Anti Nazi League badge. Photo: Leo Reynolds / CC BY-NC-SA
Ex-Yorkshire miner Paul Symonds recalls how Nazi terror was defeated by a united front with trade unions and campaigners in Leeds in the 1990s
Join Revolution! May Day weekender in London
The world is changing fast. From tariffs and trade wars to the continuing genocide in Gaza to Starmer’s austerity 2.0.
Revolution! on Saturday 3 – Sunday 4 May brings together leading activists and authors to discuss the key questions of the moment and chart a strategy for the left.
John Westmoreland
John is a history teacher and UCU rep. He is an active member of the People's Assembly and writes regularly for Counterfire.
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Anti-fascist march July 2018. Source: Janusz Kaliszczak - Flickr / cropped from orriginal / shared under license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
17 Feb 2023