Militant anti-fascism: a hundred years of resistance, paperback/m. testa

Fascism is not a thing of the past.

In this era of crisis and austerity, it is growing even stronger.

The question is: How do we stop it? According to M.

Testa, the fight against it must be aggressive and unrelenting.

Using a mixture of orthodox history, eyewitness accounts, and unflinching analysis, he makes the case for a resolutely militant anti-fascism, one that gives no quarter and tolerates no excuses.

Unlike other partisan accounts of contemporary battles against fascism and ultra-nationalism, Militant Anti-Fascism takes us from proto-fascists in nineteenth-century Austria to modern-day street-fights in London, providing a broad context for its arguments and looking at numerous countries over a longer period of time.

The result is both a serious historical study and a story of victory and struggle, past and present, designed to inspire and energize militants.

Lay aside, as M.

Testa does, your faith in liberal, legislative, and state-approved approaches to today s fascist threat.

Start by reading this provocative and unapologetic overview of militant anti-fascism and the strategies that have successfully confronted the far right when it has reappeared in its many guises.

Testa, undercover anti-fascist blogger, has analyzed the changing fortunes of the British far right since 2009.

He has written for the anarchist magazine Freedom and is a member of the Anti-Fascist Network.