Liberal Anti-Fascism

Articles examining the role of organisations such as Searchlight and the Anti-Nazi League.

LIBERAL REVISIONISM
Examination of attempts by the Socialist Workers Party to write militant anti-fascism out of recent history.

IS ANTI-RACISM WORKING?
Anti-Fascist Action hosted an afternoon of film and discussion at the Lux cinema in East London. Following the films, which included the first public screening of the controversial Routes of Racism, a panel of speakers debated the question ‘Is anti-racism working?’

EYES WIDE SHUT
The political pattern evident in the rise of the far Right across Europe is also apparent in Britain. Another reason G. O’Halloran argues that with no proven antidote the liberal Left feels obliged to approach the issue with...

FRAUDULENT CHATTER
In highlighting a push within academia to favourably revise fascism in practise, leading SWP member Dave Renton does us all a service, but it is his own revisionism, according to G. O'Halloran, which carries the greatest threat.

IT WOZ AFA WOT DONE IT!
The new Searchlight publication, White Noise, promises to reveal the true history of the neo-nazi Blood & Honour movement. But does it? Joe Reilly explores.
Reproduced from RA Vol 3, Issue 6, April/May 1999

KNOW YOUR ENEMY PART TWO
With the proponents exposed as state-friendly provocateurs and dupes, A. Shaw analyses the political logic behind the campaign against the strategy of working class community orientation.
Reproduced from RA Vol 3, Issue 4, December/January 1998/99

SECRETS AND LIES
Joe Reilly looks at the destructive role played by Searchlight entryists within AFA.
Reproduced from RA Vol 3, Issue 1, June/July 1998