Editorial
Contents
Gladio — the 'Stay
Behind' conspiracy
A lifetime of black
struggle — Bernie
Grant, MP, speaks to
Searchlight
Round-up on racism
The state of the right 11-13
Fascists on the loose
Nazi publisher guilty
of fraud
Anger grows over
DPP inaction
What their papers say
The fascists' Iraqi
connections
Anger over police
attack on anti-nazis
Whispers
Searchlight on the
world: Fascists
consolidate in
Western Europe; The
re-emergence of
nationalism and hate;
Special report from
Norway; State of the
Union 18-23
Reviews
Searchlight in action
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2 Searchlight, January 1991
Battles to be won
3-6
Looking back on the first year of the last decade of the twentieth century shows what a
burden is placed on all who wish to resist racism and fascism. In the last couple of ye
have suffered a serious loss of ground. The reunification of Germany is becoming b
economic concern and an even greater political worry as the months pass,*with G
neo-nazi membership at a post-war peak of around 70,000. In France Le Pen's si
7 shows no real sign of declining and, as you will read in our annual round-up, the far i
on the move, from Norway to South Africa to the United States and Canada. In the
8-10 Union and its former satellites in the East racial and religious strife has surfaced in
dangerous forms.
Whilst Searchlight has always supported and will continue to support "street
activity against the racists and fascists, it is interesting to note that in Britain some
14 are now being won against institutional racism by using existing legal remedies
victories in racial discrimination cases against the police, army and businesses. In 01
this justifies the broad approach policy we have stood for over the years, as '
15 supporting what black MP Bernie Grant has said to Searchlight in this issue
magazine.
Of course even the police and the Home Office accept that there is little or no k
15 racial violence at street level and this must be combated in the most vigorous way. 1
struggle needs to be waged not only by fringe groups who represent little but themsel
16 are noisy but ineffectual in most cases. The need is clearly, more than ever before,
broadest opposition against the twin evils of racism and fascism. Victories on a sn
significant scale do take place, for example in the North East where the anti
17 movement is based on extra-parliamentary opposition as well as on the labour mo
and the churches. In Scotland reaction to racist and fascist violence is growing aga
a broad base in the labour movement, and in places like Dundee Moslems an
17 are working together against common enemies. With the racists attacking both syn;
and mosques, it is to be hoped that these two communities will co-operate on ;
17 scale.
As we await the 15 January deadline in the Gulf, with threats from Saddam Hussei
extremist forces worldwide if war comes to that region, readers should be aware th
last autumn the regime in Baghdad has been meeting with neo-nazis to plan "actions
breaks out. Third Way activists have been in Baghdad recently and US, Canad
French nazis, including Le Pen himself, have been travelling a lot in the Middle Eas
in the last couple of months. We hope that Moslems are not going to be taken for a
Sadam Hussein, whose allegiance to Islam is only intended for the purpose of giv
cannon fodder for a worldwide terror campaign if war comes. They should be aw
they would be lining up alongside neo-nazi activists who have a long and bloody tracl
of killing Moslems across Europe.
From Argentina comes the horrendous news that the president is freeing
criminals who murdered over 10,000 of their fellow citizens during the years of the
24 regime there. But in Greece a decision by the conservative government to free the
who destroyed Greek democracy in the 1960s and killed and tortured countless pe
24 quickly reversed after large scale public protest right across the political sj
including members of the conservative government. Every victory, no matter ho
should encourage us for the crucial year ahead.
Over the last few weeks an international
team of Searchlight investigators has
been working hard to build up an
accurate picture of the significance of
the revelations in Italy late last year of
illicit operations by an organisation
given the code name Gladio. This was
the Italian section of a top secret NATO
organisation that had its roots in the
very earliest days of the cold war at the
end of the second world war, even
before NATO was created.
Clearly, while there existed a threat to
the west, the people given the task of
looking after our defence were entitled to
look at all options, including a partisan or
'Stay Behind' policy. We do not question
this. Our difference in opinion is over their
choice of former and present nazis for the
task and their decision to undermine
democratic institutions in their own
countries.
In Britain, for example, Operation
Clockwork Orange, of which details have
been revealed in the press in the last two
years, was not confined to Ulster but was
aimed at both moderate Conservative and
Labour governments on the mainland.
Regular Searchlight readers will know
that we have campaigned for the public
release of information about operations
like those of which the Italian Parliament
has heard reports recently. The story of
secret deals between Column 88 and Tory
Action and sections of our intelligence
service are nothing new and much of what
has recently been exposed was known to us
a long time ago. Are such deals the reason
for so many almost inexplicable goings on
over the last 20 years across western
Europe including Britain?
Is this the reason for the continuing
presence in Britain of convicted Italian
terrorists like Roberto Fiore and Massimo
Marsello? Not only, as we have previously
revealed, were they working part-time for
British intelligence, but they may well also
have been part of the illegal mechanism
operating for 20 years with such a
devastating effect on Italian society.
Why is it that for several years, the ex-
military personnel who ran Column 88, the
nazi underground paramilitary and
intelligence cell system in Britain, were
able to claim: "When the Russians come we
have our allotted tasks to kill those who
would co-operate with them", i.e. the
enemy within, a phrase so popular during
the last eleven and a half years?
Why have no serious charges ever been
brought against senior members of Column
88 and why did Special Branch even deny
that it had files on them when questions
were raised in the House of Commons in
the mid-seventies? And how was Column
88 able to have free use of military
equipment in its early days before we
exposed it?
Maybe we should ask why convicted
illicit arms dealers and sex offenders have
been allowed to organise sections of
Whitehall-backed 'Stay Behind'-type
bodies?
Why for so many years was George
Kennedy Young, former deputy head of
MI6, able to bridge the gap between nco-
nazis here and abroad, particularly in Italy,
on the one hand, and the Italian
intelligence service and anti-democratic
elements in Britain's armed forces,
parliament and the city, on the other?
We are not suggesting that every right-
wing Conservative who got mixed up in
Tory Action is an anti-democratic
conspirator, only that Young and his close
associates used organisations like Column
88 as a smoke screen for their more
criminal plans.
Why was David Muire, another "former"
intelligence officer, allowed to recruit and
use paid-up members of Britain's most
notorious nazi group, British Movement,
to act as couriers in the eastern
Mediterranean using false passports
supplied by Muire?
The murder of Italian Prime Minister
Aldo Moro, the massacres of innocent
shoppers in Belgian supermarkets, with a
crude attempt to portray this barbarism as a
left inspired action, and the wave of
bombings over so many years in Italy, have
all turned out in reality to have had one
form or another of secret service
involvement. Now it seems that all these
crimes are connected with those who were,
involved in the 'Stay Behind' policies
across Europe. The Stasi and KGB have
had to come clean as the cold war dies
away, but unfortunately questions that
affect our own democratic way of life still
demand full and honest answers.
OPERATION
'STAY BEHIND'
— The Norse
Connection
Nazis were the mainstay of NATO's
secret 'Stay Behind' (or 'Gladio', as it
was known in Italy) programme hi
several European countries, a former
NATO intelligence operative has
claimed in a remarkable interview with
a Searchlight journalist.
The interview, in which the source did
not wish to be identified for reasons of his
own safety, was conducted in December in
the Netherlands.
In the interview, the ex-NATO man
confirmed that former nazis in Sweden and
West Germany, in particular, had "been
recruited as part of the Stay Behind
operation" in which secret army formations
were built up across the whole of northern
and western Europe to prepare to fight a
Soviet invasion.
 Until a scandal erupted in Italy over the
investigation into the 1978 killing of
Premier Aldo Moro, Stay Behind had
remained one of the cold war's best-kept
secrets.
"Right-wing extremists in Sweden were
part of the Stay Behind set-up and I cannot
understand why the Swedish authorities
never took a closer look at one
organisation", the former NATO man said.
He went on to name the organisation as
Sveaborg, which was founded in 1941 by
Otto Hallberg and is a shadowy and highly
secretive group, mainly composed of
veteran Swedish volunteer battalion
members who fought in the Finnish-Soviet
war, some of whom went on to join the
Waffen-SS Nordland division.
Many of Sveaborg's members and those
of the Swedish volunteer units in the
Finnish-Russian war had been recruited
from the war-time Swedish Socialist
Society (SSS), which despite its name was
nazi and was led by one of the country's
most notorious Hitlerites, Sven Olov-
Lindholm.
Searchlight, in co-operation with
journalists on the Swedish weekly
magazine Arbetaren, have been able to
confirm that the former NATO man's
allegations about the Swedish Stay Behind
operation are not mere speculation.
In particular, they were able to track
down Lennart Hansson, an ageing former
close associate of Otto Hallbcrg, who says
that even before the end of the war
Hallberg had begun to put together the nuts
and bolts of an anti-communist resistance
movement.
Hansson admitted that his movement
first made base with officials at the US
embassy in Stockholm in 1947-48 and that it
was promised covert US assistance in the
event of a Soviet attack.
"The name of the secret movement", he
said, "was Sveaborg and the nucleus of the
movement consisted of military
personnel".
In the 1950s, Sveaborg had over 1,000
"contact persons" who were the core of the
would-be guerrilla force. Many of these
people were serving in the Swedish armed
forces and the group held regular military
exercises.
Both Hansson and the still living Sven-
Olov Lindholm claim that the resistance
movement was very much under Hallberg's
personal direction and control and
Hansson maintains that contacts with the
US continued until about 1955.
In mid-November, the former head of
the CIA, William Colby, who was stationed
in Stockholm from 1951 to 1953, told the
Swedish news agency, TT, that he had been
engaged in establishing an armed anti-
communist movement in Scandinavia.
Interestingly in 1953, soon after Colby
left Stockholm, Otto Hallberg was seized
by the Swedish authorities and accused of
creating an "illegal military formation".
However, after a secret investigation, he
was set free and the charges were
mysteriously dropped. The files on the case
were closed to public scrutiny.
Today Sveaborg keeps an extremely low
profile but does exist and is said to have
taken younger people into its ranks. Its
only public activity takes place on 14 April
each year when it gathers at a Stockholm
cemetery to honour the Swedish nazi
OPERATION
"hero", Gosta Hallberg-Cuula, who was
killed in action on the Finnish front.
However, it is alleged that Sveaborg,
'STAY BEHIND'
which started its life as an elite arm of the
SSS, has also secretly bankrolled activity by
— One Dead
right-wing extremists in more recent times.
Certainly it has always seen its role as
fighting communism.
Prime Minister
In her book Hakkorset och Wasakarven, The emphasis varied from country to
published this year, Dr Helena Loow of country. "In Italy and France, which both
Gothenburg University's Institute of had very strong Communist Parties, the
History wrote that Sveaborg "considered objective was to thwart their influence by
itself to be a secret unit whose foremost disruption from within and causing acts of
task was to fight the enemy within and terror which would increase popular
without". demands for restrictive measures and
The former NATO informant benefit right-wing conservative parties".
commented: "The choice of Sveaborg was a He alleged that in Italy British
logical one for the US Central Intelligence intelligence had assisted in the formation of
Agency (CIA) because elsewhere in secret military units and had provided
Europe nazis were also being recruited as training in both Britain and Sardinia to
the most reliable anti-communists". which hundreds of men had been flown in
Though the Stay Behind operation was blacked-out planes. The strength of the
officially started only in 1952, "the whole Italian Stay Behind group was put at about
exercise had been in existence for a long 12,000 men.
time, in fact, ever since it was born in the So far the existence of the plan has been
head of Allen Dulles", said the ex-NATO officially admitted in Holland,
source who has had access to files in several Luxembourg, France, Switzerland,
West European nations. Greece, Germany, Turkey and Italy,
According to him, Dulles, the first chief where the story first hit the headlines and
of the CIA, worked out the original plan to caused a massive political scandal as part of
build secret anti-communist guerrilla forces the investigation into the terrorist murder
across Europe when he was based in of Aldo Moro.
Switzerland at the end of the second world According to our source, "Moro was
war. sacrificed because he defied a US veto on
"Dulles, Sir Stewart Menzies, boss of appointing communists to his government.
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), The murder was carried out by the Red
and the Belgian Premier Paul-Henri Spaak Brigade, which had been heavily
codified the plan in a secret pact sometime penetrated by agents of the Italian security
between 1949 and 1952 under the umbrella services.
of the Clandestine Co-ordinating
Committee at the Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), which
became NATO.
"There was a division of labour between
the British and the US", he continued,
"with Britain taking responsibility for the
operation in France, Belgium. Holland,
Portugal and Norway and the Americans
looking after Sweden, Finland and the rest
of Europe".
In the light of this statement, it would
appear that when Colby was talking about
Scandinavia he was, in fact, talking about
Sweden, since Norway was "British
territory" and he was operating only in
Sweden.
Ironically it was in Norway that the first
hint of Stay Behind surfaced in 1978 when a
police raid on ship-owner Hans Otto Mayer
turned up a huge quantity of weapons,
explosives and sophisticated Aldo Moro (left) with Henry Kissinger.
communications equipment.
Mayer told the police investigators that "There were other activities as well and
he was the leader of a Stay Behind group there were Stay Behind people implicated
and after a brief row when police made this in the fascist bomb attack on Bologna
public, the story was quickly buried. railway station in 1980". In that attack, 85
Asked about the exact nature and people were killed and hundreds injured.
purpose of Stay Behind, the NATO source Last summer one of the men jailed for his
explained that it was two-fold: "to part in the Bologna mass murder — Licio
destabilise any left-leaning government, Gelli, the grandmaster of the P2 masonic
even a Social Democratic one, and in the lodge — was released after a successful
event of a Warsaw Pact attack to function appeal against his conviction.
as a guerrilla army using classical guerrilla In the interview the ex-NATO operative
tactics". said that Ted Shackley, the CIA's deputy

The aftermath of the Bologna terrorist
bombing.
station chief in Rome, "fixed a meeting
between Alexander Haig and Gelli at the
US embassy in Rome in the early 1970s,
when Haig was President Nixon's chief of
staff".
"Money", he said, "was then filtered to
Stay Behind or Gladio as it was called in
Italy with the blessing and knowledge of
both Haig and the then head of the US
National Security Council, Henry
Kissinger. Their aim was to prevent a
communist takeover at all costs.
"This did not come cheap. To my
knowledge, the CIA alone spent over $100
million on Stay Behind in Europe and this
was quite separate from other funds coming
out of Washington.
"There were, and still are arms dumps all
over Europe", he said, "and as many as 900
of these remain intact". It was confirmed in
Rome on 20 November that explosives
from one such secret arsenal at Aurisina in
Italy went missing in late 1971 just before a
fascist car-bomb attack killed three
policemen at Peteano.
Turning to Germany, the ex-intelligence
man had further dramatic revelations. He
avowed that the US Office of Policy Co-
ordination, which fronted for the CIA, had
"incorporated lock, stock and barrel the
espionage outfit run by Hitler's spy chief
Reinhard Gehlen".
"This is well known", he commented,
"because Gehlcn was the spiritual father of
Stay Behind in Germany and his role was
known to the West German leader, Konrad
Adenauer, from the outset. Adenauer the whole subject of Stay Behind is in any
signed a secret protocol with the US on case in short supply.
West Germany's entry into NATO in May Our source provided his own explanation
1955 in which it was agreed that the West for this: "If there was one lesson learned
German authorities would refrain from from Watergate it was to leave nothing on
active legal pursuit of known right-wing paper and to destroy anything that had
extremists. been recorded".
"What is not so well-known", he went on, And the history of some of Barbie's post-
"is that other top German politicians were war activities continues to remain firmly
privy to the existence of secret resistance under wraps.
plans. One of these was the then German
State Secretary and former high-ranking
nazi, Hans Globke".
Elaborating on this, our source said that
Will death keep their
the operation drew its main personnel from
former SS and Waffen SS men during the
secrets?
early post-war years and that these were How strange it is that so many of the key
trained by officers of the British SIS. Later players in the conspiracies around Gladio
the operation was taken over by a secret in Italy and its counterparts elsewhere are
wing of the Federal German Intelligence now dead.
Service, the END. There was the untimely death of Airy
Some of the objectives of the German Neave at the beginning of the Thatcher
Stay Behind conspiracy were highlighted in decade. Also dead are former intelligence
a German Stern TV programme last month officer David Muire and David Stirling who
in which it was reported that the has been mentioned in connection with the
assassination of left-wing politicians was Stay Behind policy in Britain and Europe.
planned by the German wing of Stay George K. Young, the eminence grise of
Behind in the event of a Soviet invasion. the plotters in this country, has passed
High on the death list were two top Social away. And the most recent death was that
Democrats, Herbert Wehner, the of General Vito Micelli. His obituary just
chairman of the Social Democratic Party in before Christmas in The Telegraph tells us
the West German Parliament, and the so much about the type of people these
former Mayor of Bremen, Wilhelm Kaisen. plotters were.
"Amongst those who were recruited and
did some recruiting for the scheme in the
first years were an ex-SS Obersturmfuhrer,
Hans Otto, and other smaller fish. But the
prize catch was Klaus Barbie who
functioned as a recruiter for ex-nazis and
members of the fascist Bund Deutscher
Jugend".
Documentary evidence in the hands of
the British All-Party Parliamentary War
Crimes Group, established in 1986 to bring
nazi fugitives in Britain to justice, shows
that Barbie, now in a French jail for crimes
against humanity during his war-time reign
of terror as Gestapo chief in Lyons, was
indeed in close contact with the US secret
services.
However so far there has been no
documentary evidence to confirm this General Vito Miceli, former head of Italian
particular allegation and such evidence on counter-intelligence and right-wing plotter.

GENERAL VITO MICELI, the for- General continued' to frequent par-

mer head of the Italian military
counter espionage (SID) who has
died aged 74, was the only Italian
general since the Second World
War to have been arrested.
He was head of the military
counter-espionage from 1970 to
1974, when Giulio Andreotti
became Minister for Defence and
lost no time in dismissing him. Mi-
celi was arrested shortly afterwards
on a lengthy list of charges involv-
ing political conspiracy.
'The arrest warrant accused him
of "promoting, setting up, and orga-
nising, together with others, a
secret association of military and
civilians aimed at provoking an
armed insurrection to bring about
an illegal change in the constitution
of the state and the form of
government".
Miceli was also criticised for
obtaining the release of Arab
terrorists arrested while active in
Italy — he claimed that this both
saved Italy from reprisals and guar-
anteed oil supplies. The General
was released on bail after spending
six months in a military hospital
and was absolved in the subsequent
trial after the investigation had
been taken out of the bands of the
magistrate.
It was hoped that Miceli's mem-
oirs would solve many unanswered
questions — but these were uncom-
pleted by the time of his death. He
was, however, outspoken on one
recent episode, claiming that he
was arrested for not disclosing the
existence of the Nato-sponsored but
super secret anti-Communist Stay
Behind or Gladio network, which
the Prime Minister recently
revealed to Parliament.
Vito Miceli was born at Trapani,
Sicily, on Jan 61916 and entered the
military academy when he was 18.
He fought in the Italian forces in
North Africa during the Second
World War and was awarded a med-
al for valour before being captured
by the British and sent to a pris-
oner-of-war camp in India, where
he refused any collaboration with
his captors.
In 1968 Miceli met Licio Gelli,
head of the clandestine masonic
lodge P2, and agreed to join the
Freemasons. Two years later Gelli
recommended Miceli for the posi-
tion of head of military counter-
espionage.
His appointment—to go to north-
ern Italy to head the Third Army
Corps, considered the top military
command in the country — was fro-
zen shortly before his arrest in 1974.
In 1976 Miceli was elected to Par-
liament as a member of the neo-
fascist party MSI. He was twice re-
elected before resigning on grounds
of ill-health in 1987. Leaner than
ever and almost bald, the ageing
liament house on account of the
good cheap fare available there.
Miceli saw himself as a patriotic
soldier "without fault or fear" and
claimed that all counter-espionage
services ultimately obey the politi-
cians, who invariably prove too cra-
ven to accept responsibility for the
events they have put in motion.
He was recently interrogated by a
magistrate in relation to the Stay
Behind inquiry and was due to
appear shortly before a parliamen-
tary commission of inquiry. But
since he always maintained strict
reserve about his military activities
— even with his close friends — it is
unlikely that he would have dis-
closed anything to the politicians he
despised.
Mic'eli was a passionate pipe
smoker, and the proud possesor of
more than 80 pipes: He was also a
keen athlete and a soccer and tennis
enthusiast.
He is survived by a wife, Tina,
and two'sons.

OPERATION
'STAY BEHIND'
UK: Soldiers'
Tale
Former British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher backed top-secret
plans to modernise armed cells that
could carry out actions abroad.
This allegation highlights the undoubted
fact that the secret networks of the kind
proposed under NATO's Stay Behind
plans carried on their activities right into
the 1980s.
In particular, it is alleged — as has long
been suspected by Searchlight — that the
persons involved in the secret armed cells
conspiracy included George Kennedy
Young, the ex-deputy director of the
British intelligence service MI6, and others
who had launched Thatcher's campaign for
leadership in the mid-1970s. One of these
was Airey Neave MP, a top and very close
adviser to Thatcher, later murdered by the
IRA.
Ex-spymaster Young, a notorious racist
and antisemite who died last year, was for
many years a key link man between the
extreme-right of the Conservative Party
and some of Britain's most dangerous and
violent neo-nazis.
The vehicle for this liaison, which
included contact with individuals
connected with the underground fascist
elite paramilitary organisation, Column 88,
was his own pressure group called Tory
Action. David Muire, another former
intelligence officer, was using British
Movement members as couriers for British
Intelligence.
Tory Action, founded by Young and
supported by Ncave, was also at the centre
of a smear campaign, involving the secret
services, aimed at discrediting the then
Labour Government in Britain in 1975.
Just before the 1979 general election,
which brought Thatcher to power, Young
and Neave were plotting to use a
disinformation campaign against Labour.
In 1987 a former MI6 officer, Leigh
Tracey, revealed that Neave had
approached him to join a small, highly
select group to organise an army of
resistance in case Labour won the election.
Seen in the context of Stay Behind, the
anti-democratic manocuvrings of Young
and Neave and their connection with
efforts to build so-called private armies
take on a deeper meaning.
According to The Guardian, the secret
armed cells plan existed before Thatcher
took office in 1979 and continued until the
French secret service attack on a
Greenpeace ship in New Zealand in 1985
led to its abandonment.
So far the British Ministry of Defence has
remained tightlipped on the whole subject
of the terrorist Stay Behind networks, but
two former British army generals have
confirmed that such plans were operative in
Britain.,
One of them, Sir Anthony Farrar-
Hockley, the former NATO commander of
Allied Forces Northern Europe, has
admitted that a secret armed network of
selected civilians was set up in Britain after
the war.
Searchlight has not been able to confirm
allegations that later, in the 1970s, General
Sir Walter Walker's private army,
UNISON, which was closely linked with
senior serving and retired British forces
chiefs, was part of the clandestine network.
However, it is now clear that the elite
Special Air Services regiment (SAS) was
up to its neck in the NATO scheme and
functioned, with MI6, as a training arm for
guerrilla warfare and sabotage.
This, according to the testimony of
Italian General Gerardo Serraville, went
on until the early 1970s when, he said, an
Italian Stay Behind unit had trained in
Britain. The evidence now suggests that it
lasted well into the 1980s.
British Stay Behind activity was by no
means confined to the United Kingdom,
however, and it has been proved that the
SAS constructed the secret hides where
arms were stockpiled in the British sector
of West Germany.
Also of far more significance than
previously thought are the relations
between the British and US intelligence
services and the former nazi Gestapo chief
in Lyon, France, Klaus Barbie.
Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", now
serving a life sentence for his part in nazi
genocide during the war-time German
occupation of France, was helped by the
US secret service Counter Intelligence
Corps (CIC) to escape to Argentina in
1951.
In 1985 British Foreign Office Minister
Baroness Young wrote to fellow
Conservative MP Sir Gerard Vaughan to
tell him that official papers relating to
Barbie could not be released "because of
their sensitive nature".
Searchlight has CIC documents,
previously labelled "Top Secret", that refer
to the British and US "Operation Selection
Board", which detailed plans to identify
and apprehend "certain elements of the SS"
(see below).
The CIC was willing, according to the
documents, to use him on condition that he
severed connections with the British part of
"Operation Selection Board" and with what
the documents curiously describe as "illegal
SS elements" (all "SS elements" were at
that time supposedly illegal).
Barbie worked for CIC until his activity
became embarrassing for the US, which
knew that he was top of the French
intelligence service's wanted list and which
had gone to extraordinary lengths to
protect him. The Americans wanted to hide
his very close links with them at all costs
from the British as well.
Significantly, Barbie's decision to break
off his contacts with British intelligence
came after a discussion with another former
nazi named as a Stay Behind personality,
the ex-Waffen SS officer Hans Otto. Part of
Barbie's function was to penetrate French
intelligence networks which were believed
by the CIC to be communist-infiltrated.
The US documents make no mention of
any post-war resistance plans, but seen in
the light of the fact that these plans had the
maximum classification of secrecy and that
the US was desperate to use Barbie, their
significance becomes much clearer. They
also confirm Barbie's connection with early
post-war right-extremist outfits like the
Bund Deutscher Jugend, ex-SS and
Waffcn-SS men and Hans Otto.
The claim by a former NATO intelli-
gence officer that Barbie was also a Stay
Behind recruiter goes some way to explain
yawning gaps in information about his
activities between 1948 and 1950, when he
was finally ditched by the US in a bid to get
rid of him without losing the confidence of
other ex-nazis who were still working for
them.
It certainly helps explain one other thing.
By 1985 it was widely believed that
everything that could be known about
Barbie's post-war odysscy was known,
even if he himself had revealed virtually
nothing.
However, if he had indeed been involved
in a NATO operation that was still in
existence in 1989, then there was every
reason that British secret papers relating to
him would remain of "a sensitive nature".
Clearly the British government and its
secret services, like their US counterparts,
still have much to hide.
A lifetime of black struggle
Bernie Grant, MP, speaks to Searchlight
Bernie Grant, MP for Tottenham, is
one of the four black MPs elected in the
1987 elections. Though a backbencher,
his principled stance against all forms of
discrimination, particularly racism and
fascism, has led him into conflict with
the British establishment.
Mr Grant has been subjected to the full
vitriol and racism of the British media. One
of the few politicians to defend the youth of
Broadwatcr Farm and to raise legitimate
questions about police harassment and
racism, Mr Grant has often infuriated the
press. The fact that he was an articulate and
bold black man attacking the establishment
drove them to apoplexy. Their response
was a barrage of racism — Mr Grant was
depicted as a tribal chieftain and ridiculed
for "eating a banana like a monkey".
Mr Grant came originally from
Georgetown, Guyana. He arrived in
Britain in 1963 to join his mother, a teacher
in Haringey. In 1969 he left Herriot-Watt
University because of its policy of sending
white students to South Africa. On
returning to London he began working for
the Post Office and after organising a
successful strike he became the National
Union of Public Employees representative.
He recalls how at the time the National
Front was rampant throughout the Post
Office, with strongholds in Islington and
Mount Pleasant. Mr Grant developed an
anti-fascist perspective within the union.
On the streets the fascists were becoming
an even greater threat, so in 1977 he was
one of the founding members of
ALCARAF (All London Campaign
Against Racism And Fascism). The
objectives of ALCARAF were clear, to
drive the fascists off the streets.
Demonstrations were organised at Ducket
Common, Haringey and Lewisham.
No platform for fascists
Mr Grant still believes that there should be
constant opposition to all manifestations of
fascism and is a supporter of the principle of
no platform for fascists. He is equally clear
on the issue of fascist/racist literature:
"Prosecutions should be brought under the
present legislation to test the strength of the
law. If it proves weak then the law must be
reinforced". He argues that this should be
supplemented by a code of practice
established by the printers' and journalists'
unions that would ensure racist articles
never appear.
Once Mr Grant entered local politics in
1975 his position on the way forward for the
black community was clear. In the editorial
of the quarterly The Black Parliamentarian
he states: "We hope it (the magazine) will
bring our communities inside the very
system that has rejected us for so long".
To emphasize this point he juxtaposes
the experiences of the community in
Haringey with that in Netting Hill. He
points out that since the election of black evident than in France. He believes that the
councillors in Haringey the police have left must begin to talk to and understand
been forced to start showing respect; Muslims so that an effective anti-fascist
increased access to power has forced the coalition can be built.
police to curb their excesses. He explains At home Mr Grant argues that there has
that between 1987 and 1989 he received been a steady improvement in British
between six and eight cases of police abuse, society on the issue of race. Somewhat
because in his position he was able to hold a- surprisingly he even has qualified praise for
press conference every week and have the Tories. Despite the crypto-racism of
access to the Home Secretary and other some senior Tories, he believes that the
relevant centres of power, thereby being Tories do accept the fact that Britain is a
able successfully to sue the police. multi-cultural society. He points out that
In contrast, the Netting Hill community there is a long way to go. He suggests that
refuses to involve itself in local politics, the race laws should be strengthened by the
consequently the situation has shown no incorporation of the amendments proposed
improvement in 20 years. The Mangrove is by the Commission for Racial Equality
still systematically raided and residents arc eight years ago.
continually harassed. Mr Grant believes
that in Haringey, Brixton and Brent the
situation has improved because the local CRCs a waste of time
communities have asserted themselves in He also believes that the community
local politics. relations councils are a waste of time and
Obviously the situation is far from money. He finds it absurd that a body
perfect and there are still huge barriers working in the area of race can claim to be
facing the black community. Mr Grant non-political. Mr Grant believes that the
believes that the biggest single issue facing way forward is to establish a rainbow
his community is 1992 and the single coalition of ethnic groups, refugees,
European market. He points out that there women, lesbians and gays. This coalition
has been a huge increase in racism and would ensure strength rather than isolation
fascism in Europe that will inevitably spill — unlike its American counterpart its
over into this country; there are no race function would not be primarily to elect its
relation laws in many European countries; candidates to national positions. It would
African/Caribbean products will be forced aim to concentrate on local issues and
out of the market and travel for black assert itself on a grassroots level.
people will become increasingly difficult Mr Grant has been at the forefront of the
due to xenophobia and racism. fight against racism and fascism for the past
The primary problem, the emergence of 30 years. He has been instrumental in
the far right, is due, according to Mr Grant, ensuring that the black community takes up
to its ability to mobilise over the issue of its rightful place within British society and
Islam. The left, unable to embrace Islam, is a leading spokesperson not just for the
has capitulated in the struggle. Mr Grant black community but for many oppressed
argues that the position the left adopted groups in our society and for the
over the Rushdie affair was wrong. Free implementation of rights for black people
speech is not the ultimate principle, more worldwide. Mr Grant's forthright nature,
important is to protect communities under political acumen and principled stance will
attack from racists and fascists. Nowhere is ensure he remains one of Britain's eminent
the left's failure over this issue more MPs and black leaders.
 Law and disorder
The Metropolitan Police have taken
steps to deal with the problem of racial
abuse of black police by other officers.
Chief Supt David Martin, head of the
Equal Opportunities Unit, said: "If we
can't treat each other in a sensitive
courteous way, how can we deal
properly with the public?"
The new measures include a 24-hour
helpline at Scotland Yard for officers
suffering racial abuse and a proposal to
concentrate black officers in certain areas.
The idea is that they would be able to
provide mutual support against the racist
police "canteen culture".
An editorial in Police, the magazine of
the Police Federation, says that "the glare
of publicity" may be more effective in
challenging racial discrimination within the
police than the official procedures. It says
that racist jokes and unfair practices must
stop.
The Met has 461 Asian and Afro
Caribbean officers, who make up only 1.6
per cent of the total, while 15 per cent of
London's population is black. The drop-
out rate for black officers is one-third
higher than for white recruits. Of the 42
black officers recruited last year, 26 have
already left. A recent intensive recruitment
campaign aimed at London's Chinese
@ POLICE ASSAULT
A police monitoring project has been set up in
Watford following an incident in which two police
officers stand accused of assaulting a party goer.
Police arrested council employee Julian Powell,
31, after raiding a party. They charged him with
actual bodily harm but the charges were dropped
before the case came to court. Two police officers
have been suspended from duties. Mr Powell still
suffers from dizziness, finds it difficult to sleep at
night and the back of his hand is numb from being
handcuffed. He is taking legal action against the
police. The Young Black Action Development
Group has been set up to monitor future police
action.
Mr Powell said: "If the police know there is
someone looking at them and willing to help
people overcome injustice, maybe they will
become more accountable".
(The Voice 16.10.90.)
9 POLICE CRITICISED ON RACE
ATTACK CASE
Four students, victims of a racist attack, say they
are disgusted with the way West Midlands Police
handled the case. The students, from St Phillips
College in Birmingham, were not even told the
date of the court hearing.
Four men were recently convicted of attacking
the students as they left a birthday party at the
Lyndhurst pub in Erdington last November.
Mr Niten Rama, one of the students, said: "The
police were not keen on prosecuting the case at all.
community failed to produce a single
application.
Black officers are concentrated in the
lower ranks. There are only six black
inspectors and one chief inspector, and all
of them are in the uniformed branch.
The public still sees the police as racist. A
MORI poll conducted earlier this year
found that 21 per cent of the population and
58 per cent of black people agreed with the
statement that "most police are
prejudiced".
Complaints about racist police offiers are
rarely successful. Last year only one
complaint out of 45 was upheld. The year
before there were three out of 394.
Olympic sprinter Linford Christie won
substantial libel damages against the police
in March after they wrongfully arrested
him for stealing a car. He criticised "blatant
racism" by white officers.
A tribunal is due to report in the case of
William Halliday, a black PC from
Orpington, who alleges racial
discrimination.
In Birmingham, a play which attacks
alleged police brutality against black
youths has been condemned as "dreadful"
by a Tory MP. Mr Anthony Beaumont
Dark described the Tower of Babel as
"propaganda" and said it would be better if
it encouraged ethnic minorities to join the
police.
We had to gather a lot of information for them and
we had to keep pressing them to find out what was
happening and then it still took nearly 12 months
to get to court. For them not even to tell us the date
of the hearing has been the final straw".
Chief Inspector Tony Grove claimed all racial
attacks were treated very seriously by the police
and thoroughly investigated.
(Birmingham Evening Mail 30.11.90.)
® NOTTINGHAM POLICE FORCE GUILTY
The Nottinghamshire police force has been found
guilty of racial discrimination against an Asian
police officer. An industrial tribunal found that
Surinder Chima Singh had been unfairly denied
promotion. The investigation found that racism
and racist abuse were part of everyday life at all
levels of the police force.
Surinder Chima Singh was accepted for a CID
"aideship" in July 1987. He had previously been
highly praised by senior police officers. In
November 1987 PC Singh was returned to
ordinary duties. Of the 23 aideship candidates,
the three Asians were all returned to ordinary
duties. Nineteen of the 20 white candidates were
accepted.
Detective Constable Colin Martin says he did
not find the use of the word "wog" to describe an
offender as offensive. Former Detective Inspector
Colin Davis said he thought the words "nigger"
and "coon" were like calling an Irishman "paddy".
Chief Constable Dan Crompton said he thought
that the prejudice shown against PC Singh was
similar to his own prejudice against litter louts.
The tribunal heard how, when Police Sergeant
Anil Patani attended a police function with a
woman friend, one police officer remarked: "Get
back to the jungle where you belong, this is a
civilised do".
West Yorkshire police have announced that in
future any complaint of racism will be thoroughly
investigated. Personnel officer Chief
Superintendent Gillian Miles said that the force
had a specific objective of recruiting 356 black
officers by the end of the century. So far, out of 85
black officers, there is only one inspector and
three sergeants.
(Guardian 31.10.90, Leeds Other Paper 9.11.90.)
• HUMILIATED BY THE POLICE
A black security guard says he suffered
unnecessary suffering and humiliation when
police officers falsely accused him of stealing a tax
disc. He is to seek a formal apology from the
Metropolitan Police.
Ken Fosuhene of East London bought a tax disk
for his car from a Post Office, but the person
issuing the disc mistakenly inserted a different
number to that on Mr Fosuhene's registration. A
few days later, on 24 October, police officers
pounced on Mr Fosuhene and subjected him to a
three and a half hour ordeal before taking him
back to his house in handcuffs, in full view of the
neighbours. He was eventually released on bail
and the Post Office admitted its mistake.
(Caribbean Times 13.11.90.)
• POLICE RACISM RECORD
The Police Complaints Authority is to start
recording allegations of racially discriminatory
behaviour. From next year the authority will keep
statistics of complaints of racist remarks and
behaviour by the police, which will appear in
annual reports. There are 12 existing categories of
complaint, including incivility and irregular
arrest.
The complaints authority, established under
the Police and Criminal Evidence Act of 1984,
received 6,175 complaints in 1989, of which only
24 resulted in criminal charges.
(Guardian 16.10.90.)
• RESIDENTS CALL FOR ACTION
People living in Aston, Birmingham, are to meet
with the local police consultative committee in an
effort to combat racist attacks. Rev Keith
Sinclair, chair of the Aston Federation of
Residents, said memhers were concerned at the
increase in racial attacks, although a police report
said no such incidents had taken place.
Residents say that racists have thrown rubbish
through letter-boxes, urinated in their gardens,
and shouted racist abuse at them in the streets.
Rev Sinclair said: "There seems to be little
confidence in the police and victims are reluctant
to report the incidents".
(Birmingham Evening Mail 5.11.90.)

« POLICE RECRUIT ABUSED

Three West Midlands police officers are to face a
disciplinary hearing into allegations of racial
harassment of an Asian recruit. The hearing
follows an inquiry by Cheshire police into
complaints made regarding a course at the Ryton
Police Training Centre, Warwickshire, two years
ago. The tribunal findings may not be made
public.
(Birmingham Evening Mail 6.11.90.)

« COWARDLY THUGS
Three young thugs shouted racial abuse at an
Asian policeman and his girlfriend before
assaulting the police officer.
PC Amar Shaloor was off duty when the men
confronted the couple, shouting "Paki bastard"
and "white slag". The constable was then punched
and kicked before the men ran off.
Magistrate Robin Christie at Glasgow District
Court described the men as being "motivated by
racial hatred".
Paul Leigh, 28, James McGill, 21, and David
Mennie, 26, all of Glasgow, were found guilty of
breach of the peace. Mennie was also found guilty
of assault. Mennie was jailed for four months and
McGill for 60 days. Leith was fined £150.
(Glasgow Evening Times 20.11.90.)

• BLACK AND WHITE EUROPE

The Standing Committee on Racial Equality in
Europe (SCORE) has been formed to work for
fair treatment for black people.
Labour MP Bernie Grant said that with a
united Europe we must ensure that "black migrant
and minority communities are not subjected to
racism and discrimination and the xenophobia
which is now rearing its ugly head even more
blatantly in Europe".
(MorningStur 13.11.90.)
• NEW LAW ON SOCCER YOBS
A proposed new law will ban the chanting of
obscene and racialist abuse at soccer matches. The
legislation, following recommendations of the
Taylor report into the Hillsborough disaster, will
also outlaw throwing missiles, unreasonable pitch
invasions, and selling tickets on match days
without the home club's permission.
Some football clubs have already taken action.
In October Everton started to issue strong
warnings against racial abuse over the public
address system. Officials have threatened to
prosecute fans who ignore the warnings.
England soccer star John Barnes, who has been
abused by racist thugs, gave his support. "Let's
safeguard the next generation of black spectators
and footballers", he said.
(Financial Times 13.11.90, Today 13.11.90.)
« EQUALITIES JOB SCRAPPED
London Underground has scrapped a post which
would have enabled black employees to train for
top jobs. In October the Commission for Racial
Equality heavily criticised London
Underground's equal opportunities policy.
(The Voice 21.11.90.)
The death of a child — a grief for us all. In December 1989, 11-year-old Tasleem Akhtar was
brutally murdered by a teenage racist. On the anniversary of her death, friends and
neighbours laid wreaths at the place where she died (top). Above: her family gather in prayer
in her memory. Her killer is serving life.
® RACE BIAS IN THE COURTS with reducing the size of the prison population,
Moves have at last been made to address the did not deal with reducing the over-representation
problem of racial discrimination in the criminal of black prisoners. It seems unlikely that anti-
justice system. In 1989 16 per cent of the 48,000 discriminatory legislation will be introduced in
people in prison were from ethnic minorities, the forthcoming Criminal Justice Bill.
(Independent 11.10.90.)
when these groups accounted for only 4.6 per cent
of the population. Almost 12 per cent of all
prisoners are of Afro-Caribbean descent,
compared to an estimated 1 to 2 per cent ® BLACK JUDGES — IN 40 YEARS TIME
representation in the population over 15 years old. The Lord Chancellor has said that he does not
Research by the London Borough of Hackney in expect to see black people becoming judges until
1986 showed that black people were twice as likely the 21st Century. Lord Mackay said he did not
to be jailed as whites. Other studies show young feel enough black lawyers were suitable for
black people are more likely to be stopped and appointment.
searched by police and less likely to be freed with a Makbool Javaid, secretary of the Society of
caution. Black Lawyers, has pointed out that there are
The Home Office recently arranged a meeting already "extremely talented and able black
between senior civil servants and selected black lawyers, the types suitable to become judges".
organisations and penal reform groups to discuss Law Society President Tony Holland said that
these issues. A senior civil servant admitted that Britain cannot claim to have the best judiciary in
racism, "some sort of prejudice", lay behind the the world when judges are chosen mainly from
figures. There was widespread disappointment white, male, middle class barristers.
that the criminal justice White Paper, which deals (Caribbean Times 13.11.90, The Voice 13.11.90.)
® DISCRIMINATION CASE VICTORY
A cook who was called "nigger" by a pub manager
has won her claim of racial discrimination in
Birmingham. The case was brought by Mrs
Eunice Eribenne, 44, against the Grand
Metropolitan chain and local management at the
Golden Cross pub in Coventry.
The chair of the tribunal said he was saddened
to hear how a large highly respected public
company had been "let down" by local
management.
Mrs Eribenne said that the racial abuse became
so bad from pub manager Stephen Carter that she
feared physical violence. She was called "nigger"
and ordered to do the washing up, told that black
women did not deserve the same respect as whites,
and, when the lift was full, that "Nigerians carried
things on their heads".
Tribunal chair Mr Bernard Owen said "We find
that this woman was harassed because she was
black".
Both sides were given 28 days to settle
compensation.
(Birmingham Evening Mail 28.11.90.)
9 BAKERY GUILTY OF DISCRIMINATION
A bakery worker has been awarded £400 by an
industrial tribunal, after a bakery was found
guilty of racial discrimination.
Mr Anthony Garfield, 31, of Harborne,
Birmingham, worked at the Rima Patisserie for
13 weeks from June 1989. He said he was
subjected to continuous racist abuse from bakery
manager Terence Belcher. On one occasion, when
Mr Garfield was listening to some music, Belcher
said he expected him "to start running around
with his spear or swinging from the light shades".
Witness Mr Simon Briscoe said he had
overheard Mr Belcher make many racist remarks
to Mr Garfield and other members of staff.
A large bakery tray, with the slogan "NF"
written on it, was prominently displayed.
(Birmingham Evening Mail 27.9.90)
@ RACISM AT GLASGOW AIRPORT
A black American woman, here on holiday, was
refused entry at Glasgow Airport recently,
renewing concern about discriminatory
immigration control.
Nicole Horton, 19, from Los Angeles, was
refused entry to visit her brother Anthony, 28, a
UK passport holder and community leader in
Glasgow.
Anthony Horton said his sister's holiday was a
present to help her get over the death of their
father last year. He said immigration officials
"turned ugly" when his sister arrived.
"My credentials — bank accounts, mortgage
paper and a letter of consent — were flung back in
my face. They simply refused to let her in. I can
see no reason other than racism for such
treatment".
(The Voice 30.10.90.)
• BLACK COUNTRY THREAT
The National Front is trying to stir things up in the
Black Country. Mr Gurdial Dhanjal, chief racial
equality officer with Dudley Racial Equality
Council, has warned that a National Front
element is operating in the Lye area of
Stourbridge.
Chief Inspector Ken Weston of Halesowen
police admitted there were probably "people with
extreme views" in the area, but said the police
could not do anything until offences were
committed.
Superintendent Derek Fancott said there had
been a "skirmish" involving white and Asian
youths at this Summer's Lye carnival. There had
also been what he referred to as "domestic"
incidents involving conflict between black people
and white neighbours in the Cradley area.
(Wolverhampton Express & Star 11.10.90;
SandwellMail 13.10.90.)
® CHELTENHAM RACIST BACKS OFF
Prime Minister John Major has acted to distance
himself from grassroots Conservative racists in
Cheltenham. Mr Major said he will have "no truck
with racism".
Bill Galbraith, a Conservative Party member,
referred to John Taylor, selected as
Parliamentary candidate for the safe Tory seat, as
a "bloody nigger". The Tory Mayor of
Cheltenham, William Bullingham, called for the
expulsion from the party of three Conservatives
who opposed Mr Taylor's selection.
John Taylor, a barrister, is the only black
Conservative on Solihull council. He is a born-
again Christian who believes in "caring
Conservatism" and is in favour of hanging.
He is the only Tory candidate to be chosen to
fight a Tory-held Parliamentary seat. The other
five black and Asian Conservative candidates are
mostly in unwinnable Labour seats. Labour has so
far selected only five black and Asian candidates,
of whom four are sitting MPs.
After local police set up an investigation into a
breach of the race relations laws Galbraith not
only backed off in a very public manner, but has
said he will now campaign for Taylor at the next
general election. Despite this, the local party voted
to expel him.
® CONSERVATIVE CLUBS OPERATE
COLOUR BAR
The Association of Conservative Clubs has been
accused of operating a colour bar in its
recruitment of secretaries.
Thames TV found out in a survey that many
firms were using employment agencies to
discriminate against black people. Eileen Dupont
of the Conservative Party Central Office allegedly
gave a requirement that only "English rose" type
secretaries were required by the Association.
Sir Marcus Fox, chair of the Association, said
that three people from ethnic minorities were
employed. None of them is employed as a
secretary.
(Independent 14.11.90.)
• HERE TO STAY
A national demonstration was held in
Birmingham on 24 November to fight against the
planned deportation of three women. The women
are Sonia Malhi, 24, from Tamworth,
Dharmowtee Surju, 27, and Prakash
Chavrimootoo, 33. both from Handsworth.
Sonia, who has lived in Britain for seven years,
faces deportation to India after the break-up of
her marriage. Prakash, who left her husband
after domestic violence, has a seven-year-old son.
Dharmowtee married a mental health nurse but
did not get clearance to live in Britain.
Deportations under the 1988 Immigration Act
are currently running at 250 black people every
month. The West Midlands Anti-Deportation
Campaign is fighting the deportations under the
slogan "Here to stay, here to fight".
(Birmingham Evening Mail 23.11.90.)
• HIGH COURT RAP FOR ARMY
The British Army has received a stern rebuke
from the High Court. The Army Board has been
ordered to re-examine the case of a black soldier
who had experienced racial abuse and violence.
The judgement strengthens the rights of other
service personnel who suffer racial abuse.
Stephen Anderson, now 24, joined the Prince of
Wales Regiment when he was 17. He was the only
black soldier in his platoon. Over the next five
years he suffered verbal and physical abuse at the
hands of fellow soldiers. He was called "nigger'
and "black bastard" and kicked and punched. On
one occasion a lance corporal held a knife to his
throat.
Private Anderson complained first to his
commanding officer and then to the Army Board.
Finally, with the backing of the Commission for
Racial Equality, he took the matter to the High
Court.
The High Court judges pointed to serious
failings in the way the Army Board dealt with the
case, amounting to a denial of justice. The Army
Board apparently thought it was not bound by the
1976 Race Relations Act.
After the High Court decision Stephen said he
was "gobsmacked". He said he hoped it would
encourage more people from the ethnic minorities
to join the Army.
(Independent 10.11.90.)
® FANS ANGER AT RACISTS
Angry Rangers fans insisted that two men who
had shouted racist abuse be thrown out of the
ground.
The incident happened during a match with
Dundee United on 10 November at Ibrox. Rangers
winger Mark Walters had just lost the ball when
two men jumped up from their £216 a season
Premier Club seats and shouted abuse. One of
them shouted a racist remark.
Hundreds of fellow supporters immediately
stood up and angrily pointed out the men to
stewards, insisting that they be thrown out. The
stewards were reluctant at first, but eventually
two men were escorted out to a chorus of catcalls.
A Premier Club member said: "What they
shouted was an absolute disgrace and I'm
delighted the reaction of the other fans was as
spontaneous as it was angry".
The two men now face a possible indefinite ban
from the ground.
(Glasgow Evening Times 12.11.90.)
• CHAOTIC IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT
Delays in processing naturalisation applications,
described as "indefensible" by a House of
Commons committee, have got even worse. On
average it now takes 32 months for applications to
be processed by the Immigration and Nationality
Department.
Labour MP Keith Vaz said that at the present
rate outstanding cases will not be cleared until the
year 2184.
(Daily Telegraph 14.11.90.)
© TOWER HAMLETS DIRTY TRICKS
Liberal Democrats who control the council of
Tower Hamlets in London are under investigation
for a racist "dirty tricks" election leaflet. They also
face court action over alleged discrimination in
the allocation of council housing and the failure to
provide education for black youngsters.
Seven leading local Liberal Democrats are
accused of a disinformation campaign. They
produced leaflets in last May's council elections,
under the heading of "The Labour Party", which
were designed to alarm the white working class in
the borough. The leaflets claimed that Labour
would end the Liberals' policy of giving
preference in council housing to the sons and
daughters of "locals" and would instead give
preference to Bangladeshis and squatters. The
special election court which is sitting has the
power to disqualify councillors.
The Tower Hamlets Liberal Democrats became
notorious in the late 1980s when they refused to
house Bangladeshi families on the grounds that
they had deliberately made themselves homeless
by coming to Britain.
The Commission for Racial Equality is going to
the High Court in January, claiming that Tower
Hamlets has failed to comply with its statutory
duty to provide housing regardless of race.
Bangladeshi community groups are planning
legal action over the failure to provide school
places for almost 300 children.
There are also allegations of financial
impropriety involving a £70 million property deal.
(Observer 11.11.90.)
the STATE of
the RIGHT
January 1991
The far right in Britain has shifted its
position very little in the past year with
the exception of the National Front,
which has returned to the ballot box in a
serious way.
The exposure of the activities of the Ku
Klux Klan and the British National
Socialist Movement, the inner core of
British Movement, has deterred them to
some extent from committing even greater
acts of hate against Britain's Asian and
Jewish communities.
The nazis' international bridge building
has continued at a rapidly increased pace
through the Klan and the British National
Party's overseas liaison consortium, the
Odal Ring.
The far reaches of the Conservative
Party are still occupied by the Monday Club
and the increasingly potty Western Goals
organisation.
The older established racists and Jew
baiters, like Lady Birdwood and her
vehicle, Choice, and Self Help have IMF leaders Martin Wingfield (left) and Ian Anderson, national chairman (with wreath).
continued to malign and insult thousands of
people with their hate material. material. There is also a whole range of
The most high profile organisation in
The National Front new stickers and leaflets. Martin Wingfield
1990 has been the British National Party. The NF underwent a major change in its is running part of this operation with a
Despite the fact that many of its activist policy of paying no more than lip service to lower profile approach than in the past.
members have been jailed or face jail the ballot box, a policy to which it has held Membership is around 4,000, most of it
sentences, the party has kept up a since the debacle of the 1989 general re-recruited from old lapsed or expelled NF
remarkably hard working and active election. On each and every occasion in the members rather than new recruits.
profile. last 10 years the NF's election results have Its policies are very much those of the NF
The League of St George, with its small been less than pathetic. However it is now in the mid-1970s — strong on law and
but perfectly formed coterie of old nazis, intending to return to the hustings in a big order, Ulster and the repatriation of
and its counterpart, the Friends of Mosley, way at the next general election under a immigrants.
have been much more open in their links to new leadership in which Ian Anderson The motivation behind this return to the
other lesser fascist groups recently. remains chairman, but the sinister Steven ballot box appears to be encouragement
David Irving's previously dormant John Brady, friend of Ulster terrorists and from its much more successful fellow
Clarendon Club has been resurrected and, one-time safe houser of wanted European organisations abroad, like the French Front
like the main character in the Flying terrorists, is elevated to the post of deputy National and the Republican Party in
Dutchman, Irving appears never to be able chairman. Germany, which have done so well because
to stop his worldwide travels preaching his They have already raised £100,000 and of the more favourable electoral systems in
own special brand of anti-Jewish will be fighting more than 60 seats, which Europe. With hopes of a move towards a
revisionism. will entitle them to television and radio proportional representation electoral
The two identically named Third Way time. Many candidates have already been system in Britain within the next 10 years,
operations, with less than 100 members adopted in various parts of the country, the NF leadership, who are all fairly young,
between them, are still alive and breathing including several with serious criminal have become convinced it is worth keeping
with a little help from certain elements in convictions. the party in the public eye until that change
the state apparatus and money from Tripoli The NF has a very modern publishing comes.
and Baghdad, as well as some well-earned outlet through its connection with the Clearly they have friends with money
support from Italian terrorist exiles now Sussex based Hancock printing works — who are prepared to keep them afloat in
running very successful businesses in NF executive member Tom Acton is a unwinnable election campaigns, gambling
London. partner in Hancock's business. It publishes on them to do well should such a change
So let us take our annual look at who is a newspaper, The Flag, Vanguard, a take place. This might explain the
who in these groups, the publications they monthly magazine, and Lionheart, a mysterious input of funds over the last few
produce and the size of their membership. quarterly, as well as some locally produced months.

The British National Party
The BNP has managed to recruit new
members because of the high level of
violent street activity the party has engaged
in over the last year. But after losses due to
members going to prison or moving abroad
to operate with more violent groups in the
USA and elsewhere, there has been no real
improvement on the 1,400 members the
BNP had late last year.
What has changed is the party's ability to
get large numbers to turn out for key events
like its actions in Tower Hamlets, East
London, where it is now picking up more
than 12 per cent in local polls, and in
Scotland where its violence has left four
activists in prison but is still getting the
party front page press coverage.
John Tyndall has been exposed, both in
the national press and on television, as a
Fiihrer with a long criminal record who has
surrounded himself with a band of nazi yes
men.
Both his two key officials, Tony Wells,
also known as Lecomber, and Richard
Edmunds, are due to face trial on affray
charges and in Lecomber's case assault as
well.
The BNP has been the target of
complaints about its distribution of
Holocaust News, which denies that the nazi
Holocaust took place, and other hate
material from its headquarters in Bexley,
Kent. The party's key provincial base in
Yorkshire, where it's members work hand
in glove with members of the Monday Club
and Western Goals, has been shattered by
in-fighting and hard work on the part of
Leeds and York based anti-fascists. And
the BNP's criminal branch in Manchester
has been more than a little harmed by
Searchlight's infiltration and intelligence
work (see last month's Searchlight).
Tyndall still owns the publishing set up
which produces British Nationalist, the
BNP's newspaper, and Spearhead, his long
running nazi magazine.
John Peacock, a one-time gun runner
from Leicester, continues to carry out
international liaison work through the Odal
Ring, which is based in Belgium. Last year
the BNP was able to attract top German
and US nazis to speak to rallies in Britain.
One rally in Loughton, Essex, was
attended by 600 people and another also
had a large audience.
The BNP remains committed to
confrontation politics and the help it has
received from Ulster Defence Association
and Ulster Volunteer Force supporters in
both Scotland and London has increased its
reputation for being street tough.
Its campaigns against the gay community
are thought to have been directly
responsible for increasing numbers of
almost psychotic assaults including
murders of gays in London and other parts
of the country.
The BNP continues to be active on
several university campuses around the
country.

This British born one-time key US activist

The Third Way
The two Third Way groups, each with
around 50 members, have been active in a
limited way. Involving themselves in local
campaigns they did fairly well in the council
elections under flags of convenience in
West London and Essex last spring.
Patrick Harrington, leader of one of the
groups, has taken to jetsetting to the USA
where he met black separatist leader Louis
Farrakhan's minister for foreign affairs for
the Nation of Islam in New Jersey.
Surprisingly for a group with hardly any
membership, Harrington's group has
found the money to produce four issues of a
boring but glossy magazine during the last
twelve months.
Hungry for any kind of publicity,
Harrington has taken to trying to feed his
junk to a number of Fleet Street journalists
including some on Jewish and black
publications.
The Ku KIux Klan
Questions about the extent of serving
military personnel involved in the British
Klavcrns of the KKK have remained
unanswered. Paul Marriott, one of the
KKK's leaders, is still thought to be a
member of the Territorial Army in the
south of England and Mike Putley is still a
weapons trainer for the Royal Navy at their
south coast nuclear training facility. Putley
is also believed to have used navy
computers to help organise the British
Klan.
Alan Bishella has been on the missing list
since Searchlight exposed his activities.
12 Searchlight, January 1991
has a record in the USA for sex offences
against very young children and for dealing
in automatic weapons.
Other Klan members whom we named to
the police as responsible for the daubing of
Staines synagogue earlier this year are still
at large because the police did not act until
the trail had gone cold.
The KKK's membership, which is drawn
from groups like the skinhead Blood and
Honour organisation (see below) and
several different British fascist parties, is
around 400.
Perhaps the authorities will eventually
find time to find the stockpiles of weapons
the Klan obtained as part of a German arms
shipment to Northern Ireland via Britain.
Blood and Honour
Whilst a key British nazi band, No
Remorse, made it to the USA and Canada
in 1990, Ian Stuart Donaldson, leader of
Blood and Honour, was still unable to
make the big time across the Atlantic.
Despite being one of the first in Britain to
sign up with the KKK, and having earnt a
few dollars by putting out tapes and records
under the name The Klansmen rather thari
as Skrewdriver, entry into the USA should
still be barred to him because of his serious
criminal convictions.
Stuart Donaldson moved out of London
at the direction of his political mentors in
British Movement. He is now based in
Derbyshire, from where he runs his
operations.
Blood and Honour supporters still
number around 1,600 with several
thousands of kids buying the T-shirts,
records, tapes and videos that they produce
in-house each year.
Internationally, Blood and Honour has
become a business worth around a million
pounds.
The British Movement
The British Movement, which has only a
few hundred members, has structured itself
along cell-like lines.
At its heart is the British National
Socialist Movement, which is led by men
using only cover names.
Using a series of false addresses and post
boxes, often in Yorkshire and Derbyshire,
they command the loyalty and obedience of
their followers. Once a person has joined, it
is difficult to leave without permission or a
good excuse.
Many of its followers arc members of
Territorial Army units and gun clubs and
stories abound about th'e way several of its
activists earn their living by armed robbery.
Colin Jordan is still a living inspiration to
them and his nazi publication, Gothic
Ripples, is read and reproduced by them
and by other nazis in the USA and
Australia.
The BNSM is thought to have its fingers
in several political pies ranging from Blood
and Honour to the League of St George.

The League of St George
Moving down market under the direction
of Keith Thompson, a long-time fascist who
has been involved in organisations ranging
from Union Movement to the KKK, the
League of St George has opened its doors
in the last couple of years to more than the
original mixture of millionaires and nazi
infiltrators. It appears that nowadays even
a few boneheads have managed to get in.
Thompson runs the League Sentinel, a
tatty hate sheet far inferior to the old
League Review.
Mike Griffin and Lucy Roberts still work
behind the scenes but these days Griffin
appears more concerned ' with his Irish
connections and with making big money
from his successful insurance business.
But they all still turn out in memory of Sir
Oswald Mosley.
The Friends of Mosley
With a couple of hundred hand picked
supporters, mainly ageing blackshirts and
pimply-faced graduates and post-
graduates, the Friends of Mosley have tried
to extend their rewriting of history by
means of more ambitious gatherings in the
last year. Their Manchester meeting failed
because of Searchlight's intervention. But
the London gathering for the 80th birthday
of Lady Mosley, one of their patrons, was a Race haters
big success even though the make up of the
audience was not all it might have been, The growing amount of hate material being
with mad bombers from the BNP and other circulated in Britain has concerned not only
assorted thugs sitting alongside genteel old the leaders of various religious and ethnic
race haters and Jew baiters. groups including both Moslems and Jews,
John Warburton, also known as John but also the police, at least in London. They
Christian, still runs this outfit from a rightly conclude that this hate material
council flat in Hackney — so much for the often fuels violent physical attacks by nazis
council's alleged anti-racist policy. He or others who are attracted to their ideas.
produces Comrade, the Friends' internal Lady Jane Birdwood of Choice and the
bulletin, on a fairly regular basis. BNP's Kenneth McKilliam are among the
key purveyors of this muck, which ranges
from blood libels against the Jewish
The Clarendon Club community to hate sheets against Moslems
and blacks. They remain unpunished
The Clarendon Club is the brainchild of despite mounting complaints over the last
David Irving. Until last year it had not met couple of years from communal leaders and
regularly since the early 1980s when MPs.
Searchlight exposed it as a meeting point The Government appears to have an
for neo-nazis and far-right Tories. unwritten policy to leave these cranks
But in 1990 Irving took the plunge once alone. Rather than deterring them, such a
more and the up-market end of fascism in policy only fuels their efforts.
Britain emerged again into the semi-public
gaze. Several lovers of apartheid recently
returned from South Africa were present at
the Club's first meeting.
Apart from his incessant touring and his
willingness to address the nazi BNP in
Yorkshire. Irving has made himself look
absolutely stupid by backing the Leuchter
report and failed nazi revisionists like Ernst Lady Jane Birdwood speaking at a BNP rally.
Ziindel in Canada.
Richard Edmunds of the BNP and others
like Ken Guichard, a former NF activist,
The Monday CEub and also send out such material. Much of it is
Western Goals churched out by the Uckfield-based
printing works of Anthony Hancock and
The Monday Club, a fringe organisation on Tom Acton.
the edge of the Tory Party, has taken
several strides backwards by getting into
bed politically with Western Goals, a group The British League
originally formed on the west coast of the
USA and now active in Britain. Western
of Rights
Goals' policy of inviting French Front The British League of Rights has links with
National leader Le Pen and German neo- groups in Australia, Canada, New Zealand
nazis to Conservative Party conference and southern Africa. Its leader, Don
fringe meetings has done much to distance Martin, who runs Bloomfield Books as an
it from the party proper. outlet for anti-black and anti-Jewish
Support for hardline right-wing groups conspiracy theory material, also has a
abroad, attacks on those campaigning for number of other small groups operating
the prosecution of war criminals and from his East Anglia office, such as the
memorial notices in the Telegraph for the Anti Dear Food Campaign. His wife is a
late and unlamented Francisco Franco are leading activist, alongside several key
all part of the Western Goals scene. Tories, in the anti-abortion "pro-life"
campaign.
Martin's booklist contains much material
that cannot be obtained elsewhere. It was
some of his Australian counterparts who
helped David Irving to publish his book
that attacks Churchill so viciously.
International liaison
The Odal Ring, CEDADE, which is based
in Spain and consists of old and new SS men
and neo-nazis, the Knights of the Invisible
Empire of the Ku Klux Klan, and the
bonehead international links now fully
compliment and co-operate with each other
on a regular basis. Using modern
techniques such as computer modems to
communicate with each other they are
growing in sophistication.
Travel is cheaper than ever before and
increasing numbers of fascists are visiting
each other to plan or organise actions and
events.
FASCISTS ON THE LOOSE
The beginning of 1991 sees much more
activity on the fascist and racist scene
than there has been for several years.
During 1990 attacks on the black
community and, after a gap of some years,
an upsurge in antisemitism worldwide have
painted a very worrying picture. On the
positive side however victories in the courts
and at industrial tribunals for black police
officers and soldiers who have been the
subject of discrimination have created an
atmosphere of hope.
The disgusting outburst against the
nomination of a black man as a
Conservative Party parliamentary
candidate in Gloucester has been stamped
on rapidly by the party's hierarchy, with
threats of expulsion against members of the
local party organisation who thought it
acceptable to use the term "nigger" when
describing the candidate.
Attacks on Jewish cemeteries have
continued, with those in Southsea and
Enfield being the most recent targets.
Enfield, in London, has seen nazi activity
over a long period, including the murder of
an elderly Jewish couple in 1983. Southsea,
in Hampshire, is in the operational orbit of
the Ku Klux Klan based in nearby Hayling
Island.
The largest university in the region,
Southampton, has reverted to a long time
tradition of inviting controversial
characters to its Debating Society. This
time it was the notorious Lady Jane
Birdwood, who may now be only a
hairsbreadth away from prosecution under
the Public Order Act's anti-racist
provisions for her unrepentant and ongoing
distribution of the crudest of anti-Jewish
and anti-Moslem material. Many years ago
students invited Colin Jordan, Britain's key
post-war nazi boss, and later on the
extreme-right historian, David Irving.
This year has shown that well-organised
intelligence gathering and its proper
application do pay off. The North East is a
very good example of this. The last couple
of months have seen the jailing and
conviction of a number of members of
"Skullhead" security, the thugs who protect
the concerts and other activities of Kev
Turner's white noise band. Now Turner
himself, who only last spring was parolled
after serving time for a vicious assault on a
member of the public who lose an eye, is
back in the clink without bail for another
violent attack.
The other nazi big noise of many years'
standing in the North East is Gordon
Stridiron, now the local NF organiser but
once the international liaison officer of the
British nazi movement. Stridiron lost his
job recently after his activities inside the
local Post Office were revealed to Post
Office internal security. Several nazi
groups will suffer by not having this nazi
inside the postal service to give them cover
by means of non-existent mailing
addresses. Tync and Wear Anti-Fascist
Association deserve much praise for this
work. They have not been deterred by the
fact that they are dealing with some of the
most violent nazis in the country.
The Gateshead Federation to Combat
Racism, another group operating against
the racists in the North East, has also
stepped up its activities recently. It is very
pleasing to see the real involvement of both
the Labour Party and the trade unions in
these organisations, rather than only the
representatives of fringe groups. United
against racism and fascism, they are
making real headway.
In London however the outlook is not so
bright. The growing strength of the British
National Party on the streets of East
London is causing great concern. A recent
march orchestrated by the BNP drew
around 230 nazis plus another 350 local
racists to its ranks.
Representatives of the media covering
the march were threatened. A Jewish
researcher was called a "fucking Jewish
whore" and a producer was bombarded
with coins when he tried to interview BNP
members. Anti-fascists were pelted with
eggs and rotten fruit.
The local Asian community has still not
mobilised against these thugs despite the
fact that they are targeting schools that
Asian children attend. On the other hand
local teachers have been in the forefront of
the campaigns to keep the nazis out.
Ten years ago the local trades council
was at the heart of resistance to the nazis. It
is clear that a much broader base is needed
again if they are to be cleared out of the
area.
The BNP's mad bomber, Tony
Lecomber, has been charged with unlawful
wounding. His victim, a young Jewish
teacher, was beaten by this nazi and a
number of other nazi "heroes" on a tube
station after a BNP international rally last
October. Searchlight investigators were
able to help the police with their
investigation. But we were amazed to see
that once again the magistrates failed to do
their job properly and gave Lecomber
unconditional bail, despite the fact that he
is already on bail for his part in an affray the
following day in the East End.
His anti-mugging patrols appear to have
gone out on the streets of Ilford only once,
after locals threatened to confront them
and their attack dogs. A welcome result is
that a number of black and Jewish groups
have come together in a broad front against
the nazi vigilantes.
Also in Ilford, BNP members have taken
to pushing racist and anti-Jewish filth
through letter-boxes. But they have not put
themselves out — most of the material is
delivered on the two blocks closest to
Lecomber's home.
Nazi publisher guilty of fraud
One of the world's most infamous nazi
publishers has been caught with his
pants down at long last. On Friday
7 December 1990 Anthony Hancock of
Brighton, owner of a number of nazi
safe houses and a print works in
Uckfield, Sussex, which he runs in
partnership with top NF officer Tom
Acton, was sentenced to 15 months
imprisonment suspended for two years.
The court heard how in the early to mid-
1980s he had defrauded banks and building
societies of £47,000 by opening bank
accounts under phoney names and
addresses, obtaining loans, transferring the
money to building society accounts and
withdrawing it. He also pleaded guilty to
misusing bank credit cards and store cards.
He claims he was lured into this life of
crime by a mysterious Scandinavian figure
who then disappeared. Perhaps we can jog
the memories of him and the police. The
Scandinavian was Eric Blucher, a
Norwegian nazi bomber, who stayed with
Hancock in Sussex in the late 1970s and
early 1980s and was deeply involved in nazi
activities here. Certain problems both
political and criminal forced him to leave
the country. Since then the authorities in
Scandinavia have been very keen to follow
his work and actions closely.
Hancock had intended to plead not guilty
and claim that he was using other names
because of his political connections and
those of his clients who did not want to be
revealed to the light of day. However
overnight he did a volte face and pleaded
Anger grows over DPP inaction
Regular readers of Searchlight will be
aware of our attempts to get the
Director of Public Prosecutions to
prosecute the individuals and
organisations responsible for the
production and distribution of racist
and antisemitic literature.
Mr Greville Janner MP has been at the
forefront of the campaign. He has argued
that the law should be implemented and if it
proves too weak it should be strengthened.
It appears that his attempts to induce action
have been stonewalled by the government.
On 22 November Mr Janner asked the
Attorney General if he would list the
criteria used to assess whether the public
interest is served by the prosecution of
those alleged to have published or
distributed racist literature. Most of the
reply was legalistic jargon. The gist of the
answer was that individual cases should be
judged on their own merit and that the
prevalence and the seriousness of the
literature were the most important factors
in assessing the effect on the public good.
and has been close to David Irving and
many more internationally known nazi
writers and leaders.
He is known for his high lifestyle and has
a number of girlfriends and children around
the Brighton scene.
With the increasing possibility of
government action against publications like
Holocaust News, which he has printed in
the past along with Did Six Million Really
Die? and The Hoax of the Twentieth
Century, he must now be fearing a knock on
Hancock's mystery house guest, Eric the door by a different set of police officers.
Blucher. In the meantime he still awaits trial for
crimes of a much more serious nature later
guilty. Perhaps some of his political chums this year.
warned him off.
How his conviction will affect the
printing of the wide range of nazi and racist
filth he has churned out over the years is yet
to be seen. Hancock has used several
different names in the past and has
travelled widely. Recently he popped up at
a David Irving rally in Munich with a book
stall selling Hitler memorabilia. Whatever
name he used — Parker, Madeira,
McLaren, or Wilson — he has been able to
bridge the differences between various far-
right groups here and abroad by offering
them all equal printing arrangements.
Hancock comes from a family which has
a far-right pedigree going back to the days
of Mosley's blackshirts. It was from
Hancock's home that Ray Hill,
Searchlight's most famous mole inside the
far right, first took off on the neo-nazi
terror trail into Europe.
Hancock has published revisionist
material in more than a dozen languages
If this is the case then Searchlight can
give the DPP ample evidence of people
who both produce and distribute racist
literature that is very serious in its content
and extremely prevalent in its distribution.
By these criteria dozens of prosecutions
should have been brought in the last few
years alone.
When on 27 November Mr Janncr asked
how many investigations in respect of
racist literature were currently under way,
he was told that information was not kept
centrally and could only be obtained at "dis-
proportionate cost". It would be reassuring
to all anti-racists to know of even one
investigation, let alone prosecution, that is
under way. Surely that would not be too
expensive an endeavour.
Once again we urge all our readers to
•write to both the Home Secretary and the
DPP to demand that action be taken
against those who produce and distribute
racist and antisemitic filth. We welcome the
efforts of Mr Janner MP and ail his
colleagues in the House of Commons who
The most recent piece of garbage in are trying to ensure those responsible are
circulation. punished.
 Stalking jackal
Let us start with a curiosity. "Here is your man in the cabinet has the credentials. The photo
in Women's Realm was the clincher. That tiny
our own national enemies, are potentially our
starter for twelve points", as the quiz- friends".
master might say. "What is the connection blur above Norma's right shoulder has catapulted He doesn't quite say that Britain should be on
between the Prime Minister, a women's her husband into power. the side of Saddam Hussein. But he does praise
We await the Tyndall interpretation of Mr Iran for its forthright treatment of child
magazine and the most boring book ever Major's sudden elevation. But there is no need to molesters. He is edging towards the position
written by a fascist?" Think hard. Give up? await his conspiracy interpretation of politics. It's which caused Patrick Harrington and his chums a
Turn to page 5 of October's British Nationalist, all over the October outpourings from the British spot of bother in the National Front. This is the
published by the British National Party in National Party. pro-Islamic position. And this position perplexes
monthly praise of its leader, John Tyndall. the skinheaded racists, whose idea of fun is to
Observe — October's issue was published long Not interested shout 'Salman Rushdie' at Moslem Asians
before the kerfuffle in the Conservative Party. walking around the streets of Britain.
Page 5 in October contained five different British Nationalist is a bit more coy than
Spearhead about matters conspiratorial. On page Mr Tyndall has to tread carefully in these
photographs, but it is the one on the right, a third matters. Especially since he is once again
of the way down the page, which concerns us. 2 British Nationalist has a piece about the Gulf
conflict. "Not Britain's conflict" it declares in its dreaming of electoral success. These matters can
It's a picture of John Major, the Chancellor of only be alluded to gingerly in British Nationalist,
the Exchequer as he then was, sitting at his desk headline. If it's not Britain's quarrel, then whose
is it? The writer finishes with an unanswered the paper for the skull-brained. Spearhead,
at home. At his side stands Mrs Major — still an whose tedious pages are beyond the average
unfamiliar face back in October. The picture is question and a hint. First comes the question: "Is
Britain being hustled into a fight which is not her racist's patience, is the place for the
reproduced from Woman's Realm. conspiratorial theories.
So far so good. We've got the connection own and interests which are not her interests?"
between the Prime Minister and the women's Then comes the hint: "If so, it would not be the
first occasion in which this has happened in the Old crony
magazine. And now for the third connection.
British Nationalist puts a headline above the present century". Even so, the fascist leader, who wants to attract
picture of the Majors: "Oops! — How did that Turn now to October's Spearhead for more of supporters, must goose-step lightly. Remember
book get there?" Behind the Majors are several the same. But with details. Mr Tyndall "dissects" that hint about Britain going to war for the
shelves of books. An arrow, drawn onto the Britain's Middle East stance. He cites another interests of others, not for the first time. Even Mr
photo, directs attention to one of the many veteran conspiracy theorist, Ivor Benson. Tyndall cannot talk about Hitler loo openly.
shelved books. Only the upper part of its spine is Everything has the same hidden cause: It's the So enter another old crony. Mr Jordan, a rival
visible behind Mrs Major's right shoulder, and "new world order" which is being planned by Fiihrer back in the sixties, writes a letter to
even then it is a tiny blur in the photo. Israel . . . it is war they want, but one in which Spearhead. He's quite willing to spell out the
others will fight and bleed. That is Zionism". hint. He talks about Britain fighting "for Jewish
Major conspiracy Yes, there's "a new global imperialism which has interests". Just like 1939, when "just German
Israel as its centre". demands" were resisted "and this sent Britons to
To the average reader, the book might look All nations arc being "dragooned by gradual die on behalf of international Zionism against
indistinguishable from all the others. Certainly it degrees into an eventual world state under a Adolf Hitler".
appears too indistinct to be identified. At least, world government". Then, Mr Tyndall advances No, Mr Tyndall hasn't said that. Such adroit
by you or me. But fascist eyes are not average a conclusion which might appear surprising. The political footwork to get Mr Jordan to write it.
eyes. One pair of Aryan blue irises has claimed to Islamic nations of the Middle East, he writes, are There is a master politician at work. Did you
have deciphered the half-hidden volume. opposing Israel, therefore, they "far from being know he taught the Prime Minister all he knows?
No sorry, your time is up. The bell has rung.
The quiz-master cannot accept the answer. The
book on the Majors' shelf—"believe it or not, it's
John TyndalFs The Eleventh Hour". And now
look where he is.
Of course it is too soon to see how John Tyndall
reacts to the news that the Prime Minister is
numbered amongst his not exactly vast band of
readers. Perhaps we might hear in later issues of
British Nationalist and Spearhead how 'I taught
the PM all he knows'. But it's doubtful.
More likely, a new twist in an old tale will be
produced. To understand this old talc, one has to
start with two assumptions. First, there is a
Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.
Second, John Tyndall's The Eleventh Hour is the
most important exposure of this conspiracy since
a certain German book called Mem Kampf.
Now we can see the story developing. The
Jewish masters of the world have been
increasingly worried that Mr Tyndall threatens
their near-total power. Read his book, they have
whispered in Mrs Thatcher's ear, and you will
realise the brilliant power of this Aryan brain.
But would she read it? No, no, no. The lady's not-
for reading.
That was her fatal mistake. So she had to go.
And who do the Jewish conspirators put in her
place? Not Mr Hurd. Nor Mr Heseltine. The
former had been too busy writing his own
novellas. And the latter reputedly is too dyslexic
to read something like The Eleventh Hour.
Now, the picture is becoming clearer. Only one Just like old times. Puppet master Jordan (left), still pulling Tyndall's political strings.
THE FASCISTS' IRAQI CONNECTIONS
The visit to Saddam Hussein by the
French National Front leader, Jean-
Marie Le Pen, attracted international
media attention. But like Colonel
Gadaffi before him, he has not been
short of nazi visitors. Just back from
Iraq last month is Colin Todd, a
criminal with several convictions who
was once the National Front political
soldiers' man on Tyneside.
When at the beginning of 1990 the group
split into two tiny factions both known as
Third Way, Todd went with the Griffin/
Holland faction, Holland being the man
with the strongest links to the Arab world.
Todd claims to have travelled to Iraq in
the company of a member of the European
Moslem League with another Third Way
member, possibly Phil Andrews from West
London. He proclaims that Iraq is a
wonderful paradise and accuses the West of
committing atrocities against its people.
This news comes in the wake of the claim
by Patrick Harrington, boss of the other
Third Way faction, to be the owner of a
Libyan passport. Is this just another of his
fantasies or is this one true?
All in favour of the internationalist
position these days, young Patrick
organised an international conference of
his Third Way group in Britain last
October. It was slightly bigger than the
faction's inaugural meeting — this time
they needed two telephone boxes.
Among the overseas speakers was the
American black nationalist fascist
collaborator, Osiris Akkabala. He was
there representing the Pan African
International Movement, known as PAIN,
or more commonly to black Americans as
pain in the arse. Keen as Patrick was to
have a token black man on the platform, he
was not prepared to fork out his air fare and
left this task to Patrick Carvello, a black
man from Hackney, East London, who is
not unknown to Searchlight readers for his
close association with British nazis.
But it was Rabbi Mayer Schiller who was
to be Harrington's prize catch for the
conference. Schiller, who teachers at the
esteemed Yeshiva University in New York,
has been more than just a little friendly
with top nazis in recent times, including the
convicted German-Canadian revisionist
and neo-nazi activist, Ernst Ziindcl.
Schiller stayed with ultra-Orthodox Jews
in Stamford Hill during his visit but was
happy to laugh and joke with Harrington
and his dirty little band of new wave nazis.
The USA has an increasing unemployment
problem and we hope that the Yeshiva
University will add to it by one.
According to a letter in the December
1990 issue of the US nazi paper The New
Order, nazis have been visiting Libya as
guests of the Gadaffi regime once again.

Anger over police attack on anti-nazis

Anti-fascist organisers were furious
with Glasgow's police force after the
amazing events in the city on
8 December.
The British National Party, four of
whose Glasgow members were recently
jailed for serious violence against political
opponents, had announced that John
Tyndall, the party boss, was to lead a
demonstration there.
During the weeks leading up to this event
anti-fascists had negotiated with the police
and everything appeared to be going well.
On the day anti-fascists picketed the
local railway station from Sam in
anticipation of the BNP leader's arrival.
But because of the blizzards he did not turn
up. Instead, 30 of his local thugs appeared
and proceeded to occupy a pub, the Toby
Jug. From the safety of the building, which
was completely scaled off by a very large
number of police, they shouted racial and
anti-Jewish insults at passers-by as well as
doing a lot of sieg heiling.
The anti-fascists, who included people
from black and Jewish groups, the
churches, trade unions and the National
Union of Students in Scotland, decided to
march on the pub to insist that the police
charge the nazis with a breach of the Public
Order Act. Before they could reach the
building a group of 150 police officers
including 30 mounted men attacked the
marchers without mercy, arresting 28 of
them and injuring several people including
passers-by and shoppers. A child in a pram
was hurled over and a motorist ran into a
person who was pushed into the road.
Finally the police escorted the nazis to the
local police station for their own
protection.
MANNING OVERBOARD
BERNARD Manning, the oversized racist
comedian, met his fate at the hands of
Leicester City Council a couple of months
ago. Local anti-racists from Leicester's Inter-
Racial Solidarity Group were amazed to see
that Manning had been booked to appear at
the prestigious De Montfort Hall, owned by
the local authority, which has professed a
commitment to anti-racism. Happily when
the anti-racists complained about the
booking, they found they were pushing at a
half open door and the council promptly
banned the racist gagster from the hall.
Scottish Anti-Racist Movement
(SARM) spokesperson Janice Fawkes said
it made her sick and angry that the police
should protect nazi thugs and attack those
who came lawfully to protest their presence
in the city. SARM will not let the matter
rest and will be taking the matter up with
local MPs and councillors.
We wonder what the local BNP will do for
their Yuletide entertainment this year.
Throw another log on the fire and listen to
Hitler's most famous speeches on tape for
the 150th time?
PIQUE VIEWING
LADY Jane Birdwood, doyen of race haters
and Jew baiters, agreed to be interviewed by
the BBC's First Sight programme on
antisemitism. But as the interview came to a
close, her paranoia overcame her. In a fit of
pique she turned on the assembled crew and
reporter and accused them all of being part of
the cabal of 100 MPs who had signed an early
day motion against her activities and were
demanding that she be charged.
She then refused to sign a release form to
allow the interview she had just given to be
transmitted. She followed this up with calls
to the BBC saying she would take action
against them if they showed the interview or
quoted her.
Dear old aunty BBC lawyers ducked for
cover as always in recent years.
Fascists consolidate in Western Europe
The past year has witnessed political
changes in Europe that few could have
imagined and even fewer could have
predicted at the end of 1989.
The old cold war has come to a definitive
end and with it the eerie stability that it
guaranteed. Now, Europe has been
destabilised by the massive upheavals in
the former communist bloc and these
changes have given heart above all to those
on the far right who took the long view of
history.
The biggest change of all is undoubtedly
the reunification of Germany and the
heightened nationalist atmosphere there.
This has been documented and analysed by
Searchlight in recent months and we have
warned of its dangers, signified by the scale
of violence against foreigners and Jewish
cemeteries.
As we predicted, a short-term
consequence of the success of German
conservative Chancellor Kohl and the
nationalists around him has been the
marginalisation of the fascist electoral
threat with the Republikaner Partei (REP)
abjectly failing to cross the 5 per cent
hurdle and get into parliament (see
separate report).
This dismal failure does not diminish the
danger in Germany. For the time being, it
will strengthen the hand of the more
extreme street-active elements like the
Michael Kiihnen-led Deutsche Alternative
and Nationale Alternative, who will point
to the futility of fighting elections and
promise real action.
This will happen especially in the five
new states that were formerly the German
Democratic Republic (GDR), where
already there is serious concern at the level
of neo-nazi activity and violence, where
social and economic circumstances border
on collapse, where disappointment at
reunification's failure to deliver the goods
is already setting in amongst sections of
young people and where guest workers
and, increasingly, Jewish people are under
siege.
According to the Verfassungsschutz
internal security service, there are already
as many "right extremists" in the former
GDR as in the former West Germany. The
neo-nazis are a threat that will not simply
vanish spontaneously. They will have to be
fought and the weakness of the anti-fascist
movement at a national level in Germany is
a cause for worry.
The new "Gross Deutschland" is already
a reality and it is founded on a nationalism
that spreads right across the political
spectrum. There are some very honourable
exceptions to this — the anti-fascists
around Antifa Info Blatt, the journal
Konkret, and the church-based Aktion
Siihnezeichen.
Other forces like the Social Democrats
(SPD) have not exactly covered themselves
in glory. They unleashed the anti-
communist witch-hunt in the former GDR
and outstripped even the fascists in their
early calls for reunification.
Having embraced nationalism, they
found, in December's election, that it
strangled them, Wimpering about the
enormous costs of reunification was by then
"too little, too late". In fact, for the left as a
whole, including the Greens, the election
was a disaster.
From discontent at the size of the bill for
reunification, increasing social and
economic problems and deepening racist
and anti-foreigner feeling in both east and
west Germany, the extreme right will be
the long-term beneficiaries. The nationalist
foundations for this are already laid.
Across the border in France, the biggest
force of European fascism, Jean-Marie Le
Pen's Front National (FN), shows no sign
of weakening. Its two million plus electoral
base is firmly consolidated as is its position
in the Strasbourg European Parliament.
Today, the FN has extended its political
intervention beyond its main plank of
racism and demands for the mass expulsion
of non-European immigrants, into
campaigns on the environment, jobs and
issues like abortion where it connects with
Roman Catholic fundamentalism.
Furthermore the FN has suffered no
adverse effects from last spring's racist
murder wave, from the monstrous
antisemitic atrocity at Carpentras in May
when Jewish graves and a corpse were
hideously defiled or from the police swoops
on members of the hardline Parti
Nationaliste Francais et Europeenne
(PNFE) on bomb and violence charges.
Despite massive protest demonstrations
after Carpentras, Le Pen studiedly argued
that the desecration had been a trick
perpetrated by "communists and Muslims"
to discredit the FN.
Again not all French people backed the
protests nor the new and still untried anti-
racist laws introduced after Carpentras.
Indeed, a survey after the outrages showed
that while 56 per cent found it "not normal"
to make antisemitic statements, 35 per cent
defended the "right to express oneself",
Belgium too saw police arrests against
fascists after it became clear that their
violence could no longer be ignored.
Among those who got their names into
police notebooks was fascist Vlaams Blok
propaganda chief Xavier Buisseret.
He set a trend for his party's future
leader, Belgian MP Filip de Winter, who
got himself into trouble across the frontier
in Holland and gave his ultra-respectable
image a shake-out in the process by being
arrested in the company of some of
Holland's most hardline nazis.
There are again no signs that the
flirtations with criminality of the Vlaams
Blok have done it any harm either. Its
Antwerp stronghold is as strong as ever.
The most stunning development — and it
may not be the last word in the light of the
NATO Stay Behind revelations — was the
disclosure by the Belgian Parliament that a
sinister group existed in the country whose
objective was "destabilisation by murder,
robbery and bomb attacks".
The group's name was "Group G"
(Gladio?) and it was the Belgian police and
armed forces that Parliament was talking
about.
Holland too has seen an expansion of
fascist engagement with some election
successes earlier this year, though it has not
reached anything like the support gathered
in Germany, Belgium and France.
Nevertheless, the fascists there are
determined to do better.
Indeed, Amsterdam is the home city of
one of Europe's most dangerous nazis: Et
Wolsink, the ex-SS man who was recently
convicted on arms charges and for
belonging to a criminal organisation.
Wolsink, who is well-connected to the
British Movement and Kiihnen's
organisation, is the man behind the
international nazi terror campaign that has
been unleashed in recent months.
In other countries, the progress of
organised racists and fascists has been
patchy. In Italy, though the Italian Social
Movement (MSI) continues to decline,
racism has grown rapidly and a violent
fascist skinhead movement has surfaced
around an onslaught against north African
immigrants.
Regional fascist groups too like the
Lombardy League have appeared and are
able to mobilise enough support to gain
election to the European and regional
parliaments.
The exposure of the Stay Behind, or
'Gladio', conspiracy has also indicated the
broad constituency of support for
authoritarian solutions and neo-fascist
terrorism that exists in the top echelons of
the Italian state apparatus.
In Denmark, Poul-Riis Knudsen, World
Union of National Socialists 'Fiihrer', had
to drop his law-suit against anti-fascists,
and his Danish National Socialist League is
in the doldrums. This is in marked contrast
to the situation elsewhere in Scandinavia.
In Sweden, the fascist Sweden
Democrats are still expanding and have
over 4,000 members with numerous local
branches. Racist violence too is on the up.
As for Norway, fascist and racist groups are
making their presence more felt than for
many years.
Switzerland is, in relative terms, possibly
the racists' biggest growth area. Much of
this can be attributed to the gross failure of
the Swiss authorities to root out the
architects and practitioners of fascist
violence who proliferate in outfits like
Marcel Strebl's nazi Patriotic Front.
As with the antisemitic onslaught that
has swept Europe since the summer, the
perpetrators of fascist violence have largely
escaped unscathed and certainly
unpunished.
At a time when the link between
organised racism, antisemitism, neo-
nazism and violence becomes daily more
evident, there is a distinct lack of will by the
authorities right across Europe to stamp
out this anti-democratic menace.
That is why the failure in October of the
European Parliament to give
overwhelming backing to the report of its
own Committee of Inquiry into Racism and
Xenophobia — which extensively
documented this link — is highly
regrettable.
If party politics takes priority over a
recognition of the dimension of the racist
threat to the human rights of Europe's 14
million foreigners and its Jewish
communities, then the prospect for 1992
will be a gloomy one for all those whom the
racists and fascists have in their sights. This
is one more reason why the anti-fascist
movement in Europe should get down to
serious co-ordination.
By our European editor
The
of nationalism
hate
If events in Germany are the touchstone for
Central Europe, the crisis of the Soviet
Union provides their counterpart for
Eastern Europe.
In reality, the two are inextricably
linked: Germany's emergence as a
European superpower has been the result
of, and at the expense of, the USSR's
virtual eclipse.
One by one, the old bureaucratic and
repressive structures of Stalinism have
collapsed from their own internal corrosion
and opened the door to a "freedom" in
which "real existing counter-revolution" is
bubbling just below the surface.
Long-suppressed, but never uprooted,
tendencies like antisemitism and fascism
have started to burst through into the
political daylight with a vengeance.
This is especially true in countries like
the Soviet Union, Romania, Poland and
Hungary where the newly-generated
antisemitic hatred has been accompanied
by violence against Jewish cemeteries and
property and, in the case of the Soviet
Union, the murder of Jews.
In the Soviet Union, despite the recent
jailing of top Pamyat leader Konstantin
Smirnov-Ostashvili, his organisation
continues to propagate its genocidal hatred
and lies against Jews, openly selling the
notorious Protocols of the Elders ofZion as
propaganda material.
Pamyat has begun to spread its wings
internationally and already has firm
contacts with neo-nazi elements in
Germany as well as playing host to the
British nazi thug, Steve Brady.
So far, the Ostashvili case apart, the
Soviet authorities have not been very
enthusiastic in following President
Gorbachev's call for action against such
groups. On present estimates, Pamyat is
alleged to have over 30,000 supporters in
Leningrad and 40,000 in Moscow.
In addition to Pamyat, there are distinct
racist and antisemitic tendencies on display
in some of the separatist movements in the
Soviet republics. These tendencies have
been apparent in the Baltic states,
especially in Lithuania, and far to the south
in Moldavia.
The total disarray existing in the Soviet
Union is reflected in the chaotic confusion
displayed by some of its top
representatives.
Gorbachev himself has co-opted two
known racists onto his Presidential Council
and leading spokesman Valentin Fallin is
known to be in contact with elements like
the ex-nazi general, Otto Ernst Remer,
while London ambassador Leonid
Zamyatin denies that any antisemitic
violence is taking place.
And most astonishingly of all, the
Military History Journal published extracts
— without comment — from Hitler's Mein
Kampf in a recent edition, an action
condemned by Defence Minister Dimitri
Yasov as "neither historically nor morally
justifiable".
The point is that it did happen and tough
action will be needed if Pamyat is to be
prevented from deriving advantage from
such outrages that even a year ago would
have been unthinkable in the USSR. The
likelihood is that the growth of the crisis
will see a parallel growth of nakedly fascist
and neo-nazi tendencies.
The situation in Poland indicates the
relative ease with which antisemitic
tendencies take root, even though the
number of Jews there is a fraction of one
per cent of the population.
In December's Polish presidential
elections, the populist demagogue Lech
Walesa made fulsome use of antisemitism.
By denying his own, he gave publicity to
that of others and the target for much of it
was his old Solidarnosc colleague Adam
Michnik.
After Walesa's first round challenger,
and the other main target of antisemitic
smears, Prime Minister Tadeusz
Mazowiecki was defeated, the antisemitism
was put away again for future use.
However, it did not prevent attacks on
the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw,
which had its windows smashed twice and
its staff intimidated by louts of the kind who
turned up in large numbers last May to
defend a fascist unity rally and beat up left-
wing counter-demonstrators in Warsaw.
In Hungary, too, officials deny that there
is antisemitism but Jewish cemeteries were
targeted for violence during the wave of
outrages that swept Europe earlier this
year.
Hate mail lands on the desk of the Jewish
community office in Budapest every day
and smears have been levelled both at the
former communist Socialists and at
candidates of the liberal Alliance of Free
Democrats in elections. Hungary's 80,000
Jews live in uncertainty of what the future
will bring.
So does the country's huge Romany and
Sinti community whose members have also
been the victims of the violent attentions of
boneheads who are now a thriving cult
amongst Hungarian youth.
This pattern is repeated across Eastern
Europe from Bucharest in Romania to
Prague in Czechoslovakia. The old
scapegoats, Jews and Romany people,
have become the new scapegoats.
Romanian nationalists of the fascist
Vatra Romanesca movement, which claims
400,000 supporters, have openly called for
a "bloody war" against Romanies, Jews and
other national minorities. These same
fascists were at the centre of the coup
attempt against the National Salvation
Front government in June, which was
violently repulsed by the coal miners.
In Czechoslovakia, the hatred towards
the 800,000 Romany people is particularly
vicious and is the main daily preoccupation
of the skinhead gangs that have
mushroomed to over 3,000 in Prague alone
and which are making contacts for their
"White Power" politics with fascist skins in
Britain, Sweden and Germany.
When they are not desecrating Jewish
cemeteries or beating up Romany people,
they focus their violence on Vietnamese
guest workers who have had to make a
personal appeal to President Vaclav Havel
for police action against their bonehead
tormentors.
Last year, writing about East European
developments, we warned of "the danger
that large sections of the populations of
East Germany, Hungary and Poland could
drift far to the right if the economic plight of
those countries shows no improvement".
Today, tangible signs of precisely that
process are in evidence, symbolised by an
absence of any meaningful improvement
and a readiness of the disaffected young to
resort to violence against minorities.
Nowhere is that more true than in the
former East Germany. There, day after
day, legitimate concern about neo-nazi
violence is a topic of conversation.
There too neo-nazi skinheads have
installed themselves as a force to be
reckoned with not only by Vietnamese,
African and Cuban guestworkers but also
by the tiny Jewish community and the Party
of Democratic Socialism, whose meetings
they successfully wrecked during the
election campaign and whose Jewish
leader, Gregor Gysi, they have singled out
for hatred.
But, and this is an East European
pattern, the authorities are impotent to
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Nco-nazi Fiihrer Michael Kiihnen was
arrested in Cottbus in early December,
along with 90 of his followers, after making
a speech at a banned demonstration.
After speaking to his supporters, the
nazis planned to march from the Cottbus
central station to the city centre to protest
at the ban on their demonstration.
This was the second police action against
Kiihnen and his supporters in one day.
Before the Cottbus incidents, Kiihnen and
over 200 neo-nazis were dispersed by
German and Polish border police at
Guben, where they had tried to stage a
protest against the recent signing of the
German-Polish border treaty.
Neo-nazi demonstrations are now a
regular occurrence in the former German
Democratic Republic (GDR) and,
according to Bernd Wagner, the security
chief in the five new German states, over
8,000 people have taken part in them, as
well as racist attacks, this year.
Highlighting the deplorable state of
police intelligence on the neo-nazis,
Wagner conceded that the names of only
900 of the key fascist activists are known to
his office.
The former Volkspolizei had registered
no fewer than 33 nco-nazi demonstrations
with up to 500 people taking part each time.
They had also recorded 44 attacks on
foreigners and 92 seriously violent
incidents in which people suffered severe
injuries.
Wagner commented that since 1981
there had been problems with groups of
youth who propagated racist, antisemitic
and nationalist views and warned that many
of these groups had contacts with fascists in
West Germany and Hungary.
In December's first all-German elections
since 1933, the main fascist electoral force,
the Republikancr Partei (REP), headed by
ex-Waffen SS man and Euro-MP Franz
Schonhuber, was vigorously trounced at
the ballot-box, failing to gather even the 5
per cent necessary to win election to the
new all-German Parliament.
Their average vote was a mere 2.1 per
cent, compared with the 7.1 per cent they
captured in the 1989 European elections. In
West Berlin, where they made their first
dramatic breakthrough in January 1989,
they were also shattered, seeing their
support slashed by over two-thirds to 2.4
per cent. Only in Bavaria did they poll
more than 5 per cent.
The fact that Chancellor Kohl's
Christian Democrats played on nationalism
and thus benefited most from the
nationalist groundswell is one reason for
the REP's demise.
Neo-nazi Fuhrer Michael Kuhnen (left) with US counterpart Gary Lauck.
The other reason is the party's
continuing internal warfare, which has
resulted in split after split and a decline in
membership from 28,000 to around 15,000.
In December, REP leader Schonhuber
announced his resignation from Le Pen's
fascist Technical Group of the European
Right in the European Parliament.
In Bonn, Schonhuber declared that his
party could not sit in Strasbourg with "neo-
nazis, racists and extremists". He evidently
prefers to sit in Munich with neo-nazis,
racists and extremists.
Despite the electoral blows, factional
strife and the own goals, it would be
dangerous to write off the extreme right,
because in the December vote it still pulled
in the support of 985,557 people in West
Germany and 17,118 in East Germany
where it was hardly represented.
This vote, added to the total vote of
179,875 for the neo-nazi NPD, still
indicates a hard-core electoral base of well
over a million. Also, in both parts of
Germany, many fascists boycotted the
campaigns.
Thus, the REP, or whatever might
replace it, has a firm foundation for future
intervention and agitation to benefit from
the wave of German nationalism which has
far from run its course.
Memorial wrecked
Only four days after its opening a memorial
to nazi euthanasia victims in Baden-
Wurttemburg has been wrecked by fascist
louts.
The memorial to the 10,600 physically
and mentally handicapped victims of the
nazis had been consecrated by the
Protestant Bishop of Baden-Wurttemburg.
The leader of a local church group that
had helped raise funds to erect the
memorial said that the altar there had been
deliberately and irreparably smashed with
hammers.
Other damage included the spraying of
nazi symbols on flowers laid by an
organisation of victims' relatives.
Racist attacks
increase
A German community group has warned
that reunification is leading to an increase
in racist attacks.
Yonas Endias, speaking for the Baz
community group, said that reunification
means little for black people except "unified
racism". Recently Baz's headquarters were
burned down following threatening letters
which warned: "Your days are numbered—
Germany for the Germans".
Certain sections of Berlin and other cities
have become no-go areas for black people
because of the level of racist attacks. Yonas
said that "the situation is much worse after
football matches when skinheads roam
around".
In response black people have formed
the Black Unity Committee and are taking
self-defence lessons.
Swiss fascist thug and Patriotic Front leader
Marcel Strebel has been jailed for one
month for abusing a black woman on Swiss
television in the summer of 1989. In
addition to his time in jail, he was ordered
to pay court costs and damages totalling
1,000 Swiss francs.
Before he spat at the woman on
television, Strebel pursued her shouting
racist and sexist abuse, forcing her to take
refuge in a porter's office. Meanwhile,
Strebel hammered on the door screaming
"Heil Hitler".
The nazi leader did not appear in court
but chose to be represented by his sidekick,
Norbert Camenzind. Earlier Strebel had
withdrawn a libel action against a journalist
who named him as the leader of a vicious
racist arson attack on a refugee hostel in
Chur.
On this occasion the arsonist did turn up
in court, this time chaperoned by Swiss
Wiking Jugend leader Roger Wuthrich
from Worblaufen.
The proceedings against Strebel mark a
sudden burst of activity by the otherwise
dead slow to move Swiss authorities. In fact
recently, they have excelled themselves by
also throwing out the wanted Spanish
fascist Francisco Paese Sanchez.
Usually the Swiss Foreign Affairs
Ministry rejects extradition requests but
this time they did not even have to be asked
and turfed him out to Spain where he will
face murder and subversion charges.
From our Swiss Correspondent

1990 has been a relative boom period for
the far right in Norway with new groups
mushrooming out of the fertile soil of much
heightened popular racism and nourished
by an atmosphere of increasing state
hostility to immigrants.
"Nice" Norway's claim to shame is that
today it has tighter rules for asylum
seekers, refugees and immigrants than any
other European country and its Justice
Minister openly uses such expressions as
"invasion" and "tide" when talking about
immigration issues.
At the same time, deportations, often
accompanied by harrowing scenes, are part
of the daily fabric of Norwegian life. The
message projected by the new tough Alien
Laws is a clear one: Third World people are
not wanted here, we're closing our borders
to keep them out and those already in
should also go.
Protests against this racism have been
met with a high level of police repression.
Demonstrators can guarantee to be met
with massive police force including the use
of horses, dogs, tear-gas and batons.
These developments, combined with
growing threats from violent racist groups,
have begun to take their toll and more and
more people are being scared away from
voicing opposition.
Most disturbing of all is the near total
failure of the authorities to act against
racist groups, despite mountains of official
legal complaints both from anti-racists and
ordinary citizens.
Only a few of the escalating number of
violent attacks are properly investigated
and reach a court room. Anti-racists are
accused, from the far left to the far right, of
violating free speech in their militant
opposition to this state of affairs.
Frighteningly, fascist groups can come
out into the open and alarming too are the
mounting signs of increased willingness of
these groups to drop their internal
differences and to co-operate with each
other in raising the racist temperature.
The main racist force remains the
Progress Party of Carl I Hagen which is
represented in parliament. In addition,
there are now no fewer than 11 far right and
fascist groups on the Norwegian scene.
What is most interesting about these
outfits is that there are clear signs of a
division of labour between those who crave
respectability and the proponents of
violence.
Straddling these two wings of extreme
racism, the biggest force is the People's
Movement Against Immigration (FMI),
founded in 1987 and much identified with
former leader Arne Myrdal.
The FMI tries to project a moderate,
middle-aged, middle-class image and
openly publishes the names and addresses
of its leaders.
However, if they want to publish
Myrdal's address, it will be the number of
his prison cell where he is serving a pitiful
one year sentence for his part in a terror-
bomb plot that even the racist Norwegian
police could hardly ignore.
Before his trial. Myrdal published a book
claiming that he was being persecuted by
Labour Prime Minister Brundtland. He
was unrepentant about his violence and
showed this when, at the FMI's annual
conference at Fevik, he led a band of
masked thugs who waded into peaceful
protestors with sticks, fists and boots.
He and 10 other FMI activists are now
facing charges in connection with this
assault. Again it was not to be easily
ignored because shocked TV viewers had
seen the racist violence broadcast on a news
programme.
Now, Myrdal says he looks forward to a
civil war that will lead to mass deportation
of all immigrants. Even since he was jailed
the FMI has been able to stage street
activities in support of its mad-bomber
leader.
Spearheading this activity and giving the
FMI cover has been Myrdal's youth group
Patriotic Youth (PU), which is led by Kjetil
Bjorkas and has members all over southern
Norway. Recently, PU held a "solidarity"
demonstration at Myrdal's new residence
and it is known to co-operate with the louts
of Zorn 88 and fascist skinheads.
Anti-racists in Norway have identified at
least three other groups which, while
ideologically fascist, try to plough a
populist, anti-immigrant furrow.
Firstly, there is the Stop Immigration (SI)
movement, led by state official Jack Erik
Kjuus. which, though it got 9,000 votes in
last year's elections, faces problems arising
from the defection — with most of the
members — of its star performers, Nancy
Engeland, who decamped to Los Angeles
to become a porn queen, and Hege
S0fteland.
S0fteland moved on to found the
misnamed National Democrats (ND) in
which she has carved out a niche for herself
as the media-conscious far right's hottest
property, coupled with the kind of
notoriety enjoyed by Britain's Lady Jane
Birdwood.
Indeed, she has been on two popular
television talk shows and, working closely
with the lawyer Erik Gjems-Onstad, her
efforts have enabled the ND to begin to set
up local branches across Norway. Its
present campaign is to gather the 3,000
signatures it needs to register as a party.
S0fteland, perhaps the most dangerous
figure on the racist scene, is not shy of
collaborating with more unsavoury
elements and earlier this year she openly
attended the FMI's annual conference.
This is also reflected in the ND's role as the
driving force behind Norway's newest
racist journal, Norsk Blad, which aims to
unify the various racist groups.
And underneath this cover violence
simmers. On the same weekend that
S0fteland starred in a debate at Oslo
University, a well-known Oslo anti-fascist
was severely beaten by three masked thugs
who declared themselves as members of
the ND. This action was highly praised in
the most recent edition of Norsk Blad.
The other group which projects a
"straight" image is the Fatherland Club
(FL), whose formation was announced last
May by Professor Harald Trefall, a former
FMI activist. Prominent also is the long-
time nazi lawyer, Tollaf Tollefsen, (and his
wife) who has acted for the Bergen racist
radio broadcaster Ivar Ganberg.
Rounding off this lot is the National
Democratic Union (NDU). Its base is in
Jesseheim and its chief is the yuppie
Michael Knutsen, rumoured to be
Norway's only intellectual nazi after he
founded the NDU at Oslo University.
Despite its claims to respectability, it too
has links with more extreme formations in
Norway, as well as with the German neo-
nazi National Democratic Party (NPD).
Recently, some of its members have left to
join the ND and others to Zorn 88.
This brings us to the thug element, the
hard underbelly of Norwegian racism and
fascism.
Zorn 88, for its part, was launched on
Christmas Eve 1988 by 40-year-old Erik
Rune Hansen and Ole Misvaer. It remains
the only group in Norway that openly
describes itself as national socialist.
Misvaer's main activity is the
distribution of clippings from the British
nazi Holocaust News to Jews and war
veterans. Erik Rune Hansen also has a
lengthy nazi track record, having started
out as a supporter of the hard-core Hitlerite
magazine Folk og Land before going on to
become an activist of Erik Blucher's Norsk
Front.
Hansen left Norsk Front in 1979,
however, and stayed in the political
shadows until the formation of Zorn 88, an
organisation which now bears his stamp.
Zorn 88 is extremely secretive and
functions with a strict hierarchy in which
members are graded — A, B and C —
according to their level of activity. It is a
self-proclaimed elitist group and it is
believed to have a membership of around
100, mainly drawn from the old Norsk
Front.
For propaganda, it publishes an irregular
magazine called Gjallarhorn whose topics
are the usual ones of racism, antisemitism
and nationalism with UFOs thrown in for
good measure. Bergen nazi "Fiihrer"
Gunnar Krebs is a regular contributor.
Zorn 88 has links with Poul Riis-
Knudsen's Denmark-based World Union
of National Socialists and has encouraged
the formation of nazi bonehead gangs in
Oslo and Dramman.
Other remnants of the Norsk Front now
hang out in the Nasjonalt Folkeparti (NF)
but this group has been pushed aside by the
emergence of other racist outfits. Its
activity centres on Bastian Heide, who is
infamous for producing racist hate
propaganda and works with Myrdal's FMI.
Heide is frequently in the press but more
because he is always good for an
outrageous comment to lazy hacks than for
anything noteworthy. The bright spot on
the NF's horizon is Runar Scau, a weapons-
gathering Hitler-admirer from east Oslo,
who seems adept at influencing young
people. Significantly, the NF's youth
group, National Youth (NU), has re-
activated itself.
Young people are the key target group
for the more violent, down-market end of
Norway's bizarre far-right spectrum. Most
worrying is the sudden appearance of a nazi
bonehead scene.
This is symbolised especially by the
Dramman-based group which gives itself
the attractive name Boot Boys. This
criminal gang is headed by the former NF
youth leader, Ole Krogstad, fresh from a
10-month spell in prison for bombing an
immigrants' office in Oslo.
Though it has only about 30 members,
Boot Boys is a real strong-arm squad which
is not afraid to put itself about. It has been
behind a series of vicious beatings of gay
people and it spearheaded a nazi assault on
the left-wing autonome Blitz House, in
Oslo.
Also it is literate, producing a hard-line
racist fanzine called Boot Boys, edited by
Bj0rn Erik Hansen. Significantly, the only
other well-known member of this storm-
troop is Henning Haraldsen . . . who just
happens to be secretary of the NDU!
Other youth cults also bear the marks of
neo-nazism. Amongst these are bikers
grouped around the would-be Hells Angels
of Lawless MC in T0nsebcrg and its youth
branch Gestapo MC.
Between them the two groups,
influenced by former NF youth organiser
Ole Olsen, have made a serious nuisance of
themselves in T0nseberg where they have
made it trendy among over 100 middle-
class youth to wear "white power" badges
and swastikas on their denim jackets and to
carry out violent attacks on black
youngsters and anti-racists.
The other group that has emerged in the
past year is the so-called Aryan Front. Ole
Krogstad of Boot Boys has both feet in this
and so, even more sinisterly, do two of the
Norwegian nazi scene's real hard men, the
convicted assassin, Johnny Olsen, and the
bomber, Peter Kyvik.
Olsen's violence is legendary. In the late
1970s, while still a teenager, he belonged to
the so-called "Vigilante" assault formation
which violently attacked left-wing
demonstrations between 1979 and 1982.
Later he became a member of a nazi
guerrilla group calling itself the
Norwegian-German army, which was
smashed by police in 1981 after two
dissident members were wasted by Olsen
and the group's co-founder, the army
sergeant Espen Lund.
Lund claimed in court that the group was
acting under instructions from the German
ODESSA organisation and police raids
uncovered arsenals of arms and explosives.
Olsen was sentenced to 18 years for
murder. Now he is on the loose again and
involved in renewed activity. That alone
makes the Aryan Front both bad news and
an organisation to watch.
From our Norwegian Correspondent
1990: a year of nazi violence
As 1990 drew to a close, anti-fascist forces
in Sweden could look back on a less than
satisfying year in which the racist right
appeared to be stronger, better organised,
and more violent than ever before.
In particular 1990 saw such continued
growth of the Sweden Democrats (SD), the
heirs of the notoriously racist and violence-
prone Keep Sweden Swedish (BSS), that
now they can boast a membership of about
4,000 with local branches in 30 key towns.
This success is unparalleled for a fascist
organisation in post-war Sweden.
Formally established in 1988, the SD
aims at winning new respectability for
racist policies by fighting local elections
and giving street action and .its skinhead
proponents a lower profile.
Though the policy seems to have paid off
to make the SD the biggest organisation on
the Swedish extreme right, a few scratches
at the surface of the new suit-and-tie image
reveals links with some less than
respectable organisations.
Many of the party's members have
backgrounds in traditionally nazi outfits
and three of the key members of the SD
party executive are ex-leaders of Keep
Sweden Swedish: Sven Davidsson, Jarker
Magnusson and Lars Ljungh.
Meanwhile party strongman Leif
Eriksson — aka Leif Zeilon — lurks behind
the scenes as chief of the party's
propaganda machine and chairman of the
electoral committee, which appoints
nominees for leadership positions.
The SD's main competition comes from
the recently relaunched Progress Party
(PP), which had lost out heavily in its own
earlier merger with the thugs of the BSS.
The PP is partly financed by former BSS
lout and multi-millionaire brat Carl
Lundstrom, who was convicted for criminal
assault in 1987. According to PP sources,
Lundstrom's handouts helped the party get
back on its feet. But now it is staggering
from the blows of a new leadership crisis in
which the new party leader, Tony
Wiklander, has reportedly been shown the
door.
Outside the Sweden Democrats and the
Progress Party, assorted groups vegetate
on the political margins. For example, the
once-strong Sweden Party is down to its last
50 members under the leadership of
headcase Lars Lind.
Not renowned for his brain power,
Lind's escapades have become increasingly
embarrassing to his ever-decreasing band
of followers. A year ago he was arrested for
possession of an illegal weapon, when, in
an astonishing display of his intellectual
resources, he tried to light a cigarette in a
hamburger restaurant . . . with a 50,000
volt stun gun.
Shortly afterwards he was so drunk on a
party propaganda broadcast on community
radio that he fell asleep in the middle of a
discussion.
Increasingly antisemitic, the Sweden
Party has introduced the swastika into its
leaflets and in Stockholm has started to
work hand-in-glove with the nazi Swedish
Socialist Workers Party (SSWP), led by
one Percy Brunstrom.
On 30 November, normally the big day in
every Swedish fascist's diary when they
commemorate Sweden's 18th century
warrior king, Charles XII, the Sweden
Party and the SSWP gathered a crowd of
about 150 people, mainly boneheads. They
were met by several hundred anti-racist
youths, although riot police prevented the
expected clashes by sealing off streets
leading to the nazi rally.
Arguably the most worrying
development in 1990 has been the
intensification of naked violence against
immigrants. Starting in May, the country
was blitzed by a series of terrorist attacks
on refugee centres.
Eleven people were injured and property
valued at nearly £1 million was destroyed in
a single week, during which six refugee
camps were attacked. More violence has
since followed and over 20 camps have now
been the target of violence.
Nor did the violence stop at bombings. In
Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city,
two nazi skinheads have been charged with
the brutal torture and murder of a 35-year-
old homosexual.
The two, Daniel Karlsson, 19, and
Goran Gullvang, 23, were closely
associated with the Hitlerite Nordic Reich
Party, Gullvang, who inspires terror
amongst his friends, had already spent four
years in a closed psychiatric unit after his
involvement in the killing of another
homosexual in 1985.
Let loose again, it did not take this ardent
nazi long to decide to spill blood. An
eyewitness has testified that he carried out
most of the gruesome slashing that resulted
in the recent murder.
From our Swedish correspondent
Continued from page 19
deal with the problem and the fact that
socialism is totally discredited means that a
political space is opening up which the
fascists can occupy in the event of a deep
radicalisation.
As to resistance, there is not much of that
anywhere in Eastern Europe. Quite
simply, there are no anti-fascist movements
in the former East Bloc states. Anti-fascism
is even a dirty word because of the way .that
it was cynically used as a propaganda tool
by undemocratic regimes.
And in any case, the experience of
confident self-organisation and militant
defence is completely lacking, thanks to the
timewarp of the last 45 years.
In January 1990, Searchlight said that
developments in Eastern Europe were "not
a good omen for Europe's future over the
next decade". Twelve months on, we see
nothing to convince us to change that
assessment.

STATE
OF THE
UNION
As a feature of Searchlight's inter-
national coverage, the research depart-
ment of the Centre for Democratic
Renewal presents a regular column on
the activities of the far right in the
United States.
Each year Klansmen, skinheads and other
neo-nazis start the year with marches to
protest the national holiday commemor-
ating the birthday anniversary of Dr Martin
Luther King, Jr., and 1990 was no
different. Over a dozen Klan factions and
skinhead groups marched in six different
cities — including Atlanta, Georgia and
Pulaski, Tennessee. But one month later
the Center for Democratic Renewal
(CDR) began an investigation into the
Invisible Empire Klan in the small
downstate Georgia town of Blakely. By
June the CDR had uncovered an Invisible
Empire cell in the Blakely fire department;
including Franklin Brown, vice-president
of the local Klan and the town's fire chief.
When the CDR assisted some local black
residents in filing suit against Brown and
the city council, the fire chief responded
that he had never been a member of the
Klan at all and sued the CDR for libel. The
lawsuits threatened to drag on for years.
Meanwhile, Richard Butler's Aryan
Nations scraped together a collection of
skinheads to celebrate Hitler's birthday at
the encampment in the north Idaho woods.
By the time it was over Stephen Winslow,
Proctor Bakers and Steve Nelson had
hatched a plot to bomb a gay disco and
other targets 200 miles away in Seattle. But
an informant had tipped the police and
before you could say 'Herman Goring' the
three were arrested, convicted and
sentenced to long jail terms.
It was a tough year for the skins. In July
nazi skin Norman Hillier was beaten to
death by some of his comrades in Boulder,
Colorado. Three weeks later in Vancouver,
Washington, another nazi skin, David
Lindley, was beaten to death by his
comrades. Both Hillier and Lindley were
stealing from their friends. And in
Nashville and Tulsa grand juries indicted
skinheads on federal charges.
Still Butler's Aryan Nations spent most
of the year trying to win the skins away
from Tom Metzger and his White Aryan
Resistance (WAR) outfit. WAR had
grown and was operating recorded hate
message phone lines in over 15 cities —
including Washington, DC and New York
City. In the Oklahoma heartland, Metzger
sidekick Joe Greco held a July gathering of
over 250 skins in the woods. But Seraw's
estate along with the Southern Poverty Law
Center and the Anti-Defamation League
sued Tom, his son John and WAR in civil
court on wrongful death charges. Some
Portland WAR followers had beaten to
death Mulegeta Seraw, an Ethiopian
national, in 1988. When the trial was over
in October the Metzgers were stuck with
$12.5 million worth of fines and a court file
with their bank transactions a matter of
public record. WAR had taken in over
$60,000 in cheques and money orders
during the previous three years. According
to court testimony, over 70 per cent of
WAR proceeds were in cash — an
estimated extra $140,000.
For years Tom Metzger has criticised
David Duke for living off the movement,
claiming that he (Metzger) was just a hard
working stiff of a TV repairman rather than
a slick politician like Duke. But this time
Metzger got his hand caught in the till —
taking over $30,000 for his personal use,
including a quick $260 for his toupee.
Duke's 1990 take was quite a bit larger.
He raised and spent approximately $2
million dollars on his campaign for the US
Senate. By the time the campaign was over
Duke had captured 605,000 ballots — 60
per cent of the white votes. But not enough
to win the race. He lost to Senator Bennett
Johnson.
Duke had pioneered a whole new drive
towards respectability by the white
supremacist movement. His 1988 campaign
manager, Ralph Forbes, won 33,000 votes
in Arkansas, despite his history as a
"Captain" in Rockwell's American Nazi
Party. And the Populist Party fielded
almost two dozen candidates in half a dozen
states.
Duke's new found image was echoed at
the speakers table at the Institute for
Historical Review meeting in Washington,
DC in October. The IHR specialises in
claiming that the nazis were the real victims
in world war two because the gas chambers
never existed. On the platform with Robert
Faurisson, David Irving and Fred Leuchter
was the respected author John Toland.
Toland's appearance was as much a victory
for the neo-nazis' attempt to paint
themselves as scholars as Duke's election
campaign was an attempt to paint himself
as a mainstream politician.
But the anti-racists had a few victories of
their own. Over 350 activists and
community leaders from across the South
and as far away as Portland, Oregan and
New Hampshire met in Atlanta for the
CDR's November conference "Democracy
vs. Bigotry". For two tough days they
planned strategies for cutting the legs out
from under the racists. Stetson Kennedy,
who infiltrated the Klan between 1943 and
Paul Marriott (right), British Klansman, with
US chums, 1987.
1951, gave a boost of courage to the young
people following in his footsteps. An
international panel composed
representatives of the CDR, the Canadian
Centre Against Racism and Prejudice, the
of
African National Congress and Gerry
Gable from Searchlight magazine built
stronger networks of co-operation for the
future. And a strong delegation of
community activists from Blakely, Georgia
rallied the conference to their side for the
battles ahead.
And it was Blakely that capped the year.
After being exposed as a Klan leader
during pre-trial investigations, fire chief
Franklin Brown resigned in December. He
could not keep the charade up any longer.
The families of the two black children who
were killed because of the fire
department's racist practices may see
justice yet.
SOUTH AFRICA
Nazi
stormtroopers
beat children
Racist thugs in nazi uniforms showed the
full extent of their courage in South Africa
last month with a singularly brutal attack on
a black children's picnic.
According to eyewitnesses in Louis
Trichardt, about 450 kilometres north of
Johannesburg, 25 white men, armed with
clubs and whips, stormed into a crowd of
400 children aged between 7 and 11 years
old and gave some of them a severe
beating.
The motive for the attack, which resulted
in seven children having hospital
treatment, was the claim that "blacks had
no right to be in a park reserved for
whites". Since President de Klerk's
reforms all public places are nominally
open to people of all races.
Picnic organiser George Muhali, a
priest, accused police of standing by and
watching while the children were being
beaten, but they denied this.
Later, however, 12 white men were
arrested in connection with the assault and
charged with various crimes of violence and
possession of offensive weapons.
On the same weekend as the Louis
Trichardt incident, in Welkom, which is
south of Johannesburg, an organised gang
of white men dressed in the uniform of
Eugene Terre'Blanche's Afrikaner
Resistance Movement launched a violent
attack on a trade union meeting of the
mainly black National Union of
Mineworkers, badly injuring some of the
miners.
In a separate development, an Afrikaner
nazi who killed a black taxi driver "to get
practice for murdering black leaders" was
jailed for 24 years after being found guilty
of murder by the Rand Supreme Court in
Johannesburg.
The nazi, Cornelius Loitering, admitted
the murder but told the court that he felt no
guilt for his crime "because the Bible allows
the killing of enemies".
Searchlight in action
In the last three months Searchlight has
held more meetings than ever — in
Warwick, Salford, Manchester,
Sheffield, Gateshead, Leicester and
several in London — and sales of the
magazine have grown. At all these
meetings our message is straightforward
and plain: organise now in the broadest
possible terms, pool information,
analyse it and act.
Searchlight has also been involved in
the making of two more television
programmes on the far right. The first
was transmitted on 6 December in the
BBC's First Sight series and the other is a
Panorama programme scheduled for the
end of January.
Searchlight intends to make a couple
of videos for use at anti-racist and anti-
fascist meetings and we should like to
hear from anybody who has video film of
nazi activities or interviews with victims
of nazi acts.
Photographs too are always welcome,
with details of where and when they were
taken and identification as far as possible
of the people on them. We still need local
reports from both Britain and abroad.
Our aim is to increase the size of the
magazine on a regular basis later in the
year and this will allow us to expand the
coverage we can give to all the areas we
already cover, as well as introduce some
fresh subjects.