British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State

by N. Copsey, D. Renton

Overview

Considerable attention has been paid to far-right parties and their leaders, Oswald Mosley, A. K. Chesterton, John Tyndall and Nick Griffin. But what about the forces that have been organised in opposition to fascism in Britain? British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State brings together the leading historians in the field to trace the history of labour movement responses to the far-right from the 1920s to the present. It examines the rise and fall of different fascist groups in terms of wider social processes, above all the hostility of the labour movement, left-wing parties, the women's movement and the trade unions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349519606
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/26/2005
Edition description:	1st ed. 2005
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

NIGEL COPSEY is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Teesside. He is the author of Anti-fascism in Britain (2000), and Contemporary British Fascism: The Politics of the British National Party (2004).

DAVID RENTON is a Research Associate of the Rand-Afrikaans University, South Africa, and the author of Fascism: Theory and Practice (1999), Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Britain in the 1940s (2000), and This Rough Game: Fascism and Anti-Fascism (2001).

Table of Contents

Introduction; N.Copsey & D.Renton 'The Fascists are to be Depended Upon:' The British State, Fascists and Strike-Breaking, 1925-26'; R.Maguire The Security Service, the Communist Party of Great Britain and British Fascism, 1932-51; R.Thurlow Practical anti-fascism? The Spanish Aid Campaigns in North East England, 1936-1939; L.Mates Feminism and Anti-Fascism in Britain: Militancy Revived?; J.Gottlieb 'Left-Wing Fascism' in Theory and Practice; P.M.Coupland Pressmen, Politics and the Police: Policing British Fascism, 1945-51; G.Macklin Guarding the Barricades: Working-Class Anti-Fascism, 1974-79; D.Renton Whatever Happened to the Labour Movement? Proletarians and the Far Right in Contemporary Britain; T.Linehan Meeting the Challenge of Contemporary British Fascism? The Labour Party's Response to the National Front and British National Party; N.Copsey

Editorial Reviews

'Th[is] book gives us a welcome state-of-the-art picture of knowledge as it stands in the early years of the new millennium...Even though it often makes for depressing reading, the book should be in all Politics, Sociology, British Studies and History Department Libraries.' - Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen

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