This post will contain material from Glasgow Anti-Fascist Action.
Above: The first leaflet put out by Glasgow Anti-Fascists around 1989/90. GAF was the forerunner to the Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) branch in the city.
This post will contain material from Edinburgh AFA.
This post will list various literature from Red Action.
This post will list literature from the Independent Working Class Association.
Also see the IWCA’s Filling the Vacuum document.
This will be a list of academic studies which will be of interest to those wanting to study militant anti-fascism.
If you have written an essay which is of good quality or contains original research please email: antifascistarchive@gmail.com.
On the Principles of Political Violence and the Case of Anti-Fascist Action (The Archivist, 2012)
The National Front and British National Party on Merseyside. A Geography of Political Extremism
Blackshirts in Red Scotland: an analysis of fascism and its opponents in inter-war Scotland
Communists and the Inter-War Anti-Fascist Struggle in the United States and Britain (Copsey, 2011)
Anti-Fascist Activity in Manchester’s Jewish Community (Gewirtz)
“Class Before Race”: British Communism and the Place of Empire in Postwar Race Relations (Smith, 2008)
Conflicting Narratives of Black Youth Rebellion in Modern Britain (Smith)
A Bulwark Diminished: The Communist Party, the SWP and anti-fascism in the 1970s. (Smith)
Bridging the Gap: The British Communist Party and the limits of the state in tackling racism (Smith)
1968 – Too Little and Too Late? The Communist Party and Race Relations in the Late 1960s (Smith, 2008)
When the Party Comes Down: The CPGB and Youth Culture, 1976-1991 (Smith)
Witness Seminar: Anti-Fascism in 1970s Huddersfield (2006)
Anti-Fascist Action: Radical Resistance or Rent-a-Mob? (Hayes and Alyward, 2000)
Marching Altogether? Football fans taking a stand against racism (Thomas, 2010)
Glasgow Celtic Fans, Political Culture and the Tiocfaidh Ar La Fanzine: Some Comments and a Content Analysis (Hayes, 2006)
Neo-Nazism, Holocaust Denial and UK Law (Cohn-Sherbok, 2010)
The Swastika and the Shamrock: British Fascism and the Irish Question, 1918-1940 (Douglas, 1997)
Ulster Unionists in America, 1972-1985 (Wilson, 2007)
Shot By Both Sides: Punk, Politics and the End of ‘Consensus’ (Worley, 2012)
Patterns of Racism: Interviews with National Front Members (Billig, 1978)
Extreme music for extreme people? Norwegian black metal and transcendent violence (Phillipov, 2011)
Voice of our blood: National Socialist discourses in black metal (Olson, 2011)
Continental Divide: Immigration and the New European Right (Rosenthal, 2011)
Visions of Hate: Explaining Neo-Nazi Violence in the Russian Federation (Arnold, 2010)
Anti-Zionism and the Italian Extreme Right (Chiarini, 2008)
Right-Extremism in Germany: Recruitment of New Members (Braunthal, 2008)
Australian Fascism? A Revisionist Analysis of the Ideology of the New Guard (Cunningham, 2012)
Colin Jordan’s ‘Merrie England’ and ‘Universal Nazism’ (Jackson, 2011)
The EDL: Britain’s New Far Right Social Movement (Jackson, 2011)
Below are all the articles from The Guardian which mention either Red Action or Anti-Fascist Action. There is also an Independent article in there.
There is also the Scrapbooks. These contain hundreds of newspaper articles on fascism and racism and its opponents.
Related Posts:
Marching Altogether: a LUFC anti-fascist fanzine
Fighting Talk: Edinburgh – thanks to J
Fighting Talk: Glasgow – thanks to J
Unity: a bulletin from Notts Anti-Fascist Alliance – thanks to J
Fighting Fascism: a bulletin from Birmingham Anti-Fascist Alliance – thanks to J
Tyne and Wear Anti-Fascist Association – thanks to J
Do you have corrections? Dates? Additions? Stories? Images? Simply comment them beneath the post or email them to antifascistarchive@gmail.com and I will amend accordingly.
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