Suchergebnisse

Fathers, Real and Imagined -- First Steps in Business and Politics -- Proprietor, Politician, Defendant -- Company Promoter, Bucket-shop Keeper -- Sensualist -- The Gospel of Humanity -- The Spell of Words -- Patriot -- Thief -- Variety Artist -- In Retrospect.

"No Free Speech for Fascists explores the choice of anti-fascist protesters to demand that the opportunities for fascists to speak in public places is rescinded, as a question of history, law, and politics. It explains how the demand to No Platform fascists emerged in 1970s Britain, as a limited exception to a left-wing tradition of support for free speech. The book shows how No Platform was intended to be applied narrowly, only to a right-wing politics that threatened everyone else. It contrasts the rival idea of opposition to Hate Speech that also emerged at the same time and is now embodied in European and British anti-discrimination laws. Both No Platform and Hate Speech reject the American First Amendment tradition of free speech, but the ways in which they reject it are different. Behind No Platform is not merely a limited range of political targets but a much greater scepticism about the role of the state. The book argues for an idea of No Platform which takes on the electronic channels on which so much speech now takes place. It shows where a fascist element can be recognised within the much wider category of far-right speech. This book will be of interest to activists and to those studying and researching political history, law, free speech, the far right, and anti-fascism. It sets out a philosophy of anti-fascism for a social media age"--

Across Europe and the world, far right parties have been enjoying greater electoral success than at any time since 1945. Right-wing street movements draw huge supporters and terrorist attacks on Jews and Muslims proliferate. It sometimes seems we are returning to the age of fascism.0To explain this disturbing trend, David Renton surveys the history of fascism in Europe from its pre-war origins to the present day, examining Marxist responses to fascism in the age of Hitler and Mussolini, the writings of Trotsky and Gramsci and contemporary theorists. Renton theorises that fascism was driven by the chaotic and unstable balance between reactionary ambitions and the mass character of its support. This approach will arm a new generation of anti-fascists to resist those who seek to re-enact fascism.0Rewritten and revised for the twentieth anniversary of its first publication, Renton's classic book synthesises the Marxist theory of fascism and updates it for our own times

The subordination of the war -- When right-wing parties change -- Brexit and the prospect of convergence -- Remaking the G.O.P. -- Breaking the centre: the Front National and its rivals -- The internationalism of the far right -- Benefits and trade -- Could the far right change back? -- Conclusion: Stopping the right.

In England, dreaming -- A history of coups and expulsions -- The other young believers -- Reggae, soul, rock n: roll -- Lewisham -- Even God has joined the Anti-Nazi League -- We got high, we touched the sky -- Southall -- Keeping on keeping on -- Conclusion.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Dissident Marxism 1917-1989; Mayakovsky, Kollontai, Lunacharsky, Serge: questioning the Soviet path; Karl Korsch, Marxism and philosophy; Georges Henein: surrealism and socialism; Dona Torr, E.P -- . Thompson: socialist history; Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy and monopoly capital; Walter Rodney, African socialist; Harry Braverman: work and resistance; Samir Amin: theorising underdevelopment; David Widgery: the poetics of propaganda; The dissident tradition; Notes; Further reading; Index;