Shane Little

The Politics Behind the 612 Torchlight Procession Since 2014 a right-wing march titled the ‘612 torchlight procession’ has been organised in Helsinki on the 6th December, the Finnish independence day. The march convenes each year at 6.30 pm at the…

This Saturday it is time for the annual far-right Independence Day "612 Torchlight Procession" in Helsinki. Minna Henriksson debunks in this original essay various claims of its 'unpolitical' character and highlights the role of antifascist interventions: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/12/01/t...

Aboriginal Leadership and Anti-fascist Protest in Australia Aboriginal people in Australia have played an important role in anti-fascist protest in Australia for more than 80 years. This activism has been informed by a distinct Indigenous political traditio…

In this outstanding essay, Padraic Gibson (University of Technology Sydney) writes about how aboriginal people in Australia have played an important role in anti-fascist protest movements, from the 1930s until today.
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An Anarchist Conception of Freedom with Peterson Silva - November 2025

New episode of Little | Bigger | Anarchism is live. We chat with Peterson Silva on an anarchist conception of freedom. Check it out!

#anarchism #freedom

A beautifully written essay on the Gen Z protests in Nepal: "Rhythms traveled faster than written manifestos... They will teach the next crowd how to begin, when to fall silent, and how to make the street resound again", by Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi:

Masculinity: A Useful Concept to Understand Fascism and Anti-fascism - The Helsinki notebooks 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 fragili...

In our latest essay, Andrés Brink Pinto (Lund University) discusses the differences between antifascist and fascist masculinity and their complex relations to violence. #antifa #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/10/15/m...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

Unequivocal solidarity with Mark Bray.
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Celebrating the one year anniversary of "The Helsinki Notebooks", we have launched a brand new version of the journal website with a beautiful new look! Please have a look and let us know what you think! #OpenAccess Also featuring a brand new essay by @shanealittle.bsky.social !

Remembering Thyra J. Edwards: Anti-fascism, Race, Internationalism and World Building. - The Helsinki notebooks Mid-century Black anti-fascists are remembered for their strong solidarity with the Spanish Republic during the Civil War in which many volunteered in the international brigades and provided aid. Thes...

A quick dive by myself into Thyra J. Edwards' politics on race and anti-fascism for The Helsinki Notebooks.

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And, in the fourth article in this issue, @shanealittle.bsky.social introduces a previously unknown article by Voltarine de Cleyre, 'The Economic Phase of Anarchism', which is printed here.

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#OtD 15 Aug 1845 British artist and socialist Walter Crane was born. He sought to bring art into the daily life of all classes, depicting international working class solidarity, the Paris Commune of 1871, and the anarchist Haymarket martyrs in his work stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8643...

Reclaiming the Dąbrowszczacy: Memory Battles and Antifascism in Post-Communist Poland 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…

A must-read for anyone interested in the memory battles in post-communist Europe. The case of Poland, presented by Jan Bobrowski and Grzegorz Piotrowski: #memorystudies helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/08/04/r...

Edited volume forthcoming! Stay tuned if you want to read about how fascism has been challenged in urban spaces and how the anti-fascist city of the future can be created👇

The Nemesis of Fascism: Faith, Exclusion, and Migrant Lives 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…

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.

Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity Conference! 5–6 June 2025, University of Helsinki, Finland. The anti-fascist urban experience is traditionally portrayed through symbolic spatial politics and confrontational tactics – marches, demonstrations, street battles, and anti-fascist block tactics.…

Announcing the full program of the "Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity" Conference! 5–6 June 2025 in Helsinki. Check it out! #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/07/i...

The Writer, the Witch and Jesus: The Prose of Mirjam Tuominen and Fiction Writing as an Antifascist Practice in the 1930s and 40s 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, oth…

!! Read our latest essay by Ylva Perera on antifascist poetics, collective guilt and the role of art in resisting fascism !! #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/04/15/t...

Hey, DM me if you can. Im going to be in Chicago next week...

Erasing the Yugoslav Revolution: (Mis-)Remembering Antifascism in Serbia and the Post-Yugoslav Space 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…

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 @jelenadj.bsky.social new essay in The Helsinki Notebooks: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/04/01/e...

Thinking Toward an Anti-Fascist Politic: Lessons from Buen Vivir and Pluriversality 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 ruptu…

Keira Anderson and @shanealittle.bsky.social have written an original essay for The Helsinki Notebooks: "Thinking Toward an Anti-Fascist Politic: Lessons from Buen Vivir and Pluriversality" / #antifascism #BuenVivir helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/03/17/t...

Co-authored a piece that is working towards a decolonial approach to antifascism.

Remembering Dockworkers and their Fight Against Fascism 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 …

Peter Cole: "Remembering Dockworkers and their Fight Against Fascism" / on how workers can use their power to act in solidarity with other people fighting fascism, imperialism, and white supremacy. #solidarity #antifascism #Chile #ElSalvador #ILWU

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Resisting Trump - February 2025 Little | Bigger | Anarchism · Episode

Resist Trump - Mar 15 - Trafalgar Sq - London - Noon

I sat down with @shanealittle.bsky.social to discuss Trumpism and what any of us can do about it.

Rhodesia’s Settler ‘Fascism’ and the Radical Imagination of Liberation: Reclaiming Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Shadow of Global White Supremacy The history of colonial Zimbabwe is not merely a chronicle of stolen land and broken treaties but a searing testament to how power constructs itself through myth and erasure. In the mid-20th centur…

George Bishi has written a powerful new essay for The Helsinki Notebooks on "Rhodesia’s Settler ‘Fascism’ and the Radical Imagination of Liberation: Reclaiming Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Shadow of Global White Supremacy": #fascism #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/02/17/r...

New year, new archival work on Benjamin Tucker's publishing activities.

Easy. de Cleyre, Kropotkin and Rocker (in that order, too).

Visited Walden Pond today...

Christmas reading sorted 😏

Catching up with @shanealittle.bsky.social and others over lunch - plotting potential podcast episodes and generally putting the world to rights.

Sacred Activism There is a quiet, contemplative side to activism – one that begins with deep self-awareness and unfurls into collective transformation. This is sacred activism. I discovered it through a journey th…

Please read and share this wonderful original essay by Octavia Roodt on "Sacred Activism" published by the Helsinki Notebooks 🙏 "Can we not only resist but rebuild, with mindfulness and love at the heart of our collective struggle?"
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A Case for Revisiting Brazilian Antifascism Antifascism in Brazil is a subject not often reflected upon by Brazilian historians, despite the country experiencing a surge of revolutionary anti-authoritarian sentiments during the 1930s. M…

THN has published a new dispatch against fascism and the far right: Giovani Bertolazi Brazil writes on the history of Brazilian antifascism and how it maintains a level of relevance in the present and is capable of inspiring a whole new generation of people #antifascism: