Book Launch: A people's history of the Anti-Nazi League

Tue Feb 10 2026 at 06:30 pm to 10:00 pm UTC+00:00

Mill Road Community Centre | Cambridge

Cambridge SUTR
Publisher/HostCambridge SUTR
Book Launch: A people's history of the Anti-Nazi League
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Join us in person to celebrate the launch of "A People's History of the Anti-Nazi League" with stories and more!
About this Event

Join us for the launch of this essential new book with author Geoff Brown, special guest speakers Kate Alexander (former ANL organiser), Weyman Bennett (SUTR co convenor), and others

1977: Labour in government, unemployment growing, the National Front (NF) rising fast at the polls, racist attacks on Black and Asian communities increasing. Then came the Anti-Nazi League—a vibrant mass movement challenging the NF on the streets, in workplaces, in colleges and schools.

Written by the ANL's full-time organiser in Manchester and drawing on many in-depth interviews, this book shows how ordinary people defeated fascism. Together with Rock Against Racism, they organised two national carnivals, distributed nine million leaflets, and sold seven hundred thousand badges. By 1981, the National Front was broken.

With racism and the far right resurgent today, this history offers vital lessons in how mass movements can unite and defeat fascism.

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Mill Road Community Centre, 6 Hazell Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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