The Labour Movement and Fascism
A conference organised by the Society for the Study of Labour History and the School of Continuing Education, University of Leeds
Saturday 8 November 2003, 10.00am - 5.00pm
Venue: Continuing Education Building, University of Leeds
At a time when far-right parties are continuing to advance across Europe, this conference returns attention towards the anti-fascist and labour movement traditions of past decades. Where have different anti-fascist traditions come from? How have Labour-controlled institutions responded to the rise of fascism? What has been the role of women or racial minorities who have identified with the Labour Party? Has their activity led to the adoption of distinct anti-fascist strategies?
Keynote speakers: Ken Lunn, Roger Griffin. Other speakers and papers include:
- Nigel Copsey, Meeting the Challenge of Contemporary British Fascism? The Labour Party's Response to the National Front and British National Party
- Andrezj Olechnowicz, Sir Ernest Baker and the National Council of Social Service
- Andrew Moore, Antipodean fascism and the Australian labour movement
- Toby Abse, The continuity of working-class resistance to fascism in Italy, 1919-45
- Jessica Irons, The contested image of the people during the French Popular Front
- Antonio Sonnessa, Factory and Community opposition to fascism in Turin, 1922-36
- David Renton, The Part played by Labour: anti-fascism 1945-51 and 1977-82
- Richard Thurlow, The Security Service, the CPGB and British Fascism 1932-51
- Andrew Harvey, The Hidden Membership, Class and Gender Demographics of Oswald Mosley's Union Movement 1948-1966
- Julie Gottlieb, Feminism and anti-fascism in Britain: Militancy Revived
- Richard Maguire, 'The Fascist are to be depended upon', The British State, Fascists and Strike-Breaking 1925 to 1926
- Nigel Todd, Fascism upon Tyne: Episodes in the history of Fascism and Anti-Fascism on Tyneside 1920s-1990s
- Paul Martin, Absences and Silences: unaddressed issues in the history of British fascism from the perspective of a publichistorian
- Peter Henderson, Australian Labor, Fascism and the Far Right
- Richard Griffiths, 'Neo-socialism' in 1930s in France and Belgium
- Graham Macklin, Policing British Fascism 1945-1951
- Jessica Irons, The right wing leagues in 1930s France
- Ian Goodyer, Rock Against Racism in 1970s Britain
Location: for directions to the Continuing Education visit the University of Leeds website at www.leeds.ac.uk/campus_map/find_us.htm. For other enquiries email sce@leeds.ac.uk.
Tickets £15 waged or supported/ £5 unwaged or studemts. Make cheques payable to 'University of Leeds' and send to Labour History Conference, School of Continuing Education, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. Please enclose an SAE if you require a receipt.