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unusual facts about Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League


Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League

With the end of the war they also unsuccessfully tried to get the Nuremberg court to prosecute the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem for having aided Hitler during the war, sparking an investigation into Arab propaganda in the U.S, mainly the Arab office.


Anti-Nazi League

The ANL was linked to Rock Against Racism in the 1970s, which ran two giant carnivals in 1978 involving bands such as The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, Steel Pulse, Misty in Roots, X-Ray Spex and Tom Robinson, attended by 80,000 and then 100,000 supporters.

Bass Culture

The track "Reggae fi Peach" laments the death of Blair Peach, an activist who was killed in London during a clash with police officers while protesting with the Anti-Nazi League against a British National Front meeting in 1979.

Squadism

The term, often used pejoratively by liberal anti-fascists eschewing physical violence, originated in the Anti-Nazi League, a broad-based anti-fascist campaigning organisation dominated by the heterodox Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP).


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