Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.180.1
Object Name
leaflet
Title
'Keep Nazis out of Manchester. Oppose the National Front. Meet Sat 15th June, 11.30am. All Saints Park, Oxford Road (opposite Polytechnic). Keep Manchester a Nazi free zone.'
Place
Manchester, UK
People
Anti-Nazi League, National Front
Description
A blue leaflet with black text 'Keep Nazis out of Manchester. Oppose the National Front. Meet Sat 15th June, 11.30am. All Saints Park, Oxford Road (opposite Polytechnic). Keep Manchester a Nazi free zone.' The first letter 'O' in out, of and oppose have Nazi swastikas inside them, and a strike through them.
This leaflet was created by the Anti-Nazi League to advertise a protest which was organised to oppose a gathering of National Front (NF) members in 1991. Anti-fascists from the Socialist Worker Party formed the Anti-Nazi League (ANL), to organise opposition to fascist actions, particularly those of the National Front (NF).
The NF was the most active fascist movement between the 1960s and 1990s, campaigning for Black and Asian people to be deported from the UK, a ban on non-white immigration, and support for the apartheid regime in South Africa. Members of the NF also campaigned for a ban on mixed race marriages. The NF worked hard to recruit working class white people by claiming that immigrants were going to take their jobs. While initially the NF started as a political party, by 1976, a street action wing had formed, with 2000 members. They marched through Black and Asian neighbourhoods in an attempt to intimidate people of colour.
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