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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 2 May 2000
Vol. 4, Number 37 (#418)
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Web Sites of Interest:
War Crimes by Japanese Militarists
Mayday Events Internationally
Adam Tanner (Reuters), "Leftist, neo-Nazis Clash in Germany," 1 May 00
Brad Schade (Reuters), "May Day Protests Target U.S. Financial
Districts," 1 May 00
Steven DuBois (AP), "Oregon May Day Protest Turns Violent," 1 May 00
Kristin Gazlay (AP), "London May Day Rallies Create Tensions," 1 May 00
Michael Brick (New York Times), "Tensions Flare at May Day Rallies
Around the World," 1 May 00
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WEB SITES OF INTEREST:
War Crimes by Japanese Militarists: a site of analysis and documentation
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Leftist, neo-Nazis Clash in Germany
Adam Tanner (Reuters)
1 May 00
BERLIN -- Leftists briefly clashed with hundreds of neo-Nazis in May Day
violence in Berlin on Monday and later fought pitched battles with police.
About 50 people were injured in separate clashes in the port city of
Hamburg.
In Berlin's Kreuzberg district on Monday night, hundreds of leftist and
anarchist demonstrators fought police armed with water cannon, clubs, tear
gas and riot shields in what has become a May Day tradition. The
demonstrators set off small fires and threw rocks.
Police said many officers had been injured -- as in past years -- but did
not have a tally. Many protesters were arrested.
Although about 10,000 leftists and anarchists initially gathered in
Kreuzberg, only a hardened band of several hundred remained as fighting
continued late on Monday night. Some protesters set up street blockades.
Earlier in the day, police in the east Berlin district of Hellersdorf
quickly intervened when the neo-Nazis charged into the anti-fascists and
briefly began fighting. They detained about 140 people from both sides but
reported no serious injuries.
"Nazis go home, Nazis go home," anti-fascists chanted at 750 neo-Nazis,
many of them skinheads.
"We're not looking for a fight. We are outnumbered by these fascists. But
we want to make our protests at them being allowed to rally on May Day,"
said an anti-fascist demonstrator who gave his name as Oskar.
Berlin Police Out In Force
In Hamburg, protesters marked the start of May Day after midnight by
throwing stones at banks, broke shop windows and set fire to cars in the
city center.
Twenty-one police were hurt, including one whose arm was broken, a
spokesman said. Leftists said 25 protesters were hurt.
Officials said they detained 123 people.
Police had expected Berlin to be the flashpoint for violence and they
deployed more than 6,000 officers -- 2,300 men in Hellersdorf alone where
neo-Nazis gathered. Reinforcements guarded government buildings in the city
center.
Most of the neo-Nazis were young men aged between 16 and 25 who gathered to
hear speeches and sing words to the German national anthem not used since
World War Two due to its nationalistic overtones.
"We as Germans are being plundered. The money to set up our future is being
taken," said Andreas Storr, a spokesman for the neo-Nazi National
Democratic Party.
Storr said the demonstrators, who carried banners reading "Work for Germans
first," wanted to highlight the inability of institutions such as the
European Union to address German needs.
One of the few elderly faces in the neo-Nazi crowd was well-known agitator,
Friedhelm Busse, 71, who once called Hitler the greatest historical figure
of the millennium.
In a brief interview, he said he favored forced deportation of immigrants
from Germany.
"We should send them back to their own cultural areas," Busse said, his
businessman-style shirt and tie a contrast to jeans and boots favored by
the young in the crowd.
"That would not be as inhuman as the victors of 1945 who forced us Germans
out of the Suedetenland and Silesia. I have nothing against foreigners but
I want Germany for Germans."
The NPD had called on members from all over Germany to converge on Berlin
for the marches. They also gathered in several other cities, where police
made a handful of arrests amid minor disturbances.
Other German cities held peaceful traditional pro-labor rallies.
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May Day Protests Target U.S. Financial Districts
Brad Schade (Reuters)
1 May 00
CHICAGO -- May Day protests that brought marches and scattered violence
around the world targeted U.S. financial districts in Chicago and New York
on Monday.
More than 50 people carrying banners and chanting "People Before
Profit" rallied outside the Chicago Board of Trade, several miles from the
site of the Haymarket Square massacre, a landmark in 19th century May Day-
related history.
The group's signs referred to the exchange, the world's oldest futures
exchange, as the "Chicago Board of Traitors." The action was peaceful and
organizers said they planned to be there all day.
In New York, rush hour traffic slowed to a crawl as scores of police on
horseback made their way through the streets in Lower Manhattan and the
Wall Street financial district. Officers in riot gear directed traffic. New
York City police said the demonstration, planned for mid-day, was expected
to move from 14th Street and Union Square to City Hall.
The New York Stock Exchange said it was open for business as usual, but
would remain in close touch with police and take appropriate action if here
was any change in the situation.
The Chicago May Day Coalition said it planned "a series of actions to
oppose economic and political exploitation and repression, and the
celebrate May Day=B4s spirit of resistance," a statement from the group
said.
A spokesman for the Chicago Board of Trade said the exchange was
"working closely with the Chicago police department for an orderly
demonstration."
As a precaution, the exchange said it was closing its visitors gallery,
which overlooks the trading floors. The New York Stock Exchange said its
visitors gallery would remain open, but Chicago Mercantile Exchange
closed its gallery.
"They='re protesting at the wrong place. We provide economic stability to
the agricultural markets by providing transparency and liquidity in
trading," said CBOT spokesman Rich Meyer.
Protesters in Chicago said they would march along the original route of a
landmark May Day demonstration in the late 1880s.
In the 1886 Haymarket labor protest, a bomb was thrown that killed eight
policemen and wounded about 65 others. Four protesters were convicted of
the killings and executed the following year.
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Oregon May Day Protest Turns Violent
Steven DuBois (AP)
1 May 00
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Firing beanbag rounds from shotguns, police in riot gear
tried Monday to break up a downtown May Day protest by hundreds of people.
More than a dozen demonstrators were arrested.
In Olympia, Wash., several hundred May Day protesters blocked one of the
capital city's busiest intersections to protest global corporations. In New
York City, more than 1,000 immigrants protested outside City Hall. And
about 400 Minneapolis marchers clashed with police, beating drums and
waving flags and signs as officers surrounded them in riot gear.
Portland police officers used clubs to shove protesters, whose
demonstration was organized by a loose coalition of workers' rights
groups.
The chaos tied up rush-hour traffic.
Protesters held signs reading "Farm Workers Yes, Slavery No!" "Globalize
Freedom," and "Bring Oregon Steel to Justice."
Sgt. Mike Hefley, city police spokesman, said 16 protesters had been
arrested for disorderly conduct and criminal mischief. Hefley said the
protest was illegal because it was held without a permit.
A protester broke a Nike window and several threw fiery objects at officers
on horseback, authorities said.
The protesters were demanding amnesty for undocumented workers, the end of
clearcutting in national forests and affordable housing.
"I belive ultimately we are in it together," said Jamey Billig, a Portland
UPS worker. "Globalization effects not just 14-year-olds in Indonesia. It
effects people in Portland."
In Olympia, people set up barricades of old televisions, furniture, vines
and refrigerators. Police and the Washington State Patrol redirected
traffic, but did not interfere with protesters.
Twenty-four protesters were arrested Minneapolis, most for disorderly
conduct.
The New York rally was generally peaceful, although police made 22 arrests
on minor charges.
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London May Day Rallies Create Tensions
Kristin Gazlay (AP)
1 May 00
LONDON -- Anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police Monday in central
London, tearing down the golden arches of a McDonald's and spray-painting a
hammer and sickle on a statue of Winston Churchill in a May Day protest.
In Berlin, a march against "capitalism and imperialism" Monday night
erupted into violence in the Kreuzberg neighborhood, a stronghold of
leftist activism. More than 100 police officers were injured as they used
water cannons, tear gas and nightsticks against a crowd of 10,000
anarchists. At least three dozen leftists were arrested.
Elsewhere in Europe, the workers who are usually commemorated on May Day
took a back seat to the far right, as neo-Nazis rallied in German cities
and nationalist parties held demonstrations in France.
There were also May Day protests in the United States. Police in riot gear
broke up a protest by hundreds of workers rights supporters in downtown
Portland, Ore. In Olympia, Wash., several hundred demonstrators blocked one
of the city's busiest intersections to protest global corporations. And in
New York City, more than 1,000 immigrants protested outside City Hall.
The riots erupted in London when a group broke away from a peaceful
demonstration held by protesters planting seeds in front of the Houses of
Parliament.
Demonstrators threw stones and other objects near Prime Minister Tony
Blair's official residence at Downing Street, where a dozen officers in
riot gear took up positions. The protesters then stormed a nearby branch of
McDonald's, breaking windows, tearing down the large "M" sign and
distributing food.
The demonstrators tried unsuccessfully to storm St. Martin's in the Field
Church, daubed anti-war slogans on the Cenotaph war memorial and defaced a
statue of Churchill by putting red paint on his mouth to look like blood
and spraying the communist symbol on his jacket.
They also covered the lower part of Nelson's Column, the slender white
tower that anchors Trafalgar Square, with anarchy symbols and scrawled
"Reclaim the Streets 2000" across it.
As darkness began to fall, about 2,000 protesters corralled in the square
were allowed to leave, resulting in more violence. They smashed car windows
and severely damaged several businesses before being pushed across the
Waterloo Bridge to the south bank of the Thames, where authorities once
again penned them in.
"The people responsible for the damage caused in London today are an
absolute disgrace," Blair said.
"To deface the Cenotaph and the statue of Winston Churchill is simply
beneath contempt," he said. "It is only because of the bravery and courage
of our war dead that these idiots can live in a free country at all."
Three police officers and nine civilians were taken to the hospital and
nine other policemen suffered minor injuries. Forty-two people were
arrested.
Earlier in Berlin, about 1,200 neo-Nazis rallied in a depressed eastern
neighborhood. The young crowd, many with shaved heads, waved German
imperial flags and listened to speeches calling for "Germany for Germans."
There were no outbreaks of violence, as police kept a group of more than
100 counter-demonstrators separated. More than 100 people from both right-
and left-wing groups were detained.
About 1,800 more neo-Nazis held rallies in other cities around Germany.
In Hamburg, Germany, several hundred rioters threw stones, broke windows
and set bonfires early Monday, until the melee was broken up by police
using water cannons. Twenty-one police officers were injured and 134 people
arrested.
Police used a water cannon against a Monday night march of about 5,000
leftists through Berlin's Kreuzberg district after demonstrators lit a
barricade on fire and threw stones, bottles and fireworks. Several dozen
people were arrested.
In France, about 3,000 members of the far-right National Front party
marched to the Paris Opera House behind a woman on horseback dressed as
Joan of Arc, whom the anti-immigration party has adopted as its patron
saint.
In an address in Rome, Pope John Paul blessed the world's workers and
appealed for rich nations to relieve poor ones of their crushing debts,
saying: "Realities such as unemployment, exploitation of minors and low
wages persist and are even getting worse in some parts of the world."
Labor unions and mainstream leftist parties in Europe also used the day to
stage peaceful street rallies. Tens of thousands gathered in Madrid and
some 15,000 demonstrated in Istanbul, Turkey.
Russia's May Day celebrations were a mere shadow of the Soviet-orchestrated
extravaganzas. Only about 15,000 people in Moscow joined a noncommunist
trade union march. Most Russians took the opportunity to head to the
country.
In South America's largest city, Sao Paulo, Brazil, hundreds of thousands
of people gathered to protest low wages and high unemployment. Some 20,000
workers, students and leftist activists marched through Ecuador's capital
Quito, protesting the government's plans to adopt the U.S. dollar as the
official currency.
In China, most people had the day off and visited friends and relatives,
while 3,000 people named as "model workers" by the communist government
attended a flag-raising ceremony in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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Tensions Flare at May Day Rallies Around the World
Michael Brick (New York Times)
1 May 00
Hundreds of New York City police officers fanned out from Union Square to
the Financial District on Monday as demonstrators supporting amnesty for
undocumented workers planned to mark May Day with a march to City Hall.
Police guarded the entrances to several Wall Street landmarks, including
the New York Stock Exchange. They were anticipating a crowd of what several
officers called the "World Trade Organization people."
They were referring to the occasionally violent demonstration in Seattle
late last year and a more peaceful one in Washington, D.C. last month. At
both events, demonstrators protested corporate globalization, calling it
detrimental to the interests of workers and the environment.
Police named their operation May Day 2000 after the holiday celebrated in
many countries as International Day of the Worker. Demonstrators listed
recognition of that holiday in the U.S. among their causes, alongside
"legal residency for all undocumented workers; fair wages with paid
overtime and paid vacations; a humane, livable 8-hour workday; decent,
affordable housing; education for us and our children; free health service
for all; no more police brutality," according to the Web site
mayday2000.org.
Calling themselves The National Coalition for Dignity and Amnesty for
Undocumented Immigrants, the organizers comprised representatives of the
Latino Workers Center, Garment Workers Solidarity Center and Asociocion
Tepeyac, an organization of around 40 neighborhood groups.
After the march, plans called for demonstrations targeting the exchange as
well as banks and "sweatshops." Kimberly Williams, spokeswoman for the New
York Stock Exchange, declined to comment on security precautions.
A so-called guerilla gardening event was to follow around 5 p.m. EDT. Since
the early 1980s, environmentalist demonstrators have marked May 1 by
planting flora in areas of the city not already occupied by concrete. The
city shut down several neighborhood gardens last year.
Last month, demonstrators in Washington attempted to block the annual
spring planning meetings held by the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund, global lending institutions to developing and impoverished
countries In Seattle, demonstrators targeted the World Trade Organization,
a 136-nation Geneva-based organization that decides the rules of global
commerce.
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