesday, 10 December 1997
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                     ANTI-FASCIST ACTION ALERT #5
               Wooden Shoe Books threatened by skinheads

Hello - I'm writing this on the road but just got news that Wooden
Shoe, Philadelphia's radical bookstore, has been threatened by
skinheads. On Sunday night/Monday morning, someone wheatpasted fliers
reading "Death to Mumia" and white supremacist propaganda to our
windows.  A few days before this, the store received an anonymous phone
call threatening to burn our "commie, nigger-loving store" down.  The
Shoe is located near South Street, where there have been occasional
incidents of Nazi skins attacking people.

The white supremacist literature originated from the David Duke-style
openly racist organization called the National Alliance.  The "Death to
Mumia" flier had a Minneapolis contact address for the "Death to Mumia
Coalition."

The Shoe displays prominently in our windows announcements for the
upcoming Peoples' Tribunal on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a
variety of announcements for other political actions in the city.  We
also display radical books, the variety of which are generally despised
by neo-nazi-types.

It seems to a number of Shoe collective members that we're not dealing
with an organized effort here, probably just a small group of
amateurish boneheads.  Nonetheless, we don't want to be entirely
dismissive of the threats, especially since we're just re-opening after
an unsuspicious fire that destroyed our store last February.
We would appreciate advice from folks who have dealt with this kind of
harassment before.  Also any information on the groups I've mentioned
above would be appreciated (size, history of violence, organizational
attachments, addresses, etc.) ...

Please respond directly to my address - I've cc-d this message to a
number of lists.

   --In solidarity,
     Alexis Buss <alexis-AT-netaxs.com>

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                         WHAT'S WORTH CHECKING

no author [International Confederation of Free Trade Unions],"Child
Labour On The Increase In Europe, Says World Union Body, 'Unacceptable
exploitation of children is occurring in virtually all European Union
countries'," ICFTU OnLine 25 Nov 97, at:
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story022.txt>

"Religion and Culture of the Roma (Also Known as Gypsies, Rom, Rroma,
Romani)," via:
<http://www.religioustolerance.org/roma.htm>

no author [CNews], "Charges laid in demonstration against Gypsies
[sic]: 'Eight people were charged Tuesday with promotion of hatred over
a demonstration against Gypsy refugee claimants last August'." 9 Dec
97, at:
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story023.txt>

Sonny Inbaraj, "[East Timorese] Women Covertly Sterilised, Says
Report," Inter Press Service, 9 Dec 97, at:
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story024.txt>

"Christian Reconstruction, Dominion Theology, and Theonomy: 'Christian
Reconstructionism is a belief that society, particularly in the United
States, has seriously degenerated morally and religiously and must be
totally rebuilt to Biblical standards'." If you are a bit weak on the
potential of clerical fascism check this site, via:
<http://www.religioustolerance.org/reconstr.htm>

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             ANTI-FASCIST DOCUMENTS ON LINE AS TEXT FILES

Recent issues of TINAF have been strong on current events but weak on
other areas. My own interests focus on the ideological character of
fascism; to be strong in one area is to relatively ignore others.

To combat this I have assembled a series of anti-fascist analyses that
cover additional areas of research and thought. I have selected them
>from a variety of locations on the anti-fascist spectrum and because
they reflect some controversy.

"Buchanan & Fascism: A Serious Look" is a selection from the book _Eyes
Right!: Challenging  the Right-Wing Backlash_ edited by Chip Berlet and
published by Boston's South End Press in 1995. The article was written
by Berlet and Margaret Quigley; at:
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/docs/anti-fa/afdoc001.txt>

Jean Barrot's "Fascism/Antifascism" is one of the more comprehensive
works on the topic that reflect the views of the "left-communists." It
is from the book Barrot edited titled _"Bilan" - contre-rivolution en
Espagne_ originally published by Pirate Press and distributed on PC
disk by Wildcat; at:
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/docs/anti-fa/afdoc002.txt>

Bibliographical material for the book _Ecofascism: Lessons from the
German Experience_ by Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier is stored at:
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/docs/anti-fa/afdoc003.txt>

The booklet was originally published in 1995 by AK Press and was
downloaded in .html format from the Spunk Press web page.

Janet Biehl's essay "'Ecology' and the Modernization of Fascism in the
German Ultra-right", tracing the development and presence of eco-
fascist forces today is at:
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/docs/anti-fa/afdoc004.txt>

Peter Staudenmaier's essay from the book--"Fascist Ecology: The 'Green
Wing' of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents"--is stored at:
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/docs/anti-fa/afdoc005.txt>

I selected the essays for their controversial character. But readers
who think that Biehl and Staudenmaier are totally off-the-wall should
consult "We Are -- Or Should Be -- the Real Greens" by then-openly
cybernazi leader Milton Kleim at:
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/docs/fascist/FD002.TXT>

In my web-search for "Eco" and "Fascism" I serendipitously discovered
Umberto Eco's theses on "Ur-Fascism" in "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen ways
of looking at a blackshirt," published in the "NY Review of Books" in
1995 and reprinted in abbreviated form by "Utne Reader." It is at:
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/docs/anti-fa/afdoc006.txt>

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      Fascism: We have no ethical right to forgive,
               no historical right to forget.

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