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The People's Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) is a militant terrorist organization [2] [3] [1] actively engaged in insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, an ongoing armed conflict between Kashmiri separatist militants and Indian forces in Jammu and Kashmir.
This sparked a surge in anti-fascist organizations throughout Europe. In the UK alone, in 1992 a number of left-wing groups formed anti-fascist front organizations, such as a re-launched ANL in 1992, the Socialist Party's Youth against Racism in Europe YRE, and the Revolutionary Communist Party's Workers Against Racism.
In 2011, the far-right, anti-Islam, and fascist party Britain First and shared views similar to that of the EDL. [24] This movement was formed by former members of the BNP [ 37 ] and campaigns primarily against immigration , multiculturalism and what it sees as the Islamisation of the United Kingdom , and aims to protect with the intention of ...
The British Fascists (originally called the British Fascisti) were the first political organisation in the United Kingdom to claim the label of fascism, formed in 1923.The group had lacked much ideological unity apart from anti-socialism for most of its existence, and was strongly associated with British conservatism.
In 2009, Griffin that the term "fascism" was simply "a smear that comes from the far left"; he added that the term should be reserved for groups that engaged in "political violence" and desired a state that "should impose its will on people", claiming that it was the anti-fascist group Unite Against Fascism—and not the BNP—who were the real ...
Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) was a militant anti-fascist organisation, founded in the UK in 1985 by a wide range of anti-racist and anti-fascist organisations. It was active in fighting far-right organisations, particularly the National Front and British National Party .
Estimates of the number of anti-fascist counter-demonstrators range from 100,000 [11] [17] to 250,000, [18] 300,000, [19] 310,000, or more. [20] The Independent Labour Party and Communists, like the Fascists, set up medical stations to treat their injured.
Unite Against Fascism (UAF) was formed in Great Britain in late 2003 in response to electoral successes by the BNP. [9] Its main elements were the Anti-Nazi League and the National Assembly Against Racism, with the support of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and leading British unions such as the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G) (now Unite) and UNISON. [10]