Kasper Braskén

A crucial new publication on #antifascism: It centres Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean, showing that activists in the region did not simply copy European models but refashioned them and added new ingredients to make antifascism fit the local context. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/anti...

A crucial new publication on #antifascism: It centres Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean, showing that activists in the region did not simply copy European models but refashioned them and added new ingredients to make antifascism fit the local context. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/anti...

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 !

Here is a direct link to the website: www.helsinkinotebooks.com

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 !

#CFP for Vol. 2 of "The Helsinki Notebooks" (ISSN 2984-5343): We publish essays that connect the histories of fascism and colonialism / antifascism, anti-colonialism or antiracism. Follow @helsinkinotebooks.bsky.social and check the THN-website for more information: helsinkinotebooks.com

Twentieth Century Communism: Volume 2025 Issue 29 (2025) - Lawrence Wishart Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history - Issue contents for Volume 2025 Issue 29 (2025)

The latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal has been published by @lawrencewishart.bsky.social

Issue 29 is the second issue dedicated to looking at histories of 1956 globally, edited by Madeleine Davis and George Odysseos.

A 🧵 of the articles...

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#CFP for Vol. 2 of "The Helsinki Notebooks" (ISSN 2984-5343): We publish essays that connect the histories of fascism and colonialism / antifascism, anti-colonialism or antiracism. Follow @helsinkinotebooks.bsky.social and check the THN-website for more information: helsinkinotebooks.com

What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist We map out steps you can take right away, and steps you can take to build resilience longer term against doxxing.

To support writers who have been targeted, we’ve created a guide on what to do if you’ve been doxed or placed on a watchlist. Please share it with anyone who needs it: pen.org/what-to-do-i... (2/2)

I wonder how long it will take for the Trump administration to realise that Antifa is not domestic, but international. What then?

Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs Moving into an RV may seem like a way to save money, but it can come with unexpected costs and trap families in a cycle of debt.

Priced out of the housing market, there's been an increase in the number of *families* living out of RVs.

Inflation, rising utility costs, and slowing employment options could exacerbate the trend.

But this isn't the picturesque #vanlife you might imagine.

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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, '1984'

Zoe Gardner, not "Gardiner"!

Zoe Gardiner, "The saddest thing I've heard about Trump's visit, is that he is going to get his golden carriage ride, but in private, because the great British public would have given him the rotten tomato treatment if he dared to show his face in public"

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson.

Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word.

This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

In Deutschland behaupten ja etliche Politiker*innen, man müsse die AfD "inhaltlich stellen" statt sie zu verbieten. Diese sollten sich Alexander Schmorells Warnung mal gründlich ansehen.
#AfDVerbot

A new essay from the Helsinki Notebooks! 👇

This will be a fascinating event! Make sure to attend if you are in Hamburg!

Kasper Brasken

Time for a new introduction: I am a historian of 20th century political history. Passionate about transnational and global history. Did my PhD on German communism, internationalism and solidarity. Currently working on global antifascism. researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/k...

Donald Trump is having a lovechild with Satan: South Park sets up future chaos At times, the latest episode of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s comedy feels like it’s running out of ammo when tackling the US President. But might it just be sowing the seeds of what’s to come?

Donald Trump is having a lovechild with Satan: South Park sets up future chaos

Polisens jätterazzia mot nazistbutiken Midgård Här slår polisen till mot nazistbutiken Midgård i Alingsås. Bilderna inifrån butikens lager visar på tusentals skivor och mängder med kläder som är redo att skickas till Europas nazister. Nu åtalas de...

Expressen: Här är polisens razzia mot den svenska nazibutiken www.expressen.se/nyheter/krim...

The Children of Gaza – Night Skies The night sky lights up with stars and timeless lullabies for children in South Africa.Palestinian children no longer see the gentleness of the moon. Only the glow of blood born of massive bombs Mo…

To the children of #Gaza - a powerful new poem by Ncebakazi Makwetu, published in the new "Visions" Series of The Helsinki Notebooks: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/08/29/t...

Opinion | Concentration camps are not just part of our past, but our present and future From David M. Perry: From Minnesota’s Fort Snelling to Japanese internment camps to Florida's Alligator Alcatraz, these camps have become an American tradition.

I wrote about American concentration camps.

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Common Sense about Negotiations For Americans about Ukraine

As Ukrainian and European leaders travel to Washington for discussions in the White House this Monday about ending Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Americans would do well to remember ten principles of negotiation.
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The enormity of the attacks on Ukraine is impossible to grasp. Let me show you the horror of a single day | Oleksandr Mykhed The rumble, the explosions and the deaths: they are so frequent that they seem normal. It’s a fight to protect our homes, our cities and the psyche, says author Oleksandr Mykhed

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Man Up: The New Misogyny & the Rise of Violent Extremism

In Man Up, @milleridriss.bsky.social, a leading expert on extremism, reveals how an epidemic of misogyny—both online and off—and a patriarchal backlash are driving an exponential rise in mass and far-right violence.

Out next month. Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Neo-Nazi Teenagers Across America Starting Their Own Active Clubs A dangerous new front in youth radicalization is spreading across the U.S., as neo-Nazi "Youth Clubs" modeled on the white supremacist Active Club network gain traction among teens aged 15 to 18. With...

Neo-Nazi “Youth Clubs” are forming across the U.S., targeting boys aged 15 to 18 with white supremacist propaganda, MMA training, and recruitment tactics modeled after the violent Active Club network. Active in at least 42 states, the movement is spreading both online and offline.

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Hello new followers! Interested in the history of #antifascism and resistance? Here is a short thread about the edited volumes and special issues that I have had the privilege to co-edit. All containing contributions by stellar authors with new exciting perspectives. Share if you like! /1

I wrote a little blog post about scanning these issues, with link to the Dropbox folder

hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/s...