ABSTRACT

This book initiates a critical discussion on the varieties of global anti-fascism and explores the cultural, political and practical articulations of anti-fascism around the world.

This volume brings together a group of leading scholars on the history of anti-fascism to provide a comprehensive analysis of anti-fascism from a transnational and global perspective and to reveal the abundance and complexity of anti-fascist ideas, movements and practices. Through a number of interlinked case studies, they examine how different forms of global anti-fascisms were embedded in various national and local contexts during the interwar period and investigate the interrelations between local articulations and the global movement. Contributions also explore the actions and impact of African, Asian, Latin American, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern anti-fascist voices that have often been ignored or rendered peripheral in international histories of anti-fascism.

Aimed at a postgraduate student audience, this book will be useful for modules on the extreme right, political history, political thought, political ideologies, political parties, social movements, political regimes, global politics, world history and sociology.

Chapters 5 and 10 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

Towards a global history of anti-fascism

part I|132 pages

Globalising anti-fascist geographies

chapter 1|20 pages

Radical Diasporic Anti-Fascism in the 1920s

Italian anarchists in the English-speaking world

chapter 2|15 pages

Anti-Fascism in Brazil During the Interwar Period

International repercussions, national expressions and transnational networks between Europe and the Americas

chapter 3|19 pages

‘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

chapter 5|19 pages

‘Make Scandinavia a Bulwark Against Fascism!’

Hitler's seizure of power and the transnational anti-fascist movement in the Nordic countries

chapter 6|18 pages

Anti-Fascism and Anti-Imperialism between the World Wars

The perspective from India

chapter 7|20 pages

No Place for Neutrality

The case for democracy and the League Against Nazism and Fascism in Syria and Lebanon

part II|137 pages

Transnational lives, radical internationalism

chapter 9|21 pages

Transnational Anarchism Against Fascisms

Subaltern geopolitics and spaces of exile in Camillo Berneri's work

chapter 10|21 pages

‘Aid the Victims of German Fascism!’

Transatlantic networks and the rise of anti-Nazism in the USA, 1933–1935

chapter 11|16 pages

Addis Ababa, Rio De Janeiro and Moscow 1935

The double failure of Comintern anti-fascism and anti-colonialism

chapter 12|20 pages

‘World Capital of Anti-Fascism’?

The making – and breaking – of a global left in Spain, 1936–1939

chapter 14|17 pages

‘A Great Example of International Solidarity’

Cuban medical volunteers in the Spanish Civil War