Excerpts from a review by Freedom Newspaper- read the full review here Previously everything from the Red Action (RA) stable has been crucial to any understanding of both left wing working class politics and politics in general, past and present in the UK, and so this is. Hard to put down, Beating The Fascists is…
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Excerpts from a review by Red Pepper – read the full review here Beating the Fascists is a highly readable and uncompromising account of two decades of militant anti-fascism with important lessons for today. The book is a real page-turner, but it’s not for the faint-hearted. The description of the often brutal treatment of the…
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Excerpts from a review by Huddersfield University – read the full review here While there is some history that is widely known and even taught in schools, other pieces of history slip behind us almost unnoticed, apart from by the people involved. Until the writing of this book, the story of Anti Fascist Action was one…
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Excerpts from a review by Professor Nigel Copsey – read the full review on pages 11 & 12 here This book, the ‘official’ history of AntiFascist Action (AFA), chronicles the experience of militant antifascism in Britain from the late 1970s through to mid 1990s. Running to over 400 pages, the text is broken down into a series…
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Full transcript from a recent interview with Red Pepper. The full interview on the Red Pepper site can also be viewed here On its 75th anniversary, much attention was given to the Battle of Cable Street, where Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts were prevented from marching through the predominantly Jewish working class East End of London. But Cable Street itself…
Full text of review from Issue 41 of the Journal of the Socialist History Society Sean Birchall, Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action (London: Freedom Press, 2010), 416pp., ISBN 9781904491125, £15.00, pbk. “…they were hit with everything, bars, hammers, baseball bats. Yes it was savage enough I suppose but not gratuitous….