PEOPLE once again fear pogroms in Germany', stated a declaration on 8 October from leading German intellectuals, condemning the upsurge in vicious neo-Nazi attacks against the country's Black, refugee and Jewish communities. there the Parade there weake already been nearly Stallacks, Heaving one Alrican dead, two Lebanese children critically burned, and many more injured.
Christian Democrat government has responded Dy agreeing clampdown of asvium-seckers the country's to regional Mater.
They also got agreement with opposition parties on transforming fornicrarmy bases into Tens thousands of refugees will be housed in 9) camps across the country Lawyers have suggested tha the new measures oreach the German constitution, and antiracist campaigners have conto further neo-Nazi attacks.
The German situation is one tern developing ACTORS whole of Eurore. For right and fascist parties are rapally gaining popularity, violent racist attacks are mushrooming in both their frequency and ferocity. and all manner of nationalisms a5(0u00180044400379 the surface. The mainstream es tablishment parties - right, centre and social democratic -are falling over themselves to prove their own iron resolve to problem immigration.
*In France, former premier Jaques Chirac has said that French people are being driven 'crazy' migrants in the country. Former Michel Poniatowski, has compared France's immigrant community country. Le l'en's National Front has gained massively in popularly One inca support the and right-wing coalition with the Then as been pretably response been predictably denouncin racism, they have proclaimed a new crackdown on immigration and are preparing to organise mars deporta*In Austria the neo-fascist Freedom l'arty has trebled its vote to 18 per cent in provincial elections, and may bring about collapse of the country's ruling coalition government.
six-month old New Democracy Party got 7 per cent of the vote in September's general election on the back of a paign. Fascist paramilitary groups are also growing four leaders of the Storm Network (for bank robbery and hijacking a police arms depol, a With the Arvan Resistance organisation in the US.
*In Switzerland there has been a wave of racist firebomb ings and attacks on refugees. > er cent of Swiss people are in vour or using the army te arevent the entry of refugees are referendum on halting immigration Toland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavi. and Romania have al seen an semitic attacks, which so far show signs of abating - inEastern European countries slide deeper into economic, portal and socal catastrophe *In Britain, with the strictest racist attacks are on the increase and more people are being cist British National Party has 1500 cadre now, and they are becoming more confident in Sain from por white working class estates.
The social and economic crisis in Europe makes it wide but the collapse of Stalinism, nave createu waven dun employment and economic mith all this econume and political uncertainty in the world, and with the collapse of in Europe needs a new enemy.
This new enemy has been used by the right wing many times before - he now 15 mil strong black or third World communities living in Europe who have been settled for more than two generations, or who have come as migrant But the scale of attacks on Europe's Black and refugee