Djehuti
17th February 2007, 09:04
"In the late 1970s, racism was on the march. The bootboys and skinheads of the National Front and the British Movement paraded their extremist views and targeted etnic minorities and political opponents-until a group of working-class, left-wing activists decided to fight back. They vowed to drive the nazis off the streets not with placards and speeches but by any means necessary. The Squads: were born-and so began the secret conflict between the anti-nazis and the far right. Shopping centers, meeting halls, concert venues and pubs became the settings for a series of pitched battles that raged from London to Glasgow, Leeds to Machester. And slowly the far right were beaten from the streets. In 1985 Anti-Fascist Action was formed to carry on the fight and to "oppose fascism both physically and ideologically." AFA's Stewards' Group superceded the Squads and led the assault on the emergent British National Party and its violent henchmen." You can buy it here (http://www.amazon.com/No-Retreat-Between-Britains-Anti-Fascists/dp/1903854229/sr=8-1/qid=1171702988/ref=sr_1_1/105-0512439-6954835?ie=UTF8&s=books).
Interwievs with the authors:
http://revfront.org/kultur/spikemagazineco...atinterview.pdf (http://revfront.org/kultur/spikemagazinecom_noretreatinterview.pdf)
http://www.fightdemback.com/2005/08/09/no-...rom-the-streets (http://www.fightdemback.com/2005/08/09/no-retreat-drive-the-fascists-from-the-streets)
Red Action statement:
http://www.redaction.org/news/oct_03.html#31_10_03
"Due to the controversy surrounding the launch of a book called 'No Retreat' by Dave Hann and Steve Tilzley due out on November 1, which is presented by the authors as a true and honest account of their involvement in militant anti-fascism over two decades, we are now putting out this statement.
As preview copies of the book have not been made available we cannot comment with any authority on the contents.
Of the character of the authors we can say this. As a result of serious breaches of trust, Tilzley and Hann were either expelled or forced to resign from Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) and Red Action respectively.
Following the attempted theft of extremely important AFA intelligence data, Steve Tilzley was shown the door by AFA in 1993.
Sometime in 1994 Dave Hann was arrested and charged in connection with a street robbery involving a gay man. It was many months before the national leaderships of RA or AFA were made aware of the charges. An immediate investigation revealed disturbing evidence of Dave Hann's involvement in similar anti-social activity. Shortly after his trial at Liverpool Crown Court, where his co-defendant pleaded guilty, Dave Haan resigned from Red Action. On being confronted with the testimony of former associates, and in the presence of two officers representing national AFA, and a leading anti-fascist resident in the city, Hann confessed his guilt and offered his immediate resignation from AFA. He also surrendered his involvement in the football fanzine Red Attitude with which AFA was publicly associated. Not long afterwards he left Manchester.
End of Statement"
Interwievs with the authors:
http://revfront.org/kultur/spikemagazineco...atinterview.pdf (http://revfront.org/kultur/spikemagazinecom_noretreatinterview.pdf)
http://www.fightdemback.com/2005/08/09/no-...rom-the-streets (http://www.fightdemback.com/2005/08/09/no-retreat-drive-the-fascists-from-the-streets)
Red Action statement:
http://www.redaction.org/news/oct_03.html#31_10_03
"Due to the controversy surrounding the launch of a book called 'No Retreat' by Dave Hann and Steve Tilzley due out on November 1, which is presented by the authors as a true and honest account of their involvement in militant anti-fascism over two decades, we are now putting out this statement.
As preview copies of the book have not been made available we cannot comment with any authority on the contents.
Of the character of the authors we can say this. As a result of serious breaches of trust, Tilzley and Hann were either expelled or forced to resign from Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) and Red Action respectively.
Following the attempted theft of extremely important AFA intelligence data, Steve Tilzley was shown the door by AFA in 1993.
Sometime in 1994 Dave Hann was arrested and charged in connection with a street robbery involving a gay man. It was many months before the national leaderships of RA or AFA were made aware of the charges. An immediate investigation revealed disturbing evidence of Dave Hann's involvement in similar anti-social activity. Shortly after his trial at Liverpool Crown Court, where his co-defendant pleaded guilty, Dave Haan resigned from Red Action. On being confronted with the testimony of former associates, and in the presence of two officers representing national AFA, and a leading anti-fascist resident in the city, Hann confessed his guilt and offered his immediate resignation from AFA. He also surrendered his involvement in the football fanzine Red Attitude with which AFA was publicly associated. Not long afterwards he left Manchester.
End of Statement"