form part of a negotiated settleNational unity It also suggests that a government of national unity may be necessary after the adoption of Framed photos of revolutionary leaders. Choice of Kollantai, Trotsky, Marx and Engels. 5" X 8" (€4) Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Fourth International, Cancel the Debt, Unshackle the Unions (E6 each) Tapes of revolutionary songs from France (€5) and Send to Red Repro, Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. Please add £1.25 for each No. 33 LESS THAN two weeks after 300000 people marced against racism, three Turkish people, two women and a young girl, were murdered on 23 November by Nazi thugs when their flats were burnt down in Moelln in northern Germany.
In response the German govern. ment banned the finy Nazi Nationalist Front. and warned of tougher action against far-right groups.
The murders came on the same Nazis and left wing protestors in Berin and East Germany, which resulted in one person being stabbed to death The flats in which the three Turkish women wore in one of several buildings throughout the city set on fire by the Nazis.
Since the burning down of an im. migrant hostel in Rostock in August, far and asylum sookers have increased. more attacks throughout Germany The Nazis are beginning to build a mass base amongst youth, especialy in the East. But bans won't stop them, because legal action wont deal with the root causes of the Nazi surge.
Worse, bans, and the statement by Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters in tarrour of depriving far-rightists of their vote and civil libertes, threaten repressive laws which wil be used against tho left and the workers movement.
Already the police are aiming their main fire at squatters and left extremists.
The social basis of racism is the vast growth of unemployment in the exGOR. and the rise in unemployment and insecurity throughout the country. At the same time, the leaders of both the Christan pause Democrats and Social Democrats, have capitulated to racist arguments agreeing to immigrants and asylum seekers are the 'problem".
Germany of course does have migrants from war and economic calastrophe in the eastern bloc pressling on its borders. It is predictable that racist groups would attempt to use this to build support.
But the wanton destruction of the industries of the former GDR, to the benefit of West German capital, the 25 per cent unemployment this has caused, gives the Nazis the abilty to Fighting fascism means building mass labour movement action against the Nazis, and winning the argument pansi racism. it w be exceedingly polical fight against unemployment, the destruction of social welfare ser. vices and the other elfects of the crisis in the ex-GDR.
Self-defence against racist attacks and bulding groups to guard immigrant hostels is ol course a vital necessiy and somethin which the whole of the German far left supports But in the German far left, "autonomist semi- anarchist groups simple street fights with the fascists won't win the fight for an alternative are anth no skinners hav Dutch nazi skinheads have confesced to bestina to death a 53-year old German man in Wuppertal because they believed he was a Jow. After a row in a restaurant in which he called them Nazi pigs, they beat him to death, doused his body with alcohol and set fire to him, before dumping his near Venia.
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