Remembering Blair Peach On this day we remember Blair Peach, a teacher who was taking part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front election Meeting in the Town Hall in Southall, West London in 1979. Blair Peach was hit on the head and died later that day in hospital. The police investigation concluded […]
Anti-fascism
Ray Hill obituary: The Guardian
Ray Hill, anti-fascist activist, born 2 December 1939; died 14 May 2022 Former neo-Nazi activist who changed course and threw himself into campaigning against racism and rightwing extremism Read full obituary at The Guardian website here
Paying tribute to Ray Hill
In the pantheon of heroes this country’s anti-fascist movement has produced, there is surely a guaranteed seat of honour for Ray Hill, Searchlight’s most celebrated ‘mole’, who sadly died on 14 May. No one (or at least no one who can yet be spoken of) has inflicted such damage on the extreme right movement, nor […]
RIP Ray Hill
Photo: Andy Bell, May 2022 Ray Hill, that giant of the anti-fascist movement passed away this morning after being diagnosed with cancer only a few weeks ago. It’s 40 years since Ray, then a dyed-in-the-wool nazi, underwent a profound conversion and pledged the rest of his life to fighting fascism, first and most devastatingly as […]
Obituary for Rick Sumner: A miner, a trade unionist and an anti-fascist Written by Graeme Atkinson
Rick Sumner 1933 – 2021 Rick Sumner passed away peacefully at home on Saturday while watching his beloved Manchester City contest the FA Cup semi-final. Though a proud Lancastrian, Rick was for many years a miner at Shuttle Eye Colliery in West Yorkshire but also worked variously as a trawlerman fishing in the icy waters […]
TUC Report : The Rise of the Far Right: A Trade Union Response
The TUC launched a new report, The Rise of the Far Right: A Trade Union Response at a webinar on 3rd December 2020. The report is below as well as recording of the webinar and case studies from Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Columbia and Brazil. Here is a link to the recording of the full webinar: […]