Anti-Fascist by Martin Lux

My friend and lone contributor (so far, hint hint) Buzzkill writes:

"I picked this up at a book fair and was so hooked I couldn't put it down. OK, it's not the longest book at only 95 pages but if you're after an account of militant anti-fascism in London during the 1970s, I don't know where else you will find it apart from this book.



The author is a working class lad from a miserable home who looks for a more exciting life away from the mundane existence he has inherited. He finds his natural home in the militant tradition of anti-fascism and begins a life of toe to toes with the 'master race' goons of the National Front and British Movement.



It's a lurid tale of street brawls with NF meat-heads, daring raids on fascist meetings and pitched battles with the notorious SPG riot police. There's plenty of descriptions of boots flying and skulls being cracked.

It's not all war stories though as the opposition the militant anti-fascists had to endure from so-called comrades on the left is also exposed.

This all comes to a head when the British Movement attempt to attack the anarchist punk band Crass and their audience. A small mob of anti-fascist lefties and anarchists take on 40 boneheaded thugs in an intense exchange that sees the old claret liberally splashed around the venue. The boneheads' plans to smash the gig are thwarted and yet the heroes are vilified by pacifists who otherwise would have been beaten to a pulp that night.

There is a hint of a part two at the end of the book that I hope is in the making as the author's honesty and no-frills style is a breath of fresh air in the often boring world of political literature."

Thanks Buzzkill. Here's a link;

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