Other Neo-Fascist Strategies: Some Conjectures

AuthorIan R Barnes
Date01 April 1981
Published date01 April 1981
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9256.1981.tb00045.x
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to Professor Richard Rose, Hal Wolman, Brian Hogwood and Ian McAllister for
their helpful comments on earlier drafts.
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OTHER NEO-FASCIST STRATEGIES: SOME CONJECTURES
IAN
R
BARNES
Recent acts of extreme right-wing violence ha& drawn attention to an apparent
revival
of
fascism in Europe. The dramatic bombing of the Bologna railway station,
and similar atrocities in Munich and Paris have led to allegations of an internat-
ionaffy
co-ordinated neo-Nazi terrorist campaign. Undoubtedly, ad hoc networks
do exist if only in the form
of
the annual Nazi festival at the Flanders village
of Diksmuide.
Column
88,
the British Movement, the National Front, the Belgian Flemish Militant
Order
(VMO)
and sundry groups from Ireland, France, Germany and fifteen other states,
were present. Reports also exist of support from Libya, Lebanese Falangists, and,
This year representatives of the British League of St George,

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