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

[The39thStep]

Not sure what the point of the 'interview' was Mal.

 

[malatesta32]

i happened to come into contact with him so carried on this conversation over a month or 2. someone asked me about it so i said i wd put it up. he thinks he still has influence etc and despite all the shit he has gone through he remains a nazi or KKK fan at least.

 

[TopCat]

Not your finest hour mal...

 

[malatesta32]

fash hotting it up in sweden
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/15/world/europe/sweden-nazi-attack/index.html

 

[editor]

Really interesting piece with loads of archive material on the BBC site:

Nicky Crane: The secret double life of a gay neo-Nazi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25142557

 

[articul8]

wakey wakey Ed (ahem, check the thread)

 

[Limerick Red]

fash hotting it up in sweden
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/15/world/europe/sweden-nazi-attack/index.html

If you look at the revolutionary Front FB page, ya can see the fash got a bit of a kickin'. 1 stabbed, 2 in hospital, pictures of fash with mashup faces on the RF page.

 

[past caring]

Really interesting piece with loads of archive material on the BBC site:

Nicky Crane: The secret double life of a gay neo-Nazi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25142557

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Don't tell him Pike

 

[malatesta32]

If you look at the revolutionary Front FB page, ya can see the fash got a bit of a kickin'. 1 stabbed, 2 in hospital, pictures of fash with mashup faces on the RF page.

well i obviously cant condone that LR!

 

[chilango]

Is "Beating the Fascists" available as an ebook anywhere yet?

 

[malatesta32]

more on sweden:
http://libcom.org/news/sweden-nazis-attack-anti-racist-demonstration-pushed-back-17122013

 

[malatesta32]

courtesy of shirtfront.

 

[malatesta32]

cheeky wee plug for BTF!
http://malatesta32.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/2013-highlights-lowlifes/

 

[laptop]

courtesy of shirtfront.

"attacked a cinema queue of coloured people"?

What decade is that/this?

 

[malatesta32]

early 80s i think.

 

[LiamO]

cheeky wee plug for BTF!
http://malatesta32.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/2013-highlights-lowlifes/

" Probably the 2nd best book to be written about militant anti-fascism!"

No praise like self-praise, Malatesta

 

[malatesta32]

hey up, i think you've invented a 'house style' for anti-fascist videos!

 

[Limerick Red]

hey up, i think you've invented a 'house style' for anti-fascist videos!

That video is fuckin terrible, looks more like an EDL/Riot porn vid, what on earth thats meant to achieve I have no idea. Blatantly from the anonymous school of shite!

 

[LiamO]

Bit confused here, Mal. Could you expand a bit on what you were hoping to get across?

 

[malatesta32]

i meant that the BTF promo style of using a rapid mix of text, pix and moving image coupled with a rather emotive piece of music is highly effective (i have watched it to inspire me to get on and do stuff several times). i rate it very highly. i saw the slough one as replicating that style.

 

[krink]

if i was a frustrated, maybe angry lad/man looking for thrills, that video would be more likely to make me join edl than oppose them it looks like a right laugh, being in a mob, attacking the old bill, smashing shit up...

 

[Red About Town]

And I wouldn't have used 20 plus year old AFA footage.

 

[Riklet]

anti facists figure for what, 3 seconds at the end... as a bunch of scrawny, masked, flag waving black block twerps.

who ends up looking like the "normal" voice in it?

 

[butchersapron]

anti facists figure for what, 3 seconds at the end... as a bunch of scrawny, masked, flag waving black block twerps.

who ends up looking like the "normal" voice in it?

Bingo!

 

[LiamO]

In fairness you would not know the big skinhead lashing all around him was AFA unless you already knew him/the video. Sorry Mal, but I have to agree it looks more like an EDL promo than an anti-fascist one.

 

[malatesta32]

i was talking about the form rather than content: i really like that rapid use of stills cut with the music in BTF. and yeah, 'the big skinhead' punching his way thru 8 or so boneheads and winning was Liverpool AFA.

 

[Joe Reilly]

Is "Beating the Fascists" available as an ebook anywhere yet?

There was someone lined up who had put together an attractive package which involved promoting the book, (something the publishers for one reason or another had neglected to do).

Negotiations were sufficiently advanced that planning a new cover was the only hold -up, something it was decided would be prudent after the Hoffman attempt to bully FP into providing details about the authors (their identity and addresses mainly), which they resisted and paid the price, £4,000 to be precise.

Together with the febrile atmosphere online surrounding BTF the petrol bomb through the publishers window led him to the unfortunate conclusion that he might be next. Hence...

 

[Limerick Red]

http://xxx.dailystormer.com / mi5-have-had-file-on-uk-antifa-leader-since-1990/

 

[Citizen66]

And I wouldn't have used 20 plus year old AFA footage.

Especially with all that recent AFA footage to choose from.