Fighting Fascism The British Left And The Rise Of Fascism 1919 39

Author : Keith Hodgson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0719091217

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Fighting Fascism: The British Left and the Rise of Fascism, 1919–39 by Keith Hodgson Pdf

In the years between the two world wars, fascism triumphed in Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere, coming to power after intense struggles with the labour movements of those countries. This book, available in paperback for the first time, analyses the way in which the British left responded to this new challenge. How did socialists and communists in Britain explain what fascism was? What did they do to oppose it, and how successful were they? In examining the theories and actions of the Labour Party, the TUC, the Communist Party and other, smaller left-wing groups, the book explains their different approaches, while at the same time highlighting the common thread that ran through all their interpretations of fascism. The author argues that the British left has been largely overlooked in the few specific studies of anti-fascism that exist, with the focus being disproportionately applied to its European counterparts. He also takes issue with recent developments in the study of fascism, and argues that the views of the left, often derided by modern historians, are still relevant today.

Author : Keith Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556040784738

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Fighting Fascism: the British Left and the Rise of Fascism, 1919-39 by Keith Hodgson Pdf

In the years between the two world wars, fascism triumphed in Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere, coming to power after intense struggles with the labor movements of those countries. This book analyzes the way in which the British left responded to this new challenge. How did socialists and communists in Britain explain what fascism was? What did they do to oppose it, and how successful were they? In examining the theories and actions of the Labour Party, the TUC, the Communist Party and other, smaller left-wing groups, the book explains their different approaches, while at the same time highlighting the common thread that ran through all their interpretations of fascism. The author argues that the British left has largely been overlooked in the few specific studies of anti-fascism that exist, with the focus being disproportionately applied to its European counterparts. He also takes issue with recent developments in the study of fascism, and argues that the views of the left, often derided by modern historians, are still relevant today.

Author : Keith Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781702403

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Fighting Fascism: the British Left and the Rise of Fascism, 1919-39 by Keith Hodgson Pdf

Author : Alexander J. Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429594526

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Cumulative Extremism by Alexander J. Carter Pdf

This book frames several historical incidents of violent movement-countermovement conflicts within the concept of ‘cumulative extremism’— the mutually reinforcing dynamic of radicalisation that can develop between two or more antagonistic groups. Drawing on several in-depth case studies, including the contests between British fascist and anti-fascist groups in the interwar period and from 1967 to 1979 and 1980 to 2000; the Troubles in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to mid-1970s; and Islamist extremists and the far-right counter-jihad movement in Britain since 2009, this book presents the first in-depth academic analysis of the concept of ‘cumulative extremism’ and constructs a theoretical framework through which to assess its development. This is a groundbreaking volume which will be of particular relevance to scholars with an interest in the extreme right, social movements, political violence and criminology. It will also be of interest to policy makers and to practitioners dealing with extremism and radicalisation, including youth workers, prevent coordinators, community support officers and police officers.

Author : Nigel Copsey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317397625

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Anti-Fascism in Britain by Nigel Copsey Pdf

Anti-fascism has long been one of the most active and dynamic areas of radical protest and direct action. Yet it is an area of struggle and popular resistance that remains largely unexplored by historians, sociologists and political scientists. Fully revised and updated from its earlier edition, this book continues to provide the definitive account of anti-fascism in Britain from its roots in the 1930s opposition to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists, to the street demonstrations and online campaigns of the twenty-first century. The author draws on an impressive range of sources including official government, police and security services records, the writings and recollections of activists themselves, and the publications and propaganda of anti-fascist groups and their opponents. The book traces the ideological, tactical and organisational evolution of anti-fascist groups and explores their often complicated relationships with the mainstream and radical left, as well as assessing their effectiveness in combating the extreme right.

Author : Hugo García,Mercedes Yusta,Xavier Tabet,Cristina Clímaco
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785331398

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Rethinking Antifascism by Hugo García,Mercedes Yusta,Xavier Tabet,Cristina Clímaco Pdf

Bringing together leading scholars from a range of nations, Rethinking Antifascism provides a fascinating exploration of one of the most vibrant sub-disciplines within recent historiography. Through case studies that exemplify the field’s breadth and sophistication, it examines antifascism in two distinct realms: after surveying the movement’s remarkable diversity across nations and political cultures up to 1945, the volume assesses its postwar political and ideological salience, from its incorporation into Soviet state doctrine to its radical questioning by historians and politicians. Avoiding both heroic narratives and reflexive revisionism, these contributions offer nuanced perspectives on a movement that helped to shape the postwar world.

Author : Nicolas Sigoillot
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003816089

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Entryism and the Revolutionary Socialist Left in Britain by Nicolas Sigoillot Pdf

This book examines entryism in the context of the revolutionary socialist left in Britain, from the inception of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920 to the departure of Militant from the Labour Party in 1992. Entryism is a tactic of penetration of a political party by another, aimed at accomplishing objectives, the nature of which can change depending on the type of entry. This work shows to what extent there is not one type of entryism but several. The adopted methodology is chronological, with introductory chapters that study the context and the previous partial-only attempts to define entryism. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the relationship between the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Labour Party up until the middle of the 20th century. The following two parts are dedicated to British Trotskyists before and after the Second World War. In total, 17 organisations that have practiced entryism are examined. Through their objectives, practices, and results, this work intends to formulate an exhaustive typology of the tactic, which fills a definitional gap in political science and covers an aspect of Labour’s History that has only been partially covered. This volume will be of use to students and scholars interested in the history of the Labour Party and the Far Left in the United Kingdom.

Author : Francis Beckett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317416029

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Fascist in the Family by Francis Beckett Pdf

John Beckett was a rising political star. Elected as Labour's youngest M.P. in 1924, he was constantly in the news and tipped for greatness. But ten years later he was propaganda chief for Mosley’s fascists, and one of Britain’s three best known anti-Semites. Yet his mother, whom he loved, was a Jew. Her ancestors were Solomons, Isaacs and Jacobsons, originally from Prussia. He successfully hid his Jewish ancestry all his life – he said his mother’s family were "fisher folk from the east coast." His son, the author of this book, acclaimed political biographer and journalist Francis Beckett, did not discover the truth until John Beckett had been dead for years. He left Mosley and founded the National Socialist League with William Joyce, later Lord Haw Haw, and spent the war years in prison, considered a danger to the war effort. For the rest of his life, and all of Francis Beckett’s childhood, John Beckett and his family were closely watched by the security services. Their devious machinations, traced in records only recently released, damaged chiefly his young family. This is a fascinating and brutally honest account of a troubled man in turbulent times.

Author : Michael Seidman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108417785

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Transatlantic Antifascisms by Michael Seidman Pdf

The first comprehensive scholarly account of antifascism, analysing its development in Spain, France, Britain and the USA.

Author : Atsuko Ueda,Michael K. Bourdaghs,Richi Sakakibara,Hirokazu Toeda
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739180747

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Literature among the Ruins, 1945–1955 by Atsuko Ueda,Michael K. Bourdaghs,Richi Sakakibara,Hirokazu Toeda Pdf

In the wake of the disaster of 1945—as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation—literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue between scholars in Japan and North America as we rethink the historical and contemporary significance of such ongoing questions as the meaning of the American occupation both inside and outside of Japan, the shifting semiotics of “literature” and “politics,” and the origins of what would become crucial ideological weapons of the cultural Cold War. The volume consists of three interrelated sections: “Foregrounding the Cold War,” “Structures of Concealment: ‘Cultural Anxieties,’” and “Continuity and Discontinuity: Subjective Rupture and Dislocation.” One way or another, the essays address the process through which new “Japan” was created in the postwar present, which signified an attempt to criticize and reevaluate the past. Examining postwar discourse from various angles, the essays highlight the manner in which anxieties of the future were projected onto the construction of the past, which manifest in varying disavowals and structures of concealment.

Author : Raeburn Fraser Raeburn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474459501

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Scots and the Spanish Civil War by Raeburn Fraser Raeburn Pdf

Few causes before or since have inspired such passion, determination and sacrifice than the Spanish Civil War (1936-9). This book explores the many ways in which Scots responded to the war in Spain, covering the activists and humanitarians who raised funds and awareness at home, as well as the hundreds of Scots who journeyed to Spain to fight as part of the International Brigades. Their stories reflect much larger narratives of the rise of European fascism, the networks and cultures of international communism and the wider modern phenomenon of transnational foreign fighters.Scots and the Spanish Civil War is a groundbreaking study of Scottish involvement in one of the 20th century's most famous and divisive conflicts, drawing on newly-declassified government documents and international archives in Spain and beyond. As well as shedding new light on Scottish politics in the 1930s, Fraser Raeburn argues that this case study - part of the largest wave of foreign war volunteering in the 20th century - can help us understand other such mobilisations, past and present.

Author : Ian Hernon
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781398102248

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Anti-Semitism and the Left by Ian Hernon Pdf

An important new book about a key, headline-grabbing event of the election. As allegations of anti-Semitism continue to rock the Labour Party, political journalist Ian Hernon traces the row since Corbyn became leader; the schisms and their causes; the death threats and social media nastiness. The final chapter completed after the general election.

Author : James Naylor
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442629097

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The Fate of Labour Socialism by James Naylor Pdf

Almost a century before the New Democratic Party rode the first "orange wave," their predecessors imagined a movement that could rally Canadians against economic insecurity, win access to necessary services such as health care, and confront the threat of war. The party they built during the Great Depression, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), permanently transformed the country's politics. Past histories have described the CCF as social democrats guided by middle-class intellectuals, a party which shied away from labour radicalism and communist agitation. James Naylor's assiduous research tells a very different story: a CCF created by working-class activists steeped in Marxist ideology who sought to create a movement that would be both loyal to its socialist principles and appealing to the wider electorate. The Fate of Labour Socialism is a fundamental reexamination of the CCF and Canadian working-class politics in the 1930s, one that will help historians better understand Canada's political, intellectual, and labour history.

Author : Joseph Fronczak
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Anti-fascist movements
ISBN : 9780300251173

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Everything Is Possible by Joseph Fronczak Pdf

The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology, geography, race, language, and nationality. Joseph Fronczak shows how socialists, liberals, communists, and anarchists achieved a semblance of unity in the fight against fascism. Depression-era antifascists were populist, militant, and internationalist. They understood fascism in global terms, and they were determined to fight it on local terms. In the United States, antifascists fought against fascism on the streets of Chicago and New York, and they connected their own fights to the ones raging in Germany, Italy, and Spain. As he traces the global trajectory of the antifascist movement, Fronczak argues that its most significant legacy is its creation of "the left" as we know it today-an international conglomeration of people committed to a shared politics of solidarity with each other.

Author : Ángel Alcalde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1316648184

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War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe by Ángel Alcalde Pdf

This book explores, from a transnational viewpoint, the historical relationship between war veterans and fascism in interwar Europe. Until now, historians have been roughly divided between those who assume that 'brutalization' (George L. Mosse) led veterans to join fascist movements and those who stress that most ex-soldiers of the Great War became committed pacifists and internationalists. Transcending the debates of the brutalization thesis and drawing upon a wide range of archival and published sources, this work focuses on the interrelated processes of transnationalization and the fascist permeation of veterans' politics in interwar Europe to offer a wider perspective on the history of both fascism and veterans' movements. A combination of mythical constructs, transfers, political communication, encounters and networks within a transnational space explain the relationship between veterans and fascism. Thus, this book offers new insights into the essential ties between fascism and war, and contributes to the theorization of transnational fascism.