Gerry Gable News Today

There is a long history of tossing food at politicians and other controversial figures as a deliciously defiant symbol of objection to their politics and presence in public spaces.

A brief history of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA), which fought a secret war against the far right in Britain and drove them off the streets.

On the face of it, the arrival of a new anarchist group with a newspaper which outsells other libertarian papers several times over is a promising thing. But Class War's other tactics include organising 'Bash the Rich' outings and disrupting CND meetings. While Fleet Street brands them 'political nutters', some sections of the Left have reproved their behaviour as 'fascist'. What is their own view?

The history of this remarkable movement is even stranger and more incredible than depicted in the hit series Ridley Road.

England in the 1960s was not always safe for Jews. Nicole Lampert talks to vigilantes who helped keep them safe, often at their own cost

Heard of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, or the Battle of Cable Street? A new TV drama sheds light on the less well-known rise of a postwar, violently antisemitic far right, the authorities' failure to confront it, and how Jews fought back

You might have heard of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, or the Battle of Cable Street. But there's an even less well-remembered part of Britain's fascist history: The rise of a violently antisemitic postwar far right, the authorities' failure to confront it, and how Jews fought back

Airing Sundays, 'Ridley Road' is a fictionalized look at the real-life antisemites who threatened British Jewry, and the Jewish toughs who beat some sense into them