the RED BRIGADES: PROGRESSIVE SUPPORTERS OF THE U.S. NATIONAL TEAM

Here's the mainstreamKick Racism Out of Football Campaign, attempting to browbeat bigotry out of England. No doubt about good intentions, and some good results. Take a look as English stars speak out against racism.
Check out the many football related articles from Anti-Fascist Action, including Leveling the Score, from their great magazine, _Fighting_Talk_.

The Cooalition Against Racism and Fascism has put togther a football special of sorts. The CARF Features - Soccer's hidden racism , goes through that same sorry history which most of us know only too well.

The Antifaf : l'annuaire antifasciste francophone website updates us on that same story, from a francophone perspective.

So you can't make monkey noises at football anymore, but those gay jokes are still okay? Wrong. The irrational hatred of people because you don't like who they sleep with was paired with sport in the tragic story of Justin Fashanu. An english football player of the early nineties, he wasthe first professional to come out as homosexual. From all he said, the terrace bigots would be surprised to discover how many of their heros were gay, but just too scared to tell the world. Justin's career took a nose-dive when his sexuality was revealed, and he took his own life in despair: killed by hatred. In his wake, the closet door to the training room looked closed for good. But a brave few have founded groups to pry that closet open for players and fans alike. So check out the Gay Football Supporters Network and the International Gay & Lesbian Football Association . Before you make that joke, remember that no one is free while any remain oppressed. The gay and lesbian rights movements have stood side by side with the rest of the left when we've struggled against capitalism and fascism, We owe them our support as surely as we owe them simple human dignity.

Oh I am happy. I've always been a big fan of the english punk band, Chumbawumba. They make catchy tunes, hate capitalists, and throw pies at sellout labour party ministers. And they despise fascists. Now they've gone one better, and put together a Football section on their home page. There's talk of their favorite club, Sunderland, the youth team they sponsor, antifa organizing on the terraces, and the trip they sent their youth club on to play a friendly with the Zapatista rebels in mexico. Really: not to be missed.

One of the best groups going is the Football Supporters Association, an England based group fighting for the ever-diminishing rights of the regular supporter.
And as if creeping capitalists weren't enough, The Criminal Justice Act makes just about anything you'd want to do around a British football ground illegal, all under the guise of combating violence. The fact is, the government has become the strong arm in making football palitable for the middle classes. The Football Fans Against the Criminal Justice Act Campaign is spreading the word and fighting back.
The great english pop culture zine Urban 75 has a article on the Campaign and its leaders.

The German Bundis Aktiver Fussball-Fans is a coalition of supporters fighting for fan rights much like the FSA. Its making great strides in the united league of the united, and often troubled, german state. BAFF - BÜNDNIS AKTIVER FUSSBALLFANS is the link for their new official website. Really a must see, even if you don't sprechen zie deutch.

This Article on football ground automated ID cards asks the eternal question: Have you ever seen a six foot skinhead with a brick attack an ATM? Better not to answer that one... .

Militant Labor is spot on (for once), with their pamphletReclaim the Game

Liecester University¹s famed Centre for Football Research, while often biased to a criminalogical and traditional approach, produces some of the best writing on modern football culture. Their Factsheet on Racism and Football is just one of their web-publications.
Keeping with the egghead theme, here¹s a short glean of a much larger book:On the Terraces and in the Stands: Football Spectator Behavior in Europe and the 1994 World Cup Finals.

Lecturas: Educación Física y Deportes, revista digital , is an argentine site, that focuses on writing on the politics of football. Especially good is their story of how successive governments and dictatorships in latin america have used soccer to legitimize their rule. New things added all the time, in three different languages.

Gender Equity in Sports - From the University of Iowa, this is an excellent resource on Title IX. Includes an index to Updates & Lawsuits by Category as well as an overview of the law itself. Links to useful statistics and downloadable documents.