Anti Fascist Action
Filling The Vacuum - London AFA
1995 document by some people within Anti-Fascist Action following the BNP's decision to abandon the streets. The document led to the creation of the Independent Working Class Association.
In November 1990, at a public meeting in east London, AFA declared that the "working class is the natural constituency of socialism, not fascism. Racism and socialism are incompatible. One only exists at the expense of the other. The success of the Far-Right is due to the fact that the Left are not seen as a credible option.
Bash the Fash - Anti-fascist recollections, 1984-1993
This is literally a no-punches pulled account of militant group Anti Fascist Action’s fight against fascism in Britain by a grassroots anarchist member of AFA. Highly recommended.
It is important, not because he makes any pretence at being a leading light but because the many small (or not so small) contributions such people make are key to the success that AFA achieved.
Written with honesty and a sense of humour, the tale of challenging the fascists for control of the streets – and winning – never descends to political cliché or reads like a pools forecast.
Appendix 5: Text of Anti-Fascist Action leaflet, 1999
Text of a leaflet of Anti Fascist Action (AFA) in 1999, which contains information about its history, its activities and the far right in Britain since 1985.
19. Anti-fascist events where I wasn’t present
Anecdotes from pamphlet Bash the Fash listing other short tales from the struggle against fascism in the UK.
15. Waterloo, Blood and Honour gig, London, 1992
A personal account of the battle of Waterloo, when Anti Fascist Action trashed a gig by neo-nazi label Blood and Honour by disrupting their redirection point at Waterloo station.
11. Marble Arch Blood and Honour gig, London, 1989
A brief account of Anti Fascist Action trashing a neo-nazi Blood and Honour gig in London in 1989. They did so by occupying the redirection point for the venue.
9. Trafalgar Square, London
An account of opposing fascist attacks on the regular anti-apartheid picket outside South Africa House in Trafalgar Square, London, in the 1980s and 1990s.
8. Brick Lane - fascism and anti-fascism, London
An account of running confrontations between fascists and anti-fascists on London's Brick Lane in the 1980s and 1990s.
1985-2001: Anti-Fascist Action (AFA)
A short history of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA), which fought a secret war against the far right in Britain and drove them off the streets.
AFA was originally set up in 1985 as a broad front anti-fascist organisation. The main fascist organisation at this time, following the demise of the National Front after Thatcher took power in 1979, was the British National Party (BNP), a more extreme split from the NF.
Fighting Talk - the magazine of Anti-Fascist Action
Several scanned archived issues of Fighting Talk, the regular magazine of the UK's militant anti-fascist group Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) in the late 1980s and 1990s
Currently listed as a set of scanned JPEGs. This poor formatting will be rectified in due course
