‘Self-Defence is No Offence!’: Remembering the Bradford 12

By: Taj Ali

This summer marked forty years since the trial of the Bradford 12, arrested on conspiracy charges for trying to defend their community from fascists.

The Bradford 12 celebrate with their supporters after winning a legal battle on their right to self-defence. (Tandana Archive)

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Masood Malik was thirteen years old when he first saw a fascist. It was in 1975, and the National Front (NF)—formed only a decade earlier—was putting serious effort into stirring up racial hatred in towns and cities that had become prominent destinations for recent immigrants from the former British Empire. In Manningham—a heavily South Asian […]

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Masood Malik was thirteen years old when he first saw a fascist. It was in 1975, and the National Front (NF)—formed only a decade earlier—was putting serious effort into stirring up racial hatred in towns and cities that had become prominent destinations for recent immigrants from the former British Empire. In Manningham—a heavily South Asian […]

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Masood Malik was thirteen years old when he first saw a fascist. It was in 1975, and the National Front (NF)—formed only a decade earlier—was putting serious effort into stirring up racial hatred in towns and cities that had become prominent destinations for recent immigrants from the former British Empire. In Manningham—a heavily South Asian […]

Masood Malik was thirteen years old when he first saw a fascist. It was in 1975, and the National Front (NF)—formed only a decade earlier—was putting serious effort into stirring up racial hatred in towns and cities that had become prominent destinations for recent immigrants from the former British Empire. In Manningham—a heavily South Asian […]

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