Anti-Fascism in Britain (2^nd Ed.) Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right Series

Anti-fascism has long been one of the most active and dynamic areas of radical protest and direct action. Yet it is an area of struggle and popular resistance that remains largely unexplored by historians, sociologists and political scientists.

Fully revised and updated from its earlier edition, this book continues to provide the definitive account of anti-fascism in Britain from its roots in the 1930s opposition to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists, to the street demonstrations and online campaigns of the twenty-first century. The author draws on an impressive range of sources including official government, police and security services records, the writings and recollections of activists themselves, and the publications and propaganda of anti-fascist groups and their opponents.

The book traces the ideological, tactical and organisational evolution of anti-fascist groups and explores their often complicated relationships with the mainstream and radical left, as well as assessing their effectiveness in combating the extreme right.

Introduction

1. Origins and Development of Anti-Fascism 1923-35

2. Opposition to British Fascism 1936-45

3. ‘Never Again!’: Anti-Fascism 1946-66

4. ‘The National Front is a Nazi Front!’: Opposition to the National

Front 1967-79

5. Fighting Fascism in the Eighties and Nineties

6. Opposing Fascism in the Twenty-First Century

Conclusion

Nigel Copsey is Professor of Modern History at Teesside University, UK and co-director of the Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies. His major publications are Anti-Fascism in Britain (2000) and Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy (2004; 2008).