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

[Random]

the Searchlight stuff was a meaningful part of my anti fascist life. I spent time in Scandinavia and helped Stieg Larsson and his colleagues set up an anti-fascist network

That's interesting. I live in Sweden and I've suspected for a while that Expo are the equivalent of Searchlight here, but until now I've not heard of any concrete links. If you'd like to say more on this, I'd like to know; partly because I meet Expo people fairly often through my job and would like to know more about where they're coming from. Larsson himself was a trot or left leninist of some sort iirc.

 

[audiotech]

Communist party members were tearing up their party cards and joining the FN back when Le-Pen was on a roll. In the 90's was it?

 

[audiotech]

That's interesting. I live in Sweden and I've suspected for a while that Expo are the equivalent of Searchlight here, but until now I've not heard of any concrete links. If you'd like to say more on this, I'd like to know; partly because I meet Expo people fairly often through my job and would like to know more about where they're coming from. Larsson himself was a trot or left leninist of some sort iirc.

Writer and researcher, Stieg Larsson's, lifelong partner, Eva Gabrielsson, talks about their research into right-wing extremism in Scandavia and Europe they did together before his death. Stieg Larson founded the Swedish Expo Foundation, who publish the sister magazine to Searchlight.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/27/before_death_acclaimed_girl_with_dragon

Eva Gabrielsson has a new book out about her life with Steig Larson.

 

[Random]

Writer and researcher, Stieg Larsson's, lifelong partner, Eva Gabrielsson, talks about their research into right-wing extremism in Scandavia and Europe they did together before his death. Stieg Larson founded the Swedish Expo Foundation, who publish the sister magazine to Searchlight.

Thanks for that.

 

[Fedayn]

That's interesting. I live in Sweden and I've suspected for a while that Expo are the equivalent of Searchlight here, but until now I've not heard of any concrete links. If you'd like to say more on this, I'd like to know; partly because I meet Expo people fairly often through my job and would like to know more about where they're coming from. Larsson himself was a trot or left leninist of some sort iirc.

He was editor of the 4th International's Swedish paper Fjarde Internationalen. I dunno which bit of the split he went with in the early 1990's though.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

He was editor of the 4th International's Swedish paper Fjarde Internationalen. I dunno which bit of the split he went with in the early 1990's though.

The Swedish USFI section, called the "Socialist Party", are happy-clappy soft and fuzzy sorts, all "new movements" and greenery and are only "Trotskyists" or "Leninists" in a sort of ancestral way. They were still too radical for Larsson as he evolved politically though, and by the time he was writing his novels he was essentially a left social democrat with a particular focus on feminism and anti-fascism.

 

[bignose1]

That's interesting. I live in Sweden and I've suspected for a while that Expo are the equivalent of Searchlight here, but until now I've not heard of any concrete links. If you'd like to say more on this, I'd like to know; partly because I meet Expo people fairly often through my job and would like to know more about where they're coming from. Larsson himself was a trot or left leninist of some sort iirc.

Suspected...like it was a fucking big secret..youve come on here to shit stir

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Writer and researcher, Stieg Larsson's, lifelong partner, Eva Gabrielsson, talks about their research into right-wing extremism in Scandavia and Europe they did together before his death. Stieg Larson founded the Swedish Expo Foundation, who publish the sister magazine to Searchlight.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/27/before_death_acclaimed_girl_with_dragon

Eva Gabrielsson has a new book out about her life with Steig Larson.

Meant to post this yesterday - Stieg Larsson was one of the contributors to the Searchlight "White Noise" publication in the late 90's (about the White Power music scene in the UK,. Europe and the US). Larsson contributea an article about the White Power scene in Sweden, mentioning certain link-ups with Combat 18 et al.

 

[Random]

Suspected...like it was a fucking big secret..youve come on here to shit stir

Yes, I suspected, because Expo use similar methods to Searchlight and have a similar agenda of also opposing left wing groups. The Expo About Us page doesn't mention Searchlight http://expo.se/2010/about-expo_3514.html and so I was left wondering. But as audiotech just showed, it is really no big secret, and a quick google would have showed me some details.

 

[bignose1]

Yes, I suspected, because Expo use similar methods to Searchlight and have a similar agenda of also opposing left wing groups. The Expo About Us page doesn't mention Searchlight http://expo.se/2010/about-expo_3514.html and so I was left wondering. But as audiotech just showed, it is really no big secret, and a quick google would have showed me some details.

Opposing left wing groups...what utter garbage..whose scripting you...

 

[Random]

Opposing left wing groups...what utter garbage..whose scripting you...

It's well known that both Searchlight and Expo oppose militant antifascists as well as the far right; both are seen as a threat to democracy. Robert Aschberg said this to me in person, so I'm not making it up.

 

[TopCat]

You don't have to do much to shit stir when it comes to searchlight do you? Given the shit they have got up to in the past and no doubt present? So when you have someone like bignose who is forever welded to them because of his actions no wonder he gets touchy. makes no difference. Lie down with dogs etc etc...

 

[Joe Reilly]

It's well known that both Searchlight and Expo oppose militant antifascists as well as the far right; both are seen as a threat to democracy. Robert Aschberg said this to me in person, so I'm not making it up.

At the risk of repeating myself the Searchlight agenda is not actually anti-fascist but state sponsored anti-extremist - targetting and manipulating at either end of the political spectrum.

 

[TopCat]

Keep repeating it Joe, shout it loud and long...

 

[articul8]

The Swedish USFI section, called the "Socialist Party", are happy-clappy soft and fuzzy sorts, all "new movements" and greenery and are only "Trotskyists" or "Leninists" in a sort of ancestral way.

As opposed to hard-core anti-diluvian dinosaurs who think they are still living somewhere between 1924-1945?

 

[The39thStep]

Third period Trotskyism

 

[bignose1]

You don't have to do much to shit stir when it comes to searchlight do you? Given the shit they have got up to in the past and no doubt present? So when you have someone like bignose who is forever welded to them because of his actions no wonder he gets touchy. makes no difference. Lie down with dogs etc etc...

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[Pickman's model]

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and there was me thinking you could put together a semi-coherent sentence.

 

[TopCat]

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It's anything but boring. Your tactics to duck your actions and their results are quite bizarre. Do you have any expectation that they actually work?

 

[Random]

You don't have to do much to shit stir when it comes to searchlight do you? Given the shit they have got up to in the past and no doubt present? So when you have someone like bignose who is forever welded to them because of his actions no wonder he gets touchy. makes no difference. Lie down with dogs etc etc...

It just seems bokers that someone like bignose would deny what is the openly stated goal of Searchlight and Expo.

 

[bignose1]

It's anything but boring. Your tactics to duck your actions and their results are quite bizarre. Do you have any expectation that they actually work?

What am I ducking ffs. Whats bizarre???...stop talking in riddles. I have no expectations regards what you believe..because quite honestly your tainted.
as for Random...set out the openly stated goals of S/light/Expo. Which is equally bizarre because then they cant be underhand by definition. A bit of a contradiction.
( your mutual wanking off over this gets worse..

I might not be able to to put together a semi-coherent sentence but your argument is totally incoherent as you fail to give me one example of my so called "personal" treachery.
as for the johny come latelies adding to this...earn your right first

 

[Random]

as for Random...set out the openly stated goals of S/light/Expo. Which is equally bizarre because then they cant be underhand by definition. A bit of a contradiction.

Where did I ever say they were underhand? Like I said above, the people running Expo are open about the fact that they oppose people from the radical left as well.

 

[Red Storm]

I'm going to be studying anti-fascist political violence and it's justification for my final year thesis. Hopefully concentrating on AFA.

Does anyone know of any good literature or academic works an AFA?

 

[MellySingsDoom]

I'm going to be studying anti-fascist political violence and it's justification for my final year thesis. Hopefully concentrating on AFA.

Does anyone know of any good literature or academic works an AFA?

You could try Larry O'Hara - he did his PhD on similar lines, if memory serves. Personally speaking, I think the fabulous Larry is completely nutso paranoid, and liable to see an M15 conspiracy in a cup of tea, but other people out there rate him, so there you go...

(I bet Larry ends up back here again accusing me of being one of the "scum"...hello Larry!)

 

[frogwoman]

I'm going to be studying anti-fascist political violence and it's justification for my final year thesis. Hopefully concentrating on AFA.

Does anyone know of any good literature or academic works an AFA?

a mate of mine did his masters' thesis on afa etc. i could ask him.

 

[Red Storm]

Cheers.

If you could get him to email me it that would be fantastic!

 

[frogwoman]

Im seeing him this weekend so i'll ask then

 

[malatesta32]

I'm going to be studying anti-fascist political violence and it's justification for my final year thesis. Hopefully concentrating on AFA.
Does anyone know of any good literature or academic works an AFA?

beating the fascists is by far the most thorough ande the best thing of late but try also: k bullstreets bash the fash; no retreat by tilzey & hann (alright calm down!); white riot by nick lowles; Anti Fascist Action by ex liverpool AFA; heroes or villains by AFA; turning up the heat by larry o hara is good on red action/AFA; Matthew collins's hate from the other side; and for a good read, martin lux antifascist for preAFA escapades. more academically, nigel copsey is okay and a lot better than dave renton who is, to quote our ayatollah, 'a hack!' for deeper background research both benewick and clutterbuck are good on 1970s political violence & NF, thurlow on NF in 70s is also good. somewhere on here Liam O (where did he go?) and maybe others have posted some cracking 1st person accounts of hairy ventures! dunno which threads tho. hope this helps.

 

[krink]

Is the liverpool afa one on-line anywhere or easy to purchase? never read that one.

 

[Red Storm]

It's a pamphlet and you can buy it on Amazon.co.uk