Move Your Feet to the Cable Street Beat: The Cultural Praxis of Anti-Fascist Action, 1988 – 2000

The historiography of antifascism has grown substantially recently. However, scholarly attention has been disproportionally focused on the street-based and violent strategies of the movement. High-profile conflicts between antifascists and their far-right opponents have stimulated a high volume of research regarding the causes and results of their radicalization. Yet antifascism is a vast and complex movement that employs a wide variety of different strategies, the majority of which are non-violent. To address this gap in the literature, and begin to reveal the multifaceted nature of antifascist organizing, this article will explore the movement's 'cultural praxis'. That is, the way that antifascists use culture to construct a space in which they can effectively engage with the public as well as their efforts to prevent the far right from constructing such a space. Specifically, the efforts of the British militant antifascist organization Anti-Fascist Action to strategically use music and music scenes in their conflict with the far right between 1988 and 2000 shall be examined.

反法西斯主义史学研究（historiography of antifascism）近年来得到了长足发展。然而，学界的关注却不成比例地聚焦于该运动的街头暴力抗争策略。反法西斯主义者与极右翼对手之间的标志性冲突，催生了大量关于其激进化成因与后果的研究。但反法西斯主义是一场规模庞大且形态复杂的运动，其所采用的策略多种多样，其中绝大多数为非暴力策略。为弥补这一文献空白，并着手揭示反法西斯组织的多面性本质，本文将探讨该运动的“文化实践（cultural praxis）”——即反法西斯主义者借助文化构建可有效对接公众的空间的方式，以及他们阻止极右翼势力构建此类空间的努力。具体而言，本文将考察1988年至2000年间，英国激进反法西斯组织反法西斯行动（Anti-Fascist Action）在与极右翼的对抗中，如何战略性地运用音乐与音乐场景的相关实践。