Fw: anti-racist group quits campaigns against "free trade"

Mr P.A. Van Heusden pvanheus at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Tue Sep 21 02:29:33 PDT 1999


If you can read Dutch, "De Fabel van de illegaal" has a WWW page at http://www.dsl.nl/~lokabaal/index.html, and they have a description of their work at http://www.dsl.nl/~lokabaal/co_eng.htm.

The articles on their WWW page certainly seem sane - and the work they are doing seems very necessary at this point. The 'left' in the UK, and Europe in general, is pretty silent about 'Fortress Europe' as far as I can see - and "De Fabel" certainly have a point about the ideological (and organisational) links between parts of the anti-"free trade" movement and the right. One only needs to look at the rhetoric of groups like the UK Independence Party (a largely rural based group with a strong anti-EU platform) to get a bit worried about a one-dimensional anti-free-trade position.

Peter -- Peter van Heusden : pvanheus at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk : PGP key available Criticism has torn up the imaginary flowers from the chain not so that man shall wear the unadorned, bleak chain but so that he will shake off the chain and pluck the living flower. - Karl Marx



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