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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I History -- Chapter 2 Free Speech c. 1640-c. 1972 -- Chapter 3 The exception: Fascism and anti-fascism -- Chapter 4 No platform in the UK 1972-1979 -- Chapter 5 A path not taken: The United States 1977-1979 -- Chapter 6 The right demands a respectful audience -- Part II Law -- Chapter 7 The wrongs of hate speech -- Chapter 8 Hate speech, no platform, competing rights -- Chapter 9 Hate speech and the state -- Part III Politics -- Chapter 10 The battle against hate speech goes online -- Chapter 11 On being silenced, masculinity, victimhood -- Chapter 12 The ideological capture of free speech -- Chapter 13 Tactics for ANTI-fascists -- Chapter 14 Conclusion -- Index.

Between 2015 and 2020 the Labour Party was riven by allegations that the party had tolerated antisemitism. This important book by one of Britain's leading historians of anti-fascism gives a more detailed account than any yet published of what went wrong in Labour.

Despite the Second World War and the Holocaust, postwar Britain was not immune to fascism. By 1948, a large and confident fascist movement had been established, with a strong network of local organisers and public speakers, and an audience of thousands. However, within two years the fascists had collapsed under the pressure of a successful anti-fascist campaign. This book explains how it was that fascism could grow so fast, and how it then went into decline.

Abstract: Roger Griffin's paper points towards the importance of historical time when discussing fascism. Walter Benjamin's Theses, the discussion of which informs Griffin's paper, engages with the topic of historical time at several points, especially in its discussion of the theory of progress that Benjamin found in German Social Democracy, to which the Theses was directly opposed. Revisiting sympathetically a theory of progress akin to that of Karl Kautsky and other Marxist writers enables us to add substance to the key Marxist concept of fascism as a reactionary movement. Combining this idea with an emphasis on the autonomous, mass character of fascism enables us to grasp the dynamics of fascism as a contradictory whole: a future-orientated and activist politics without revolutionary content.