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White youth: the Far Right, Punk and British youth culture
Full text link‘White Youth’ recovers and explains the relationship between far-right organisations and British youth culture in the period between 1977 and 1987. In particular, it concentrates on the cultural spaces opened up by punk and the attempts made by the National Front and British Movement to claim them as conduits for racist and/or ultra-nationalist politics. The article is built on an
empirical basis, using archival material and a historical methodology chosen to develop a history ‘from below’ that takes due consideration of the socio-economic and political forces that inform its wider context. Its focus is designed to map shifting cultural and political influences across the far right, assessing the extent to
which extremist organisations proved able to adopt or utilise youth cultural practice as a means of recruitment and communication. Today the British far right is in political and organisational disarray. Nonetheless, residues tied to the cultural initiatives devised in the 1970s–80s remain, be they stylistic, nostalgic or points of connection forged to connect a transnational music scene
'Every time they made a communist, they made a fascist': the Labour Party and popular anti-fascism in the 1930s
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From direct action to community action: The changing dynamics of anti-fascist opposition
No full textMeeting the Challenge of Contemporary British Fascism? The Labour Party’s Response to the National Front and the British National Party
No full textRadical Diasporic Anti-Fascism in the 1920s:Italian anarchists in the English-speaking world
No full textIntroduction: Towards a global history of anti-fascism
No full textOn 7 October 1934, a major street battle between fascists and anti-fascists took place in the centre of Sao Paulo. It became a landmark for Brazilian anti-fascism and is commonly remembered as the ‘See Square Battle’. This chapter initiates a critical discussion on the varieties of global anti-fascism and explores the cultural, political and practical articulations of anti-fascism around the world. It seeks to explore the historical and intellectual implications of bringing together cases and examples from Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, Scandinavia, Spain, the Middle East, Ethiopia, South Africa, India and Australia. All too often anti-fascism is understood as a monolith, mainly connected to Stalinism or Soviet communism, which grossly misrepresents the varieties of anti-fascist resistance. Most international histories of anti-fascism are based on European thinkers and activists, and partly as a result a serious analysis of the intersections and commonalities between fascism and colonialism are all too seldom
The National Socialist Group: a case study in the groupuscular right
No full textThis chapter explores the history of a short-lived British neo-Nazi groupuscule the National Socialist Group. It draws on new archival sources, now available at the University of Northampton’s Searchlight Archive, to generate analysis of the National Socialist Group’s formation in 1968; its attempts to develop into a substantial organization promoting a National Socialist lifestyle and culture; its limited successes in joining with international activists, such as the World Union of National Socialists; and its eventual demise by the end of 1969. Letters, membership data, internal briefings, publications and other material produced by the group during its lifetime are used to develop a picture of the clandestine organization’s inner dynamics, and ultimate failings. The chapter also explores how the National Socialist Group’s leading activists sought to carve out a unique position for the organization in the changing arena of extreme right political groups in late 1960s Britain. The chapter concludes that, although in itself a tiny and largely inconsequential organization, the National Socialist Group needs to be placed in a much longer history of such neo-Nazi groups promoting revolution and violence in Britain
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