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Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia - United Kingdom branch. Home of all antifascists since 1944.

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ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 21d

We have a couple of exciting events coming up.
FOOTBALLERS AGAINST FASCISM AND RACISM
Friday 10th October, 6:45pm
Marx Memorial Library
Featuring talks by Chris Lee and Bill Hern.
Booking and details
www.ticketsource.co.uk/associazione...

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 2d

Tour across Islington and follow the stories of the people who fought against the apartheid in SA.
We'll learn about the Englishman with a hand in not one but two international revolutions and about exiled Russians played a game of cat-and-mouse with foreign spies in London.

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 21d

ONE RACE; THE HUMAN RACE
Sunday 12th October, 11am
This was the slogan of the ANC’s London recruits. Their story is one of many about the rebels, radicals, activists, agitators, reformers; revolutionaries featured in this tour of Clerkenwell and Islington.
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ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 7d

We remember it as a guide to action.
@AntiRacismDay @Searchlight_mag @pcs_union @NEUnion @fbunational @RMTunion @MichaelRosenYes @LouiseRawAuthor

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 7d

Setbacks unity on the streets can push back the extreme right. It stands as an example for today & the amazing mural locally inspires a/fascists like these @anpilondon & many more.
Pamphlets like this (pic 2) are worth tracking down for a feel of the day, in its wider context.

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 7d

Were re routed by police & history was made by mass anti fascist mobilisation!
The day became a high point for how to resist fascism. Veterans like the late Max Levitas all his life assisted generations of later a/fascists & encouraged us.
The day showed how despite divisions &

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 7d

Admirer of Mussolini & Hitler thought he'd intimidate Jews especially; he was beaten back by terrific ingenuity & a/fascist bravery!
Despite police efforts to get Blackshirts through, the little Hitlers path was stopped.
Gardiner's Corner & Cable St saw barricades made.
Fascists

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 7d

Thread by UAF -Take inspiration- #OTD in 1936 was the Battle of Cable St!
100s of 1000s of anti fascists blocked Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts from marching through this heavily Jewish part of East London.
Jews, Irish Dockers, women & many more organised mass opposition & won!
Mosley, an

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 7d

Thread by UAF -Take inspiration- #OTD in 1936 was the Battle of Cable St!
100s of 1000s of anti fascists blocked Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts from marching through this heavily Jewish part of East London.
Jews, Irish Dockers, women & many more organised mass opposition & won!
Mosley, an

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 7d

"The terraces reflect the political upheaval that's happening at that time. By understanding fan culture, you really understand a place better than most any mirror you can hold up to society"
James Montague interviewed in "The Defiant"
Book your place at the following link. 👇

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 21d

We have a couple of exciting events coming up.
FOOTBALLERS AGAINST FASCISM AND RACISM
Friday 10th October, 6:45pm
Marx Memorial Library
Featuring talks by Chris Lee and Bill Hern.
Booking and details
www.ticketsource.co.uk/associazione...

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 13d

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ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 13d

<<Racism ebbs and flows. At the moment, sadly, it seems to be flowing again. As Howard says, "The struggle goes on. Maybe the victory is in the struggle">>
Join us on 10th October Chris Lee's and Bill Hern's talks about the footballers who stood against bigotry and left their marks in football.

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 14d

The spontaneous insurrection of the citizens of Naples, known as the Four Days of Naples, began on 27th September 1943. As it would happen again in the following 19 months, people took their fate in their hands and defeated Nazis and Fascists.
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Working Class History

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ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 16d

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Inside the lucrative industry of online 'auditors' targeting migrant hotels in the UK

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 21d

ONE RACE; THE HUMAN RACE
Sunday 12th October, 11am
This was the slogan of the ANC’s London recruits. Their story is one of many about the rebels, radicals, activists, agitators, reformers; revolutionaries featured in this tour of Clerkenwell and Islington.
ticketsource.co.uk/associazione-n…

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 21d

We have a couple of exciting events coming up.
FOOTBALLERS AGAINST FASCISM AND RACISM
Friday 10th October, 6:45pm
Marx Memorial Library
Featuring talks by Chris Lee and Bill Hern.
Booking and details
www.ticketsource.co.uk/associazione...

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 24d

How the concentration of media control in the hands of a small group of right wing plutocrats has shaped information and communication in France.
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MÉDIAS DE LA HAINE : objectif, guerre civile ?

YouTube video by Off Investigation

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 24d

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The United Nations calls it a genocide: Starmer still can’t

JVL welcomes the UN Report on Genocide in Gaza published today. The Report concludes, based on both the compilation of…

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ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 24d

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‘There’s a basic decency among British people’: Hope Not Hate’s Nick Lowles on how to defeat the far right

Lowles has spent his entire adult life organising against fascism, facing countless threats as a result. He discusses the street confrontations of the 80s, foiling a murder plot, Nazi satanists – and ...

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ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 26d

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What I saw at Saturday’s rally was racism, pure and simple. Labour won’t tackle it until we can call it what it is | Diane Abbott

Silence about the bigotry inherent in events like Tommy Robinson’s march will be seen by the thugs as tacit approval of their message, says Labour MP Diane Abbott

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ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 26d

The article refers to a different rally. However it is relevant in general. Regarding this past Saturday, if "the fash outnumbered the anti-fash" is also because the many unions who add their logos in the poster calling to march against racism didn't mobilise their members at all. Why?

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 27d

www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/you-...

You can’t fight racism with racism

We are pleased to publish David Rosenberg’s seering analysis of the so called “March Against Antisemitism” organised by the so…

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · Sep 11

On Sept. 11, 1973, a U.S. supported military coup in Chile overthrew the democratically elected Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende, initiating the murderous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Are We Living Through The End of An Empire? | Lea Ypi meets Aaron Bastani

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ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Home Office bans foreign nazis from UK conference | Searchlight

Kenneth Schmidt at H&D conference in 2023 Isabel Peralta at 2023 H&D conference Two prominent foreign nazis were banned from attending a high-profil ...

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ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · Sep 10

Who was Italian Socialist MP Giacomo Matteotti?
Why did he visit London in April 1924 and why was he kidnapped and killed by fascists less than two months later?
You may find out by joining the guided tour to the exhibition at the Charing Cross Library with the curator.
Free entry. Booking required

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · Sep 2

MATTEOTTI - VOICE OF THE CENTURY
Following the first successful tour of the exhibition dedicated to G. Matteotti's effortless opposition to fascism and his visit to British Trade Unions and the Labour Party, the curator of the exhibition will provide another tour
Booking required

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Jewish victim of Met’s arrest spree and ‘protester violence’ lies: ‘state has clearly overreached, mass resistance works’

Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi describes experience after almost 900 arrested for peacefully holding anti-proscription placards The Met Police have smeared Saturday’s ‘Defend Our Juries’ …