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Ye shall be known by the friends you keep!

PART 1

Last year WSM members participated in a number 
of pickets, organised by the Anti-Racism 
Campaign, on the constituency clinic of Dublin 
Fianna Fail TD Ivor Callely. This was in 
response to comments made by Callely when he 
criticised the numbers of asylum seekers coming 
to Ireland. At the time we said that his 
comments would lead to an increase in racism, 
and would provide people who have an openly 
racist agenda with a cover for their activities.

After the June local elections, an independent 
member of Dublin Corporation, Finian McGrath, 
received an unsigned two-page letter which 
purported to outline the reasons why the letter 
writer did not vote for him. The letter 
contained such gems of wisdom as "I for one 
don't like the idea of multi-cultural, polyglot 
societiesÉÉmost of the crime in the greater 
London area is committed by angry young black 
menÉ..a woman from Rwanda is said to be earning 
£7,000 per week from a brothel in DublinÉ..these 
third world people will be in contention for our 
jobs and our girlsÉ.I don't like the idea of 
fraternisation across the racial divide. Black 
men, once they have a full belly and a roof over 
their heads are only interested in getting their 
big black cocks into a white womanÉ." etc. etc. 
The letter concludes with an approving quotation 
from one Adolf Hitler.

The letter further states that this poor sad 
fucker "voted for Ivor Callely, as he best 
represents my point of view." Enough said!

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PART 2

When the six Fianna Fáil members of the new 
European Parliament settle into their seats in 
the plush new parliament building, they will 
find themselves in good company. The MEPs, whose 
government colleagues have just forced the 
Immigration Bill through the Irish parliament in 
order to speed up deportations from "friendly 
Ireland", have joined the Union for Europe of 
the Nations grouping. Other members of the group 
(which has 31 members in total) include:

12 French right-wingers, led by Charles Pasqua 
(who has been elected president of the 
grouping). Pasqua is a former French interior 
minister who in this role enacted strong 
immigration control and anti-refugee 
legislation.

A member of the far-right Danish party Dansk 
Folkeparti (DPP), which campaigned against the 
Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties on the grounds 
that they threatened to flood Denmark with 
"bogus asylum seekers". DPP is widely seen in 
Denmark as a party of racists and xenophobes.

10 members of the Italian Alleanza Nazionale 
(AN) party - a formerly openly neo-fascist party 
which now claims to have put their fascist past 
behind them!

At least they'll have more than their fat 
salaries in common!


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This article is from Workers Solidarity No 58
published in Oct 1999

More articles from this issue at
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws99.html

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