ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN News * Analysis * Research * Action ______________________________ RESEARCH SUPPLEMENT - August 22, 2000 - ______________________________________________________________________________ "THE NATIONAL ISSUE IN THE YEAR 2000" & "ATTAC'S OPEN FLANK" 2 Articles from De Fabel van de Illegaal ______________________________________________________________________________ DE FABEL VAN DE ILLEGAAL [The Myth of Illegality] Koppenhinksteeg 2 2312 HX Leiden, Netherlands Tel: +31-71-5127619 or 5144217 Fax: +31-71-5134907 E-mail: lokabaal@dsl.nl Web: http://www.dsl.nl/lokabaal/english.htm http://www.savanne.ch/right-left.en - Monday, 21 August 2000 - ----- ____________________________________________________________________ THE NATIONAL ISSUE IN THE YEAR 2000 ____________________________________________________________________ The Dutch version of his article was published in the Summer 2000 issue of the anti-racist newspaper of De Fabel van de illegaal By Koen van de Meulen Around 1900 an international debate took place on "the national issue". What should the Left-wing movement do with the fast-rising nationalism? Was this strongly mobilising ideology a threat to the theory of socialism or could it be a possibility to enhance the power base of the Left ideology? Almost a century later this issue seems more of current interest than ever. Developments like the nationalist wars in the Balkans and the growth of the far Right ask for a Leftist answer. After the disappearance of the "real existing socialism" (read: dictatorial state capitalism) with its Marxist-Leninist ideology, which postulated the principle of "every nation its own state", now there is a chance to sharpen radical Left ideology in an anti-nationalist direction. Over the past year the Dutch radical Left organisation De Fabel van de illegaal paid much attention to (far) Right influences in Left-wing campaigns. Criticism of nationalism played an important role in this. De Fabel criticized for example Kurdish and Basque liberation nationalism. Lately, a discussion has arisen with reference to nationalist elements in the campaign for the imprisoned Basque activist Esteban Murillo. Murillo has been accused of taking part in actions by the ETA, and despite a support campaign, he was handed over by the Dutch state to Spain, although it was proven that the Spanish state tortured Murillo. The discussion centres on the question if anything like a "good" Leftist nationalism really exists. Nations and nationalism "Nations do not make states and nationalism, but the other way round". Says the British historian Eric Hobsbawm in his book "Nation and Nationalism since 1780". In this book he describes the origin and development of the notions of "nation" and nationalism. With this he builds on the work of Gellner and Anderson who have written extensively about the myths of "nation" and nationalism. "Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist", writes Gellner. They assume that "nations" and also "peoples" are not natural, but that they are created. As opposed to what nationalists want us to believe, "nations" and "peoples" are not the pivots in the history of mankind. Until 200 years ago people could barely conceive the idea of a "nation". They mostly felt connected to their own family, village or city, guild and social rank, least of all to an abstract community like a "nation". Therefore it is difficult to give a definition of the notion of "nation", for the meaning of this word has changed through time. Where it meant simply "people" at the time of the French Revolution, just in the meaning of the inhabitants of a territory, "nation" was later defined in connection to factors like "ethnicity", language and culture. This last meaning is also the one that the concept of "nation" has in this article. Patriotic nationalism At the end of the eighteenth and during the nineteenth century the modern state arose. This proved to be an extraordinary efficient form of governing in the hands of the ruling class. However, its relatively sudden arising involved a legitimacy problem. In the old days, religion and the social hierarchy of the feudal system kept the people obedient. These institutions didn't fit in with the new dominant ideology of liberalism and they could even stand in the way of an efficient functioning of capitalism. The ideology of nationalism appeared to be a good remedy to strengthen the loyalty to the state even further, and so the power of the state too. A communal tongue, spoken through the entire country, was developed to make the state apparatus function more efficiently and to create an imagined feeling of solidarity among the inhabitants of the state. Also, a communal history and all sorts of traditions were created. The goal was that people would perceive themselves as part of the "patria", the native country, and not per se as members of a "nation" or "people". The best example of this type of nationalism is the United States. With the help of this "patriotic" nationalism, France and Great Britain became two mighty unified states. For all cases applied: first there was a state, only then the "nation". This is exactly the opposite of what rulers and nationalists want us to believe. Xenophobic nationalism By the end of the nineteenth century a more ethnic nationalism arose that wasn't by definition connected to a state. Where at first language and culture played central roles, "ethnicity" also became increasingly important as a criterion for "being a nation". This xenophobic nationalism derived its power mostly from defining "the other". A scapegoat outside the own "nation" was appointed as the cause of all misery. That scapegoat could be minorities in the own country, but also other "nations" or "cosmopolitans". The working class should reconcile to the capitalists, for supposedly everyone belonged to the same "nation". Economic problems would be the fault of Jews or immigrant workers. Or, as in much Right-wing anti-freetrade rhetoric, of workers in other countries that produce goods cheaper. States didn't shun the use of this xenophobic nationalism. The German state was even partly based on this type of nationalism. In the twentieth century it led also to two nationalist world wars and genocide on a dreadfully large scale. This xenophobic nationalism was also always a threat to states themselves. Separatism rose its head and flourished, and it still does. "Left-wing nationalism"? In the recent discussion on nationalism some Left-wing people are trying to justify this ideology by distinguishing a special "Left-wing nationalism" from the more xenophobic forms. This progressive nationalism is supposedly characterised by Leftist values like tolerance, freedom and equality. For that matter, many "liberal nationalists" also appeal to these values in an effort to distinguish their ideology from "wrong" nationalism. History shows us that such a "Leftist nationalism" is not very desirable and hardly possible. One can roughly distinguish five historical phases in which nationalism had different meanings and political colours. According to Hobsbawm the notions of "nation" and nationalism originate from the time of the French Revolution. In this first phase the notion of "nation" is used in connection to the rising idea of democracy. "The sovereignity to the people" or "to the nation" "was a progressive claim that opposed the feudal system. Especially in the beginning "nation" stood for the interests of the common women and men and there was little connection with language, culture or "ethnicity". In the second phase, after 1870, a nationalism based on "ethnicity" entered the stage. In the end, this led to the first World War. At the end of the war, the third phase started. For during the peace talks the "Wilson doctrine" was employed as much as possible. According to that doctrine all "peoples" had the right to self-determination and thus the right to form their own state. For a long time this principle made the core of liberal nationalism. In this phase, nationalism coupled with the rise of fascism, wich ended in the Second World War and with the murder on millions of Jews, Roma and Sinti, homosexuals, psychiatric patients and socialists. The fourth phase after the Second World War was marked by a ideological dominance of the Left. Because of that dominance nationalism was conceived as a Left-wing concept, also because of the absence of a strong Right-wing interpretation of the idea. In this fourth phase, we see many national liberation struggles in Latin-America, Africa and Asia. Anti-Americanism At this moment we have arrived at the fifth phase. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall (but actually already before that) the influence of Left-wing ideology quickly eroded and the Right took the ideological lead. The Left became confused about its basic ideas. Take for example the confusion that is caused in Left-wing circles by the anti-Americanism of the new Right and its interfering in Left-wing solidarity campaigns with liberation movements. What to do? One possibility is to distinguish more clearly between "good" Leftist and "wrong" Rightist nationalism, like the solidarity committee for Esteban Murillo is trying. However, De Fabel van de illegaal thinks that the Left should take a firm anti-nationalist standpoint. A construction by the elite "It is also worthy to point at the fact that the institutions of slavery, marriage, class and state, necessarily developed the first ideologies of racism, sex-roles, class-elitism and nationalism to justify all these institutions. These ideologies where indissolubly connected to the ideology that stimulated a male competition for status and property, beside which they originally arose and without which they probably had not been able to continue to exist", Hoch wrote in his "White Hero, Black Beast". History teaches us that the ruling class invented nationalism. The "national idea" was born in the heads of a small elite of intellectuals and rulers only a few centuries ago. Therefore, it isn't surprising that nationalism is an ideology employed by this ruling class of white, heterosexual men. They invented the "nation". The norms and values of the "nation" are the patriarchal, heterosexual and capitalist norms and values of the elite. The myth of national unity strengthened the power base of the leaders of the state and their facilities to cash in taxes and to conduct war. It also is a great weapon against class war, socialism and feminism. Mutual differences and opposite interests are denied and replaced by stressing the difference with "the other". Rightist conceptions The fact that "nations" are myths invented and applied by the ruling elite, makes it very difficult to use nationalism as a liberation ideology against its creator. By adopting the ideas connected to nationalism "Leftist nationalists" start analysing the world in a Rightist way, in a way invented by their opponents. By thinking in nationalist terms one is forced to think along lines of national, "ethnic" or territorial defined differences. Thus nowadays, fashionable notions such as culture and identity are defined, even by the Left, along national and "racial" lines. However, many Leftists in the Netherlands will feel more affiliation with the Left in other countries than with the Dutch elite. One's political conviction and social class should foremost define culture and identity. But, the longer the Left operates within nationalist ways of thinking, the more it affirms the myths that were invented against the Left and feminism. According to nationalists women have a special role to fulfil within the "nation". Take for example nationalist metaphorical language. The "nation" is presented as something female, as "the fertile mother country", that has to be protected by strong men because of her defencelessness. Thus soldiers and soccer players would have to defend the virtue of their country. The "nation" enables men to feel superior above women and outsiders by ruling them. Women are expected to reproduce the "nation" biologically by means of their posterity and symbolically by their supposed higher decency. Only pure and modest women would be able to serve their "nation". This "necessity" for purity mostly brings along an extremely traditional and suppressing role pattern. Unintentionally, the Left might support new Right strategies when it keeps thinking and arguing in terms of "nations", "peoples" and nationalism, even if it tries to do so from an emancipating perspective. The new Right nowadays tries to make these nationalist conceptions legitimate and acceptable again, as a basis for a new far Right-wing ideology. They now use these notions in an, at a first glance, "liberal" and "enlightened" way. But that will change as soon as they attain some influence. Would it be a coincidence that the Europeans who had honest convictions about an "enlightened" nationalism, both before the First and the Second World War, witnessed a growing "Rightist nationalist" movement appearing right beside them at the political stage? Perhaps racism, exclusion and even genocide are inherent to the notion of nationalism. Liberation struggle Western nationalism is not the same as the Leftist "liberation nationalism" or "emancipatory nationalism" in the made poor countries. But just as with women's struggle, emancipation can not be the final goal. According to feminist theory emancipation simply means obtaining a place in male dominated society by using "male", patriarchal and macho ways. In the same way colonies that have become independent can only obtain a place in the capitalist world system by being as oppressive and exploiting as the Western states themselves. Therefore national liberation can't be a goal in itself. It is important that the Left keeps asking itself why a particular liberation struggle should deserve support. Is it just about nationalism, or is the struggle for independence a first step in a more containing social struggle? Perhaps it is because of a false class analyses that the Western Left sometimes unconditionally supported the nationalism of the southern liberation movements. In anti-imperialist theory the anti-thesis North-South had replaced the old class contradiction of capital and labour. The South had become the new revolutionary subject. Quite a few times almost all the inhabitants of countries in the South were seen as the revolutionary class, and therefore their nationalism had to be supported unconditionally. However, this obscured the class- and sex-differences in these southern countries and in addition silenced class struggle in the North. Koen van de Meulen is a member of the anti-racist organisation De Fabel van de illegaal, Leiden (Holland). More articles like this can be found on the English part our website: http://www.dsl.nl/lokabaal/english.htm * * * ____________________________________________________________________ ATTAC'S OPEN FLANK ____________________________________________________________________ By Eric Krebbers - Thursday, 17 August 2000 - In November 1999 the Dutch branch of the French organisation ATTAC was founded. Through the introduction of a "tobin-tax" they want to curtail "the flow of speculative capital". In most Dutch Left-wing magazines (with the exception of DusNieuws) the initiative was embraced without much criticism. In other countries, however, discussions on the analyses and goals of ATTAC are more common. ATTAC is a French abbreviation for "action for a tax on financial transactions for the aid to citizens". The organisation wants to impose a "tobin-tax" of 0,5 percent on all international money trade transactions to "curtail flows of speculative capital".1 ATTAC started in june 1998 in reaction to the Asian economic crisis. By now there are sections in more than 20 countries. The Dutch branch is set up at the office of the XminY fund. ATTAC-Netherlands president Hans van Heijningen is also the coordinator at XminY. Attending their first meeting was the French-American political scientist Susan George, vice-president of ATTAC-international and also assistant-director of the Transnational Institute (TNI), also located at XminY. Political economics Economics are not a neutral science. It is always a political choice which models one uses to understand economic processes. The relatively one-sided interest in "speculative capital" of ATTAC and many other opponents of "economic globalisation" goes together with the mostly quantitative economic models that are so fashionable today. Importance is simply attached to those sectors of the economy that host a lot of money. The workers in the poor countries of the south, for instance, usually get a very low pay and economists therefore estimate their contribution to the world economy as very low. The same applies to the illegalised migrants and refugees. In the Dutch jails they get paid less than half a dollar an hour. However, their work is indispensable for a number of sectors of the Dutch economy. For instance, horticulture would not have survived without illegalised migrants. Colonialism Thinking along these same lines, Right-wing historians think they can prove that 500 years of colonialism have had almost no influence on the wealth of the colonizing countries. And indeed, the cost of the stolen raw materials and labour, mostly through slavery, was almost nothing compared to the prices that were paid in the colonial metropoles. But without centuries of slave labour and material theft capitalism would not be here today. The quantitative models simply deny all oppressed and exploited people a place in history and everything that is accomplished is attributed to the rich "western man". In the same vein the unpaid or very low paid reproductive work done mostly by women is usually hardly perceived. And also the "work" done by nature and the destruction of it are no part of quantitative models. Modern quantitative models are therefore almost by definition racist, patriarchal and anti-ecological. They have no eye for the basis on which the whole structure of capitalism rests. The importance of "speculative capital", on the other hand, is usually extremely overrated by these same quantitative models. Some estimated 1.500 billion dollar changes hands several times each day on the stock-exchanges in the rich countries. A huge amount indeed, but German writers Thomas Ebermann and Rainer Trampert, for instance, have showed that the share of "speculative capital" does grow slightly, but that no less than 90 percent of capital remains bound in the rich countries. According to them it is a political choice to focus the attention exclusively on the other 10 percent.2 Where do crises originate? The dominant Right-wing models are a major force in putting "speculative capital" central at our analysis of economic crisis. According to ATTAC-Netherlands the worsening of working conditions, like flexibility, dismissal, social security are due to the free flow of capital.1 The British Earth First! think it is just the other way around. Due to the struggle of the workers against the worsening of their conditions, capital seeks refuge elsewhere. "Behind the talk of 'monetary instability', 'bad loans and trading practices' and warnings by financiers such as Georg Soros about the dangerous fragility of the financial system lies the reality that the ultimate source of the present crisis is not transgressions and mistakes by bankers and speculators but the reduction of profits by class struggle." The Mexican crisis was brought about, according to Earth First!, by the Zapatista revolt, and the Asian crisis, which led to the establishment of ATTAC, by a series of general strikes from December 1996 to March 1997 by Korean workers who didn't allow a further intensification of their exploitation.3 The model that ATTAC favors keeps our eyes focussed on the handing over of money between the rich. The resistance from below one cannot see in this way. ATTAC can therefore not offer the Left a real action-perspective, however much its president Van Heijningen dreams of his organisation growing into an "anti-capitalist people's movement".4 His model simply cannot see that economic changes come about in the struggle between top and bottom. It can, for instance, only interpret flexibilisation as something that is in times of a crisis forced upon a powerless mass. But in reality any "capitalist strategy can only succeed by picking up what is already in the behaviour of the workers: the refusal to be suffocated from education to pension in the certainty of a fulltime job is in this way being made into the flexibilisation of work", according to the German group Wildcat.5 Fat cigar smokers Due to the fixation on "speculative capital", "not any longer the processes of production and of capital accumulation are at the centre of the attention, but clubs of influencial men (and some women) who negotiate among themselves the future of the world behind closed doors", wrote Alain Kessi in the German weekly Jungle World.6 But, writes Earth First!, "the law of profit has nothing to do with the actions of a few big capitalists or multinationals and getting the world we want does not mean ridding ourselves of fat cigar smokers wearing top hats at horse races. What matters is not the individual profits made by capitalists, but the constraint, the orientation, imposed upon production and society by this system which dictates how to work and what to consume. The whole demagogy about rich and poor and 'big' and 'small' merely confuses the issue. The abolition of capitalism does not mean taking money from the rich, nor revolutionaries distributing it to the poor, but the suppression of the totality of monetary relations."3 Capitalism is a social relation between all people, forcing the majority to sell their labour to survive. The image of a small elite of speculators against the rest of humanity pushes the awareness of all other (economic) balances of power to the background. In reality far most of the inhabitants of the rich west profit from the cheap labour of the people in the south. And most men profit from the free reproductive labour of women. An anti-capitalist analysis that focusses on "speculation capital" cannot see patriarchy and racism, and will inevitably consolidate these balances of power. Le Monde diplomatique Most of the people who took the initiative to establish ATTAC came from the Trotzkyte and old Left scenes, and many of them are working for the French monthly Le Monde diplomatique.6 Their plans to tax capital flows are receiving broad support from political and economic elites. That started with the deceased French president Mitterand. Soon joined by Jacques Delors (ex-president European Commission), Boutros-Ghali (ex-UN secretary), Barber Conable (ex-Worldbank president), Alan Greenspan (president Federal Bank US), and speculator George Soros - to name but a few. They are all in favor of such a tax. All political parties in the Dutch parliament also support the plans, with the exception of the conservative liberal party VVD. In October 1999 Dutch prime minister Kok said: "People with capital speculate too much and are not enough enterpreneur." According to him we are living on "a sort of vulcan".7 Van Heijningen and his colleagues supported him, and emphasized that he should do more than just warn us. "It is about time that our government raises its voice for the constraint of the capital flows on earth."8 Pro-state A possible "tobin-tax" will be cashed in by states or groups of states cooperating in the UN or the IMF. Many Left-wing groups in France are not happy that ATTAC feels so drawn towards the state. According to Michel Sahuc of the Groupe La Sociale, for instance, the "tobin tax" is especially attractive to that part of the elite that is looking for a way to calm social tensions. The tax is no more than a minimal change of the system and they have only to hand over an infinite small part of the profits. "The tax is pure capitalism. It means not only accepting financial speculation, but also profits, exploitation and economic inequality. It means making a gesture under the cloak of justice, which in reality is just a mechanism of control in the service of capitalism."9 The Belgian Alternative Libertaire thinks alike: "ATTAC is not anti-capitalist, but is for the regulation of capitalism. It believes that states are created for the common good, and that they are now a victim of a conspiracy of multinationals that robbed their power." In reality states are not created for "the common good", but to create the best possible conditions in their territory for capital to grow by exploitation. ATTAC really seems to believe that the revenues of a possible "tobin-tax" wil benefit the poor. According to Alternative Libertaire ATTAC has basically two goals. It wants to encourage governments to try to stay in power and to prevent social explosions. "That means creating new instruments to regulate the barbaric capitalist changes and to protect them against the radical disturbances by the opposition that could be the result of these changes. And they say it themselves: it's all about facing two problems: a social implosion and political despair." Alternative Libertaire writes that ATTAC has never challanged the principle of profit or the unequal distribution of wealth. On the contrary, say the anarchists, "the "tobin-tax" stabilize the exploitative relations that are being threatened by the global financial adventures."10 Undemocratic? No problem! ATTAC is not struggling for changes from below, on the contrary, they favor "enlarging the powers of national or regional states to shape their own financial and economic policies."1 Whether these states are in any way "democratic", does not really seem to matter to ATTAC. ATTAC-co-operator Jantien Meijer in the Dutch magazine Dusnieuws on the politics of a number of Asian states to close the borders for foreign capital: "That policy is of course not based on all kinds of beautiful democratic principles, it is only to protect the elite... But I still find it inspiring when less powerfull countries do things like this."11 ATTAC sharply differentiates between state and capital and says it wants to employ states to harness capital. In reality both are totally intertwined. The Groupe Nantes of the Federation Anarchiste from France considers it "not only perverse, but also extremely dangerous" that ATTAC is ideologically separating the state from capital. Michel Sahuc is not surprised by ATTAC's strange views on state and capital, because the "tobin-tax" is just another project of the traditionally state orientated part of the Left. They are a current of technocrats and politicians that are traditionally in the service of the national bourgeoisie. So "take care", he warns us, "we are then on dangerous territory, because there is no clear boundary between this sort of Leftism and fascism."9 European parliament In Germany a large number of groups are against the type of analysis that is at the basis of ATTAC's onesided actions against "speculative capital". According to Gruppe Demontage this type of reasoning has "an open flank against antisemite anti-capitalism, in the sense of a projection of the strange, unbound capital on 'the Jews'"13 More on this open flank can be read in the articles De Fabel van de illegaal wrote before on the issue of the New Right and the international movement against "globalisation".14 It comes as no surprise then that the Far Right has displayed interest in the ideas of the "tobin-tax" movement. In January 2000 the proposal to put the "tobin-tax" on the European Parliament's agenda got support not only of socialist, communist and green parties, but also of the Far Right, such as the fraction around Pasqua and De Villiers, the pompous brothers of Le Pen. One small Left-wing party from France witheld their vote because the proposal was in their eyes "a hymn of praise on the market economy". The proposal didn't make it in the end because the majority of social democratic and liberal conservative parties voted against it.15 It's now or never Vice-president of ATTAC-international Susan George in 1999 wrote the book "The Lugano report". It is a fake report, supposedly written by a secret group of top-10 scientists who are meeting in the Swiss town of Lugano. Working for the financial elite, that according to the book secretly rules the world, the scientists give recommendations to end the crisis of capitalism. They propose to strongly reduce the number of people in the poor countries. George seems to foremost want to frighten her readers. Although she herself stresses that she completely made up everything in the book, she does seem to believe that the world is in fact ruled by such a small elite. "Which I shall not name so as not to invite legal action", she writes.16 Although coming from the Left and certainly well meant, the ideas in the book will remind many anti-fascists of the "Protocols of the sages of Zion". In that book one can also read a fake report of a secret meeting of 'wise' and rich men, in that case Jews, talking about getting hold of world power. The Protocols were used by the German Nazi's to justify their march to power. The Lugano Report is most certainly not antisemitic, and it does not write against "the Jews" in any way. Far from it. But sadly, the analysis of the world processes of power differs much less from that of the Protocolls. Now that the attention of the Left seems to be shifting from class struggle and struggles against racism and patriarchy towards a struggle against such a supposed small and elusive elite of speculators, collaboration with the Far Right is getting more likely. And even more likely when apocalyptic worldviews are getting more common, such as we see in the movement against "globalisation". It's now or never. George: "As a friend of mine said when watching two French agricultural confederations squabble over some relatively minor issue. 'Right-wing peasants, Left-wing peasants, who cares? There aren't going to be any peasants!'" George acknowledges that collaboration with the Far Right is dangerous. But, according to her, also necessary. "In the USA, it took the Right and the Left joining forces to defeat the president's 'fast-track' authority (to sign free trade agreements into law with no amendments from congress)."16 Do such collaborations make us fascists too, George asked De Fabel rhetorically, after she learned of our criticism.17 No, we wouldn't say that, but it is also not very anti-fascist either. We cannot see how collaboration with fascists can ever bring us any closer to a more free and equal world. Eric Krebbers is a member of the Dutch anti-racist organisation De Fabel van de illegaal. All (mistakes in the) translations are his responsibility. This article was first published in the magazine "De Fabel van de illegaal", Summer 2000 issue. Notes: 1. "Toelichting op het actieprogramma van de vereniging Attac-Nederland voor haar eerste ledenvergadering op 15 januari 2000" 2. "Die Offenbarung der Propheten", Thomas Ebermann and Rainer Trampert. 3. "Globalisation", Earth First. In: Do or die nr. 8, autumn 1999. 4. "Aanval op het kapitaal", Freek Kallenberg. In: Ravage nr. 5, April 7, 2000. 5. "Vom klassenkampf zur 'socialen Frage'". In: Wildcat Zirkular nr. 40/41, December 1997. 6. "Nicht sprachlos in Seattle", Alain Kessi. In: Jungle World nr. 48, November 24, 1999. 7. "Kok pleit voor meer 'echte' ondernemers". In: Leidsch Dagblad, October 18, 1999. 8. "Het mag niet bij waarschuwing van Kok blijven", Hans van Heijningen, Theo Ruyter and Marjan Zijlmans. In: De Volkskrant, November 12, 1999. 9. "La taxe Tobin: soin paliatif du capitalisme", Michel Sahuc - Groupe La Sociale. In: Le Monde libertaire nr. 1145, December 17, 1998. 10. "Attac grain du sable ou huile dans les rouages?" In: Alternative libertaire nr. 224, Januari 2000. 11. "Attac", Willem. In: Dusnieuws nr. 19, February 2000. 12. "OMC: le libéralisme veut dicter sa loi", Groupe FA Nantes. In: Le Monde libertaire nr. 1182, November 25, 1999. 13. "Postfordistische Guerrilla", Gruppe Demontage. 14. See our website: http://www.dsl.nl/lokabaal/english.htm 15. "Merkwürdige Allianzen". In: Jungle World, Januari 26, 2000. 16. "The Lugano report", Susan George. 17. E-mail from Susan George, September 17, 1999. * * * ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN (AFIB) 750 La Playa # 730 San Francisco, California 94121 To subscribe: afib-subscribe@igc.topica.com To unsubscribe: afib-unsubscribe@igc.topica.com Inquiries: tburghardt@igc.org On PeaceNet visit AFIB on pol.right.antifa Via the Web --> http://burn.ucsd.edu/~aff/afib.html Archive --> http://burn.ucsd.edu/~aff/afib-bulletins.html ANTI-FASCIST FORUM (AFF) Antifa Info-Bulletin is a member of the Anti-Fascist Forum network. AFF is an info-group which collects and disseminates information, research and analysis on fascist activity and anti-fascist resistance. More info: E-mail: aff@burn.ucsd.edu; Web: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~aff Order our journal, ANTIFA FORUM, cutting-edge anti-fascist research and analysis! 4 issues, $20. Write AFF, P.O. 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