Anti Nazi League badge. Photo: Leo Reynolds / CC BY-NC-SA
Ex-Yorkshire miner Paul Symonds recalls how Nazi terror was defeated by a united front with trade unions and campaigners in Leeds in the 1990s
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John Westmoreland
John is a history teacher and UCU rep. He is an active member of the People's Assembly and writes regularly for Counterfire.
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