A figment of his imagination: People's History of the Anti-Nazi League by Geoff Brown - part 2

 In the previous blog post at https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/9213221449000331725/662162860916076563

I made reference to the booklet on the ANL that was published by the Colin Roach Centre, where I was the elected co-ordinator at the time, in 1995.  

I noted that in the People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League by Geoff Brown that according to the publisher's synopsis

This definitive history of the Anti Nazi League draws on extensive interviews with leading figures and local activists, along with contemporary coverage in the national, local and music press (from the 1970s) 

The conclusion

Anti-racism is a force as never before. The Black Lives Matter movement that exploded after the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, 25 May 2020, in Minneapolis, saw between 7,500 to 10,000 protests in the US, protests that were much more multiracial and much more likely to penetrate into suburban and into rural areas than had previously been the case. ……on Saturday 6 June, 15000 marched in Manchester……

Can we mobilise such forces to defeat today’s far right and fascist threat? In the fight against the politics of despair, the history of the ANL is a source of hope. Since the destruction of the NF, every attempt by fascists to launch electoral or street-based fascist initiatives has been defeated with the ANL’s successor organisations, Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and Stand Up to Racism, (SUTR) playing a leading role. A tradition has been established rejecting any alliance on the state in favour of mass collective action……….

In the 1990s Anti-Fascist Action published the Fighting Talk magazine and the following is an article from the magazine.