Activist gunned down

Searchlight - January 2006 Short news

Meanwhile, the Czech police arrested Tim Mudde, the frontman of the nazi rock band Brigade M, and one of his companions, on 15 November, on their way to a concert in the east of the Czech Republic. Mudde was in possession of nazi pamphlets, CDs, badges and T-shirts. The concert, later attended by 140 boneheads, was stopped by the police after several bands sang racist lyrics. The two Dutchmen, now released and back in the Netherlands, may face charges for inciting racial hatred and promoting a racist ideology and could face up to three years in prison. Brigade M will play its "farewell" concert at 30 December, "somewhere in The Netherlands".

Finally, a court in The Hague has decided that a right-wing Calvinist political party, the Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij, (SGP), will no longer be entitled to cash from the Dutch state. In mid-November, internal affairs minister Johan Remkes told parliament that the SGP's € 800,000 (£540,000) subsidy will be stopped as from 1 January 2006. The SGP, nevertheless, still continues to discriminate against women, ordering some local branches not to enter a pact with ChristenUnie, another conservative religious party, whose lead candidate is a women.

By Jeroen Bosch of Alert! and Antifa-Net in Utrecht