Posts Tagged ‘national front’

Racialism and the Working Class – Workers Fight Pamphlet

Posted: October 16, 2012 in Anti-Fascist
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This is a Workers Fight, a forerunner to the Alliance for Workers Liberty, pamphlet published in 1972 (?). It is a collection of articles, the first one  seems to be written in response to Enoch Powell’s infamous 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech.

Contents:

  1. No room for racism
  2. Racialism and the working class
  3. Colonialism and the roots of racialism
  4. The past and present of the white man as cannibal
  5. Victims of  a racialism education
  6. Black workers and the law
  7. The fascist infiltration in the trade unions

Download: Racialism and the Working Class

World in Action: The Nazi Party

Posted: August 20, 2012 in Fascist
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World In Action goes inside the National Front and the BNP to reveal the violence and deception behind it’s patriotic public face. The film includes sworn statements from a police infiltrator and from defectors – some in hiding – and reveals the contents of confidential files and private documents.

Thanks to antifascist45

Academic Works and Articles

Posted: June 30, 2012 in Anti-Fascist, Fascist, Your Archivist
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This will be a list of academic studies which will be of interest to those wanting to study militant anti-fascism.

If you have written an essay which is of good quality or contains original research please email: antifascistarchive@gmail.com.

Essays not written by academics

On the Principles of Political Violence and the Case of Anti-Fascist Action (The Archivist, 2012)

“Taking It Back, Making It Strong!”: The Boundary Establishment And Maintenance Practices Of A Montréal Anti-Racist Skinhead Gang

The National Front and British National Party on Merseyside. A Geography of Political Extremism

Blackshirts in Red Scotland: an analysis of fascism and its opponents in inter-war Scotland

Articles on Anti-Fascism
1920-1945

Communists and the Inter-War Anti-Fascist Struggle in the United States and Britain (Copsey, 2011)

Anti-Fascist Activity in Manchester’s Jewish Community (Gewirtz)

1946 – 1959

“Class Before Race”: British Communism and the Place of Empire in Postwar Race Relations (Smith, 2008)

1960 – 1979

Conflicting Narratives of Black Youth Rebellion in Modern Britain (Smith)

A Bulwark Diminished: The Communist Party, the SWP and anti-fascism in the 1970s. (Smith)

Bridging the Gap: The British Communist Party and the limits of the state in tackling racism (Smith)

Are the Kids United? The Communist Party of Great Britain, Rock Against Racism and the Politics of Youth Culture (Smith)

1968 – Too Little and Too Late? The Communist Party and Race Relations in the Late 1960s (Smith, 2008)

When the Party Comes Down: The CPGB and Youth Culture, 1976-1991 (Smith)

Witness Seminar: Anti-Fascism in 1970s Huddersfield (2006)

1980 – date

Anti-Fascist Action: Radical Resistance or Rent-a-Mob? (Hayes and Alyward, 2000)

Marching Altogether? Football fans taking a stand against racism (Thomas, 2010)

When the Whites When Marching In: Racism and Resistance in English Football (Greenfield and Osborn, 1996)

Glasgow Celtic Fans, Political Culture and the Tiocfaidh Ar La Fanzine: Some Comments and a Content Analysis (Hayes, 2006)

The Limits of National Memory: Anti-Fascism, The Holocaust and the Fosse Ardeatine Memorial in 1990s Italy (Clifford, 2008)

Neo-Nazism, Holocaust Denial and UK Law (Cohn-Sherbok, 2010)

Choosing Social Justice over Hate Two Stories of Community Success in the Pacific Northwest (Stewart, 2010)

The Politics and Culture of FC St. Pauli: from leftism, through antiestablishment, to commercialization (Petra Daniel & Christos Kassimeris, 2013)

‘The birthplace of Italian communism’: political identity and action amongst livorno fans (Doidge, 2013)

Contesting the ‘authentic’ community: Far-right spatial strategy and everyday responses in an era of crisis (Ince, 2011)

Articles on Fascism
1920-1945

The Swastika and the Shamrock: British Fascism and the Irish Question, 1918-1940 (Douglas, 1997)

Opposition to the New Party: an incipient anti-fascism or a defence against ‘Mosleyitis’? (Copsey, 2009)

“Apostles of Fascism,” “Communist Clergy,” and the UAW: Political Ideology and Working-Class Religion in Detroit, 1919–1945 (Pehl, 2012)

1946-1959
1960-1979

Ulster Unionists in America, 1972-1985 (Wilson, 2007)

Shot By Both Sides: Punk, Politics and the End of ‘Consensus’ (Worley, 2012)

1980 – date

Patterns of Racism: Interviews with National Front Members (Billig, 1978)

Extreme music for extreme people? Norwegian black metal and transcendent violence (Phillipov, 2011)

Voice of our blood: National Socialist discourses in black metal (Olson, 2011)

Continental Divide: Immigration and the New European Right (Rosenthal, 2011) 

Visions of Hate: Explaining Neo-Nazi Violence in the Russian Federation (Arnold, 2010)

Anti-Zionism and the Italian Extreme Right (Chiarini, 2008)

Right-Extremism in Germany: Recruitment of New Members (Braunthal, 2008)

At the Roots of the New Right-Wing Extremism in Portugal: The National Action Movement, 1985-1991 (Marchi, 2010)

Australian Fascism? A Revisionist Analysis of the Ideology of the New Guard (Cunningham, 2012)

Colin Jordan’s ‘Merrie England’ and ‘Universal Nazism’ (Jackson, 2011)

The EDL: Britain’s New Far Right Social Movement (Jackson, 2011)

Negotiating White Power Activist Stigma (Simi, 2009)

The Nationalist Party of America: Right-Wing Activism and Billy Roper’s White Revolution (Dentice, 2011)

Computer-Mediated False Consensus: Radical Online Groups, Social Networks and News Media (Wojcieszak, 2011)

The Lost Race: History of the National Front

Posted: June 16, 2012 in Fascist
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A BBC2 programme looking into the history of the extreme right, National Front, once Britain’s most popular extreme right wing party. Contributors to the programme include John Tyndall, Nick Griffin, Martin Webster and other extreme right wing figures. Also the programme takes a sneak preview of the BNP and Third Way, now called National Liberal Party. First shown on 24th March 1999.

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Newspaper Articles on Red Action, Anti-Fascist Action and Fascists

Posted: June 12, 2012 in Anti-Fascist
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Below are all the articles from The Guardian which mention either Red Action or Anti-Fascist Action. There is also an Independent article in there.

There is also the Scrapbooks. These contain hundreds of newspaper articles on fascism and racism and its opponents.

Related Posts:

Pre-War Newspaper Articles on Anti-Fascism

‘True Spies’ – Infiltration of the National Front

Posted: June 8, 2012 in Fascist
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Clip from BBC True Spies programme looking at the state infiltration of the West Midlands NF in the 70′s foiling an assassination attempt on Labour MP Claire Short.

 

 

These videos are thanks to the fantastic work of 45antifascist

The Cook Report – The Truth Behind The Front

Posted: June 8, 2012 in Fascist
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Roger Cook and his team infiltrate the National Front and convinces Nick Griffin that they are from the french far right Front Nationale.
Evidence of Griffin’s Holocaust denial (1997)

This video is thanks to the fantastic work of 45antifascist

Ratcatcher (Video Diaries: Oct, 1994)

Posted: February 24, 2012 in Anti-Fascist
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Ratcatcher was a documentary made for BBC 2 by an ex-member of the NF who joined the ANL.

Shortly after making and broadcasting that video diary, Paul became disillusioned with the politics of the ANL and the SWP and joined AFA. – SL

 

 

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