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

by David Renton

Book Overview

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the choice of anti-fascist protesters to demand that the opportunities for fascists to speak in public places are rescinded, as a question of history, law, and politics.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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367720620
• ISBN13: 9780367720629
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"