Everybody admires the bravery firemen exhibit by rushing into a burning building when the human survival instinct calls for exactly the opposite behavior. It is for similar reasons that you are likely to find Daryle Lamont Jenkins so fascinating, since this 37 year-old black man born in Newark devotes most of his free-time to monitoring the movements of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists… A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed “large numbers of neo-Nazis and [bonehead] extremists” to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization… WARSAW (AFP) — Poland’s Jewish community is to set up a database listing incidents of anti-Semitism, which have been on the rise in the EU member state in recent months, a Jewish official said Thursday… [This following extract is an unpaid presentation of a “Special service by AGI on behalf of the Italian Prime Minister’s office”:] Turin, Jul 7 – The alarm for parcel bombs arriving in Turin has already been given off yesterday by the police, after the second paper bomb attributed to anarchist groups… [On the Italian state’s infamous ‘strategy of tension’ see here; also here. And here] BERLIN (Reuters) – The ceremonial burning of the diary of Holocaust victim Anne Frank by far-right extremists in eastern Germany was condemned by the German government on Friday amid calls to intensify efforts to stamp out neo-Nazi activity…
So is there a role for Marxist intellectuals in these new movements. Yes, absolutely, I’d say. It’s true that they’re theoretically unsophisticated (though Michael Hardt told me that some of the anti-sweathop activists at Duke, where the movement started in 1997, are really liking his class on Capital).
