Anarchademics descend on Oxford - Freedom News The Anarchist Studies Network organised three sessions at the Political Studies Association Conference 2026 ~ ASN Co-convenors ~ The Anarchist Stud…

A brief write up on the Anarchist Studies Network activities at this year's PSA conference.

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Chagos: British Necropolitics in the Age of Decolonisation Introduction: From Paradise to Haunting Monument The Chagossians are a Creole people whose belonging and identity were once anchored in the Chagos Archipelago, shaped by the rythms of a gentle comm…

Yanee Dewoo (University of Mauritius) writes in the latest THN essay on the necropolitics of Anglo-American colonialism, the contestations over the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, and the efforts to mobilise cultural resistance in exile. helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/03/16/c...

Forthcoming Edited Volume: Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity In June 2025, the University of Helsinki’s Locating Global Protest (LGP) project team (PI: Kasper Braskén; postdoctoral researchers: Moshumee Dewoo and Shane Little) hosted the conference “Imaginin…

Excited that my chapter on the history of anti-fascism in Croydon will be included in a new volume to be published by
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Mandela, the Father of the South African Nation: And Gool, the Mother It Chose to Forget In the final years of apartheid and the dawn of independence (1990s), South Africa faced the immense task of reconstructing itself, united this time, despite its manifold differences, as one people…

Introducing the forgotten mother of South African liberation, Zainunissa “Cissie” Gool, who envisioned an inclusive, feminist, and radically transformative South African democracy. #CapeTown #SouthAfrica #resistance helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/01/15/m...

Also, Benjamin Tucker did a lot to help Schuster gather materials for her book. Too bad Goyens doesn't give enough attention to the individualists.

The Criminalization of Antifa In the wake of the shooting of Charlie Kirk, and in response to ongoing protests against snatch and grab raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, the Trump administrat…

What does the criminalization of Antifa mean? Stanislav Vysotsky (leading expert on US antifascism) explains the severity of the situation in this new essay: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/12/16/t...

Hello new followers! Be sure to follow "The Helsinki Notebooks: Global Dispatches against Fascism and the Far Right" @helsinkinotebooks.bsky.social, edited by Dr. Shane Little @shanealittle.bsky.social, Dr. Moshumee Dewoo and myself. We offer a global perspective on antifascist history and politics.

The Politics Behind the 612 Torchlight Procession Since 2014 a right-wing march titled the ‘612 torchlight procession’ has been organised in Helsinki on the 6th December, the Finnish independence day. The march convenes each year at 6.30 pm at the…

This Saturday it is time for the annual far-right Independence Day "612 Torchlight Procession" in Helsinki. Minna Henriksson debunks in this original essay various claims of its 'unpolitical' character and highlights the role of antifascist interventions: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/12/01/t...

Aboriginal Leadership and Anti-fascist Protest in Australia Aboriginal people in Australia have played an important role in anti-fascist protest in Australia for more than 80 years. This activism has been informed by a distinct Indigenous political traditio…

In this outstanding essay, Padraic Gibson (University of Technology Sydney) writes about how aboriginal people in Australia have played an important role in anti-fascist protest movements, from the 1930s until today.
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An Anarchist Conception of Freedom with Peterson Silva - November 2025

New episode of Little | Bigger | Anarchism is live. We chat with Peterson Silva on an anarchist conception of freedom. Check it out!

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A beautifully written essay on the Gen Z protests in Nepal: "Rhythms traveled faster than written manifestos... They will teach the next crowd how to begin, when to fall silent, and how to make the street resound again", by Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi:

Masculinity: A Useful Concept to Understand Fascism and Anti-fascism - The Helsinki notebooks Fascism, as a political movement, is deeply fixated on preserving the traditional gender order – a structure that its defenders view as both natural and perpetually under siege. This perceived fragili...

In our latest essay, Andrés Brink Pinto (Lund University) discusses the differences between antifascist and fascist masculinity and their complex relations to violence. #antifa #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/10/15/m...

Celebrating the one year anniversary of "The Helsinki Notebooks", we have launched a brand new version of the journal website with a beautiful new look! Please have a look and let us know what you think! #OpenAccess Also featuring a brand new essay by @shanealittle.bsky.social !

Remembering Thyra J. Edwards: Anti-fascism, Race, Internationalism and World Building. - The Helsinki notebooks Mid-century Black anti-fascists are remembered for their strong solidarity with the Spanish Republic during the Civil War in which many volunteered in the international brigades and provided aid. Thes...

A quick dive by myself into Thyra J. Edwards' politics on race and anti-fascism for The Helsinki Notebooks.

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And, in the fourth article in this issue, @shanealittle.bsky.social introduces a previously unknown article by Voltarine de Cleyre, 'The Economic Phase of Anarchism', which is printed here.

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#OtD 15 Aug 1845 British artist and socialist Walter Crane was born. He sought to bring art into the daily life of all classes, depicting international working class solidarity, the Paris Commune of 1871, and the anarchist Haymarket martyrs in his work stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8643...

Reclaiming the Dąbrowszczacy: Memory Battles and Antifascism in Post-Communist Poland Between 1936 and 1939, thousands of foreign volunteers travelled to Spain to fight against fascism. Among them were nearly 5,000 Polish combatants who joined the 13th International Brigade. They we…

A must-read for anyone interested in the memory battles in post-communist Europe. The case of Poland, presented by Jan Bobrowski and Grzegorz Piotrowski: #memorystudies helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/08/04/r...

Edited volume forthcoming! Stay tuned if you want to read about how fascism has been challenged in urban spaces and how the anti-fascist city of the future can be created👇

The Nemesis of Fascism: Faith, Exclusion, and Migrant Lives That human beings are agentic rational creatures is hardly disputed. It is upon this that worldview analysis is imperative in understanding the overwhelming impact of fascism in the 21st century. I…

Charles Prempeh (KNUST, Ghana) argues in this new THN-essay that the surge in fascism in the Euro-American world constitutes a major nemesis to the much-touted Western civilization and a potential blot on the conscience of Evangelical Christians.

Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity Conference! 5–6 June 2025, University of Helsinki, Finland. The anti-fascist urban experience is traditionally portrayed through symbolic spatial politics and confrontational tactics – marches, demonstrations, street battles, and anti-fascist block tactics.…

Announcing the full program of the "Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity" Conference! 5–6 June 2025 in Helsinki. Check it out! #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/07/i...

The Writer, the Witch and Jesus: The Prose of Mirjam Tuominen and Fiction Writing as an Antifascist Practice in the 1930s and 40s In her essay, Besk brygd (“Bitter Brew”, 1947), the Finland-Swedish writer Mirjam Tuominen describes a Nazi soldier in the following words: Fellow feeling did not exist for the child-tormentor, oth…

!! Read our latest essay by Ylva Perera on antifascist poetics, collective guilt and the role of art in resisting fascism !! #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/04/15/t...

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Erasing the Yugoslav Revolution: (Mis-)Remembering Antifascism in Serbia and the Post-Yugoslav Space The People’s Liberation War (Narodnooslobodilački rat, NOR), as the Yugoslav Partisans’ antifascist struggle and parallel socialist revolution during World War II were officially termed, was the bi…

The People’s Liberation War, as the symbol of Yugoslavia, became in the 1990s the subject of radical revision in the often-parallel processes of erasure, demonisation, inversion and appropriation. Read @jelenadj.bsky.social new essay in The Helsinki Notebooks: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/04/01/e...

Thinking Toward an Anti-Fascist Politic: Lessons from Buen Vivir and Pluriversality Fascism is back. In reality, it never went away. The surge of right-wing populism across the globe, the re-emergence of the strong leader and reactionary socio-cultural politics have severely ruptu…

Keira Anderson and @shanealittle.bsky.social have written an original essay for The Helsinki Notebooks: "Thinking Toward an Anti-Fascist Politic: Lessons from Buen Vivir and Pluriversality" / #antifascism #BuenVivir helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/03/17/t...

Co-authored a piece that is working towards a decolonial approach to antifascism.

Remembering Dockworkers and their Fight Against Fascism As T-Bone Slim, a Finnish American born Matti Valentin Huhta who wrote poems and songs, organized for the Industrial Workers of the World, and hoboed around America, once declared, “[w]herever you …

Peter Cole: "Remembering Dockworkers and their Fight Against Fascism" / on how workers can use their power to act in solidarity with other people fighting fascism, imperialism, and white supremacy. #solidarity #antifascism #Chile #ElSalvador #ILWU

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Resisting Trump - February 2025 Little | Bigger | Anarchism · Episode

Resist Trump - Mar 15 - Trafalgar Sq - London - Noon

I sat down with @shanealittle.bsky.social to discuss Trumpism and what any of us can do about it.

Rhodesia’s Settler ‘Fascism’ and the Radical Imagination of Liberation: Reclaiming Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Shadow of Global White Supremacy The history of colonial Zimbabwe is not merely a chronicle of stolen land and broken treaties but a searing testament to how power constructs itself through myth and erasure. In the mid-20th centur…

George Bishi has written a powerful new essay for The Helsinki Notebooks on "Rhodesia’s Settler ‘Fascism’ and the Radical Imagination of Liberation: Reclaiming Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Shadow of Global White Supremacy": #fascism #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/02/17/r...