{"id":194,"date":"2025-10-22T11:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:10:01","slug":"a-peoples-history-of-the-anti-nazi-league-by-geoff-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/2025\/10\/22\/a-peoples-history-of-the-anti-nazi-league-by-geoff-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"A People\u2019s History of the Anti-Nazi League by Geoff Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"
20th November 2025 7pm-8.30pm
\nLocation: Swarthmore Centre (Room 3)
\n2-7 Woodhouse Square, Leeds, LS3 1AD<\/h5>\n

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Written as a total history, from below and from above, using interviews, archives and private collections, the book covers the prehistory of the ANL, the Grunwick strike and the \u2018Battle of Lewisham\u2019, the ANL\u2019s formation as a united front, its relationship to its sister organisation, Rock against Racism, the origins and impact of the April 1978 Carnival against the Nazis, turning the ANL into a mass organisation with a presence in schools, colleges, workplaces, unions, challenging every manifestation of a fascist presence. This included the campaign to reduce the fascist profile in the media, the \u2018Battle of Brick Lane\u2019, the struggle to win significant Jewish support, the general election of 1979, the breakup of the NF concluding with the 1980-1 relaunch of the ANL, the Leeds Carnival against Racism and the black and white youth anti police riots of July 1981 in Liverpool, Manchester and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Geoff Brown was active in the Vietnam Solidarity campaign and member of the Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation 1968-69, working with People\u2019s Democracy in Belfast, August-September 1969, International Socialism member from 1971, Anti-Nazi League Manchester organiser, 1977-1979, helping with the Northern Carnival against the Nazis in Manchester, July 1978. Union tutor from 1979 working with union reps, preparing and delivering courses on many issues including courses in Pakistan and the former Soviet Union. Union secretary at the Manchester College of Arts & Technology till he was victimised for trade union activities 2004 after which he became an official for his union, UCU. Still active politically, now working as a historian, his publications include \u2018Pakistan: failing state or neoliberalism in crisis?\u2019 International Socialism 150, 2016, \u2018John Tocher and the limits of commitment\u2019, North West Labour History, 2018, \u2018Not just Peterloo – The Anti-Apartheid march to the Springbok match, Old Trafford,\u2019 Socialist History, Autumn 2019, \u2018Apartheid is not a game\u2019, Geoff Brown and Christian H\u00f8gsbjerg, Redwords, 2020. \u2018Breaking the \u2018colour bar: Len Johnson, Manchester and anti-racism\u2019, Shirin Hirsch and Geoff Brown, Race & Class, 2022.<\/p>\n

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20th November 2025 7pm-8.30pm Location: Swarthmore Centre (Room 3) 2-7 Woodhouse Square, Leeds, LS3 1AD Written as a total history, from below and from above, using interviews, archives and private collections, the book covers the prehistory of the ANL, the Grunwick strike and the \u2018Battle of Lewisham\u2019, the ANL\u2019s formation as a united front, its … Continue reading “A People\u2019s History of the Anti-Nazi League by Geoff Brown”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ford-maguire.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}