No Free Speech for Fascists: Exploring 'No Platform' in History, Law and Politics - Paperback

by David Renton (Author)

This book explores the choice of anti-fascist protesters to demand that the opportunities for fascists to speak in public places is rescinded, as a question of history, law, and politics.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.

Author Biography

David Renton is a British historian and barrister. His other books include Labour's Antisemitism Crisis: What Should the Left Have Done? (Routledge 2022) and Never Again: Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982 (Routledge 2019).