Politics
Desmond Noonan was a lifelong Irish Republican Socialist and anti-Fascist. He was active with the anti-National Front 'Squads' of the early 1980s and then with Anti-Fascist Action which was formed in 1985. In 1993, Noonan was present at a meeting in the Whalley pub, Oxford Street between AFA and an individual who recently set up a South Manchester British National Party branch. Noonan told the individual: "There's one thing that not many people know about me ... and that's the fact that I'm anti-Fascist to the core. Now tell these lads what they want to know, because I don't want to come back here here and see you again." He was involved with AFA right through the 1990s. His last known anti-Fascist work was 'canvassing' the BNP when they stood in Newton Heath 2002.
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