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No Free Speech for Fascists - Exploring 'No Platform' in History, Law and Politics (Hardcover)
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No Free Speech for Fascists - Exploring 'No Platform' in History, Law and Politics (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
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No Free Speech for Fascists explores the choice of anti-fascist
protesters to demand that the opportunities for fascists to speak
in public places are rescinded, as a question of history, law, and
politics. It explains how the demand to no platform fascists
emerged in 1970s Britain, as a limited exception to a left-wing
tradition of support for free speech. The book shows how no
platform was intended to be applied narrowly, only to a right-wing
politics that threatened everyone else. It contrasts the rival idea
of opposition to hate speech that also emerged at the same time and
is now embodied in European and British anti-discrimination laws.
Both no platform and hate speech reject the American First
Amendment tradition of free speech, but the ways in which they
reject it are different. Behind no platform is not merely a limited
range of political targets but a much greater scepticism about the
role of the state. The book argues for an idea of no platform which
takes on the electronic channels on which so much speech now takes
place. It shows where a fascist element can be recognised within
the much wider category of far-right speech. This book will be of
interest to activists and to those studying and researching
political history, law, free speech, the far right, and
anti-fascism. It sets out a philosophy of anti-fascism for a social
media age.
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