tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post3730697498976824969..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: Fascism AlertTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-77895840210978371622018-08-31T08:24:54.956-07:002018-08-31T08:24:54.956-07:00More on the Chemnitz neo-Nazi situation: https://w...More on the Chemnitz neo-Nazi situation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/31/germany-chemnitz-far-right-neo-nazis-not-neighbourTony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-50505699377187004632018-08-29T11:39:37.940-07:002018-08-29T11:39:37.940-07:00Dear both, thanks for your comments. The recent f...Dear both, thanks for your comments. The recent far right violence in Chemnitz in former east Germany is a shocking reminder of how real the neo-Nazi threat now is. For a good analysis, see https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/29/the-guardian-view-on-germanys-far-right-a-challenge-for-all-of-europe. I remember, on my own visits to Dresden a decade or so ago, that the synogogue there was built like a bunker and was under 24-hour police guard because of the danger to it even then. Clearly the far right threat out there is even more alarming now, though its immediate target is recent Muslim immigrants rather than German Jews. When right-wing thugs rampage through the city chasing and attacking "foreigners", it's hard to see how any person of colour could find "allies" there.Tony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-27164046093249790352018-08-18T06:24:43.489-07:002018-08-18T06:24:43.489-07:00This is alarming but i'd like to take the oppo...This is alarming but i'd like to take the opportunity to ask why the left has little interest in such equivalent behaviour in someof our minority communities;particularly in relation to females i'm talking about extreme emotional aggression and control as well as violence are a common theme. I've spoken to some journalists on the left about this but no response.And now we even have such ideologies inculcated within education policy re. minority schooling.As a woman of colour who has faced a great deal of violence from within I find no allies on the left,, they tend to be on the right. Sairanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-21978916254193631692018-08-17T04:29:13.372-07:002018-08-17T04:29:13.372-07:00Thanks for flagging this up, Tony. It's a wor...Thanks for flagging this up, Tony. It's a worrying development, and I think that if far-right attacks on Left cultural institutions were to become a trend, then the William Morris sites might need to review their own security - Morris being such an important cultural icon of the Left.Koticknoreply@blogger.com