Description
Book SynopsisA new work that looks at the struggle against fascism in Britain between the wars, argues that the British left have been overlooked in studies of anti-fascism, and maintains that the Labour Party, the Communist Party and other left-wing currents developed sophisticated analyses of fascism on a par with those of European socialists and communists. -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Glossary of terms and abbreviations
Introduction
1. White Guards and Black Hundreds: existing concepts of counter-revolution
2. Explaining Italian fascism: from movement to dictatorship, 1919–26
3. The British left and the rise of Nazism
Case study: political evolution and analyses of fascism
4. The left and fascism in Britain, 1919–32
5. Opposing the British Union of Fascists
Case study: political evolution and anti-fascism
6. Fascism and war
Conclusion: the Old Left and the ‘New Consensus’
Bibliography
Index
