On this day in 1985, Danuta Danielsson, a woman of Polish-Jewish origin whose mother had been put in a concentration camp during the Second World War, hit a neo-nazi of the now defunct Nordic Reich Party in the head with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden. The fascists were subsequently chased out of town. This is our archive about struggles against fascism: https://libcom.org/tags/fascism

Image: 'Kvinnan med handväskan', photograph by Hans Runesson