Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective

Kasper Braskén is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.

This volume brings together a group of leading scholars on the history of anti-fascism that will present a first comprehensive analysis of anti-fascism from a transnational and global perspective.

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