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

gawkrodger said:
just bought it (making it the 6th book I've bought in 2 days, whilst I still have a pile of about 30 unread books. Hmmm) and looking forward to it after the reviews here
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It is a really good book, you will most likely enjoy it and hopefully it will inspire and help to guide today's and future generations of anti fascists.
 
Deareg said:
It is a really good book, you will most likely enjoy it and hopefully it will inspire and help to guide today's and future generations of anti fascists.
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Can someone give me the link to buy it off amazon? I deserve a treat once in awhile ;)
 
ayatollah said:
Note to anyone EVER tempted to work politically with Jeff Robinson. DONT !
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I did have the sense to refuse him lend of my motorcycle one time to "scout" around when the NF were meeting in a Bradford school. A huge picket had been organised as the front were marched up the road with a police escort and were met by a barrage of missiles, including bombs of curry powder, lobbed by Asian youth. They stung the eyes!

Edit: Were you ever involved with RAR at the Alhambra, which began about the time of the bakers strike I recall? Later, there was the 'Militant Entertainment' tour with Stiff Little Fingers head-lining.
 
ayatollah said:
One thing that really shone out for me, as someone simply burnt out after 16 years of frenetic politics/anti fascist activism by 1987, is that nearly everyone contributing in the book went through the same process. Then a new generation of activists had to come along - often starting from scratch , re-learning lessons we had learnt so painfully. Physical force anti fascist activism is a young person's game in the main. (Though I was in many a quite hairy anti fascist argy bargy alongside a few absolutely ancient but superb AJEX , association of Jewish Ex Servicemen guys, political Zionists all, in Manchester in the early 1970's). The point left unsaid, but nevertheless implicitly posed by the "we all have our moment on the street" thread of the book, is what happens to us old activists afterwards ? The book well describes how many, many of the early Jewish fighters were attracted off to the sterile pastures of political Zionism, and of course the communists were repeatedly lost in the endless policy contortions of the CP dictated by Moscow. Our generation of activist anti fascists are certainly politically "all over the show" too.
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Ironically, this in part at least, is what the IWCA project anticipated, and sought to prevent. And if indeed anti-fascism is 'all over the show' then the focused and resolute campaign beginning in 1995, (and still ongoing by the sounds of things) to misrepresent the IWCA and what it was all about, can hardly be regarded as insignificant can it?
 
scroll down to mensi bit. mark pringle is eddie stampton - NF, BNP, BPP, EDL, NWI reject. also what happened to the British Free Corps? this is from 2008. i believe the term is 'walting.'
 

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malatesta32 said:
scroll down to mensi bit. mark pringle is eddie stampton - NF, BNP, BPP, EDL, NWI reject. also what happened to the British Free Corps? this is from 2008. i believe the term is 'walting.'
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Eddie with the glasses....

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LiamO said:
TBH the only person I knew who called Mickey, Mick - was Mickey.
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And me apparently. I'm surprised that in the specific fond namecheck he gives me, Tilzey, and Ian Mac in his piece in the book he doesn't also say "but that Manchester fucker would always persist in calling me Mick". I also observe that the initials-only identifiers used in NR and BtF are obviously old hat in anti fascist books nowadays. Great book though -- lots of stuff I didn't know from the 20's and 30's.....eg, I didn't know that Mosley's special elite bodyguard force were called "I-Squad" !
 
the I Squad were barracked in black house and were specifically trained to attack hecklers, CP members etc. they were dissolved after the 'financial issues' arose and mosley slimmed down the org to cope with dwindling income. mussolini funded him for a bit but they lost a lot of support post olympia fiasco.
 
they had to strip it down economically due to people using BUF clubs as drinking clubs and in one case a brothel. they lost support over the olympia fiasco from the media (rather than voters) as they distanced themselves from the violent rep. they still didnt do much electorally and the battle would appear to have been at street level rather than at the ballot box. physical opposition, working class/local organisation and media coverage have always contributed to the decline of fascist groups in the UK.
 
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