Africa and the Fight against Fascism

With the rise in white supremacist and nationalist movements around the world, Western news media have pulled from their archives old 1930s footage of American Nazis holding a sinister rally in Manhattan, or if you’re in Britain, the nasty, free-for-all Battle of Cable Street in London’s East End. What gets overlooked is the equally important history of anti-Fascism; specifically, another group of radicals in London who, in their case, fought Fascism and fought it early—Africans. In the

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