fascism
Articles about Nazism, fascism and anti-fascism.
Valpreda, Pietro, 1933-2002
A short biography of the anarchist militant and dancer Pietro Valpreda who was caught up in the Strategy of Tension.
Pietro Valpreda was born in Milan in 1933. At the beginning of the 1960s he began to frequent anarchist circles in Milan and Rome. He worked as a dancer in theatrical reviews.
Fedi, Silvano, 1920-1944
A short biography of Italian anarchist, anti-fascist partisan and local hero Silvano Fedi. Fighting in the Resistance, he was killed in a Nazi ambush in 1944.
Silvano Fedi
Born 25 April 1920 - Pistoia, Italy, died 29 July 1944 - Italy
Vitrolles - the logic of the ballot box
This article was translated and abridged from Le Monde Libertaire for Black Flag #211 in 1997. Vitrolles is a town in France whose council was won in elections a few months prior by the fascist Front National. It was the fourth city run by the FN at the time - the others were Toulon, Orange and Marignane.
VITROLLES: THE LOGIC OF THE URNS
Former BNP men face explosives charges
Former BNP candidate, Robert Cottage, and 62 year old dentist David Jackson have been charged with possessing explosives.
Robert Cottage, a BNP candidate in Colne last year, and David Jackson, a dentist from Nelson, Lancashire have been charged with possessing explosives at Preston Crown Court today.
The lawyers for the pair declined to ask for bail and were remanded in custody. A trial is set for February 12th at Manchester Crown Court.
Fascism
This article outlines what fascism is, how it is growing in the 21st Century United Kingdom, how it has nothing to offer working people and how we can combat it.
What is fascism?
BNP election candidate arrested in biggest explosives haul ever
Two men were arrested in Lancashire last week in the biggest explosives haul ever found at a house in the UK.
Robert Cottage (49), of Talbot Street, Colne, and David Bolus Jackson (62), of Trent Road, Nelson, appeared at a Pennine magistrate's court charged under the Explosive Substances Act 1883. Mrs Christiana Buchanan, acting for the prosecution in court, suggested that the pair had "some kind of masterplan".
A popular uprising that turned into a pogrom
Following a brawl between Russian and Chechen mafia, a popular assembly adopted a fascist resolution for a pogrom. A later anti-fascist attack on fascist leaders resulted in several arrests.
On August 29th, a row began in a café, 'Chayka', in Kondologa, Russia. The fight was between drunken local youths and the Chechen criminal group, which ran the cafe.
Day the East End said 'No pasaran' to Blackshirts
Next Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the day that the workers of the East End of London united in defiance of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and refused to let them march through their streets.
From The Guardian (Saturday September 30, 2006) by Audrey Gillan.
They built barricades from paving stones, timber and overturned lorries. Women threw the contents of chamber pots on to the heads of policemen and children hurled marbles under their horses and burst bags of pepper in front of their noses.
BNP meeting prevented by workers' action
Action by workers at a Doncaster social club has prevented the BNP from holding a meeting.
The BNP are attempting to organise in the Doncaster area, probably in preparation for next year's council elections.
Obituary: Goliardo Fiaschi, 1930-2000 - Stuart Christie
Obituary of Italian anarchist Goliardo Fiaschi by Stuart Christie from the Guardian newspaper.
By Stuart Christie
From the Guardian, Wednesday August 16, 2000
- Goliardo's biography by Antonio Tellez on libcom.org/history
