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Palestino playing Iquique in Santiago, Chile, in 2016
[Carlos yo / creative commons]
with Jamie J
THIS is the first of what will be a fortnightly column from The Roaring Red Front, covering a fixture involving one of our leftist/anti-fascist teams, and also providing some background to the teams involved and the politics that drive their supporters. You can see the book that inspired the column and the Football Supporters' Charters at www.
Palestino 1-0 Colo Colo
by Stewart McGill
La Cisterna, Santiago de Chile
When you see a game based in Santiago between one team named after Palestine and another named after a famous Mapuche chieftain who had some successes against the Spanish invader, you realise (i) why Latin America is the home of magical realism and (ii) something of the ambiguity that characterises these Mestizo lands.
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Dabbagh and his Palestinian team’s World Cup campaign may have come to an end, but it has given fans hope amid war and tragedy, writes JOHN DUERDEN