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

ISBN-13: 9780367720629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 174 str.

David Renton

Opis

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the choice of anti-fascist protesters to demand that the opportunities for fascists to speak in public places is rescinded, as a question of history, law, and politics.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

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part I: History  2. Free Speech c.1640–c.1972  3. The Exception: Fascism and Anti-Fascism  4. No Platform in the UK 1972–1979  5. A Path Not Taken: The United States 1977–1979  6. The Right Demands a Respectful Audience 1980–2020  Part II: Law  7. The Wrongs of Hate Speech  8. Hate Speech, No Platform and Competing Rights  9. Hate Speech and the State  Part III: Politics  10. The Battle Against Hate Speech Goes Online  11. On Being Silenced, Masculinity and Victimhood  12. The Ideological Capture of Free Speech  13. Who Are the Fascists; Tactics for Those Who Aren’t  14. Conclusion

O autorze

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).