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In the late 1970s, racist thugs were on the march. The bootboys of the National Front and the British Movement paraded their extremist views and targeted minorities and political opponents ... until a group of working-class activists decided to fight back. They vowed to drive the nazis off the streets not with placards and speeches but by any means necessary.
The Squads were born, and so began a secret conflict. Shopping centres, meeting halls and public houses became the setting for pitched battles that broke out everywhere from London to Glasgow, Manchester to Leeds. Slowly the far right were beaten at their own game. In 1985, Anti-Fascist Action was formed and continued the fight, confronting the emergent British National Party and its violent henchmen.
Dave Hann and Steve Tilzey were active members of the Squads and AFA, risking arrest, injury and even prison for their beliefs. No Retreat is their extraordinary account of the hidden war that raged for twenty years on Britain's streets.
The Squads were born, and so began a secret conflict. Shopping centres, meeting halls and public houses became the setting for pitched battles that broke out everywhere from London to Glasgow, Manchester to Leeds. Slowly the far right were beaten at their own game. In 1985, Anti-Fascist Action was formed and continued the fight, confronting the emergent British National Party and its violent henchmen.
Dave Hann and Steve Tilzey were active members of the Squads and AFA, risking arrest, injury and even prison for their beliefs. No Retreat is their extraordinary account of the hidden war that raged for twenty years on Britain's streets.
