red pepper issue142 june 2006

contents

features

We, the European people 18A survey of activists across Europe casts collective light on the successes and failures of the continent’s social movements and the problems and challenges they face

COVERSTORY Anyone but Inger-land? 22Some people on the left seem to have difficulty distinguishing between supporting the England football team and supporting the BNP. In this discussion, Mark Perryman puts the case for flying the St George cross at the world cup, while Mike Marqusee explains why he’ll be rooting for ‘Anyone but England’

Cover image by Tom Lynton www.tomlynton.com

regulars 04Letters Agony Subcommandauntie

06Activision Around the left in 30 days – UK Natural born rebel: Piara Power Red Hot: Super smoothies Asylum Watch: When help becomes a crime Know your enemy: Gordon Brown’s globalisation advisory committee Guerilla guides: Guerilla filming Temperature Gauge: Don’t bank on it

14World Around the left in 30 days – World Iran: Nuclear nutcases Palestine: Economic warfare EU and Military Security

38Infrared David Osler: John Reid

39Rear view Samantha Dietmar: Indigenous ceremony for the right to water

Fissile fantasies 25The nuclear industry has always had something of the absurd about it. Efforts to recover its lost glory by painting itself green is just the latest example of this, as Adam Ma’anit explains

Touching the void 28Ignoring the BNP won’t make them go away. Stuart Weir argues that we have to understand their appeal in order to combat them effectively

Left on the Euston platform 30The ‘Euston Manifesto’, published in April by a group of left-leaning journalists and others who backed the Iraq war, has attracted much media attention. Here David Beetham and Pat Devine offer a progressive critique

red pepper FILMNIGHT

14 June 2006, 7pm The Square, Bloomsbury, London ‘Divorce Iranian Style’ film by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini Followed by a discussion chaired by Hilary Wainwright with Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Roudabeh Shafie (Action Iran)

For more information or to book tickets see flyer in magazine, email fiona@redpepper.org.ukor tel 020 8731 9040

review 32The other summer of punk In the light of the recent success of the British National Party in Barking and elsewhere in local council elections, Dave Renton ’s new book provides a timely account of an earlier fight against fascism, and its relationship with British popular culture

34Book reviews Arts reviews

coming soon How Gordon Brown protects the tax dodgers Neoliberal cities and the alternatives What the CIA is up to in Caracas Jenin’s theatre of resistance on the web The latest Eurotopiaon how the low-cost generation resists and the latest on the charter for another Europe

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