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• THE GUARDIAN - We Fight Fascists by Daniel Sonabend review – sabotage and street scuffles
  It is a story both inspiring and uncomfortable, and the fundamental questions it raises have yet to disappear from our political landscape.
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• THE ECONOMIST - When fascists and Jews battled on the streets of London
  They marched along the seafront in Brighton, waving flags and heralded by drummers. As they reached the pier and turned inland, towards a park known as The Level, they were set upon by a gang of toughs.
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• 12 RULES FOR WHAT - The 43 Group w/ Daniel Sonabend
  It might be difficult to imagine fascists had any pull in post WW2 Britain. Yet, when Jewish ex-servicemen returned home they found fascist activity springing up all over London, and especially in the East End... Joining with other Londoners they built a street fighting organisation that physically disrupted fascist activity. They named their new organisation the 43 Group.
  We sit down with author and historian Dan Sonabend to discuss his new book about the group and their legacy.
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• HAARETZ - For These Jewish Vigilantes, the War Against Fascism Didn’t End in 1945
  Sonabend’s debut brilliantly chronicles the 43 Group’s lightning-fast progress from a homespun organization with a handful of Jewish ex-servicemen almost literally getting their kicks by confronting fascists in London’s East End – at the time still home to the bulk of British Jewry – to a surprisingly sophisticated one with up to 2,000 members and intelligence and surveillance branches.
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• THE TIMES OF ISRAEL - When Jewish WWII vets pulverized postwar UK fascists to tamp down rising racism
  As Daniel Sonabend brilliantly captures in his new book, “We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-war Britain,” this was a tale of often bloody, and occasionally terrifying “organized chaos.”
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• NEW STATESMAN - How to fight fascism: the books exploring routes of resistance
  We have waited until now for someone to take a cool look at the 43 Group, warts and all...Sonabend combines academic rigour with an easy, readable style, all of which helps to throw into sharp relief the difficult questions the story raises.
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• PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - Review of We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain
  Historian Sonabend delivers a spirited account of the 43 Group, an organization founded by Anglo-Jewish soldiers to fight the revival of fascist groups in post-WWII England.
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• BUZZSPROUT - We Fight Fascists - The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-war Britain. An Interview with Daniel Sonabend.
  Daniel Sonabend, author and filmmaker, talks to HOPE not hate on Ridley Road in Dalston, the epicentre of the struggle to defeat hate in post-war Britain.
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• JEWISH CURRENTS - Punching Postwar Nazis
  Sonabend interweaves these exploits with compelling character sketches of some of the group’s members... I spoke with Sonabend about the book and the lessons it offers for organizing against fascism today.
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• POPMATTERS - The 43 Group and the Moral Imperative to Fight Fascists
  ...well-researched, riveting chronicle We Fight Fascists, a new history of the little-studied group by Daniel Sonabend.
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