Anti-Fascist Action (Organisation)
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Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
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Sources
found: Anti-fascist recollections 1984-93, 2001:t.p. verso (Anti-Fascist Action) back cover (AFA)
found: Cable Street Beat review, [1989]:inside front cover (Anti-Fascist Action)
found: Wikipedia, viewed 31 October 2017(Anti-Fascist Action; AFA; a militant organisation founded in the UK in 1985 by a wide range of anti-fascist and anti-racist organisations; it had twin strategies of physical confrontation of fascists on the street and ideological struggle against fascism in working class communities and was particularly active against the National Front and British National Party; it significantly reduced fascist street activity in Britain in the 1990s; its influence declined in the later 1990s as, by then, it contained a number of political groups with differing political programmes and fascist street action had fallen away; extinction, 2001; location: London, UK)
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Change Notes
2005-11-04: new
2017-11-01: revised
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