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Militant Antifascism: An Alternative (Historical) Reading

Author: Nigel Copsey

Published in: Society | Issue 3/2018

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This article offers an alternative historical reading of militant antifascism and argues that application of the “gang” designation is overly reductionist. Whilst there is a historical connection between “gangs” and militant antifascism, and militant antifascists do engage in “gang” behaviors, a “gang” designation pays no attention to the multiplicities of militant antifascism; its transnational evolution and character; and above all, the ideological motivations of the antifascists themselves.

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My primary works on antifascism are Nigel Copsey, Anti-Fascism in Britain 2nd edit. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017; and Nigel Copsey and Andrzej Olechnowicz (eds.) Varieties of Anti-Fascism: Britain in the Inter-War Period. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010.

Eve Rosenhaft, Beating the Fascists? The German Communists and Political Violence, 1929–1933. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, p. 131.

Ibid., p. 132

Ibid., p. 159

Quoted in Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany 1933–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 226.

Ibid.

See Tom Behan, The Resistible Rise of Benito Mussolini. London: Bookmarks, 2003, p. 61.

Philip V. Cannistraro, Blackshirts in Little Italy: Italian Americans and Fascism 1921–1929. West Lafayette, IN: Bordighera Press, 1999, p.84.

Ibid., p. 137.

See Warren Grover, Nazis in Newark. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2003.

Quoted in Faja, Antifa U.S.A.: A history in their own words. Independently published (7 Sept. 2017), p. 13.

Quoted in Anna Key (ed.) Beating Fascism: Anarchist Anti-Fascism in Theory and Practice. London: Kate Sharpley Library, 2006, p. 46.

See Antifa forum, Antifascism in Canada, 1996. p 37.

Quoted in Faja, Antifa U.S.A, p. 14.

Fighting Talk, Magazine of Anti-Fascist Action, no. 7, p. 6.

Quoted in Nigel Copsey, “Crossing Borders: Anti-Fascist Action (UK) and Transnational Anti-Fascist Militancy in the 1990s”. In Contemporary European History (Volume 25 (4)), November 2016, 707–727.

Quoted in Copsey, Anti-Fascism in Britain, p. 178.

See Antifa forum, The Nature of the Beast, 1998, p. 43.

Anti-Fascist Action, An Introduction to London AFA, 1991, p. 3.

Quoted in Sean Birchall, Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action. London: Freedom Press, p. 369. Emphasis as original.

Title: Militant Antifascism: An Alternative (Historical) Reading
Author: Nigel Copsey
Publication date: 08-05-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Society / Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-018-0245-y

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