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In our latest essay, Andrés Brink Pinto (Lund University, Sweden) discusses the differences between antifascist and fascist masculinity and their complex relations to violence: #antifa
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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...
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Read our latest essay on Thyra J. Edward’s fascinating life story and deep involvement in the antifascist cause: https://t.co/gBZZGotPrb
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Walter Gam Nkwi (Leiden University) on Cameroon’s violent genealogy and how it reveals fascism as not confined to Europe, but as embedded in colonial mechanisms: #fascism #colonialism
https://t.co/yPtgThXhAd
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Cameroon’s Violent Legacy On February 14, 2020, local security forces attacked the village of Ngarbuh in North-West Region of Cameroon, killing at least 21 civilians, including 13 children and a...
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On the African Christian Right’s support for Donald Trump: reflections on a misplaced solidarity by Primus M. Tazanu:
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Christian insensitivity towards the suffering of vulnerable people, the subject at the centre of this article, contradicts the core of Christianity, a religion supposedly guided by unquestionable...
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My poem 'The Children of Gaza- Night Skies', written for the precious little lives in Gaz has been published by @HelsinkiNB (Helsinki University). This is for the children of Gaza - their struggle is our struggle, in solidarity against Apartheid. https://t.co/6Ccm5LxnFO
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The night sky lights up with stars and timeless lullabies for children in South Africa.Palestinian children no longer see the gentleness of the moon. Only the glow of blood born of massive bombs Mo…
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To the children of Gaza - read the powerful poem by @NceMakwetu published in the new "visions" series by The Helsinki Notebooks:
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The night sky lights up with stars and timeless lullabies for children in South Africa.Palestinian children no longer see the gentleness of the moon. Only the glow of blood born of massive bombs Mo…
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In our latest essay Margarite Poulos reflects on the enduring power of anti-fascism and left feminist politics in #Greece:
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In Greece, anti-fascist sentiment is deeply rooted in the country’s history of resistance against Nazi occupation, civil war, and successive military dictatorships. More recently, the rise of…
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A must-read for anyone interested in the memory battles in post-communist Europe. Here is the case of #Poland, presented by Jan Bobrowski and Grzegorz Piotrowski: “Reclaiming the Dąbrowszczacy” #memorystudies
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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…
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Very happy to have contributed some thoughts to @HelsinkiNB on the relationship between populism and fascism and how the former can help strengthen anti-fascism. Shout out to Shane Little for the invitation! https://t.co/BTbUIMamBI
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It has become almost redundant to talk about the fluid nature of the populism concept and the buzzword-like label it has gained over the past two decades. Indeed, when discussing populism in the ac…
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We are please to publish Lazaros Karavasilis THN essay “Populism Is Not Fascism: Here Is How Antifascist Movements Can Benefit From That Distinction”:
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It has become almost redundant to talk about the fluid nature of the populism concept and the buzzword-like label it has gained over the past two decades. Indeed, when discussing populism in the ac…
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Why do people fear Antifa? The latest THN essay argues that antifascists need to adapt their strategies and work more on community organising:
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In response to the civil disobedience that erupted across US cities following the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, President Donald Trump defiantly asserted that, “it is essential that we...
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What is an "Anti-Fascist City"? In early June, the LGP-project organised an international conference in Helsinki to discuss people's right to the city and how to challenge fascism. Read our report to get a quick overview of this thought provoking event:
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On July 5-6, 2025, we hosted participants from around the world for the ‘Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity Conference!’. Scholars, researchers,...
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What is an "Anti-Fascist City"? In early June, the LGP-project organised an international conference in Helsinki to discuss people's right to the city and how to challenge fascism. Read our report to get a quick overview of this thought-provoking event:
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On July 5-6, 2025, we hosted participants from around the world for the ‘Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity Conference!’. Scholars, researchers,...
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In our latest essay, Dr. Diana I. Popescu (Birkbeck) writes on how Jewish artists confronted fascism through art in Britain and the USA in the mid 20th century. They still represent a vital resource for the historical portrayal of Nazi era perpetrators.
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Amid the horrors of fascism and genocide, Jewish artists forged a powerful form of resistance through visual art. Their works did not mythologize or glorify Nazi perpetrators; rather, they delivere…
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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.
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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…
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!! Read our latest essay by Ylva Perera on antifascist poetics, collective guilt and the role of art in resisting fascism !!
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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, other...
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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 our latest essay by Jelena Ðureinović:
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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…
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Please read and share Keira Anderson & Shane Little’s important new essay “Thinking Toward an Anti-Fascist Politic: Lessons from Buen Vivir and Pluriversality" 🙏
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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...
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Peter Cole on dockworker power and the power of international solidarity! With a beautiful poster from San Francisco to ‘Boycott All Trade with the Fascist Regimes of Chile & South Africa’ (1977). #antifascism #boycott
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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 …
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”Remembering Dockworkers and their Fight Against Fascism”. Professor Peter Cole writes on how workers can use their power to act in solidarity with other people fighting fascism, imperialism, and white supremacy. #antifascism #solidarity
https://t.co/XajYTKeqC0
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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 …
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