Showing posts with label fascism/anti-fascism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fascism/anti-fascism. Show all posts
Friday, August 02, 2024

Unite Against Racism demo in East End 1994 + a spycop report on David Bowie donating to Anti Nazi League

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In 1993 the far right British National Party achieved a breakthrough in the East End of London when one of its members was elected as a coun...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Working Class Records: Antifascista Siempre

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Picked up this rather fine 'Antifascista Siempre' t-shirt in Spain recently, produced by Madrid-based Working Class Records. They ha...
Friday, October 06, 2023

100 years of anti-fascism in Britain

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Mussolini's ascent to power in Italy in 1922 was the start of a terrible period in European history, followed by similar far right dicta...
Monday, April 03, 2023

The Redskins - revolutionary rock'n'roll?

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The Redskins were one of the few avowedly revolutionary socialist bands in mid 1980s Britain. They also had some decent tunes as well as a v...
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Tuesday, November 02, 2021

'Freedom of Movement': Anti Fascist Action on the dancefloor 1993

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One way or another music was at the heart of the movement against racism and the far right in the UK in the early 1990s. Some of the heavies...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Anti-fascism 1962 - the real battles of Ridley Road and Trafalgar Square

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The BBC series 'Ridley Road' (2021) is a fictional drama which draws on real historical events - the activities of Colin Jordan'...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

How it all began (for me): a School Kid against the Nazis in Luton 1979/80

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Going on a recent march against the far right in central London got me thinking about my earliest forays into anti-fascism when I was at sch...
Friday, August 31, 2018

July Days in London: Trump as Tyrant Monster and our opposition

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I've been thinking again about the Trump phenomenon. As many have pointed out, plenty of other US  Presidents have presided over racist...