<html><body><P>Laure wrote:</P>
<P>>I think that we had quite interesting discussions on this in light of some experiences at the PGA meeting in Belgrade. Unfortunately, I think that some valuable criticism got washed<BR>over because of certain other issues in the background (like a split in <BR>the Belgrade organizing group, conflicts with anarcho-syndicalists) and that<BR>some people didn't want to consider these because they found them linked<BR> to something else. But I'll come back with that side later.</P>
<P>The split in the organising process was linked to questions of racism and Western European chauvinism within that process. We shall be returning to this later, but what became apparent to us in London was that not only were we faced with the institutional racism which we had experienced in the anarchist movement here for many years, but that attitudes to Eastern Europeans also had some comparable attributes.</P>
<P>Also as mentioned before, the notion of East-West here is not immediately seen as a matter with in Europe, but also as a matter between Europe and Asia. What is of interest to us here is not simply looking at any East-West differentiation within Europe - which we regard as in many ways an ideological construct, but also how such discourses interact with more dominant racist discourses (certainly in British English) where "European" is another word for "white".</P>
<P>Our interest in this is linked to concern over the impact of Eastern European migration to Britain leading to anatgonism between such migrants and Black and Asian communities, a divide and rule which can only benefit those who exploit us.</P>
<P>More on this later.</P>
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