No Retreat
By admin
Monday 5th October 2009, 8pm at the Cube Cinema, Entry £3/£4 (but nobody refused entry for a lack of funds.)
Bristol Indymedia & Bristol Radical History are pleased to welcome Dave Hann & Steve Tilzey, the authors of ‘No Retreat’ – a powerful account of their fight-back against far-right Nazis and racists on the streets of the UK from the 70s though to the 90s. With the BNP gaining two seats in the European elections, the authors deliver constant and powerful message that fascism thrives when the working-class is ignored and betrayed – and we ignore it’s rise at our peril.
The Cube Microplex is a membership cinema with a licensed bar. If you are not a member you need to pay a £1 membership fee on your first visit. Remember to bring your card with you every time you come.
Tags: dave hann, indymedia, no retreat, steve tilzey
October 4th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I could be wrong, just checking, don’t blow up on me but didn’t one get expelled from Red Action for a homophobic attack and the other from AFA for supplying the police with intelligence?
Been enquiring on Indymedia also.
October 5th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Hello! Are you all cowards?
October 7th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Yes, and I was on holiday.
October 8th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Cheers for Mon night nice that we could express our opinions and share our experiences with you all and take part in the discussion afterwards.
Also for the comradely hospitality shown to us during our brief visit to your City. Nic one.
October 12th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Dave Hann was not able to participate in the Bristol Indymedia and Radical History Group 5th October meeting. He died a few days before, on 29th September, a committed anti-fascist fighter and community activist. With less than a week to live and already very ill, he helped advise a group that had gathered together to defend the Deghayes family, relatives of the former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes, who in their Saltdean home on the outskirts of Brighton, (where the BNP have mustered 10% of the vote) have faced a campaign of racist and religious abuse.
I am not a born blogger and would like to all you who are much more used to it to bear with me while I try to say my piece. I realise that some of the people posting on this site may not have known either of the authors of No Retreat personally or worked with them politically but it is never a good idea to repeat unfounded rumours. These distractions hold our attention when we would do better to keep our eyes on the real enemies. I knew Dave Hann for 15 years, lived with him and loved all that time. I remember his involvement with AFA when it was still a fighting force and as a writer and activist in Brighton where we made our home. Dave resigned from Red Action over their decision to de-prioritise anti-fascist work. He also felt that the type of cultural front in Manchester developed by he and others based on broad alliance between football supporters, anti-fascists and anti-imperialists was being undervalued as political action. When No Retreat was published, both Dave and Steve Tilzey were really disappointed that attacks on their character and identity seemed to come from former comrades who seemed happy to carry out the work of the right wing. Accusing political activists of criminal behaviour has always been a strategy of the capitalist state: time and again that is how opposition to it is divided and dispersed. Steve and Dave never responded to accusations at the time of publication in hope that book would be received in the way that it was written: they tried to show that struggle against fascism was bigger and more important than any one individual, party, group or sect.
April 22nd, 2010 at 8:56 am
I am very sorry to hear the news about Dave who I knew in Manchester during the 80’s and early 90’s. Although Dave and I had our ups and downs over the years I have some great memories of ‘outings’ around the north west and particularly remember one occasion when he bailed me out of danger.
As well as being one of the leading figures in the anti racist movement in the north west Dave had a great sense of humour, and on occasions displayed a kindness and compassion that I personally benfited from.
Good luck mate
Dave