Still I hope you find it useful. This is a talk I gave in Dublin in 1993 after we had been amoung a coalition of groups that had successfully forced fascist organiser David Irving to call off a speaking tour. At the time the fascists had hit the news in several European countries with either electoral success or murders of immigrants. The recent successful campaign against the fascist organiser David Irving as well as related events throughout Europe have led to fascism being discussed in a widespread fashion. Why is fascism different from the far right and racism.
Fascism tends to be used a lot on the left as a term of abuse.
The workers party call Sinn Fein fascists, the CP used to refer to trotskyists as fascists and right wingers in general are referred to as fascists. The problem with this sort of thing is that when you then argue for no platform for fascists many see this as an attempt to silence all those you disagree with. We use the term fascist in a very much tighter form. Fascists are those who seek to physically smash the left, unions and other progressive groups. They beat, maim and kill minority groups now.