Catalogue Number
NMLH.2014.21.4
Object Name
Badge
Title
'MK Campaign Against Racism and Fascism'
Place
Milton Keynes
People
Campaign Against Racism and Fascism (CARF), Institute of Race Relations (IRR)
Description
An orange and black badge from the Milton Keynes branch of the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism. The central image is a raised Black fist inside an inverted triangle.
The Campaign Against Racism and Fascism (CARF) was an anti-racist group which began in 1976 as a publication produced by various anti-racist and anti-fascist committees associated with the Institute of Race Relations. CARF went through several iterations as it affiliated and unaffiliated with various groups over the decades, and was eventually wound down in 2003.
Following the Second World War, Black and Asian Commonwealth citizens were encouraged to migrate from colonised places to the UK. Fascist organisations, like the National Front (NF) targeted Black and Asian communities using similar violent intimidation tactics to those they had used against Jewish communities before the Second World War, claiming that Black and Asian people were destroying British values, taking jobs from white British people, and that they were a threat to civilisation. Anti-fascist and anti-racist organisations like CARF opposed the NF both on the street and by providing education to white working class communities being targeted for radicalization by the NF.
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