@anpiuk.bsky.social
Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia - United Kingdom branch. Home of all antifascists since 1944.
What an insightful night!
Bill Hern and @outsidewrite.bsky.social delivered talks on players who'd made the history of football and stood up to racism and to fascism
Our thanks to co-organisers Brigata Ultra Clapton, to Bill and Chris for their talks and to the attendees for their engaging questions
Tour across Islington and follow the stories of the people who fought against the apartheid in SA.
We'll learn about the Englishman with a hand in not one but two international revolutions and about exiled Russians played a game of cat-and-mouse with foreign spies in London.
We remember it as a guide to action.
@AntiRacismDay @Searchlight_mag @pcs_union @NEUnion @fbunational @RMTunion @MichaelRosenYes @LouiseRawAuthor
Setbacks unity on the streets can push back the extreme right. It stands as an example for today & the amazing mural locally inspires a/fascists like these @anpilondon & many more.
Pamphlets like this (pic 2) are worth tracking down for a feel of the day, in its wider context.
Were re routed by police & history was made by mass anti fascist mobilisation!
The day became a high point for how to resist fascism. Veterans like the late Max Levitas all his life assisted generations of later a/fascists & encouraged us.
The day showed how despite divisions &
Admirer of Mussolini & Hitler thought he'd intimidate Jews especially; he was beaten back by terrific ingenuity & a/fascist bravery!
Despite police efforts to get Blackshirts through, the little Hitlers path was stopped.
Gardiner's Corner & Cable St saw barricades made.
Fascists
Thread by UAF -Take inspiration- #OTD in 1936 was the Battle of Cable St!
100s of 1000s of anti fascists blocked Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts from marching through this heavily Jewish part of East London.
Jews, Irish Dockers, women & many more organised mass opposition & won!
Mosley, an
Thread by UAF -Take inspiration- #OTD in 1936 was the Battle of Cable St!
100s of 1000s of anti fascists blocked Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts from marching through this heavily Jewish part of East London.
Jews, Irish Dockers, women & many more organised mass opposition & won!
Mosley, an
"The terraces reflect the political upheaval that's happening at that time. By understanding fan culture, you really understand a place better than most any mirror you can hold up to society"
Jamesย Montague interviewed in "The Defiant"
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<<Racism ebbs and flows. At the moment, sadly, it seems to be flowing again. As Howard says, "The struggle goes on. Maybe the victory is in the struggle">>
Join us on 10th October Chris Lee's and Bill Hern's talks about the footballers who stood against bigotry and left their marks in football.
The spontaneous insurrection of the citizens of Naples, known as the Four Days of Naples, began on 27th September 1943. As it would happen again in the following 19 months, people took their fate in their hands and defeated Nazis and Fascists.
stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1132...
ONE RACE; THE HUMAN RACE
Sunday 12th October, 11am
This was the slogan of the ANCโs London recruits. Their story is one of many about the rebels, radicals, activists, agitators, reformers; revolutionaries featured in this tour of Clerkenwell and Islington.
ticketsource.co.uk/associazione-nโฆ
We have a couple of exciting events coming up.
FOOTBALLERS AGAINST FASCISM AND RACISM
Friday 10th October, 6:45pm
Marx Memorial Library
Featuring talks by Chris Lee and Bill Hern.
Booking and details
www.ticketsource.co.uk/associazione...
How the concentration of media control in the hands of a small group of right wing plutocrats has shaped information and communication in France.
youtube.com/watch?v=Mi5j...
The article refers to a different rally. However it is relevant in general. Regarding this past Saturday, if "the fash outnumbered the anti-fash" is also because the many unions who add their logos in the poster calling to march against racism didn't mobilise their members at all. Why?
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On Sept. 11, 1973, a U.S. supported military coup in Chile overthrew the democratically elected Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende, initiating the murderous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
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Who was Italian Socialist MP Giacomo Matteotti?
Why did he visit London in April 1924 and why was he kidnapped and killed by fascists less than two months later?
You may find out by joining the guided tour to the exhibition at the Charing Cross Library with the curator.
Free entry. Booking required
Here's another one. www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1531210...
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