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The Front National’s gi-gantic celebration of French Nationalism.

by Jared Taylor

he great fall festival of the Front National (FN) was held just outsideParis over the weekend of Sept. 19 and 20. Known asthe “blue white and red fes-tival” (from the colors of the French flag) it was anevent of staggering propor-tions that vividly demon-strated the power and breadth of the French na-tionalist movement (seeAR, April and May, 1998).The 18th annual event of itskind, this year’s festival at-tracted more than 100,000FN supporters—includingyour correspondent. The

climax of the weekend wasa one-and-a-half hour speech by the party leader,Jean-Marie Le Pen, that captivated anaudience of some 20,000 and broughtit roaring to its feet. Needless to say,this event was inspiring proof of thestrength of national sentiment, a re-sounding demonstration by French-men who are willing to defy one-world, anti-racist propaganda and say,“France is for the French!”

The festival itself is a fascinating

combination of political rally, foodfair, outdoor market, lecture series,and rock concert that has no parallel inthe United States. It is a mostly open-air event that takes place on fair grounds at the edge of Paris. Thisyear, there were over 100 booths,many set up by regional FN organiza-tions, competing with each other totempt festival-goers with the best re-

gional delicacies. Many people spenthours at the festival and had lunch anddinner on the grounds, so eating anddrinking were a constant refreshing backdrop to the event.

The festival also attracts conserva-tive booksellers, sympathetic publica-tions, and traditionalist religious or-

ganizations, as well as dealers inCeltic jewelry, historic memorabilia,and recordings of patriotic music. Im- portant FN organizations, such as

youth groups, the FN shadow govern-ment, and Front National headquarterscommittees also maintain booths.

The “foreign affairs” booth wasmanned by representatives of other European nationalist parties. In addi-tion to delegations from the FlemishBloc in Belgium and the Republican

Party from Germany, what the Frenchcall the “Anglo-Saxons” were repre-sented by the publication Right NOW!from England, and the Council of Conservative Citizens, based in St.Louis, Missouri. The C of CC is anactivist group with close ties to AR,and your correspondent was part of a

council delegation that hadthe pleasure of presentingJean-Marie Le Pen with a

Confederate flag that hadflown over the South Caro-lina state capitol.

The FN makes a special point of appealing toyoung people. On bothdays, there were continu-ous performances by musi-cal groups of the kind theFrench call “identity rock.”These were bands withnames like Vae Victis andIn Memoriam, playing

hard-driving songs about patriotism and nationalidentity. The Celtic heri-

tage plays a large part in youthful ex- pressions of nationalism—one bandwas called Dr. Merlin, and there waseven a “Celtic rap group” called BasicCeltos.

For the party-goers, Saturday wasthe high point of the festival, withdancing and drinking until midnight.Away from the bandstand, young people with vocal cords well oiled with

drink broke into spontaneous rendi-tions of the French national anthemand other patriotic songs.

For the politically-oriented, the fes-tival offered a series of lectures bysome of the biggest names in the FN:Bruno Mégret, Bruno Gollnisch (seeinterview, p. 4) Jean-Yves Le Gallou(see p. 7), Marie-France Stirbois, and

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A festival for those who

defy anti-racist

propaganda, and say

“France is for the

French!”

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A Festival for France

There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

– Thomas Jefferson

Jean-Marie Le Pen acknowledges the crowd. (Photo: Frank Landouch



Sir - Congratulations on a success-ful conference. I was glad to read thatthe media took some notice and thatthe "anti-racist" demonstration was afizzle. However, I was sorry to note

that unlike your two previous gather-ings, none of your speakers was a reli-gious figure. I do not believe Amer-ica's racial problems can be solvedwithout a proper understanding of therole of religion in society. I hope youwill remedy this omission at your nextconference.

Jorge Pascal, Madrid, Spain

Sir - In the October issue, GlaydeWhitney reports on an astonishingstudy conducted by Harvard Medical

School, which concludes that the problems of blacks are not caused bywhite "racism," and that to insist onthis mistaken explanation is nothingshort of "dangerous." Alas, I see nomention whatsoever of this importantstudy in the media, not even in the"conservative" press. It is a sad daywhen not even Harvard can break outof the liberal media hammer lock.

Greg Helton, Charlottesville, Va.

Sir - I am glad to see Glayde Whit-

ney back in the magazine-hadn't seenhis column for a while. The sciencemay not be everyone's cup of tea, butI can't get enough of it.

Lawrence Cooper, Lebanon, N.H.

Sir - I was shocked to read your October "Letter from Silicon Valley."Immigration opponents like to focus


Letters from Readers

on how blacks and perhaps lower-in-come whites are hurt by unskilled im-migration, but I had no idea that virtu-ally an entire industry-and a crucialone-had fallen into the hands of Asians. Surely the anonymous author is not alone; surely there are enough

displaced white engineers to make astink! And surely, even liberal Cali-fornia newspapers must realize some-thing is wrong if you have to be ableto speak Chinese to get along withyour co-workers!

I almost dread to open up AR. Justwhen I think I have seen the worst,you print something I could never have imagined.

Catherine Harper, Grass Valley,Cal.

Sir - In the October issue youwrote about a white man killed by amob of blacks in Alton, Illinois. Asyou point out, State's Attorney Wil-liam Haine refused to press hatecrime charges, but you did not elabo-rate on his reasons. He says that hehas already charged the perps withmurder and that hate crimes carry alesser penalty. He says he does notwant to move the focus of the investi-gation away from the central fact of murder. "Murder by definition is ahate crime," he says, so there is no

need to concentrate on the racial an-gle. Whaaat? Just imagine trying tosell that to the NAACP if a mob of whites had murdered a black.

Carl Pederson, Rock Island, Ill.

Sir - Ray Batz' superb article aboutwomen and blacks in the San Fran-cisco Fire Department reminds me of a problem we have been having with

our police officers. For the last year or so, the single most common reason for recruits to fail police training is thatthey wash out of the shooting course.Oddly, it is only black women whocan't learn how to shoot. Every one of the last ten people to fail the test was a black woman.

What's going on here? Accordingto the papers, the women say the gun

is too big and their hands are toosmall. Or that they are afraid of thegun. But somehow white women don'thave these problems. Everybody is puzzled.

In my view, though, women shouldnot be police officers at all, and teach-ing them to shoot is a mixed blessing.

Studies have shown that womenofficers are more likely than men to pull a gun in a threatening situa-tion-and use it. This is not surprising;they are smaller and weaker and lessable to control a situation without re-sorting to firearms. The more ladycops there are, the more people aregoing to get shot. On second thought,maybe that's not such a bad thing . . . .

Assuming lady cops can hit the badguys they are aiming at and not some-one else.

Dan Shorter, New Orleans, La.

Sir - This is transcribed from thetelevision program, "This Week withSam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts,"which aired on September 27,1998:

"William Kristol: Mark McGwiredeserves the home run title. He'll getit. Sammy Sosa is a nice guy, and niceguys finish second.

"Sam Donaldson (to Cokie Rob-erts): And you?

"Cokie Roberts: I'm for SammySosa, because as my husband has pointed out to me, the most commonname in baseball today is Martinez,and I think Sammy Sosa representsthe future of baseball and the future of America."

Paul Kirchner, Hamden, Conn.



thousands of chairs were laid out be-fore an enormous stage, and the frontrow seats began to fill, hours ahead of time. Patriotic music poured fromenormous loud speakers, building the

excitement until Mr. Le Pen himself stepped on-stage to thunderous ap- plause. He then gave a wide-rangingspeech that touched on many of thecentral themes of the movement: im-

migration, na-tional sover-eignty, France’srole in Europeand the world,and populist policies devotedto the welfare of

the averageFrenchman. Mr.Le Pen is agifted orator,and kept thehuge audience’sfull attentionthe entire time.

Much of what he said would moveany patriot. He spoke, for example, of ancestors:

“It is the blood of our fathers thatflows in our veins—the same bloodthat flowed to defend France and

make it great. Our lives are embeddedin this land, which our fathers pre-served and improved. It is their lan-guage that we speak. When we eat of the products of the land—symbolized by bread and wine—we communewith our fathers by partaking of our nation, both material and spiritual.And when our souls depart this world below, it will be within the maternal

Continued from page 1others. These were held in a large tentat the center of the fair grounds, witha seating capacity of three or four hundred. Many speakers drew a full

house and packed hundreds more intothe aisles. The audience whooped atthe sight of the brightest stars andchanted their names; this was a crowdthat knew what it liked.

Jean-Marie Le Pen circulatedthrough the fair grounds on both days,greeting activists, tasting regionaldishes, and signing copies of his books. Wherever he went he was sur-rounded by crowds of admirers. With

only a little persistence, though, any-one could approach the man andshake his hand, and he rewarded ladywell-wishers with French-style kisseson both cheeks. He clearly has thespontaneous warmth and outgoing personality of the natural politician.

The biggest single event of the fes-tival was the “ grand discours“ onSunday afternoon. Thousands upon

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soil that our bodies will repose.”Mr. Le Pen concluded his speech

with these stirring words:“Because I believe that men are

creatures of God, I believe they have atranscendent duty, an immense debt tothose who have given them life, andendowed them with the spirit of love, beauty and harmony in one of themost beautiful countries on earth.

They have a sacred duty to their chil-dren to whom they owe, on pain of treason, the preservation of this heri-tage. And they have a duty to all of humanity and to their own history totestify to the greatness and nobility of their fatherland.

“Long live the free nations of aEuropean Europe. Long live the peoples of Europe. Long live the Front National. Long live France!”

An Impressive Apparatus

The day after the festival, the FNoffice that handles foreign relationsinvited the “Anglo-Saxons” to theheadquarters building. It is located just outside Paris, and is impressivetestimonial to the seriousness of theFrench nationalist effort. No fewer than 120 people work full-time in the building, which is equipped with eve-rything from ultra-modern video andaudio studios to a press receptionroom that could hold an AR confer-ence. This is a highly-organized, ef-fective organization run by dedicated

people. As the following interviewsmake clear, FN spokesmen are pre- pared to tackle fundamental questionsthat would terrify American politi-cians.

Indeed, the people of the FN are itsmost impressive asset. From the char-ismatic Mr. Le Pen on down, includ-ing the very attractive ladies of the press department and the intellectualsand professors who establish policyand hold political office, the organiza-tion hums with professionalism.

This does not, of course, prevent

most of the French media from payingthe front as little attention as possibleand painting it in the blackest colors.The best print coverage of the festivalwas a 22-inch, page-eight story in thetraditionally “conservative” Le Fi-

garo. It described the event recogniza- bly and without hysteria.

Le Monde, the lefty French“newspaper of record,” took the



Bruno Gollnisch explainsthe political climate inFrance.

Bruno Gollnisch is one of the mostinfluential members of the Front Na-tional. He is a member of the FN po-litical bureau, secretary general of the party, and vice president for foreignaffairs. He is currently a member of the European Parliament and a re-gional councilor for the Rhone-Alpes

region. He is also a member of theParis bar, holds a doctorate in interna-tional law, speaks fluent Japanese, andhas the rank of capitaine de frégatte inthe naval reserve. What follows is hisextraordinary reply to a single ques-tion in a recorded interview he gave toAR on Sept. 24.

Q: What explains the constant

hostility faced by the Front National?

The answer is fairly simple, butthere are many things, many forcesthat work together. First of all theFront National is an outsider in thesystem. Obviously it displeases theleft and the extreme left, and it displeases the “conservatives”—whohave conserved nothing—because ittakes votes away from them. There-fore we are an outsider, a competitor in the hyper-competitive world of

politics, so everything goes in an at-tempt to reduce the audience of theFront National.

Second, the FN is particularlyhated by the left because it has donethe thing the right should have doneand did not do—and this failure is theright’s greatest crime—the front haschallenged the moral sovereignty of the left. Until now in France, and broadly speaking in Europe as well— but especially in France since the end

of the Second World War—the leftand in particular the Communists havelaid hands on the entire cultural do-main: teaching, research, the media. Now, when I talk about Communists,

in 1945 it was in fact the CommunistParty, but now it is a little more subtleand goes all the way from the peopleyou call “liberals” in America to out-right Trotskyites.

These former Communists havenow permitted themselves to becomemore bourgeois, in the sense that theyaccept the idea of receiving money, of making profits, and have transformed

themselves into bosses—sometimes pitiless bosses—but they have retainedthe same ideas that are utterly destruc-tive to the traditional ideas we defend.

So everything that is in the area of learning, of art, of culture has beenabandoned to the left. Which meansthat when the right was in power [inFrance], it did not really exercise power because the left had drawn a setof boundaries outside of which theright was not allowed to stray. Be-

cause to step outside those lines meantyou were not democratic, you werenot republican, you were fascist, etc.And this was strictly observed. . . .

The traditional right also had agreat admiration for Communism— even though they rejected the crimesof communism. They would say thatthe victory of Communism was inevi-table, so we have to go in that direc-tion. But the Front National has brought all this up for reexamination.The Front National dared to attack thereality of the left, showing that the

Communists’ claim of devotion to so-cial justice was nothing more than theenrichment of a caste—a caste thatwas much more rotten and corruptthan the conservatives had ever been.We have also shown that the left’svaunted welfare system generally de-stroyed all economic dynamism. Andfor this reason we are hated—becausewe dare to say a certain number of

hatchet-job approach of describing themost offensive T-shirt among the100,000 participants, and of huntingout the most provocative titles on salein the book stands. As for the festivalitself, the paper called it “an angryvillage of Gauls with a siege mentalityand paranoid reflexes” and an “islandwell outside the ordinarily agreed-upon ethics of democratic debate.”

Objective journalism at its finest!Radio and television stations re-

ferred briefly to the festival, somemore even-handedly than others, butthe event was essentially treated as aminor undertaking of little interest.

And this, of course, is part of whythe Front National deserves so muchrespect. Unlike every leftist tea-party

or new anti-traditionalist idea, thefront gets no help whatsoever from themainstream press. It has taken remark-able dedication and discipline for Mr.Le Pen and his lieutenants to buildtheir movement in theface of unremittinghostility not only fromthe left but from theright.

The Front Nationalis now the clear leader of European national-ists, the model onwhich patriots acrossthe continent buildtheir movements. Itshows just how far men and ideas can go,

armed with nothing more than deter-mination and a conviction of the truth.The Front National is a model notonly for Europeans but for Americansas well. ●

Mr. Le Pen and wife, Jany, at the festival. (Phot: Fr. Landouch)


There is an ideal of the

New Man, who must be

neither white nor black.

This ideal would be, say,

Michael Jackson.

“A Perpetual Witch Trial”



things that are true but have been ta- boo.

Thirdly, we are detested by a cer-tain number of pressure groups, whodo not accept the idea of the nation.Unhappily, I am obliged to say it:There are a certain number of Jewishorganizations, which are quite patri-otic when it comes to Israel, but for historical and other reasons, do notaccept the slightest sign of nationalsentiment when expressed by others.We do not confuse these organizationswith the entire Jewish community.These are the spokesmen, the pressuregroups, the most influential elements.They oppose us despite the fact thatwe practice no anti-Semitism, despitethe fact that we have members andeven elected representatives who areJewish. (Of course, they are greatly persecuted within their own communi-ties for their attachment to the Front

National.)As for our struggle against immi-gration, it has won the hostility of theleft—which hoped to use immigrantsto make up for its losses in the Frenchworking class. The French were turn-ing away from Communist and other labor unions, and the unions wanted torecruit Algerians, Turks, etc. But our efforts have won the hostility also of certain economic classes—the bosses—who saw immigration as away to get a labor force that was rela-tively inexpensive. Of course, this was

a very short-term view, because whenyou add up all the costs—social costs,costs to the penal system, welfare (andwe have quite an extensive system of welfare) you can see that our immigra-tion policy has been a disastrous pol-icy economically.

As an aside, on the question of im-migration, Le Pen was once on a tripto the United States, where he had adebate with some university students.One student objected to our positionon immigration, saying that the UnitedStates is a great nation that has been

built essentially through immigration.Le Pen agreed but told the student hehad forgotten something: “In France,”he said, “I am Sitting Bull. I representthe natives.”

But to return to the hostility weface, given that 97 percent of the me-dia in this country are in the hands of the groups I have described, this hos-tility is pounded into people’s headswith all the power of propaganda. I

would say that for children from thevery youngest age, they get courses inhistory that are truncated or falsified,they have obligatory courses in anti-racism. There are even exhibitions onthe Second World War that show con-centration camps and then end with photographs of Le Pen! That was thecase with the Anne Frank exhibition.It’s just incredible.

This ideological weapon of the leftis a Pavlovian reflex. They used itagainst General De Gaulle and theyuse it against us. When De Gaulle leftthe government and set up a new partyof the right, there were posters put up by the left, in which De Gaulle’s faceappeared as a mask and behind the

mask was the face of Hitler. Well, thatis exactly the same poster the left hasused with Le Pen. Le Pen is taking off a mask—the mask of his own face— and behind it you see Hitler.

The elements of this propagandaline go like this: The right equalsVichy—although things are muchmore complicated than that. (In theVichy government, for example, therewas the former General Secretary of

the CGT [the Communist trade union],and [Pierre] Laval [premier in theVichy government and executed for treason in 1945] was a politician whocame from the socialists—things werevery complicated.) But the rightequals Vichy though, as I say, this isnot entirely correct.

Next, Vichy equals collaboration,which is not correct either, because nofair-minded Frenchman thinks that

Marshal [Henri Philippe] Pétain [headof state of Vichy France, condemnedto death in 1945 but sentenced to lifein prison] did anything but try to limitthe damage done by the military occu- pation of his country. But Vichyequals collaboration. Collaborationequals Nazism. Nazism equals con-centration camps. Concentrationcamps equals gas chambers, whichequals extermination, which equalsabsolute horror. Therefore, the rightequals absolute horror. This is what isconstantly pounded into us by totali-tarian propaganda.

What makes this all the more wor-rying is the fact that we live in a coun-try that has all the appearances of lib-erty. If this constant propaganda werein a country with a single political party and were put out by the coun-try’s only television station, by party journalists in military uniform, no onewould take it seriously.

But when this very same propa-ganda is broadcast by six channels of television, things appear to be differ-ent. A press agency may make a mis-take but the mistake can be picked up by all the television stations and radiostations and all the newspapers, in-cluding the “conservative” papers.The reader or the listener gets all thisfrom media organs that have the repu-tation (generally false) of having dif-ferent points of view, and he thinks heis clearly in the presence of objective

truth. I would guess that in the UnitedStates you have the same causes,which produce the same effects.

I am myself convinced that whatwe have is a struggle between what Imight call the Natural Order—whichwould have to do with Creation andwith eternal values (which alwayshave to be rediscovered)—as opposedto a revolutionary will to power. Thiswill to power is trying to establish asocial order not on reality, but ontheories entirely established by men. Imyself believe in the Creator, but this

revolutionary philosophy attempts tofound the social order on human willalone, a Promethean will. This gener-ally ends in catastrophe.

We had the French Revolution,which claimed to be founded exclu-sively on human reason, and it endedin the massacres of the Terror. Wehave had Marxist revolutions, whichclaimed to base everything on theclass struggle to liberate the proletar-


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iat, and this ended in gulags, famines,wars, misery, and death. We also hadin a more limited geographic area the National Socialist revolution, in whichall was founded on a largely mythicalracial purity—though I certainly af-firm ethnic facts—but that, too, is notan absolute to which the entire socialorder must be sacrificed.

And now, in my opinion, now that

the Marxist revolution has failed, wehave another form of the revolutionaryidea, and I see its progress very clearlywithin the European Parliament, for example—or in the organizations thatare part of the United Nations. This isan international revolutionary ideol-ogy, like those that went before—likeMarxism, in particular—which, for lack of a better term, I would call anti-racism.

Chesterton said the world is full of Christian ideas gone mad. For example, the idea of social justice degener-ated into the Marxist revolution. Butanti-racism does not derive exclu-sively from a Christian idea gone mad.After all, anti-racism could be the re-sult of a generous sentiment of peoplewho say, “I find that the unfortunateimmigrants who come here because of

hunger and misery in their own coun-tries are not welcomed in my country,and I will try to help because of myfeelings of generosity and compas-sion.” That is something we could dis-cuss if that were really what was go-ing on. We could talk about whether there are solutions other than immi-gration to the problems of the ThirdWorld. That could be an acceptablediscussion.

But that is not at all what is hap- pening. I see in the European Parlia-ment that immigration is to be forced upon us, that miscegenation is to be

forced upon us, and this is part of amessianic will to revolution. There isan ideal of the New Man, who must beneither white nor black. This idealwould be, say, Michael Jackson. Nei-ther black nor white, neither man nor

woman, this pitiful jumping jack endsup in dreadful stories of pedophilia.

But this will to suppress differ-ences of race, sex, culture, tradi-tions—this is a revolutionary idea, amessianism. It has its dogmas, its preachers, its witch trials, and its ex-communications. And we [the FN] arethe objects of a perpetual witch trial. ●


The View From LyonA professor of history dis-cusses the French immi-gration problem.

Pierre Vial is a member of the po-litical bureau of the Front National,and is a Regional Councilor for Rhone-Alpes. He is also on the citycouncil of Villeurbanne, the twin city just across the river from Lyon. Hisfamily has lived for at least six gen-

erations in Lyon, where he is a profes-sor of medieval history.

Prof. Vial has no illusions aboutthe universal brotherhood of man:“When I travel in Europe I feel athome. Europe is my extended family.On the other hand, Asia or Africa havedifferent natures from that of Europe,and nature is something we must re-spect.”

He traces current doctrines that preach the equivalence of differentcultures back to the Enlightenment, but asserts that “life is not theories.We must base our behavior and our understanding on facts. The left bendsreality to make it fit its own theories,whereas nationalism is the reverse.We observe the facts and draw theo-ries from them.”

How did France first start grantingcitizenship to colonial peoples? Prof.Vial explains that during the SecondWorld War, Charles De Gaulle was in

a weak and isolated position as theexiled leader of the “Free French.” Toestablish credibility in the eyes of theBritish and Americans he needed togive the impression that he had a realmovement to lead. He traveled toBrazzaville in the French Congo, andgave a speech in which he claimed tohave the entire French empire behindhim in the fight against Germany. AsProf. Vial explains:

“In order to give the colonial peoples some motive to join him, he madethe famous statement that everyone inthe French empire was ‘equal.’ He didnot say they were all to be citizens;only that they were equal. The left andimmigrant groups have since tried totwist his words to suggest that he of-fered citizenship to everyone in thecolonies. But De Gaulle was no uni-versalist. It is clear from records of his private conversations that he had nointention of granting citizenship or permitting mass immigration.”

Today’s France would no doubtshock the general. Prof. Vial explains:

“With the schools and the media bombarding us with propaganda, theFrench are being made to think thatFrance should become a mixed-racecountry—one in which intermarriagewill turn us all café-au-lait. Childrenin schools are given assignments likethis: ‘Draw a picture of a European, an

African, and an Asian and show how similar they are.’

“The front is opposed to this kindof folly. All we ask for is commonsense—you do not have to be an intel-lectual to understand what we are say-ing. And the great majority of theFrench agree with us in opposing non-white immigration. But even if they



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he official position of the Frenchgovernment is that race is an irrelevant

detail that it does not deign to notice.The government does not even keepstatistics on the racial composition of the population, much less of welfarerolls or the prison population. How-ever, official circles are almost as ob-sessed with race as they are in theUnited States—and in exactly thesame way.

Régie Autonome des TransportsParisiens (RATP) is the huge, govern-ment-controlled company that runs theParis metro and the commuter raillines around Paris. In May, it pub-

lished a slick recruitment brochure for several hundred entry-level service jobs for “youths.” The brochure in-cluded three color drawings of thework involved: explaining the routemap, assisting elderly passengers, anddealing with louts and fare beaters. Inevery color original the employee wasvery clearly a black or an Arab, andthe objects of his attentions were justas clearly white.

This was too much for Jean-YvesLe Gallou, who is one of the FN re-gional councilors for the Paris area,serves on the political bureau, and is amember of the European Parliament.In June, he wrote to the president of RATP, accusing the company of es-tablishing a system of racial prefer-ence: “Are we to conclude that these jobs you expect to create with publicfunds will be exclusively for immi-

grants to our country? What justifiesthis system of ‘affirmative action’ atthe very moment it is being abandonedin the United States because of its fail-

ures and its perverse effects on na-tional cohesion?”Mr. Le Gallou also wrote to the

equivalent of the attorney general of France, suggesting that the brochure isa violation of the Gayssot law that forbids “racist” speech. As he pointed outin a conversation with AR, if the FN published anything that reversed theraces it could expect instant prosecu-tion. The brochure and Mr. Le Gal-lou’s complaint got some press atten-tion, but RATP has not yet beenhauled before a judge on a charge of

“racism.”Mr. Le Gallou also made the fol-lowing observations.

On racial preferences in France: “We practice ‘affirmative action’

in a hypocritical way, by benefiting‘neighborhoods’—the so-called underprivileged neighborhoods. This is the politically correct way of referring toneighborhoods with large numbers of immigrants. We also talk about em-

know we are right, they have been persuaded that it would be ‘racist’ tovote for the Front National. Of course,it is the people who live in parts of thecountry touched by high levels of im-migration who are most likely to votefor us. People who do not yet knowthe problem first-hand are the oneswho are most susceptible to the propa-ganda.”

According to Prof. Vial, the French policy toward immigrants has beenone of conciliation and appeasement.Whatever the foreigners ask for loudlyenough, they are likely to get: “Itseems that whites want peace at any price, even if it must be the peace thatcomes with slavery.”

This could change, however, asmore and more Frenchmen come faceto face with the realities of “multi-racialism.” France does not collectdata on the racial composition of its population, so it is impossible to know

the percentage of non-whites. How-ever, Prof. Vial has data that he thinksreliable:

“I have spoken with a man whoworks for a government office thatstudies demographic questions. Ac-cording to him, the best estimates putthe current non-European popula-tion—including illegals—at abouteight or nine million out of a total population of 60 million. They do notknow the rate of increase, but there isno doubt that the last five years have

brought an extraordinary rise. Familyreunification, which brings in largenumbers of young foreigners, hasadded a great deal to this. My govern-ment informant tells me that the feel-ing within his office is that if the non-European population reaches the 15million level there could be an explo-sion.”

Part of Prof. Vial’s work involvestraining young FN activists, and hedoes not shrink from discussing demo-graphic change. “I tell them that is thefundamental problem, and I have

never found anyone who disagreed. Infact they are pleased to find someonewho discusses the matter honestly

with them.”In his work with the front, Prof.

Vial has grown used to leftist hysteria:“They accuse us of being Nazis, but if voting for the FN means you are a Nazi there are several million Nazis inFrance. You’d think they would be alittle more responsible about how theyuse language.

“We are often called ‘racist,’ but

for the word to have any meaning, itmust imply a hierarchy of races, or thedomination of one race over another.That is not at all the position of theFront National. But we do recognizedifferences. This does not mean hier-archy; only that each group has theright to pursue those differences. Infact, I like to borrow an idea from theleft. In May, 1968 [during the studentuprisings], one of their slogans was‘Long live the right to differences.’Somehow, the leftists don’t like thatslogan when I use it.” ●


Affirmative Action, French Style

An Arab employee deals with two white, fare-beating

louts. Note turned-around hat on lout in foreground.



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ployment preferences for ‘the young,’f o r y o u n g p e o p l e f r o m‘underprivileged neighborhoods.’What this clearly means is young im-migrants. People don’t say, ‘We aregoing to establish preferential policiesfor immigrants.’ They say, ‘We aregoing to establish preferences for young people from underprivilegedneighborhoods.’ “

On freedom of speech: “There is a freedom of expression

in the United States that we do nothave in France. We live under the con-stant threat of repression. The Gayssotlaws [banning revisionist and ‘racist’speech] are arbitrary because you donot know in advance what is going toresult in an indictment. And depend-ing on which judge you end up withthings can turn out very differently.We live in a great state of arbitrari-ness.

“The European Parliament has not

yet succeeded in doing this, but it of-ten raises the question of controllingmaterial on the Internet. The idea isthat you start by keeping pedophiliaand revisionism off the internet. Andthen, of course, you proceed to the‘racists,’ and everyone else. Pedo- philia, which really is frightful, servesas the fig leaf for censorship efforts of this kind.”

On justifications for rigging theelectoral system to keep the FN outof the French parliament despite its15 percent of the national vote (seeAR, April, 1998):

“The system certainly is a distor-tion of democracy, but there is asomewhat perverse campaign under-way in France to promote the viewthat there are values higher than de-

mocracy. These are the so-called‘values of the republic.’ Well, thatsounds lovely but who defines thesevalues? We actually have the begin-nings of a theocratic system, since it isa caste of priests who define these val-ues.”

On turning immigration andrefugee policies over to the Euro-pean Union rather than keeping itin individual European countries:

“The purpose is to increase the dis-tance between decision-making andthe people. The greater the distance,

the greater the likelihood that the deci-sion will be politically correct.”

On assimilation of foreigners: “The traditional French model of

assimilation recognizes only individu-als and not communities. I recall trav-eling in England and people used theword ‘community’ to describe Paki-stani and Indian immigrants. We didnot use the word in France because weinsisted that there were only individ-

ual citizens of the nation and not com-munities. Now we use the word, bothas an import from English and in rec-ognition of the facts.

“France, which had always oper-ated according to this model of assimi-lation of individuals now follows the‘community’ model. You see this in acity like Paris. We now have bloc vot-ing by community—ethnic communi-

ties, religious communities, even sex-ual communities. In electoral terms,Paris is becoming a mosaic of commu-nities—more or less on the Americanmodel. It may well be that the assimi-lationist model is one that can functiononly when the numbers are small. Afew individuals may assimilate, butthey are drowned in the mass that donot, especially when the community is being constantly renewed by further immigration.”

Why it is hard for nationalistparties to attract good people:

“People seek honor, after all. Andhonors accrue to people who are in thesystem rather than to those who areoutside. Compared to the other coun-tries with which we have contact,France is the only one in Europewhere a nationalist party can attractthe elite from the universities and gov-ernment service. This is one of thedistinctive aspects of the French situa-tion.” ●




Know Him by His Friends

President William Clinton is find-ing out who his friends are: non-

whites and homosexuals. In Septem- ber, he was welcomed like a conquer-ing hero when he addressed the annualdinner of the Congressional Black Caucus. Representative Maxine Wa-ters of California also got a standingovation when she said, “We supportBill Clinton at this critical moment inhis career. It is because AfricanAmericans are uniquely qualified toknow unfairness when we see it.” ThePresident, in perhaps unconsciousself-congratulation, thanked blacks for “understanding the true meaning of

repentance and atonement.’’ Later thatevening, Mr. Clinton was joined byVice President Al Gore, whose arrivalwas delayed because he had been ad-dressing a dinner of some 2,000 ho-mosexual activists—another groupthat has been unwavering in its loy-alty. At both dinners, the Vice Presi-dent said that he and Mr. Clinton hadrun “one of the most successful ad-ministrations in history,’’ in part, be-cause they had appointed so many blacks and homosexuals.

Blacks return the President’s affec-tions. A recent poll asked Americansif they trusted William Clinton to keephis word “as President.” Eighty-six percent of blacks said yes, while only46 percent of whites did. In Congress,the support is just as lopsided. Al-though the house voted by an over-whelming 363-63 margin to make theStarr Report public, 29 of the 35 members of the black caucus voted against releasing the report. ( Nancy Benac,AP, Clinton Thanks Blacks for Sup- port, Sept. 19, 1998. William Buckley,Opinion Polls Divided Along RacialLines, Conservative Chronicle, Sept.16, 1998, p. 18.)

Four days after his love feast withthe black caucus, Mr. Clinton got twoextended standing ovations when headdressed the Congressional HispanicCaucus Institute’s annual dinner. Rep-resentative Xavier Becerra of Califor-nia, chairman of the Hispanic Caucus,urged the assembled raza to welcome

the President “como familia“—likefamily. “We converge tonight as onevoice . . . like the voice of one proudfamily,’’ he said. The President smiled

happily when someone yelled VivaClinton! and, as usual, Vice PresidentAl Gore tagged along to express hisadmiration for things Hispanic. (AP,Hispanics Continue Clinton Support,Sept. 23, 1998.)

But perhaps most gratifying to our President was the unconditional en-dorsement of the man who, though nota voter in US elections, is widely con-sidered to be one of the world’s great-est moral authorities (see below).

Gold for Mandela

On September 23, President Clin-ton awarded the Congressional GoldMedal to South African President Nel-son Mandela. A crowd of American politicians greeted Mr. Mandela withcheers and standing ovations in a cere-

mony in the Capitol rotunda. “Nomedal, no award, no fortune, nothingwe could give him could possiblycompare to the gifts he has given to usand to the world,’’ said the President.“The only gift that is true recompenseis to continue his mission and to live by the power of his profound and

wonderful example,’’ he added.Speaker of the House Newt Gin-

grich was just as effusive. With tearsin his eyes, he urged Americans to fol-low Mr. Mandela’s example of humil-ity, sacrifice and kindness in the faceof enmity. He also called Mr. Mandela“the leading example in the world to-day of the spirit of Washington.’’George Washington, who was

awarded the medal in 1776, was thefirst of 117 recipients.

After the ceremony, Mr. Mandela praised the President’s efforts to im-

prove race relations and to bring non-whites into the government. “Thatalone is a very good indication raisingthe possibility that in due course wemay have a black president [in theUnited States],’’ he said. (Donna Abu- Nasr, Mandela Gets CongressionalMedal, AP, Sept. 23, 1998.)

The day before he received theaward, Mr. Mandela publicly expressed unconditional backing for William Clinton. “He has my full support in everything [!] that he does,’’ hesaid, adding, “[I]n my view there is no

[prior] president who has identifiedhimself with the aspirations of blacksinside this country and in Africa.’’That night Mr. Mandela and his wifeGraca slept at the White House.(Donna Abu-Nasr, Mandela OffersSupport for Clinton, AP, Sept. 22,1998.)

Tragedy in Africa

Many Africans believe that sexwith a young virgin can cure every-thing from money problems to AIDSto a bad harvest—and the sex need not be consensual. This belief has lead toan epidemic of child rape. “It is hardto find a virgin of 16 nowadays, somen are turning to babies under 10,”says Mamelato Leopeng, an AIDSworker from South Africa.

Because one in four adult males areinfected with HIV in some parts of Africa, they are infecting large numbers of young girls. In Zambia, therate of HIV infection among teenagegirls is five to seven times the rate for boys—largely the result of forciblesex with older men. Although a greatmany rapes in Africa go unreported, inZimbabwe the number reported in-creased 30 percent in the last fiveyears. In 1997, more than half of thevictims were children, many younger than five. Some young girls are raped by their own fathers or relatives.Many women now report that they areafraid to leave their daughters alone


O Tempora, O Mores!



with any man, no matter how close arelative.

One Zimbabwe rapist who calledhimself “King AIDS” was recentlysentenced to life in prison for know-ingly infecting an eight-year-old. “Weeven have cases of children still in[diapers] being raped,” says Jacque-line Pratt, acting chief magistrate of the criminal courts in Harare, the capi-

tal city.Zorodzai Machekanyanga, who

heads an AIDS group for women inZimbabwe, says the problem is rootedin African culture. “The girl child hasno value in African society; she is athing to be used to make men’s lives better.” Women are also thought to bethe source of sexually transmitted dis-eases. In Shona, the majority languagein Zimbabwe, AIDS and syphilis areliterally called “women’s diseases.”

Although child rape has come un-der increasing scrutiny because it has become a conduit for AIDS, it is anold practice in Africa. Witch doctorshave traditionally prescribed sex witha virgin as a powerful cure for a vari-ety of diseases and personal problems.(Dean Murphy, Africa’s Silent Shame,Los Angeles Times, August 16, 1998, p. A1.)

Not Intermarrying

A paper recently released by thePopulation Association of America

reports that there is less inter-racialmarriage than most people think. Au-thors Michael Tyler and Gillian Ste-vens have foundthat blacks andwhites, espe-cially, are hardlymore likely tomarry each other now than theywere 30 yearsago.

The report’sapproach was to

tally the number of women of eachrace whose husbands are of thesame race. For whites, the figureis over 98 percentand for blacks it is 97.6 percent.About 80 percent of the husbands of Hispanic women are Hispanic, and the

same-race figure for Asians is about76 percent. In all, fewer than three percent of American marriages areinterracial. Despite pro-miscegenation propaganda, the authors see little like-lihood that black-white marriages willrise sharply any time soon. (I, Thee,We, Them, Economist, June 20, 1998, p. 31.)

Read the Social Contract

The summer, 1998 issue of TheSocial Contract is devoted to the sub- ject of “Europhobia,” which guest edi-tor John Vinson (of the American Im-migration Control Foundation) definesas “hostility directed toward Euro- pean-descended Americans.” It is anexcellent review of the anti-white atti-tudes that dominate American culture.The 77-page issue includes articles byJared Taylor, Samuel Francis, Patrick

Buchanan, and Brent Nelson. AR con-tributors James Lubinskas and JosephFallon have also written for the issue,and it includes an excellent review of The Real American Dilemma by an-other AR contributor, Michael Mas-ters. To order the issue please call theSocial Contact Press at (800) 352-4843.

Under Several Gods

Third-World immigration is mak-ing America less Christian. At more

than five million, there are now twiceas many Muslims as Episcopalians,and they outnumber the estimated 3.3million Jews who go to synagogue.About 40 percent of the Muslims areAmerican-born blacks, while the restare recent immigrants. One fourth arefrom India or Pakistan, and about 12 percent are from Arab countries. Inthe last 20 years the number of Bud-dhists has shot up from 75,000 to910,000. Most are Asians, but Bud-dhism is the most popular non-Christian religion for white converts.

Roman Catholics are, by far, thelargest single church, with 60 millionmembers, but 35 percent are Hispanic.The largest Protestant denomination isthe Southern Baptist Convention with15.6 million members. It is still grow-ing, mainly because of Asian immi-grant converts; 20 percent of SouthernBaptists are now non-white. Method-ists, Episcopalians, and Presbyterians

are declining in numbers.Princeton University professor

Robert Wurthnow notes that the numbers have a political edge: “Thesechanges make it less appropriate toimpose one tradition on another in a public space. Debates about school prayer or the posting of the Ten Com-mandments have to take into accountdiversity.”

Should Have Abstained

The following is an article from theOrange County Register , which wereproduce in toto.

“A colonel in the Ivory Coast armywas killed by gunfire as he tested a‘magic belt’ that supposedly possessed powers to protect him from bullets,the official daily Fraternité-Matin reported Wednesday.

“It said Pascal Ghah, 49, died near

the town of Aboisso after being hit bya bullet fired from his own service pistol by a 20-year-old son of the belt’s maker.

“The newspaper quoted Ghah’scousin, Andre Gondo, who made the belt, as insisting that its protective powers were real, provided one ab-stained from sex while wearing it.

“An army spokesman said Gondohad been arrested but that his son wason the run.” (Colonel Fatally ShotTesting ‘Magic’ Belt, Orange CountyRegister, Aug. 27, 1998.)

Rapid Transformation

The immigration invasion is notconfined to big cities or the South-west. Small, rural towns are beingtransformed too. Attracted by jobs inthe carpet, meatpacking and poultryindustries, Mexican immigrants haveflooded previously white communi-ties.

Siler City, North Carolina, wasfour percent Hispanic in 1990. Todayit is 40 percent Hispanic. Hispanicshave risen from five percent of thetown of Lexington, Nebraska in 1990to 45 percent in 1998. Other townssuch as Dodge City, Kansas and Dal-ton, Georgia, have seen similar trans-formations. So many Mexicans havearrived that Siler City resident TerryHogan says, “I don’t see how there’sanybody left in Mexico, really.”

Along with the usual demands for




bilingual education, and “cultural sen-sitivity” that runs one way, the new-comers change the environment of these once-homogeneous towns. Span-ish competes with English, mariachimusic blares from cars, and well-intentioned whites are charged withracism and stereotyping.

Whites have received an unex- pected education in Mexican culture.

For example, in Lexington, Nebraska, parents discovered piles of used toilet paper in school bathrooms. This is aMexican custom—Mexican sewersare so bad that people put used paper in a box on the floor rather than clogthe pipes by flushing it. Rogers, Ar-kansas, discovered that Mexican par-ents in Los Angeles were sending their gang-member children to the country,in the hope of getting them out of gang life. The people of Rogers havenot enjoyed their role as decontami-nants.

Whites have taken to carrying pep- per spray when they go out, and othershave fled their hometowns in disgust.(Ben Stocking and Edwin Garcia, AnInflux Of Latinos, San Jose Mercury News, August 17, 1998, p. 1A.)

Supporting Their Own

The First Weekend Club is a LosAngeles-based group of blacks estab-lished to support black films. The or-ganization—which is building chap-

ters nationwide—mobilizes membersto support black films in their crucialfirst weekend of release. The clubcalls out the troops whenever a film is produced, directed, or even shot by a black. It urges each member to recruit10 friends to go see the movie duringthe first week. Movies made by whitesmay get the nod if they star blacks.The group has supported “Soul Food,”“Amistad,” “Hoodlum,” and “HowStella Got Her Groove Back.” (LoriRotenberk, Ticket Power, ChicagoSun-Times, August 20, 1998, p. 39.)

Good-bye 4th, Hello El Grito

In September, the Los AngelesCity Council voted to more than quad-ruple to $63,000 the budget to cele- brate Mexico’s independence day.What Mexicans call “El Grito” thusgets three times as much city money

as American Independence Day.Adolfo Nodal, manager of the LosAngeles Cultural Affairs Department,explained why he turned down re-

quests for more funding for July 4thcelebrations. “A lot of it (July 4) is just put up the flag and rah, rah, rah,and fireworks, which is not culturalactivity as far as we’re concerned.” Heexplained that El Grito includes art,storytelling, singing and dancing.

One non-Hispanic councilman,Hal Bernson, did go so far as to say: “Ithink it’s kind of strange, but we havea lot of people of that heritage. It kindof reflects the population ratio today.”Sheryl Wenthur, a local regent for theDaughters of the American Revolu-tion, put in a bid for equal time for America: “It’s OK to recognize other people’s national holidays, but Amer-ica should get at least equal attention[from the city].” (Patrick McGreevy,Mexican Holiday Budget Triple ThatSpent for July 4, LA Daily News, Sep-tember 16, 1998.)

The Usual

In a column on the Senate race be-tween Illinois Republican Peter Fitz-gerald and incumbent Democrat CarolMoseley-Braun, George Will pre-dicted that the country’s first and only black woman senator will lose. Hesays she could be brought down by an

accumulation of scandals: She spentan inheritance that was supposed to goto her mother, and reportedly spent$281,000 in campaign contributionson clothes, cars, travel, and jewelry.She is also accused of bank fraud, bribery and other crimes while shewas the Cook County, Illinois, re-corder of deeds.

How did the senator respond? “I

think because he couldn’t say ‘nigger’he used the word ‘corrupt,’ “ she said,although Mr. Will did not use theword corrupt in his column. “GeorgeWill can just take off his hood and go back to wherever he came from.”

She later sent Mr. Will an apology,saying, “I know you have a consistentrecord of opposition to racial preju-dice.” Those were just the words to

satisfy Mr. Will. He wrote back:“Apology accepted. Go Sammy[Sosa]!” (George Will, Moseley-Braun May Find Defeat, Chicago Sun-Times, Sept. 7, 1998, p. 19. ScottFornek, Moseley-Braun Writes Apol-ogy, Chicago Sun-Times, Sept. 9,1998, p. 24.)

Return to Common Sense

A Washington state priest has is-sued a call for a return to ethnic par-

ishes. He says unwritten church policyrequires that Hispanic immigrants beintegrated into existing Catholic par-ishes, but that “cultural and racial gapswiden rather than shrink as naivehopes for ‘bridge building’ becomestrained beyond repair.” The result, hesays, is that “the parish limps into thefuture with the [white] old-timers andthe [Hispanic] newcomers going their separate and unequal ways, though the pretense of a single parish is main-tained.”

He believes the church should rec-

ognize that, at least in the short term,differences are irreconcilable:

“The pastoral wisdom of thechurch has recognized that communi-ties of the faithful brought together bycommon cultures, nationalities, or lan-guages may best be served by parishesof their own rather than by integrationinto pre-existing, geographically based parishes. . . .

“The concept of the ethnic parishserved the American church extremelywell for over a hundred years; there isno ecclesial reason why it couldn’t be

taken out of our pastoral closet onceagain.” (Kevin Codd, Bring Back theEthnic Parish, Commonweal, Sept. 11,1998, p. 23.)

English is Racist

The House of Representatives hasvoted 221-189 to put limits on how




Congress spends its $300 million an-nual budget for bilingual education.According to the new rules, no studentcould get more than three years of such education, which would be de-signed to teach immigrants English asquickly as possible. “English is thelanguage of this nation and its masteryis the key to success,’’ explainedFrank Riggs, R-Calif., chief sponsor

of the bill.Hispanic congressmen said the law

insults the Spanish language, whichthey said is the language of hemi-spheric trade and the native tongue of America’s fastest-growing minority.Rep. Matthew G. Martinez, D-Calif.,went a little further and called the bill“the height of racism and preju-dice.” (Robert Greene, House OKsBilingual Education Limit, AP, Sept.11, 1998.)

Biter BitThe Commission for Racial Equal-

ity (CRE) is the British government’s busy-body group set up in 1976 tofight “racism.” Its chairman, Sir Her-man Ouseley, decided that previouscampaigns had failed to reduce white prejudice, so he decided to use shock tactics. He put up “obviously racist” billboards all over the country to seewhat would happen. One, claiming to promote the “TDX-5 rape alarm,”showed a white woman sitting on a

bus anxiously eyeing a young black man. The ad line read, “Because it’s a jungle out there.” Another billboard,ostensibly for athletic shoes, showed a black about to dunk a basketball. Nextto him was a picture of an orang-utanin the same pose, reaching for a branch. The caption was “Born to beagile.”

The idea behind these weird adswas that the CRE would follow themwith another set of posters that in-cluded smaller versions of the origi-nals, along with questions in big let-

ters: “What was worse? This advert or your failure to complain?” Presuma- bly, Britons were to be shamed rightout of their “racism.”

The CRE has not had a chance to put up the second set of ads. The po-lice of Avon and Somerset havethreatened to prosecute the CRE under the Race Relations Act—the very lawthat established the CRE, and forbids

“racism.” In some areas, the originalads were ordered covered with white paper.

The CRE stands by its campaign. Itsays there were only 82 complaintsabout the posters, adding that thou-sands of Britons saw them and didnothing—proof that the campaign is badly needed. (Neil Tweedie, Shock Posters Send Police on the Trail of Race Commission, Electronic Tele-graph, Sept. 22, 1998.)

Wonders Never Cease

Private organizations have, for some years, run “employment testing” programs designed to sniff out“racism.” They send two presumablyequal candidates for the same job— one black, the other white. If the whitecandidate gets a job offer and the black doesn’t, they turn the resultsover to the Equal Employment Oppor-tunity Commission (EEOC) for possi-

ble legal action. “Testing” is oftencalled the most objective way to huntfor “racism,” and a 1994 court deci-sion permits the use of tester testi-mony in discrimination cases. TheEEOC does not yet do regular testingon its own, but it has launched a pilot project to monitor hiring in Chicagoand Washington, DC.

Testing has an obvious flaw: black

“testers” have a vested interest in proving job discrimination. How ear-nestly or realistically do they really tryto get these jobs—jobs they do notintend to take, and for which the test-ing organization may have providedfake credentials?

Now, the testers themselves aretrying to cash in. Two black womenwho posed as job-seekers in 1995 for

something called the Legal AssistanceFoundation of Chicago, have sued for damages because they were not of-fered jobs by the companies they weretrying to trick. Fortunately, the Fed-eral District Court in Chicago has dis-missed their absurd claims. Judge Suz-anne B. Conlon wrote that it is unrea-sonable to “allege an ‘injury’ of notreceiving an offer for a job they nei-ther wanted nor intended to ac-cept.” (Business Wire, Federal CourtStrikes Down EEOC’s EmploymentTesters Project, Sept. 22, 1998.)

Sacrificed to the Gods

Earlier this year, members of the Nigerian Ijaw tribe sacrificed 30 people from the enemy Urhobo tribe to anIjaw goddess. A group of Urhobotribespeople were on their way to afuneral, when they were abducted byIjaws. They were marched to a shrinein an Ijaw village and forced to stripnaked. After a chief priest performed a

religious ritual, the Ijaws sacrificedthe Urhobos to one of their goddesses.According to a witness, eleven men,ten women, and nine children werekilled. Tribal violence has been com-mon in this area close to the delta of the Niger river. (Jacques Pinto, ThirtyKilled in Nigeria in ‘Sacrifice’ to God,Electronic Telegraph, March 20,1998.) ●


ConferencesAR editor Jared Taylor will speak

at two conferences in November.The Council of Conservative Citi-

zens will hold its national conferencein Jackson, Mississippi, on Novem-

ber 6 & 7. Other speakers includeSamuel Francis and Mississippi gov-

ernor Kirk Fordice. The CCC is themost effective pro-majority activistgroup in America. Please callGordon Baum at (314) 291-8474 for details.

The American Nationalist Union is holding a conference in Cleveland,Ohio on November 13 and 14. Be-sides Mr. Taylor, Thomas Chittumand Samuel Francis will be speakers.The ANU endorses an end to af-firmative action, a moratorium onimmigration, and self-determinationfor all people. Please call Don Was-sall at (724) 443-7300 for informa-tion.

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