Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective
Transnational Networks, Exile Communities, and Radical Internationalism
Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right Series

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 http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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

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.