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Written by Geoff Brown, a long standing members of the Socialist Workers Party and published in 2025 by Bookmarks bookshop

Read the interview the author gave to Socialist Worker about how revolutionaries organised to defeat the fascists here.

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As living standards stagnate and fall, the threat of war grows and the climate crisis worsens, far right and fascist parties are growing in many countries including Britain.

The Problem is not a new one. Demanding the compulsory deportation of all immigrants, in the 1970s the Nazi National Front was able to claim it was becoming a major party, coming third in many local elections.

Written by its full-time organiser in Manchester, drawing on many in-depth interviews, this book shows how the Anti Nazi League (ANL) stopped the National Front.

Challenging every attempt by the fascists to organise on the streets and elsewhere, its 40,000 members built groups in workplaces, unions, schools and colleges. Women, gays, football fans organised ANL groups.

Together with its sister organisation, Rock Against Racism, the ANL organised two national carnivals, each supported by tens of thousands of young people, black and white. 

Nine million leaflets were given out and seven hundred thousand badges sol. The National Front was humiliated in the 1979 general election. By 1981 it was broken as a national organisation.