Anti Fascist Action (AFA)

An overview of Anti-Fascist Action and the shifts in focus that led to its demise, by an ex-Liverpool AFA member. Written for Black Flag magazine…

Article from Fighting Talk #15 (1996).

Mick O'Riordan was a young member of the Communist Party of Ireland when he went to Spain with the International Brigade. Here he describes the…

AFA introduction to a series of articles on the Spanish Civil War in its magazine Fighting Talk #15 (1996)

The rise to power of Mussolini and the Fascists in Italy, from 1919 to 1922, provides us with important lessons, not just about Fascism but also about the tactics & organisation necessary to fight it. Equally the critical role of the wider working class struggle is thrown into sharp focus. We believe the lessons are clear enough that they emerge simply from relating the story... Article from Fighting Talk #14 (1996)…

Two pieces from AFA's music initiative Cable Street Beat from the early 2000s. Taken from the now-defunct AFA website at http://www.geocities.com…

Article from Black Flag in 1986 about Searchlight's attempts to influence Anti-Fascist Action.

Article from Black Flag #215 1998.

Issue #49 of Direct Action, with articles on the EEPTU being expelled from the TUC, the limits of a P&O Ferries dispute, closures of scabby UDM…

Issue #45 of Direct Action, with articles on post, Liverpool rail, and West Yorkshire bus disputes, the poll tax, wrongful imprisonment, Northern…

An archive of Fighting Talk Edinburgh, a publication produced by Edinburgh Anti-Fascist Action in…

An incomplete archive of Cable Street Beat Review, a publication produced by the musical arm of Anti Fascist Action around 1989. Taken from the…