Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

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

There seems to be an increasing amount of inane shite being (re)posted on this thread. I'd rather it wasn't. I don't want this turn into "EDL watch" vol.II.

Thanks.


That said it's still preferable to the genuinely saddening row that dominated the early part of the thread.

Oh well.
 
chilango said:
That said it's still preferable to the genuinely saddening row that dominated the early part of the thread.
Click to expand...

What you describe as 'a saddening row' was in fact a prolonged attack on the militant anti-fascist movement from without. The carry on here was preceded by an equally scurrilous attack on the efficacy of AFA and on the integrity of prominent members within it on Indymedia prior to the publication of BTF. The purpose was to prevent the publication of BTF.

And, let's not forget due to the intense, and probably unprecedented (in the history of anti-fascism anyway) brow-beating of Freedom Press, whether it was published at all was in the balance for months.

After all who but a die-hard opponent of militant anti-fascism would go to such lengths to prevent AFA founding members publishing it's history?

And then who but a embittered and vengeful opponent of militant anti-fascism would treat supposedly fellow anti-fascists in the way that Searchlight photographer David Hoffman did?

It might of course have all been handled differently but to imply that it was some sort of shaming personal feud, is itself, I would argue, a revisionist take on events.

Finally consider the stark implications in the question that ended this 'saddening row' so abruptly. And then let's put the 'more in sorrow than anger' trope to bed.
 
Last edited:
Joe Reilly said:
What you describe as 'a saddening row' was in fact a prolonged attack the militant anti-fascist movement from without. The carry on here was preceded by an equally scurrilous attack on the efficacy of AFA and on the integrity of prominent members within it on Indymedia prior to the publication of BTF. The purpose was to prevent the publication of BTF.

And, let's not forget due to the intense, and probably unprecedented (in the history of anti-fascism anyway) brow-beating of Freedom Press, whether it was published at all was in the balance for months.

After all who but a die-hard opponent of militant anti-fascism would go to such lengths to prevent AFA founding members publishing it's history?

And then who but a embittered opponent of militant anti-fascism would treat supposedly fellow anti-fascists in the way that Searchlight photographer David Hoffman did?

It might of course have all been handled differently but to imply that it was some sort of shaming personal feud, is itself, I would argue, a revisionist take on events.

Finally consider the stark implications in the question that ended this 'saddening row' so abruptly. And then let's put the 'more in sorrow than anger' trope to bed.
Click to expand...

Joe, I'm not going to disagree with this, I think pretty much all of us are in basic agreement here, and I certainly don't mean to imply that it was a "shaming personal feud". Everything you write above can be true, yet I can still find this saddening.
 
From latest Popbitch dispatch;

>> Making NMEs <<
More Amelia Fletcher news

A writes:
"The late Steven Wells of the NME
wrote an article that bands like
hers ought to be sent to Nazi death
camps. Amelia sent him a four
page memo explaining why, as
the grand-daughter of Jewish
refugees from Poland, he might
like to consider his views.

"Swells sent back a note telling
her to fuck off. In capitals."

I always understood Wells to have been an anti-fascist?
 
Swells was SWP. Give me some money for info. Don't try and get involved in their game years later.
lazyhack said:
From latest Popbitch dispatch;

>> Making NMEs <<
More Amelia Fletcher news

A writes:
"The late Steven Wells of the NME
wrote an article that bands like
hers ought to be sent to Nazi death
camps. Amelia sent him a four
page memo explaining why, as
the grand-daughter of Jewish
refugees from Poland, he might
like to consider his views.

"Swells sent back a note telling
her to fuck off. In capitals."

I always understood Wells to have been an anti-fascist?
Click to expand...
 
he was very good for giving away his review copies of albums. many of which had clearly never been played
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

tim
MPs beating people up.
2 3 4 5
Replies
139
Views
5K
Hotel Chocolate
H
Voley
What next for Ed Davey, Action Man?
2 3 4 5
Replies
147
Views
5K
ViolentPanda
ViolentPanda
RevolutionSound
Tory councillor accuses Dawn Butler of anti semitism on LBC
Replies
1
Views
621
GarveyLives
G
HeAthen
BBC accused of antisemitism
2 3 4
Replies
98
Views
4K
ska invita
ska invita
TopCat
Anti coronation protests
Replies
4
Views
604
FridgeMagnet
FridgeMagnet
Back
Top Bottom