Beating Fascism
Subtitle: Anarchist Anti-fascism in Theory And Practice
Contributors: Errico Malatesta (Contributor); Buenaventura Durriti (Contributor); Anna Key (Editor)
Edition: Pmplt edition
Series: Anarchist sources series, 6
Publisher: Kate Sharpley Library
Published: 2006-03-09
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Pamphlet
Number of pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781873605882
Subjects: Anarchism; Fascism & Nazism; Politics / Current Events; Political Ideologies - Anarchism; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; General; Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism
Description: Anarchists have never hung back in the fight against fascism. This pamphlet covers the physical and ideological battles that anarchists have waged against it. It starts with the Arditi del Popolo (Peoples Commandos) against Mussolini’s Blackshirts, via German anarcho-syndicalists to the Spanish Revolution of 1936. This much can be found (usually well buried!) in the history books. But this pamphlet also uncovers the history of anarchist anti-fascism in fighting against the National Front in Britain in the seventies and the ‘No Platform’ activities of Anti-Facist Action & Anti-Racist Action in the eighties, nineties and beyond. Documents from Russia and Australia and an interview with current activists from Britain and North America fill out a comprehensive look at the ideas and practice of anarchist anti-fascism.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Survival rules; title: Fascism, Stuart Christie; title: Spontaneous anti-fascism, Don Hamerquist; title: The Anarchists against Italian Fascism, Paolo Finzi; title: Mussolini in Power, Errico Malatesta; title: In the Name of Truth, Errico Malatesta; title: Direct Action, G. Cresciani; title: Nationalism and Fascism, Rudolf Rocker; title: Gerhard on National-Socialism, HW Gerhard (pen name of Dr. Gerhard Wartenberg, 1904–1942); title: “For us it is a question of crushing fascism once and for all. Yes, in spite of government…”, Buenaventura Durruti; title: Fascism in Britain Today – The Left and the National Front [1976], MFW; title: Let’s Get Physical…, Anti-Fascist Action; title: The Fascist Takeover, J. the A.; title: Myths, Sheffield Anarchist; title: Fight The Class War Not The Race War, Angry People; title: What We Believe, Anti-Racist Action; title: Anti-Racist Action’s ‘Points of Unity’; title: On The Prowl – Notes On Anti-Racist Action And Developing Anti-Fascist Strategies In Toronto, Lola; title: ARA responds to ‘Fighting words’, Mike Donovan; title: For A World Without Fascism, North Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists; title: So Anti-fascism Is Trendy Now, Avtonom; title: Anti-fascism Now, Kate Sharpley Library, Class War and ‘Three Way Fight’; title: Further reading: a very short list