RALPH MUSGRAVE (HAS, Mar 26) objects to the use of terms like "racist," "fascist" or "neo-Nazi" to describe far-right groups, and dismisses Philip Buckingham's article (Echo, Mar 24) as "a classic example of insult-strewn nonsense by lefties".
Mr Buckingham's article was mainly about a very small far-right group called National Action (NA) whose ideology is correctly and accurately described in these terms; these are not "insults" hurled by "lefties".
Furthermore, I doubt if members of NA would have any objections.
They have openly declared their admiration for Adolf Hitler and Oswald Mosley. Those who recently gathered at the "White Man March" on Newcastle's Quayside burned Jewish flags and shouted "Hitler was right." Indeed, NA's own website declares: "To be on our side, a nationalist must be openly racist and openly anti-Semitic."
Mr Musgrave also has a problem with the term "neo-Nazi". This is used simply to distinguish between Hitler's now-defunct National Socialist Party, and modern far-right groups which embrace a similar ideology.
Pete Winstanley, Durham.
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