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Anarchist Federation of Britain - Quiz
  • 1. What movement did the Anarchist Federation of Britain participate in during World War II?
A) The nationalist movement
B) The pro-war effort
C) The conservative movement
D) The anti-war movement
  • 2. Which publication served as the main mouthpiece of the AFB during World War II?
A) Class Conflict Daily
B) War Commentary
C) The Anarchist Review
D) The Syndicalist Worker
  • 3. Who established the Glasgow Anarchist-Communist Federation in 1937?
A) Frank Leech
B) Albert Meltzer
C) The Labour Party
D) Peter Marshall
  • 4. Where was Frank Leech imprisoned for refusing fire lookout schemes?
A) HM Prison Barlinnie
B) Glasgow City Gaol
C) London Central Prison
D) Tyneside Correctional
  • 5. Which groups did the AFB collaborate with in the No-Conscription League?
A) CPGB and NUSM
B) Labour Party and TUC
C) APCF and USM
D) IS and IMG
  • 6. What happened to the Glaswegian members charged with incitement in 1940?
A) They were executed
B) They were imprisoned for ten years
C) They were acquitted
D) They were deported
  • 7. The AFB supported a wildcat strike by which group of workers in Glasgow?
A) Railway workers
B) Dock workers
C) Bus workers
D) Coal miners
  • 8. What was the result of the 1943 coal miners' strike in Lanarkshire?
A) Union recognition
B) Release of imprisoned miners
C) Government collapse
D) Total revolution
  • 9. Why did the women's strike at a Glaswegian engineering factory end in 1944?
A) The police disbanded the factory
B) The owners went bankrupt
C) Lack of support from male workers
D) They achieved all their demands
  • 10. How did the AFB describe the strike committees formed by women factory workers?
A) Unconscious anarcho-syndicalism
B) Trade union reformism
C) State-sponsored activism
D) Egoist anarchism
  • 11. What organization did the remnants of the AFB eventually become?
A) Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation
B) Syndicalist Workers Federation
C) United Socialist Movement
D) Organisation of Revolutionary Anarchists
  • 12. Who attributed the split in the AFB to the rise of anarcho-syndicalists?
A) Peter Marshall
B) Frank Leech
C) The CPGB
D) Albert Meltzer
  • 13. Who insisted that the AFB's split was caused by personal conflict?
A) The Labour Party
B) Peter Marshall
C) Albert Meltzer
D) Frank Leech
  • 14. What ideology did the London-based group of the AFB gravitate towards after the split?
A) Egoist anarchism
B) Marxian Socialism
C) Anarcho-syndicalism
D) Platformism
  • 15. Which organization emerged in reaction to the AFB's lack of formal organization?
A) Anti-Labour Laws Victims Defence Committee
B) Organisation of Revolutionary Anarchists
C) Syndicalist Workers Federation
D) Glasgow Anarchist-Communist Federation
  • 16. What approach did the 1963 reestablished AFB attempt to follow?
A) Reformist trade unionism
B) Anarchist synthesis
C) Platformism
D) Egoist anarchism
  • 17. To which groups did many members defect after the AFB's decline?
A) The Labour Party
B) Libertarian socialist groups
C) Conservative parties
D) Trotskyist parties
  • 18. What did the AFB call the war between warring states?
A) A crusade for freedom
B) A class war against fascism
C) One between rival Imperialisms
D) An inevitable revolutionary conflict
  • 19. What was the final evolution of the Syndicalist Workers Federation?
A) Organisation of Revolutionary Anarchists
B) International Socialists
C) Workers' International League
D) Solidarity Federation
  • 20. What did the AFB believe would happen as warring states collapsed?
A) Global peace
B) Total economic isolation
C) A revolutionary wave
D) The return of monarchies
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