University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN
Two years of capitalist economic crisis have seen a sharp growth of the BNP and the rise of groups like the English Defence League. Existing anti-fascist campaigns have been totally ineffective at stopping these developments. Why?
This dayschool, organised by Workers' Liberty, is an attempt to locate a socialist understanding of the BNP and EDL in the classical Marxist tradition of analysing fascism, and use that tradition to get to grips with the issues confronting anti-fascists so urgently today.
Sessions will include:
* The capitalist crisis and the rise of the far right
* How do Marxists understand fascism? Trotsky on Nazism
* Are the BNP and EDL fascist? Who supports them?
* No platform, free speech, self-defence and the state
* Nationalism, migration and the working class
* Why UAF and Searchlight are failing
* Islam, Islamism and Islamophobia