How gangster Dessie Noonan ran the far right out of Manchester - and boasted of 27 killings
It's 1993 and the far-right are trying to get a foothold in Manchester. The British National Party has recently started a branch in the south of the city, but they're meeting fierce resistance from Manchester's militant anti-fascists.
Dessie was born to working-class Irish parents and raised in Whalley Range, as one of 14 siblings whose first names all began with the letter D. He began his climb up the ranks of gangland Manchester alongside his brothers Damien and Dominic. Recruiting at pubs and football matches, the NF exploited the poverty, prejudice and desperation found on many of Manchester's council estates to bolster its numbers. That was until a few young working-class activists, mainly drawn from the Socialist Workers Party and the Anti-Nazi League, decided to fight back.
"I've enjoyed telling people what they're doing politically is wrong and above all I've enjoyed hurting their organisations and I will continue to do if they carry on, as they are a disease and they need to be picked out," he added. The meeting is also referred to in the book No Retreat: The Secret War between Britain's Anti-Fascists and the Far Right. According to authors Dave Hann and Steve Tilzey it took place in the now demolished Seymour pub at Upper Chorlton Road in Whalley Range.
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