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Beating the Fascists: The authorised history of Anti-Fascist Action

bit harsh steps! but i wondered if it had any interesting snippets on militant AF activity and how long it covers. there was a bit of argy bargy in brighton with mosley before and after the war (beckman details a gory day out!).
 
Noticed that Dave Hann's book Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism will be out 25th January.

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Large-scale confrontations, disruption of meetings, sabotage and street fighting have been part of the practice of anti-fascism from the early twentieth century until the twenty-first. Rarely endorsed by any political party, the use of collective bodily strength remains a strategy of activists working in alliances and coalitions against fascism. In Physical Resistance famous battles against fascists, from the Olympia arena, Earls Court in 1934 and Cable Street in 1936 to Southall in 1978 and Bradford 2010, are told through the voices of participants. Anarchists, communists and socialists who belonged to a shifting series of anti-fascist organizations relate well-known events alongside many forgotten but significant episodes.
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Combining scholarship with the knowledge that can only come from political experience this is a moving memorial to the late author and those who have fought fascism in Britain for almost a hundred years. Detailed accounts, eye witness testimony and a non-sectarian approach make this an engaging and fascinating account that should be read by activists and historians of all kinds.
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Dr Hilda Kean
 
DaveCinzano said:
http://www.zero-books.net/authors/dave-hann&i=9
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"He was a dedicated researcher, often irritated by the lack of attention to details and dates by professional historians."

You really have to stand back and admire the chutzpah. His own autobiography had no index and few dates, and the couple that he did include had the untrammeled reliability of road signs in the Ardenne during the Battle of the Bulge.
 
Joe Reilly said:
"He was a dedicated researcher, often irritated by the lack of attention to details and dates by professional historians."

You really have to stand back and admire the chutzpah. His own autobiography had no index and few dates, and the couple that he did include had the untrammeled reliability of road signs in the Ardenne during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Right on Sean.....
 
Joe Reilly said:
To review BTF a full two years after publication struck every body as odd.The announcement of 'No Retreat 2' has to be the answer.
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No Retreat 2...ha ha..another Searchlight Spoiler ho ho... you really do take first prize for that one.... Another fine example of the O'Shea conspiracy machine in motion. So where does the recent Serbian edition and the soon to be Polish and German NR editions come into it. 2 years is a long time in politics ...as for Daves book...well the stuff Ive seen before he died should be a great help to the movement for academics and activists alike. No doubt you will find issue with it not for its content, although you probably will... but because it'll be open season again and another oppurtunity to rehash the lies and smears you so eloquently foisted on his family when he died.

ps I went through a little exercise the other day and looked at some of your posts. Everyone I looked at (30 or so-a decent sample) was slagging someone/something/somewhere off. What does that say?? Yeah answers on a postcard to Jeremy Kyle ..he should get you on his show...
 
Pickman's model said:
We'll need a new thread for a new book. It'll be 'ding ding round two'
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crivvens, i hope not! the books do cover similar territory but they will inevitably differ on some things. i am just glad that with NR, BTF, Hanns book and mine as well as others that there's an increase in the numbers of books on a MILITANT history that was in danger of remaining undocumented. the more stuff the better i say!
 
malatesta32 said:
crivvens, i hope not! the books do cover similar territory but they will inevitably differ on some things. i am just glad that with NR, BTF, Hanns book and mine as well as others that there's an increase in the numbers of books on a MILITANT history that was in danger of remaining undocumented. the more stuff the better i say!
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you could maybe do a booklaunch at next year's bookfair :cool: or book relaunch :(
 
malatesta32 said:
crivvens, i hope not! the books do cover similar territory but they will inevitably differ on some things. i am just glad that with NR, BTF, Hanns book and mine as well as others that there's an increase in the numbers of books on a MILITANT history that was in danger of remaining undocumented. the more stuff the better i say!
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You need something to differentiate from the rest
 
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