Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.8.1
Object Name
booklet
Title
'Marching Altogether no. 9. The new series issue. Your guide to 101 things to do with a Klu Klux Klansman. No. 6 (set fire to the bastard, to see how he likes it. Kids - only use safety matches to set fire to Nazis and don't smoke tabs...). Fanzine of
Leeds Fans United Against Racism and Fascism
Place
Leeds
People
Leeds United, Leeds Fans United Against Racism and Fascism, Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Description
A black and white printed fanzine - 'Marching Altogether No. 9' with a hand drawn illustration in the centre of a hooded Ku Klux Klansman on fire, with a speech bubble indicating he is screaming. There is a hand at the bottom of the picture lighting him on fire. Text reads: 'Your guide to 101 things to do with a Klu Klux Klansman. No. 6 (set fire to the bastard, to see how he likes it. Kids - only use safety matches to set fire to Nazis and don't smoke tabs...)'.
This fanzine was produced by Leeds Fans United Against Racism and Fascism following an incident where Leeds United fans dressed as Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members during a football match. The KKK is a racist US based organisation, and the illustration of Leeds fans burning fellow fans who support racism indicates the strength of feeling about their behaviour.
Anti-fascist and anti-racist football fan clubs came into being during the 1980s and 1990s to counter racist and fascist organising in football grounds by organisations like the National Front (NF). NF members would sell their papers at football matches, and attempt to recruit other fans to their organisation. As well as recruiting, fascist and racist fans would verbally abuse and throw things at Black and Asian footballers - even if they played for their team - and assaulting Black and Asian fans. Anti-fascist fans countered this by forming their own organisations and physically countering the presence of NF members at games.
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