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Czech neo-Nazis have cancelled a gig scheduled for June 20 in Prague. The gig — promoted on MySpace<\/a> — was organised by the local franchise of Blood & Honour, members of the neo-Nazi Workers’ Party (DS) and a local businessman (Martin Fran\u011bk<\/a>, owner of ‘Hate Core Shop’). Not playing at the event are Czech band Attack and Slovakian bands Before the War and Project Vandal. Also not playing are US bands H8Machine and the Bully Boys.<\/p>\n The cancellation follows a series of arrests — including the arrest of Fran\u011bk — by Czech police. The arrests were made, seemingly, on the basis that such gigs are unlawful, promoting as they do the virtues of “neo-Nazism, racism and xenophobia”. Video footage of the raids and photos of some of the items confiscated are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The arrests triggered protest rallies by small groups of neo-Nazi supporters in Prague and a number of other towns and cities in the Republic. At one such rally in Most, North Bohemia, on June 14, Peter Kotab, the leader of the Workers’ Party, found it all too exciting and collapsed while being arrested by police. Kotab was one of 15 neo-Nazis detained by police. “In Zlin, south Moravia, a meeting of ultra-right radicals ended up in a clash with anarchists on Saturday. The police in Zlin detained three men. Two anarchists were accused of rioting and an ultra-right radical was later released without being accused” (Police detain 15 rightist extremists<\/a>, Prague Daily Monitor<\/em> \/ \u010cTK, June 15, 2009).<\/p>\nIn Australia, the promotion of “neo-Nazism, racism and xenophobia” by neo-Nazi organisation ‘Blood & Honour Australia’ (and fellow boneheads belonging to the ‘Southern Cross Hammerskins’) is a lawful activity, as is the production and distribution of neo-Nazi propaganda. Thus the two groups are organising gigs in Melbourne (Victoria) on September 12<\/a> and the Gold Coast (Queensland) on April 17, 2010. Neo-Nazi propaganda — including the awesomely titled album ‘Freezer Full of Nigger Heads’ by US neo-Nazi grindcore band ‘Grinded Nig’ are available locally through 9% Productions. 9% also has a happy home on YouTube<\/a>. The 65,000 Australian fans of Facebook group ‘Fuck Off, We’re Full’<\/a> will also be delighted to learn that 9% sells a t-shirt especially for them, at the bargain basement price of just $25 (plus postage). Note also that the Bully Boys had no trouble touring Australia in 2004.<\/ul>\n