Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.371.21
Object Name
Badge
Title
Civil Servants Against the Nazis
Place
UK
Description
Black badge, "Civil Servants Against the Nazis"
The badge includes the arrow design used by the Anti-Nazi League (ANL), an anti-racist and anti-fascist campaign group that ran between 1977 and 1981 to oppose the rise of far-right groups such as the National Front. It was re-established in the 1990s to oppose the new far-right group the British National Party. In 2004, ANL affiliated with the National Assembly Against Racism to create Unite Against Fascism.
The pointed arrow became a symbol for anti-fascist and anti-racist action in the UK through the 1970s and 80s.
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