Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective

Kasper Braskén is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. Nigel Copsey is Professor (Research) in Modern History at Teesside University, UK. David Featherstone is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK.

"The collection is a truly global exploration of anti-fascism that both explores its local variants and traces the networks that connected activists and institutions on six continents. Expanding our vision of anti-fascism well beyond Europe, the case studies highlight the crucial, complex and understudied intersection of anti-imperialism and anti-fascism." - Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, West Chester University, USA."Anti-fascism has long been considered synonymous with Soviet communism. In fact, as this book so amply and ably demonstrates, anti-fascism was a global force representing diverse ideologies. The chapters chart the international and transnational nature of anti-fascism, moving way beyond the Eurocentric approach of most previous studies. At the same time, they show that anti-fascism was a hugely diverse phenomenon, with movements coming from all sections of the liberal left. In globalizing and disaggregating anti-fascism, the book is bold, innovative and hugely thought-provoking. An essential read for all scholars of fascism and its opponents." - Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London.

• Towards A Global History of Anti-Fascism: Introduction Part I Globalising Anti-Fascist Geographies 1 Radical Diasporic Anti-Fascism in the 1920s: Italian Anarchists in the English-Speaking World 2 Anti-Fascism in Brazil During the Interwar Period: International Repercussions, National Expressions and Transnational Networks Between Europe and the Americas 3 ’Con Saludos Comunistas': The Caribbean Bureau of the Comintern, Anti-Imperialist Radical Networks, and the Foundations for an Anti-Fascist Culture in the Caribbean Basin, 1927–1935 4 Anti-Fascism in South Africa 1933–1945, and its Legacies 5 "Make Scandinavia a Bulwark against Fascism!" Hitler’s Seizure of Power and the Transnational Anti-Fascist Movement in the Nordic Countries 6 Anti-Fascism and Anti-Imperialism Between the World Wars: The Perspective from India 7 No Place for Neutrality: The Case for Democracy and the League against Nazism And Fascism in Syria And Lebanon Part II Transnational Lives, Radical Internationalism 8 Anti-Fascism, Anti-Colonialism and the Contested Spaces of Maritime Organising 9 Transnational Anarchism against Fascisms: Subaltern Geopolitics and Spaces of Exile in Camillo Berneri’s Work 10 "Aid the Victims of German Fascism!" Transatlantic Networks and The Rise of Anti-Nazism in the USA, 1933–1935 11 Addis Ababa, Rio De Janeiro And Moscow 1935: The Double Failure of Comintern Anti-Fascism and Anti-Colonialism 12 ‘World Capital of Anti-Fascism’? The Making – and Breaking – of a Global Left in Spain, 1936–1939 13 African American Internationalism and Anti-Fascism 14 ‘A Great Example of International Solidarity’: Cuban Medical Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War