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British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State

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Editors:
  1. Nigel Copsey

    1. University of Teesside, UK

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  2. David Renton

    1. Rand-Afrikaans University, South Africa
      University of Sunderland, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Nigel Copsey, David Renton
    Pages 1-5

  3. ‘The Fascists … are … to be depended upon.’ The British Government, Fascists and Strike-breaking during 1925 and 1926

    • Richard Charles Maguire
    Pages 6-26

  4. The Security Service, the Communist Party of Great Britain and British Fascism, 1932–51

    • Richard C. Thurlow
    Pages 27-45

  5. ‘A plague on both their houses’: Fascism, Anti-fascism and the Police in the 1940s

    • Graham Macklin
    Pages 46-67

  6. Feminism and Anti-fascism in Britain: Militancy Revived?

    • Julie V. Gottlieb
    Pages 68-94

  7. ‘Left-Wing Fascism’ in Theory and Practice

    • Philip M. Coupland
    Pages 95-117

  8. Practical Anti-fascism? The ‘Aid Spain’ Campaigns in North-East England, 1936–39

    • Lewis H. Mates
    Pages 118-140

  9. Guarding the Barricades: Working-class Anti-fascism 1974–79

    • David Renton
    Pages 141-159

  10. Whatever Happened to the Labour Movement? Proletarians and the Far Right in Contemporary Britain

    • Thomas P. Linehan
    Pages 160-181

  11. Meeting the Challenge of Contemporary British Fascism? The Labour Party’s Response to the National Front and the British National Party

    • Nigel Copsey
    Pages 182-202

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 203-209
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About this book

Considerable attention has been paid to far-right parties and their leaders, Oswald Mosley, A. K. Chesterton, John Tyndall and Nick Griffin. But what about the forces that have been organised in opposition to fascism in Britain? British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State brings together the leading historians in the field to trace the history of labour movement responses to the far-right from the 1920s to the present. It examines the rise and fall of different fascist groups in terms of wider social processes, above all the hostility of the labour movement, left-wing parties, the women's movement and the trade unions.

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'Th[is] book gives us a welcome state-of-the-art picture of knowledge as it stands in the early years of the new millennium...Even though it often makes for depressing reading, the book should be in all Politics, Sociology, British Studies and History Department Libraries.' - Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Teesside, UK

    Nigel Copsey

  • Rand-Afrikaans University, South Africa

    David Renton

  • University of Sunderland, UK

    David Renton

About the editors

NIGEL COPSEY is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Teesside. He is the author of Anti-fascism in Britain (2000), and Contemporary British Fascism: The Politics of the British National Party (2004).

DAVID RENTON is a Research Associate of the Rand-Afrikaans University, South Africa, and the author of Fascism: Theory and Practice (1999), Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Britain in the 1940s (2000), and This Rough Game: Fascism and Anti-Fascism (2001).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State

  • Editors: Nigel Copsey, David Renton

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230522763

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3916-6Published: 26 April 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51960-6Published: 26 April 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-52276-3Published: 26 April 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 209

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, British Politics, Modern History

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