Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism

In this important history of anti-fascism in Britain, Dave Hann views a century of struggle through a grassroots, working-class lens. From the fight of the International Brigades in Spain to the Battle of Cable Street and the defence of Southall, he locates these large-scale events alongside forgotten episodes of everyday resistance, collecting voices from across the movement to highlight the ways racism was faced down in communities nationwide.

, Louise Purbrick, who inherited and edited Dave Hann’s book, has extended this new edition with activists’ accounts of the formation of the Anti-Fascist Network and their role in street anti-fascism of the twenty-first century.