In this important history of anti-fascism in Britain Dave Hann views a century of struggle through a grassroots, working-class lens. From the fight of the International Brigades in Spain to the Battle of Cable Street and the defence of Southall, he locates these large-scale events alongside forgotten episodes of everyday resistance, collecting voices from across the movement to highlight the ways racism was faced down in communities nationwide.
Louise Purbrick, who inherited and edited Dave Hann’s book, has extended this new edition with activists’ accounts of the formation of the Anti-Fascist Network and their role in street anti-fascism of the twenty-first century.