ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN #246 Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:59:08 -0400 Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit ______________________________ ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN News * Analysis * Research * Action ______________________________ - AFIB No. 246, April 16, 2000 - FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS & PRISONERS OF WAR! Brigade 2506, made up largely of Bay of Pigs veterans, had sent personnel and supplies to the contras in Central America and provided a warm sanctuary in Miami. Brigade 2506 has close ties to the Dade County Republican Party formerly headed by George Bush's son, Jeb. The kind of freedom fighting the Brigade supports is evident in its choice of Chilean dictator Pinochet for its first Freedom Award in 1975. Brigade members have undertaken terrorist attacks against Cuba and, in 1976, former Brigade leaders joined in creating a terrorist alliance called the Congress of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU). CORU has worked with Chilean military and European fascist movements in political assassinations around the world, including the 1976 Washington car bombing that killed Orlando Letelier, Chile's ambassador to the United States under Allende, and his Institute for Policy Studies colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt. -- Holly Sklar, Washington's War on Nicaragua [Boston, South End Press, 1988] p. 239. * * * Contents: Number 246 1. WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE [UK]: Anticommunism, Chauvinism and Beating the Drums of War: the US Trade Union Bureaucracy Shows its Colors. 2. HAITI PROGRES [US]: A Call to End Police Brutality. Stop Giulianism in its Tracks! 3. REFUSE & RESIST! [US]: Where to Obtain Amnesty International Report on Mumia. 4. REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT [Turkey-exile]: Against Fascism, Racism and Chauvinism. 5. INTELLIGENCE [France]: Ireland: Sean McPhilemy; USA: Cops Just Can't Keep Out of the Press; Northern Ireland: No Truce in the 'Dirty War'; Central Asia: CIA & FBI Drop by ... as Oil Flows. 6. GREEN LEFT WEEKLY [Australia]: How Hanson Became PM. 7. THE GUARDIAN [London]: Irving: Consigned to History as Racist Liar. 8. THE TIMES [London]: Furious Haider Flies in to Protests. 9. THE GUARDIAN [London]: Row Over Nazi Conference Splits Chile. 10. FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU [Germany]: Foreigner-Beating Neo-Nazi Youths Get Prison Sentences. 11. REUTERS: 90 Argentine 'Dirty War' Victims in Mass Graves. 12. WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE [UK]: US Government Retreats before Rightists in Elian Gonzalez Case. * * * WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) Web: http://www.wsws.org/ E-Mail: editor@wsws.org - Friday, 14 April 2000 - ____________________________________________________________________ Anticommunism, chauvinism and beating the drums for war: THE US TRADE UNION BUREAUCRACY SHOWS ITS COLORS ____________________________________________________________________ News & Analysis: North America By David Walsh http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/apr2000/afl-a14.shtml At two rallies on Wednesday, held as part of the week of anti-IMF and World Bank demonstrations in Washington, DC, the American trade union bureaucracy revealed its reactionary essence. The two assemblies, one organized by the Teamsters union and the other by the AFL-CIO leadership of John Sweeney, were organized to protest against a bill presently before Congress that would normalize trade relations between the US and China. The AFL-CIO as a whole, and the Teamsters and United Auto Workers in particular, are vehemently opposed to the passage of the bill. The two latter unions have refused thus far to endorse Al Gore, the presumptive Democratic Party candidate for president, partly to extract more protectionist concessions. The holding of two rallies was made necessary in part by the desire of the Teamsters bureaucracy of James Hoffa to provide a platform for Patrick Buchanan, the would-be Reform Party candidate for president. John Sweeney and the majority of the AFL-CIO executive are too intimately wedded to Gore and the Democrats at this point to make such an appearance politically acceptable. In any event, the rallies overlapped, as Hoffa addressed the main AFL-CIO rally after speaking at his own union's. The American union bureaucracy has a history of betrayal and class collaboration. Nonetheless, in parading Buchanan, a lifelong defender of big business interests and an ultra-right demagogue, before an audience of trade union officials and union members as a friend of the working man, the Hoffa leadership has broken new ground. Hoffa told CNN Tuesday that the likely Reform Party candidate "can articulate why we need annual review of this treaty [with China]. He's the one who's got it right." In his speech Wednesday afternoon Buchanan resorted to the sort of red-baiting and jingoism that he learned in his years as a supporter of Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon and other professional witch-hunters and as an official in the Reagan administration. "If I was in the White House," he said, "and the Communist Chinese came to my office, I'd tell them to stop threatening my country, persecuting the Christians, and if you won't, you have sold your last pair of chopsticks." Buchanan later told his audience that, if elected, he would appoint the Teamsters president to his cabinet: "If I get there [i.e., the White House], it won't be [trade negotiator] Charlene Barshefsky sitting down in Beijing. It'll be Jim Hoffa." The crowd began to chant "Hoffa, Hoffa, Hoffa." Democrat David Bonior, liberal congressman from Michigan, addressed the rally in right-wing populist language. "We're for an America where no working mom or dad ever lays awake at night worrying what's going to happen to their family because their job, their paycheck--and their future--was ripped off, boxed up and shipped away to a factory in China." Teamsters officials who were dispatched to lobby congressmen and senators were told by union field representative Carl DiPietro, according to the Washington Post, "Always say Communist China." The main rally, presided over by John Sweeney, sounded the same themes. President of the United Steelworkers George Becker, nearly foaming at the mouth, told the crowd that Congress was about "to betray" Americans. He said, of the bill normalizing relations with China, "It goes against everything we stand for as a nation." China, he went on, is "a rogue nation," "a godless society" that is persecuting Christianity. "It does not recognize the rule of law." Then Becker got to his central point: "This is the same Communist China I've lived with all my life." The USWA president invoked the Korean War and the thousands of Americans who had died fighting the Chinese. He noted with satisfaction that US armed forces surrounded China. This is a country, he continued, "ideologically opposed" to the US. "China has not changed.... We're the greatest nation on earth, a beacon of liberty" to the world's population, he asserted. The tone of Becker's speech was bellicose and threatening. The rally was also addressed by Republican Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, Roopa Goona of the United Students Against Sweatshops and other union officials. Sweeney brought a variety of Democratic congressmen on stage to wave at the crowd. Press coverage of the two events was friendly and deceptive. CNN reported that AFL-CIO organizers had predicted the crowd "would number in the tens of thousands," but coyly neglected to indicate how many actually were in attendance. The official AFL-CIO rally was attended by officials and conservative, older workers around the bureaucracy. It was small and dispirited. The media are active participants in the campaign to pretend that the AFL-CIO represents American workers in some way and that the union federation has enjoyed a "renaissance" under the Sweeney leadership. This notion has also been disseminated by what passes for the "left" press in the US. The deteriorating living conditions of millions and the abandonment of what remains of workers' past gains by the unions--with strike activity at an all-time low--should disabuse anyone of that illusion. It doesn't hurt either to watch and listen to these people. Anyone sincere about protesting against the conditions created by the IMF and the World Bank in Washington this week must recognize that the AFL-CIO is one of the pillars of the existing order and its leadership one of the most conservative social layers in the US. We have the made the point before on the WSWS and it bears repeating. In terms of class position, methods and social outlook sections of the American trade union bureaucracy have a good deal in common with fascist thugs--their embrace of Buchanan forcefully drives the point home. Copyright 1998-2000 World Socialist Web Site. All rights reserved. HAITI PROGRES 'Le journal qui offre une alternative' Tel: 718-434-8100 Fax: 718-434-5551 E-mail: editor@haiti-progres.com Web: http://www.haiti-progres.com - Vol. 18, No. 4, April 12-18, 2000 - ____________________________________________________________________ A CALL TO END POLICE BRUTALITY. STOP GIULIANISM IN ITS TRACKS! ____________________________________________________________________ http://www.haiti-progres.com/xeng0412.htm On April 20, 1990, over 100,000 Haitians flooded across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest their classification by the FDA as carriers of the AIDS virus. The demonstration shut down lower Manhattan and shocked the world. On the tenth anniversary of that historic march, the Haitian community is again planning to shake the Brooklyn Bridge, but this time to demand the ouster of New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The Haitian Coalition for Justice, which has called the march, is an alliance of Haitian community groups and activists which was formed on March 20 in response to the killing of Haitian-American Patrick Dorismond by a New York City policeman. The following is a declaration issued by the Coalition on April 10. * * * In New York City today, the buck stops with Rudolph Giuliani. The police torture of Abner Louima, the blood of Amadou Diallo and Malcolm Ferguson, the "good kill" of Tysheen Bourne and Andre Fields, as well as all the thousands of other victims of police abuse and murder are all on Giuliani's hands. While he did not himself pull the trigger, Giuliani killed Patrick Dorismond twice: first by granting the police a license to terrorize and to kill, and then by criminalizing Dorismond's past to justify his assassination. But it's not just the beatings and the killings. Thousands of Black and Latino youth are picked up every month on their way to school, crossing the street or just for "showing an attitude," and put through the system. Under the guise of a "Quality of Life" campaign, Giuliani is criminalizing an entire generation of Black and Latino youth. Rudolph Giuliani is the force of authority encouraging police brutality in New York City. He has no respect for the law. He has no compassion. He is a racist who lacks the morality needed for sane government. He's bent on dividing instead of uniting the city's many ethnic communities. The residents of this city must come together and with one voice demand that Giuliani resign. Should he refuse, all activity in this city must cease until he is ousted from office. The Haitian Coalition for Justice joins its voice to that of all the organizations and individuals in the city calling for Giuliani to step down. We call on the communities of color in New York City, on all the communities of worship, on the labor movement, on the youth who are the prime target of Giuliani's genocidal plan, on civil society and on all concerned people in general, to stop this madman from engulfing the city into a race war. Giuliani must go right now! This madness must stop now! Police brutality must stop now! REFUSE & RESIST! 305 Madison Ave. Suite 1166 New York, NY 10165 Tel: 212-713-5657 Fax: 212-822-8535 E-mail: refuse@calyx.com Web: http://www.mojo.calyx.net/~refuse - Wednesday, 12 April 2000 - ____________________________________________________________________ WHERE TO OBTAIN AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON MUMIA ____________________________________________________________________ Source: C. Clark Kissinger, cck1@earthlink.net The Amnesty Intenational report calling for a new trial for Mumia highlights Mumia's inadequate legal representation, legal proceedings that fail to reach minimum international standards for fair trials, and possible bias of the appeal courts. You can get the Amnesty report online at: http://amnestyusa.org/abolish/reports/mumia/index.html It's a helpful resource for people, in easy to understand text. AI called for a new trial for Mumia on the basis that his original trial was deeply flawed. Also, you can order a printed copy by mail. Send $6 plus $1.20 for postage t= o Refuse & Resist! 305 Madison Avenue, Suite 1166 New York, NY 10165 REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT (DHKC) [Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi] DHKC Information Center E-mail: dhkc@dircon.co.uk Web: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc List info: english-request@ozgurluk.xs4all.nl - Saturday, 15 April 2000 - ________________________________________________________________________ AGAINST FASCISM, RACISM AND CHAUVINISM - THE FRATERNITY OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD ________________________________________________________________________ We condemn the killings of two Britons in Istanbul as well as the racist attacks against the peoples of Turkey who live in Britain. To the peoples of Britain: Today, we are marching to salute the foundation of our hope, the DHKP-C (Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front) and to commemorate our martyrs who have fallen during our struggle for freedom, independence and democracy. We are from Turkey and Kurdistan. We are struggling against imperialism and fascism. The struggle against imperialism and its collaborators means opposing its culture and morality as well. The "culture" of imperialism and fascism is based on suppressing and depoliticising people rather than serving their development. They use alcohol, drugs and football for this purpose. While poisoning the youth both physically and mentally, their capital grows. They benefit doubly from it. Football is only a sport. But it is also used as a tool. For years, football was used during Franco's Spain, Hitler's Germany, Salazar's Portugal and Videla's Argentina. For example, the World Cup was taking place in Argentina while dozens, hundreds of people were made to "disappear". The people in Brazil are suffering from poverty and inflation while football and carnivals are used to divert them. What a coincidence! Such popular sports are always used by the fascist regimes. While the masses were diverted and preoccupied by football; torture, disappearances, massacres, concentration camps, crematoriums were taking place at the same time. People were either destroyed mentally and/or destroyed physically. How does this happen in Turkey? The fascist state in Turkey uses everything for its own benefit. The massacre at Ulucanlar prison. 10 revolutionary prisoners were killed on September 26th, last year. The agenda had to be changed. What did the state use, do you think? FOOTBALL. Turkey was made a candidate member of the European Union. So it was essential to be "European". How could they be while their anti-democratic exercises take place? Galatasaray became the lifesaver. Its success in the European Cup was enough to cover everything up. The football clubs in Turkey are centres for laundering "black money" (capital that is earned through dirty businesses like drug trafficking, prostitution, ..etc.) The chairs of the major football clubs are either fascists and mafia mobs or have close relations with them. "We came here to die or win the game!" is one of the main slogans of football fans in Turkey. Nobody would die if it was only a sport. Today, professional football is not a sport which physically and mentally satisfies the needs of the people, mainly the youth. It has new social and political functions which directly influence the psychology of the masses. Degeneration is the aim, football is the tool of it. The violence of the "culture of alcohol and vulgarity" became a way of discharging the anger of the people. Those who were cast out became "somebody" when they were welcomed to stadiums. They became members of sects. Then, they targeted each other. The fans of the rival teams became the main enemy. In the international games, nationalistic feelings were added. There are examples in Turkey when people from two neighbouring cities have killed each other because of a football match. The most recent example is the killing of two Leeds United fans. Those nationalist/fascist oriented lumpens were used to teach a lesson and save the "honour" of the Turkish nation! This killing is the consequence of the depoliticisation policy of the fascist state in Turkey and imperialism. Those who are for democracy, human rights, independence and self-determination of nations, must oppose imperialism and its collaborator - the fascist state in Turkey. Who are our friends, who are our enemies? This must be clearly determined. Those who use the incident in Istanbul as an excuse to carry out attacks against "foreigners" are racists. The enemy of the peoples of Britain is not those who were forced to leave their countries for either political or economic reasons. We call upon all those who are for the fraternity of the peoples of the world and against the exploitation and oppression of imperialism and its collaborators, to unite and struggle against the common enemy. (Revolutionary People's Forces / England) ***** INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 Editor, Olivier Schmidt Tel/Fax: 33 1 40 51 85 19 Post: ADI, 16 rue des Ecoles 75005 Paris, France Publishing since 1980 - No. 115, 10 April 2000 - ____________________________________________________________________ IRELAND: SEAN McPHILEMY ____________________________________________________________________ On 30 March, after a six-day deliberation following a nine-week trial held in Court 14 at the High Court in London, a jury of six men and six women unanimously voted in favor of Irish television producer, Sean McPhilemy, in his libel action against the "Sunday Times", over an article, published on 9 May 1993, which claimed that his Box Productions documentary "The Committee", commissioned and broadcast by Channel 4 in 1991, was "little more than a collage of unsubstantiated rumours and fabrications". The documentary alleged the existence of a Northern Ireland Loyalist conspiracy to murder Nationalists and Republicans. Mr. McPhilemy was awarded =A3145,000 -- only =A35,000 less than the British limit for libel damages -- after the jury found that the "Sunday Times" failed to prove "on the balance of probabilities": that the secret Ulster Central Coordinating Committee (UCCC) did not exist; that the newspaper had failed to prove that McPhilemy was "reckless as to the truth of the program's allegations as to the existence of the committee"; and had failed to prove that the article, which described the committee as a "hoax", was accurate. The "Sunday Times" was also ordered to pay McPhilemy's legal costs, amounting to more than =A31 million. * * * ____________________________________________________________________ USA: THE COPS JUST CAN'T KEEP OUT OF THE PRESS ____________________________________________________________________ Early last month, we noted that "the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Ramparts Division scandal just won't stop" (see "USA - Problems Just Won't Stop in Los Angeles", INT, n. 113 18). But the LAPD is not alone. On 24 March, Gerald Whitman, the acting police chief in Denver, Colorado, stated "We're going to try to look at their [police] problems and get ahead of the curve. We want to prevent those things from happening", after a federal judge sent federal marshals into police offices to seize records and fined them $10,000. Denver is one of the most prosperous cities in the nation and crime has dropped 25 percent from 1992 to 1998, but the city police are in the spotlight more than at any time since the 1950s and '60s, when 54 cops -- the so-called "burglars in blue" -- were charged with robbing homes and businesses and cracking safes. Many of them went to prison. On 29 September, in a "no knock" SWAT drug raid on the wrong house, Mexican immigrant, Ismael Mena, 45, was shot to death. Police Chief Tom Sanchez was ousted in the fallout. Police have also been criticized for allegedly using excessive force during arrests. In the Mena case, police initially denied they had gone to the wrong house and only admitted their error after Mayor Wellington Webb made it public. An independent investigator filed perjury charges against the officer who organized the raid. In a separate case, city attorneys have drawn the ire of a federal judge who ordered them to release 3,000 internal- affairs files to attorneys representing a man in a police- brutality lawsuit. The judge ruled the city had violated his earlier orders to hand over the documents and fined Denver $10,000. The recent spate of problems began in 1997 when officers were caught by a TV news camera beating Gil Webb Jr., whose vehicle smashed into a patrol car and killed an officer. ____________________________________________________________________ NORTHERN IRELAND: NO TRUCE IN THE 'DIRTY WAR' ____________________________________________________________________ An attempt last month by a covert British Military Intelligence unit to murder Ruairi O'Bradaigh, the leader of the breakaway Republican Sinn Fein (RSF), regarded by many observers as the political wing of the Continuity IRA (which is not on cease- fire), was foiled by a West Belfast resident who discovered a sophisticated bomb planted at the rear of a building housing an RSF office in the Beechmount area of the city, 24 hours before Mr. O'Bradaign was due to officially open the newly-renovated premises. The suspect device, wrapped in a black PVC bin-liner, was found after a man was seen behaving suspiciously in the narrow laneway behind the row of business premises which face Falls Road. The bomb was packed in a blue, plastic tool box, 40 cms in length, 20 cms wide and 13 cms deep. It contained approximately 1 kilo of C4 explosive and a single electric detonator, wired to three separate power sources, a 9v Panasonic battery, and two larger Yazau motorbike batteries. The timing mechanism was similar to that commonly used in central heating systems. ____________________________________________________________________ CENTRAL ASIA: CIA & FBI DROP BY ... AS OIL FLOWS ____________________________________________________________________ On 27 March, CIA director, George Tenet, visited Georgia and held talks with President Eduard Shevardnadze, one day after Russia elected former KGB officer, Vladimir Putin, as its next president. On 28 March, Tenet held talks in Kazakhstan with President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The next day, Tenet was in Uzbekistan to talk with local leaders. His trip will be followed by an official visit by Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan on 14 to 20 April. Louis Freeh, head of the FBI, was also due to visit Kazakhstan on 7 and 8 April. Perhaps it was a coincidence that Tenet arrived in Central Asia the day Transneft Vice President, Sergei Grigoriev, announced that construction of the 315- kilometer alternative section of the Baku-Tikhoretsk- Novorossiisk oil pipeline that bypasses Chechnya was completed. Work on that project got under way last fall. Grigoriev said the pipeline is currently being tested and oil will be pumped into it this month. Copyright ADI 2000, reproduction in any form forbidden without explicit authorization from the ADI. int-free mailing list: ***** GREEN LEFT WEEKLY E-mail: glw@greenleft.org.au Web: http://www.greenleft.org.au - Number 401, 12 April 2000 - ____________________________________________________________________ HOW PAULINE HANSON BECAME PM ____________________________________________________________________ BY SUE BOLAND http://www.greenleft.org.au/401p16.htm Pauline Hanson and her racist One Nation party may be out of the spotlight for now but their ideas and policies are not -- most are being implemented by the federal Coalition government * * * "Howard takes policy advice from One Nation", "Nationals steal another One Nation policy", "[Bob] Carr may bag One Nation but gee he likes our policies" -- these are just some of the headings on press releases issued by Pauline Hanson's One Nation party in the last 18 months. One Nation leaders complain bitterly that the policies for which they were lambasted have been adopted by the federal Coalition government, and sometimes the Labor Party, without public outcry. Examples include regulations adopted in 1999 which deny refugees who arrive in Australia without documents the right to apply for a permanent protection visa, and making the acceptance of Kosovar and East Timorese refugees conditional on their agreement to return home when the Australian government deems it "safe". These are elements of the refugee policy proposed by Hanson during the 1998 federal election campaign, and for which One Nation was berated by the media and politicians. There was no such condemnation when the federal government, with Labor party support, adopted the same policy. The government has adopted many aspects of One Nation's reactionary policies and rhetoric. It denies the existence of the stolen generations, it attacks United Nations human rights treaties and committees, it has all but ended refugees' right to claim permanent refugee status in Australia, it advocates that Aboriginal-specific services be "mainstreamed", it has abolished Abstudy, it exaggerates the amount of land that Aborigines control, it claims that single mothers on benefits are bludgers and it accuses unemployed people of being "job snobs". Howard has pursued a Hansonite approach since his government was elected in March 1996. In his first media conference as PM, Howard denounced what he called the "black armband" view of Australian history in an attempt to deny that indigenous people were violently pushed off their land and that generations of Aboriginal children were stolen from their parents in an effort to exterminate the Aboriginal people. Howard also tried to soften up the public for a government onslaught against Aboriginal rights. The first Howard budget slashed $400 million (30%) from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) budget. No other government department suffered such a brutal cut. The government began to claim that Aboriginal-specific services were not effective and should be transferred from ATSIC to other federal government departments. A government review was established to look at legislative options for extinguishing native title on pastoral leases. This initiative predated the December 1996 High Court ruling in the Wik case that found that native title is not necessarily extinguished by the granting of a pastoral lease, and that the two could legally coexist. Stalking horse for Howard Hanson issued a call to arms for all racists in her inaugural parliamentary speech in September 1996. The timing of Hanson's entry onto the national political stage was welcomed by the Coalition. Howard indicated his approval of Hanson's incendiary speech by boasting that since his government was elected, people "can talk about certain things without living in fear of being branded as a bigot or as a racist". He was able to rely on Hanson and other One Nation racists to whip up fears about native title claims, fuel envy about the "special privileges" of Aborigines and claim that Asian migrants were "stealing" jobs. While Hanson copped the flak, the government was able to implement its anti-Aboriginal and anti-migrant policies with little opposition. Howard simply rode on the coat-tails of Pauline Hanson's vitriolic racism. Hanson distracted attention from the impact of the government's economic policies on most working-class and small-business people. The effects were particularly severe in rural and regional areas, where budget cuts had resulted in the closure and/or privatisation of services and the loss of jobs. The whipping up of anti-Aboriginal racism suited Howard. The federal government wanted to guarantee the mining and pastoral companies' profits by extinguishing native title rights, and if this was not possible, by removing Aborigines' right to negotiate over the use of land on which native title existed. The government also wanted to avoid paying compensation to the stolen generations. And, as part of its drive to cut spending on welfare, health, education and housing services, it wanted to obliterate spending on Aboriginal services and welfare. The federal government needed a racist propaganda campaign to undermine support for Aboriginal rights and to convince people that indigenous people are no longer disadvantaged by historic oppression. Hanson and One Nation's far-right cadre provided such a campaign, with additional support from the mining companies, the National Farmers Federation and the media magnates. A threat But while Hanson initially helped Howard to create the atmosphere to implement his racist policies, she soon became a hindrance. A right-wing populist, Hanson did not restrict her comments to scapegoating Aborigines and migrants. To broaden her support, Hanson began calling for economic protectionist policies, such as tariffs, and while initially supporting the GST and the privatisation of Telstra, she switched once she realised that these policies were massively unpopular in One Nation's rural heartland. Howard moved against One Nation because its popularity could have derailed the government's economic agenda. The government blocked One Nation winning lower house seats in the 1998 federal election by refusing to direct its preferences to it. One Nation's "unprofessionalism" and crude racist rhetoric were denounced, although the racist substance of its policies was not. The Liberal Party, through MP Tony Abbott's office, funded legal actions against One Nation by disgruntled former members, resulting in the deregistration of One Nation in Queensland. Hanson was ordered to repay funding received by One Nation to the Australian Electoral Commission. As the Coalition implemented more of One Nation's racist policies, and as the influence of far-right conspiracy theorists within One Nation and the party's lack of internal democracy became public, many One Nation voters began to return to the major parties. And as One Nation's influence waned and disenchantment with the federal government's economic policies grew, Howard returned to using racism as a "wedge politics" tactic. (This is where a political party seeks to blame the most oppressed groups in society for the problems faced by other groups. Aborigines, non-English speaking background migrants, welfare recipients and women are particularly targeted by this tactic.) Wedge politics It is not hard to see why Howard is using wedge politics. The Liberal Party is in disarray in Queensland, NSW and Victoria. The Coalition parties were soundly defeats in NSW and Victoria state elections last year, and in two Queensland state by-elections and the Brisbane City Council elections this year. In addition, the rural and regional disenchantment is being reflected within the Coalition's parliamentary caucus, with some MPs threatening to vote against further Telstra privatisation. Each time Howard thinks he has diverted public attention from his economic program using racism, another issue -- the GST, cuts to rural services, Telstra privatisation, sacked workers denied their entitlements, increased petrol prices, the crisis in aged care and mandatory sentencing -- crops up which reinforces the image of the government as unfair and callous towards anyone who is not rich. Not working The only cards the federal government has up its sleeve are wedge politics and the ALP's lack of alternative policies. However, these work only if sympathy for the plight of the more oppressed sections of the population can be undermined. It has not worked in the mandatory sentencing debate. An AC Nielsen poll on March 28 found that 53% of respondents oppose mandatory sentencing. Opposition exists even inside the parliamentary Liberal Party. There is also a danger that wedge politics could create such deep social divisions that the government's austerity policies could be endangered. This is worrying some sections of the ruling class, and is reflected in articles by the Australian newspaper's international editor Paul Kelly, for example. Big business media commentators have sought to explain Howard's promotion of racism by examining his personal psychology. They say that it is not possible to get Howard to apologise to Aboriginal people because he is personally conservative. It is not Howard's individual conservatism that is the problem. It is quite likely that a Beazley-led Labor government would make an apology to Aboriginal people, and also that a Peter Costello-led Coalition government would apologise. However, this would not mean a Beazley or Costello government would abandon racism and wedge politics. Their motivations would be the same as Howard's: to impose economic misery on the majority of people -- in order to benefit the ruling capitalist minority -- while retaining office and minimising opposition. All rights reserved, Green Left Weekly. Redistribution permitted with this notice attached. Redistribution for profit prohibited. ***** ____________________________________________________________________ IRVING: CONSIGNED TO HISTORY AS RACIST LIAR ____________________________________________________________________ THE GUARDIAN UK News Wednesday, 12 April 2000 http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,158501,00.html Vikram Dodd The author David Irving falsified history to exonerate Adolf Hitler, driven by anti-Semitism and his own pro-Nazi views, the high court ruled yesterday. In a devastating judgment, Mr Justice Charles Gray ruled that a book which branded Irving a Holocaust denier was justified in its charges. The defeat left his reputation as a historian utterly destroyed, and the author of the bestseller, Hitler's War, facing bankruptcy and the loss of his Mayfair flat. Irving, 62, had sued American academic Deborah Lipstadt and her publishers, Penguin books, for libel. Penguin books and Professor Lipstadt ran up =A32.5m in legal and research costs to prove Irving had persistently and deliberately misrepresented and twisted historical evidence to suit his ideology. Lawyers for Penguin plan to have bailiffs seize Irving's central London flat, worth =A3750,000, within three months to try to recover their costs, according to defence sources. The Guardian has established that even before yesterday's verdict, Irving was in financial trouble having taken out five mortgages on his flat, according to land registry records. To a packed court, Mr Justice Gray delivered a verdict that excoriated Irving as a man and a historian. Irving had increased his political activity over the last 15 years, addressing far right audiences in the US, Germany, Canada and the New World, the judge said. "The content of his speeches and interviews often displays a distinctly pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish bias. "He makes surprising and often unfounded assertions about the Nazi regime which tend to exonerate the Nazis for the appalling atrocities which they inflicted on the Jews. "He is content to mix with neo-fascists and appears to share many of their racist and anti-Semitic prejudices. "The picture of Irving which emerges from the evidence of his extra-curricular activities reveals him to be a rightwing pro-Nazi polemicist. "In my view, the defendants have established that Irving has a political agenda. It is one which, it is legitimate to infer, disposes him, where he deems it necessary, to manipulate the historical record in order to make it conform with his political beliefs." Irving had denied all the charges in Professor Lipstadt's book. The judge found: "Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence; that for the same reasons he has portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards, and responsibility for, the treatment of the Jews." Mr Justice Gray ruled that the author was "an active Holocaust denier; that he is anti-Semitic and racist and that he associates with rightwing extremists who promote neo-Nazism". The 32-day trial over Professor Lipstadt's 1993 book, Denying the Holocaust: the growing assault on truth and memory, was one of the most emotive for a generation. In court, Irving had denied millions of Jews were exterminated in gas chambers, such as Auschwitz. "It is my conclusion that no objective, fair-minded historian would have serious cause to doubt that there were gas chambers at Auschwitz and that they were operated on a substantial scale to kill hundreds of thousands of Jews," the judge ruled. Irving described the verdict as "firstly, indescribable, and secondly, perverse". The judgment was "understandable" given the judge's being "an up-and-coming member of the establishment", he added. Explaining his defeat, he said: "I suppose it is my own fault for having explained myself inadequately clearly." Last night he added: "My own feelings about race are precisely the same as 95% of the people of my generation. That is all I will say. "If the British soldiers on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 could look forward to the end of the century and see what England has become, they would not have bothered to advance another 40 yards up the beach." Asked if he had sufficient funds to cover the massive costs of his defeat he answered "no." Most of his donors came from abroad, but Irving denied that his money had come from fellow Nazi sympathisers. He said 4,000 supporters, the bulk from the US, had sent him varying amounts. One American had handed him $50,000 cash in a brown paper bag at Amsterdam airport, Irving said. After the verdict Deborah Lipstadt told a news conference that Irving had "done a lot of evil things". She added: "The way he denigrated survivors and survivors' testimony in the courtroom was horrible." The academic accused Irving of "perversion" for not merely denying the Holocaust but for "dancing on the graves" of its victims. Almost in tears after a four-year battle, she said: "Soon there won't be people to tell the story in the first person singular and it'll be easier to deny." Anthony Forbes-Watson, head of Penguin books UK, said it was unlikely all costs would be recovered: "Sometimes principles override financial considerations. How can you be a loss-maker when you win a case on such overwhelming grounds as these?" Israel's ambassador to the UK, Dror Zeigerman, who sat in court to hear the result, said: "The lesson for the new generation - my generation - is that we have to continue the struggle. We cannot give up against these people who raise their voices, like Irving." Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, the son of a Holocaust survivor and a spokesman for the Re form Synagogues of Great Britain, said: "It is a victory for 6m voices that cannot speak for themselves. "But even more important for the long-term consequences, it is a defeat for the Holocaust denial industry and the bigotry that lies behind it." Mr Justice Gray refused Irving leave to appeal, but Irving said in court that he intended to do so. Hitler's fan in a career of controversy The son of a naval commander from Essex who served in both world wars, David Irving, 62, is best known for Hitler's War, his bestselling account of the second world war from the Fuhrer's perspective. It presents Hitler as a balanced leader who knew nothing of the Final Solution until it was too late. After dropping out of university - he got 11 A-levels - and spending a year as a steelworker in the Ruhr, Irving made his name with a book about the allied bombing of Dresden and biographies of Rommel and Rudolf Hess. He quickly gained a reputation as an awesome researcher, unearthing elderly Nazis from Alpine villages and Argentine ranches, but ran into trouble after disputing whether there were gas chambers at Auschwitz. Irving's partner, Bente, has been openly critical of his views, and his twin brother, a civil servant, has changed his name to avoid comparisons with him. Copyright Guardian Media Group plc. 2000 ____________________________________________________________________ FURIOUS HAIDER FLIES IN TO PROTESTS ____________________________________________________________________ THE TIMES World News: Europe Thursday, 13 April 2000 http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/13/x-timfgneur02006.html BY MARTIN FLETCHER, EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT J=D6RG HAIDER, Austria's right-wing pariah, flew into Brussels yesterday, angrily demanding that the European Union stop treating his state as a "subordinated colonial country". "We demand sanctions against Austria are abolished," he said during a packed press conference in the European Parliament, which he abruptly curtailed when a French socialist began shouting "xenophobe", "fascist" and "Nazi". Austrians were so angry about its treatment that if there was an election tomorrow he would be elected Chancellor, Herr Haider said. He was visiting Brussels for the first time since the European Union's 14 other member states took sanctions against Austria for allowing his Freedom Party to join its Government. Riot police ringed the European Parliament and Herr Haider used a private jet to evade protesters at Brussels Airport. "For us, it's a victory. The rat is hiding," said the spokesman for a Belgian and Austrian activist group. Herr Haider was mobbed by scores of television crews as he entered a meeting of the committee of the regions, an obscure talking shop for local politicians to which Europe's foreign ministers unwittingly elected him last May. Marc Bellet, a French socialist whose parents were Jewish deportees in the Second World War, thrust into his hand an American comic strip book depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Herr Haider threw it to the ground, then took his place in the chamber. Outside the chamber, attractive blondes handed out promotional literature for the Austrian province of Carinthia, of which Herr Haider is Governor. Inside, Peter Moore, Sheffield City Council's leader, had initiated a debate on discrimination in Europe. Herr Haider did not speak, but voted for two amendments tabled by German conservatives that were designed to weaken the resolution. Herr Haider rose to speak in the next debate, on support for Europe's tobacco-growing regions. As he did so, dozens of socialists in the 222-member committee walked out. The socialist group issued a statement demanding that Herr Haider resign from the committee. "If we did not react to the presence of J=F6rg Haider . . . we would be conferring legitimacy on [his] extreme right views," said Albert Bore, the group's president and leader of Birmingham City Council. The six-year-old committee had previously scarcely received a moment's attention from the media, but its meeting was still a mere sideshow compared to Herr Haider's subsequent press conference. "We cannot accept the reaction of the 14 member states against us because of what we have decided on a democratic basis," he began. "We are not accustomed to being dealt with by other member states as a subordinated colonial country. Therefore we demand sanctions are abolished as soon as possible." Referring his party's second place in last October's election, he insisted: "Europe has to change its position. Europe has to learn democracy . . . Europe has to accept that the Austrian people are accustomed to take their own decisions." He scoffed at calls for his resignation and sneered at Louis Michel, the Belgian Foreign Minister who led the drive to isolate Austria, insisting that he was out of touch with opinion in his own country. At that point, M Bellet entered at the far end of the room, holding up his comic book and shouting insults at Herr Haider, who abruptly ended his press conference and left through a side door. The European Parliament was actually meeting in Strasbourg, where Austria's President Klestil was heckled and snubbed by a few French MEPs as he appealed for the sanctions to be relaxed. "There are no indications that Austria is departing from the path of democracy," he argued. Austria had learned from its own dark past. It would never again be "seduced by nationalism and extremism". The Austrian Government has sent a letter of protest to the European Commission after France failed to invite its ambassador in Paris to a meeting of EU ambassadors to prepare for the French presidency of the EU in the second half of this year. Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Ltd. ***** ____________________________________________________________________ ROW OVER NAZI CONFERENCE SPLITS CHILE ____________________________________________________________________ THE GUARDIAN International News Friday, 14 April 2000 http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,162364,00.html Jonathan Franklin in Santiago Attempts by the Chilean government to stop a conference of neo-Nazis due to begin next Monday appeared to have backfired yesterday after human rights activists accused the government of giving free publicity to extremists. The newly-elected socialist president, Ricardo Lagos, said last month that he would not allow the five-day gathering to be held in Chile, and on Tuesday the government banned about 100 pro-Nazi foreigners from entering the country. The deputy interior minister, Jorge Burgos, said that some of those on the list faced outstanding arrest warrants and were being prevented from entering on suspicion that they might commit "inappropriate activities". But leaders of Chile's Jewish community, who have fought to ban the conference since it was announced two years ago, say that the government's actions have led to a wave of free publicity for the extremists. "I have stopped events like this six times without all this publicity," said Isaac Frenkel, a past president of Chile's Jewish community. "You must fight every manifestation of Nazis all around the world, but in this case maybe too much publicity against them has made this more important than it was." The leader of the pro-Nazi New Society Movement, Alexis Lopez, who organised the conference, said that six of the invited foreigners were already on Chilean soil. "There are 30 invited guests and though the location has not been determined it will be in the south of Chile," Mr Lopez said at a heated press conference on Wednesday. He accused the government of operating double standards by blocking free expression "for which they fought [General Pinochet's regime] for 17 years". Soledad Alvear, the Chilean foreign minister, justified the attempt to stop the conference. "This isn't just any old ideology, it is one that led to the death of millions of people in the second world war," she said. "To allow the... attempts to revive this political doctrine could lead to unfortunate consequences." But a leading human rights lawyer, Hector Salazar, agreed with Mr Lopez, calling the government's position "an error". "You can't apply repression to a group that comes to debate ideas, even if we don't like those ideas," he said. "If we believe in absolute freedom of expression, we have to support this in the ugly cases as well, assume the risks of incorporating in our free society even those who don't believe in free expression." Copyright Guardian Media Group plc. 2000 ***** ____________________________________________________________________ FOREIGNER-BEATING NEO-NAZI YOUTHS GET PRISON SENTENCES Court says parents, teachers and government agencies failed ____________________________________________________________________ FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU Friday, 14 April 2000 http://www.fr-aktuell.de/english/401/t401001.htm By Karl-Heinz Baum STRALSUND, GERMANY - A German court has sentenced the five young neo-Nazis who beat two Vietnamese last August, nearly killing one of them, to prison for periods between four and six years on multiple counts of attempted murder. Federal prosecutors took the case because, they said, it involved a crime that was so serious that it endangered public security nationally. The judges said that the government agencies in Eggesin, the small eastern German town where the crimes occurred and where the youths grew up, shared some of the blame for the attack, along with the youths' parents and teachers. They passively watched the repeated meetings of "skinhead fellowships" as the hatred of foreigners that ultimately spawned the attacks grew and grew, according to the judges. On Tuesday, the court for the district of Rostock, sitting in Stralsund, sentenced the Eggesin Five, whose ages range from 16 to 20, to prison terms under German's juvenile criminal law. Long-smouldering hatred of foreigners gave birth to the violence, said Presiding Judge Rainer Dally. The five young, combat-booted neo-Nazis beat and stomped the two defenceless Vietnamese on the outskirts of a local festival in Eggesin. One of the victims, a 30-year-old man, still suffers from injuries left by the beating. A significant contributing factor to the assaults, said the court, was the skinhead music that local teenagers could hear in area youth clubs with names like Aryan Resistance Eggesin and National Resistance Eggesin. The music, said the judges, contributed to lowering the normal threshold of violence to the point where "a little spark was enough to start the fire." Society in general, said the court, "failed to respond appropriately" to the young peoples' behaviour, adding that not even city authorities took action. Eggesin's council still sponsors the same old youth clubs. Teachers did nothing when the youths started showing up in school wearing leather bomber jackets and combat boots. Only one set of parents took their son to task, but he was able to soothe their fears. "Things should never go so far that young people end up paying the price for their virulent hatred of foreigners by getting a stiff prison sentence in court," Judge Dally said. The court called the Eggesin skinhead clubs "typical meeting places" where hatred and violence against foreigners are bred and encouraged. The two clubs, said the judge, "are clearly very much like a whole series of clubs in other parts of Germany." The fact that the convicted youths sang a little tune called "Fiji, Fiji, have a nice trip to Fiji" while they were beating and stomping the two Vietnamese underscores the fact that hatred of foreigners was the driving force behind the attack. The Fiji song is a ditty popular in neo-Nazi circles. It denies that Vietnamese have a right to be alive and, in the case of Eggesin, the "nice trip to Fiji" represented the journey out of this life and - perhaps - on to the next one. One of the young thugs hates foreigners so deeply that, even in jail awaiting trial, he scratched his hatred into his cell walls, drawing Nazi symbols and little sayings like "the only good Jew is a dead Jew." Copyright Frankfurter Rundschau 2000 ____________________________________________________________________ 90 ARGENTINE 'DIRTY WAR' VICTIMS IN MASS GRAVES ____________________________________________________________________ REUTERS Friday, April 14, 2000 5:58 PM ET By Mayra Pertossi BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - More than 90 cadavers that were buried for more than two decades in mass graves in a forgotten Argentine cemetery were identified on Friday as victims of the country's last military dictatorship. Seemingly destined to spend eternity without a name in the graveyard in the small town of Lomas de Zamora just south of Buenos Aires, their stories did not come to light until after a new cemetery director, Juan Hrchan, took over last December. ``The last director pointed toward one grave and said, 'Don't mess with this one because it's full of subversives and those old ladies (human rights activists Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo) will screw things up if you do,'' Hrchan told Reuters. Between 10,000 and 30,000 Argentines ``disappeared'' during the 1976-83 ``Dirty War,'' according to human rights groups. Some were tossed out of planes into the Atlantic Ocean and others were buried in mass graves, their bodies never found. Police acted with total impunity during the dictatorship, and cemetery directors knew not to ask questions when shady officers appeared in the middle of the night with dead bodies. It was not until Hrchan took the reins of the premises that the secret finally slipped out. ``In a notebook that we have here it says 'grave 60, Jane Doe number two, John Doe number three, do not disturb. Signed Cecilio A. Moreira, municipal cemetery director,''' Hrchan read. In one mass grave, ledgers filled out by police in Lomas de Zamora listed nine anonymous victims with the same official death date -- Christmas Eve 1976 -- who lived only a few blocks away from the feared ``Pozo de Banfield'' clandestine torture center run by the military, Hrchan said. While waiting for a federal judge to order an exhumation and the identification of the more than 90 bodies, Hrchan has remained vigilant, not allowing anyone to disturb the sites. ``All the graves were unmarked. I marked them as 'anonymous' and I painted a red streak across the sites so that the whole world would know that these tombs do in fact exist,'' he said. Hrchan has faced criticism from past directors who resent the publicity caused by the graves' discovery. ``I got involved in something ugly, but I intend to fight this battle to the end,'' he said. Military officers from the last dictatorship were tried in 1985 for human rights violations but then given amnesty or pardoned by two successive presidents, Raul Alfonsin and Carlos Menem. More than a dozen former officers currently face prosecution for kidnapping babies born to mothers in detention centers. Copyright 2000 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. ***** WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) Web: http://www.wsws.org/ E-Mail: editor@wsws.org - Friday, 14 April 2000 - ____________________________________________________________________ US GOVERNMENT RETREATS BEFORE RIGHTISTS IN ELIAN GONZALEZ CASE ____________________________________________________________________ News & Analysis: North America By Patrick Martin http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/apr2000/gonz-a14.shtml The events of Thursday, April 13 in the Elian Gonzalez case show the cowardice of the Clinton administration in the face of opposition from the cabal of right-wingers and outright fascists who are openly defying the law and refusing to hand over the six-year-old boy to his Cuban father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez. After a two and a half hour meeting Wednesday night with Elian's distant Miami relatives, who have held the boy for more than four months, defying a series of INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) and court orders, Attorney General Janet Reno made a humiliating retreat to Washington. At noon Thursday, two hours before the 2 p.m. deadline which had been announced with great fanfare by the Justice Department and the INS, Reno said that there would be no attempt that day to take Elian from the home of his great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez. More than a thousand Cuban exiles and right-wingers, who had surrounded the house in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, cheered their successful defiance of the law. "We will not turn this child over," Lazaro Gonzalez declared. "They will have to take this child from me by force." On Thursday morning the Miami relatives released to the press a brief home videotape in which the six-year-old boy tells his father that he does not want to go back to Cuba. The making of this videotape, now disseminated worldwide, is itself evidence, if more were needed, that these crazed fascist elements care nothing for the well-being of Elian Gonzalez. The young boy is being cruelly manipulated for political purposes, an action which fully deserves the label "child abuse." Gregory Craig, the attorney for Juan Miguel Gonzalez, said the Miami relatives had, with their actions Thursday, "emotionally damaged and exploited this most wonderful little boy.'' He urged the news media to leave the boy alone because he "has been exploited enough." Juan Miguel Gonzalez--whose conduct has been the only thing dignified and even ennobling in this affair--expressed anger and sadness over the latest turn of events. He told the New York Daily News in an interview: "Elian is very smart, very studious and I'm very proud of him. I want him to be whatever he wants to be when he grows up. I just want him to be able to change the world somehow." The Clinton administration and democratic rights Despite the overwhelming evidence that Elian belongs with his father and that he is the victim of a virtual kidnapping by politically motivated right-wingers, the Clinton administration has been incapable of enforcing the democratic right of the father to take custody of his son and return with him to the country of his choice, Cuba. Clinton issued his first direct comments on the case Thursday, supporting Reno's decision not to order federal agents into Little Havana to remove Elian from the home of Lazaro Gonzalez. "I've tried to do everything I can to stay out of it,'' he said in Washington, where he spoke before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Shortly after this display of impotence and political prostration, the federal judiciary intervened on the side of the Miami rightists. The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta issued a temporary stay barring any federal action to remove Elian from the territory of the United States. While the order does not specifically bar action which transfers Elian from Miami to the custody of his father on US soil, federal officials have agreed privately that they will not take such action during the next "three or four days," while the case is argued before the appeals panel. The Clinton administration's tenderness towards the Miami fascists is in sharp contrast to its overall record on civil rights and civil liberties. This is a government which has funded a record buildup of police and prisons nationwide and has cracked down ruthlessly on alleged "terrorists", so long as they were immigrants from the Middle East and not anticommunist refugees. It is worth pointing out that during the same time that Clinton and Reno are kowtowing before the Cuban-American anticommunists, the federal government is mobilizing thousands of police, FBI agents and federal marshals to attack protesters in Washington DC who have gathered to demonstrate and carry out civil disobedience at the annual meetings of the World Bank and the IMF. And, of course, no one can forget that Janet Reno's first decision as Attorney General was to authorize the assault which led to the incineration of 80 people in the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. Ironically, Reno claimed at the time that her order to go ahead with the assault was prompted by reports of child abuse on the part of the Branch Davidians. In Miami, however, Reno has proceeded in the opposite fashion. Open defiance of the law and flagrant exploitation of a child are met with more concessions, more deadlines abandoned, more conciliatory statements. This conduct has a political explanation. Both the Clinton administration and the Republican-led Congress have encouraged the right-wing anticommunist elements in Miami and have granted them immense influence. Earlier in the week, published opinion polls showed massive opposition among the American people to the position of the Miami relatives, and general support for the efforts of Juan Miguel Gonzalez to reclaim his son. There were reports of demoralization among the right-wing forces in Miami and a dwindling turnout of protesters at the home of Lazaro Gonzalez. But the actions of Clinton and Reno and the intervention of the courts has re-emboldened the extreme right. The Clinton administration is terrified of a direct confrontation with these ultra-right forces, not merely because of the electoral concerns of Vice President Al Gore, but because these elements enjoy considerable support within the capitalist state itself, where the CIA, FBI and Pentagon have all forged close ties with them on the basis of rabid anticommunism. Similar ties exist within both political parties. These events demonstrate that the defense of democratic rights cannot be left in the hands of the federal government. It is virtually prostrate before fascists who conduct themselves in Miami as though they constituted an independent and sovereign state, defying not only court orders and the law, but public opinion, which overwhelmingly favors return of Elian to his father. Copyright 1998-2000 World Socialist Web Site. 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