 UAF Logo representing unity between people Unite Against Fascism is a political pressure group in the United Kingdom that campaigns against far right-wing and fascist parties and groups in Britain, primarily the British National Party (BNP), which it identifies as the principal threat [www.uaf.org.uk]. Image File history File links Unite_logo. ...
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An advocacy group, interest group or lobbying group is a group, however loosely or tightly organized, doing advocacy: those determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected. ...
In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ...
Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ...
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Its chairman is Labour Party Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, and its joint secretaryship is shared by Weyman Bennett, the national organiser of the Anti Nazi League and a member of the central committee of the Socialist Workers' Party, and Sabby Dhalu, formerly of the National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR). The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in England, Scotland and Wales. ...
Ken Livingstone, the current Mayor of London The Mayor of London is an elected politician in London, United Kingdom. ...
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945) is an English politician who became Mayor of London on the creation of the post in 2000. ...
The Anti-Nazi League (ANL) was an organisation set up in 1977 to oppose the rise of far-right groups in Britain. ...
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The National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR) is a British anti-racist and anti-fascist group largely organised around trade unions and ethnic minority groups. ...
The organisation has signatories and members from across the political spectrum including MPs from all of Britain’s leading political parties including a number of members of the Labour cabinet. Other notable signatories include Holocaust survivor Henry Gutterman.
The group was formed as part of a coalition between the Anti-Nazi League and the National Assembly Against Racism, the TUC and all leading British Unions such as T&G and UNISON in response to electoral successes by the BNP. Anti-Nazi League logo The Anti-Nazi League (ANL) was an organisation set up on the initiative of the Socialist Workers Party with some sponsorship (and a few small financial donations) from some trade unions and the endorsement of a list of prominent people in 1977 to oppose the rise...
The National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR) is a British anti-racist and anti-fascist group largely organised around trade unions and ethnic minority groups. ...
Trades Union Congress headquarters at Congress House in Great Russell Street near Tottenham Court Road, Camden, London. ...
The Transport and General Workers Union, also known as the TGWU and the T&G, is the largest general trade union in the United Kingdom, with 900,000 members. ...
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At Unite Against Fascism's 2007 national conference speakers ranged from cabinet minister Peter Hain to Edie Freedman of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality and Dr. Abdul Barrie from the Muslim Council of Britain as well as figures from all the major UK trade unions[1]. Peter Gerald Hain PC MP (born February 16, 1950, Nairobi, Kenya) is a British Labour Party politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Secretary of State for Wales. ...
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is an unincorporated association founded in 1997 with the following aims: To promote co-operation, consensus and unity on Muslim affairs in the UK. To encourage and strengthen all existing efforts being made for the benefit of the Muslim community. ...
The anti-fascist magazine Searchlight disaffiliated from UAF after an argument over tactics to defeat the BNP[2]. Searchlight is a British publication which describes itself as an international anti-fascist magazine, and publishes material critical of far-right political parties. ...
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Members of the Dutch Eindhoven Resistance with troops of the US 101st Airborne in Eindhoven in September 1944. ...
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