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In European Commentary: Racism: The Road from Germany, A. Sivanandan states that popular racism is sustained by institutionalized state racism. In West Germany's case, the institutionalization is in the form of the Gastarbeiter (guest worker) system. The recent xenophobia in East Germany arose because the communist government never dealt with other cultures or taught its citizens to accept others. The combination of the West & East German forms of racism exacerbate the problem. A fifteen-point proposal for an antiracist policy in Europe is presented. In US Commentary: Race and Class in the US Presidential Election, Manning Marable (U of Colorado, Boulder) comments that President Bill Clinton's 1992 election was a reversal of previous rules: the incumbent (George Bush) was not given a second term, & a Democrat carried Republican states. Clinton's core constituency was not white, but racial & ethnic minorities. However, Clinton did not win so much as George Bush lost, because Bush never understood the fears of the racial & ethnic minorities, & his public record on race was ambiguous. M. Pflum

Presents the views and work of 3 winners of the Right Livelihood Foundation awards. These are concerned with resistance to abuse with biotechnology, and to the malign effects of monoculture, with respect to developing countries.

British press reporting of the cricket test match series between England & Pakistan in summer 1992 provided a mirror of racial attitudes in English society. British journalists, especially in the Daily Mirror, attempted to diminish the skills of the Pakistani team by calling them "cheats" & "ball doctors," This attack was reinforced by more liberal newspapers like the Guardian. The Pakistani team was surprised that no Britishers came to their aid, but cricketeers of other countries did investigate & disprove the allegations; however, by the time these truths were forced into the tabloid press, Pakistani reputations had already been damaged, & Pakistanis & other Asians in GB had been subjected to abuse. M. Pflum

Testimonials based on taped interviews with aerosol artists whose art springs from an attitude of constant rebellion against the dominant mass marketed culture.

Argues that only a race/class synthesis can provide the basis on which all the oppressed communities of the US can equally unite.

Freedom of the press is one of the principal objectives of the movement for political reform. Looks at the restraints put upon this objective by economic factors, press ownership, language factors and publishing problems. Calls for the promotion of an African language press as necessary for the involvement of the people in their own governance and socioeconomic development.

Discusses the impact of the intifada on women, the dynamics between gender and national struggles, and especially the role of a new generation of Palestinian women's resource and research centres, Women's Affairs in Nablus and Gaza, and the Women's Studies Centre in Jerusalem.

Giacaman has been active in the Palestinian women's movement in the 1980s & is a member of the steering committee of the Women's Affairs Center (WAC) in Nablus & Gaza. In this interview, Giacaman states that WAC has as its goal upgrading women's political strengths by instilling in them independent thought & analysis skills. When women were politically disarmed during the intifada, women's committees could not collectively solve the problem of how to obtain power, so the WAC was founded, steeped in Palestinian feminist orientation that emphasizes the human rights of women. Rather than driving women back into their homes, the intifada, has opened an enlarged role for women in Palestinian society. M. Pflum

Repression continues to be part of the politics of ruling in the Philippines, even with the fall of Ferdinand Marcos & the ascendancy of President Corazon Aquino. It has taken the form of low-intensity conflict -- a systematic counterinsurgency strategy that is waged on a number of levels, eg, ideological, social-psychological, political, & military. Such repression was experienced personally in 1986, while living in the village communities of some of the peasant women of Mindoro. The struggles & life stories of members of their organization, KAMMI (Peasant Women of Mindoro), a local chapter of AMIHAN (National Federation of Peasant Women in the Philippines), are delineated. L. Dorn

States that George Bush lost the 1992 presidential election because Clinton appealed to and mobilized a constituency consisting of racial and ethnic minorities, working class and poor people, and those dependent on social programmes and services, at a time of economic hardship. Examines the role of race in the election campaign.

Political events during the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland, & during Christopher Columbus's landing on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, were similar: they were both turning points in the history of western European expansion & colonialism. It is contended that Columbus never landed in Ireland during any of his journeys across the Atlantic, yet the social changes instituted as a result of his enterprise came to have profound effects on Ireland. Given this, colonial slavery & rebellion in the conquest of Ireland, which were then transported to the American colonies, are delineated. While Ireland has become a training ground for colonization, it is argued that there is hope that decolonization & a rejection of racism will eventually prevail. L. Dorn

Examines `The history of little Henry and his bearer' and `Stories explanatory of church catechism' by Mary M. Sherwood who was influential in the Evangelical civilizing mission in Nineteenth c. India. Argues that maternity and infancy emerge as the crucial idioms through which racial, colonial and feminist ideologies are mediated.

An analysis of the rhetoric generated by newly arriving colonists suggests that the Europeans coming to the new World viewed themselves as Christians in a non-Christian world & therefore, as possessing the right to take control of the new land. This perception was reinforced by applying the dualisms of Christian religious belief -- angels & devils, good & evil -- to the inhabitants of the New World, characterizing the Amerindians as heathens & associating them with malevolence & backwardness. Juxtaposed against this perception was the European identity of humanness, which was ultimately fused with ideals of trade, private property, capital accumulation through trade & investment, & progressive development. D. Generoli

Though Cambodian racism toward the Vietnamese has colonial roots, prior to the rise of the Khmer Rouge, it was generally confined to urban areas & the nationalistic intelligentsia of Cambodian society. The ascendancy of the Khmer Rouge brought overtly racist & even genocidal policies & forced the expulsion or flight of large numbers of Vietnamese from Cambodia. After the fall of Pol Pot, many Vietnamese returned, & the new government, recognizing that its survival depended on Vietnamese support, did not adopt anti-Vietnamese policies. The Cambodian war & revolution dissipated the anti-Vietnamese ideology of certain segments of Cambodian society, & racist sentiment is much less prevalent today than in the past. D. Generoli