British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State

N. Copsey, D. Renton

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9781403939166
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230522763
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 ‘The Fascists … are … to be depended upon.’ The British Government, Fascists and Strike-breaking during 1925 and 1926
• 2 The Security Service, the Communist Party of Great Britain and British Fascism, 1932–51
• 3 ‘A plague on both their houses’: Fascism, Anti-fascism and the Police in the 1940s
• 4 Feminism and Anti-fascism in Britain: Militancy Revived?
• 5 ‘Left-Wing Fascism’ in Theory and Practice
• 6 Practical Anti-fascism? The ‘Aid Spain’ Campaigns in North-East England, 1936–39
• 7 Guarding the Barricades: Working-class Anti-fascism 1974–79
• 8 Whatever Happened to the Labour Movement? Proletarians and the Far Right in Contemporary Britain
• 9 Meeting the Challenge of Contemporary British Fascism? The Labour Party’s Response to the National Front and the British National Party
• Index