2016
DOI: 10.1177/0306396816643040
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From the street to the state: making anti-fascism anti-racist in 1970s Britain

Abstract: The author examines the origins and rise of the extreme-right National Front in Britain in the mid-1970s and the nature of the community struggles it provoked. In looking at key confrontations in Lewisham (South London) 1977 and Southall (West London) 1979, he discusses the different analytical frameworks and tactics adopted by local anti-racist anti-fascist coalitions, on the one hand, and the more high-profile national Anti-Nazi League (with its principal message: the National Front is a Nazi front) on the o… Show more

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“…To identify pro-BLM accounts on Twitter, we first identified five seed accounts that were either BLM groups or anti-fascist groups. 5 Since the 1970s, there has been a convergence between anti-fascist groups and anti-racist groups in the United Kingdom in their opposition to the far-right (Higgs, 2016). Accordingly, for the purposes of this study, we grouped our data from anti-fascist and BLM organiser accounts together to form a 'pro-BLM' sample, representative of groups that advocate progressive social change.…”
Section: Samplementioning
confidence: 99%
“…To identify pro-BLM accounts on Twitter, we first identified five seed accounts that were either BLM groups or anti-fascist groups. 5 Since the 1970s, there has been a convergence between anti-fascist groups and anti-racist groups in the United Kingdom in their opposition to the far-right (Higgs, 2016). Accordingly, for the purposes of this study, we grouped our data from anti-fascist and BLM organiser accounts together to form a 'pro-BLM' sample, representative of groups that advocate progressive social change.…”
Section: Samplementioning
confidence: 99%
“…• colonial and Euromerican superiority that could be substituted for indigenous thinking and teaching (Higgs 2016);…”
Section: Background and Rationalementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Exploring whiteness and antiracism in Finland also provides an opportunity to theorise antiracism in a context where racism's historical heritages manifest in particular ways that are distinct from other Western European countries (cf Higgs, 2016;Lentin, 2004;Pitcher, 2009), not to mention the North American or South African contexts that are usually invoked within antiracism analyses. Hence, while the article contributes sociological work on the challenges whiteness poses to antiracist critique (eg Joseph-Salisbury, 2018; Ahmed, 2012), it also illustrates antiracist debate in a context where historically, struggles against racism have mobilised limited amounts of people, and gained relatively little visibility in the public debate, in comparison to the contexts often highlighted in analyses of antiracism.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Exploring whiteness and antiracism in Finland also provides an opportunity to theorise antiracism in a context where racism’s historical heritages manifest in particular ways that are distinct from other Western European countries (cf. Higgs, 2016; Lentin, 2004; Pitcher, 2009), not to mention the North American or South African contexts that are usually invoked within antiracism analyses. Hence, while the article contributes sociological work on the challenges whiteness poses to antiracist critique (e.g.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%