Super excited that my chapter on the US individualist anarchists has been published in the second edition of the Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism. Check it out below and big thanks and congrats to @msadams.bsky.social link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

A fresh episode of Little Bigger Anarchism for you. I really enjoyed this chat with @stephaniewanga.bsky.social and of course @shanealittle.bsky.social

New episode of Little | Bigger | Anarchism with Stephanie Wanga. We chat with Wanga about their research on anarchism in Africa and African Politics and thinking about anarchism beyond the Western lens. Check it out. open.spotify.com/episode/7Lir...

The first episode in this series introduces the book and its arguments. Listen to David Gordon Scott and Emma Bell on 'Envisioning Abolition - Back to Black?' here, or search for 'Anarchist Essays' wherever you find your podcasts. bit.ly/43hSzuf (2/2)

Vishal Verma interviews Luna Sabastian about her recent book, “Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva,” which traces the emergence of Hindu nationalism—with its corresponding ideas of religion, race, and caste—to "the global fascist moment" of the interwar years. @harvardpress.bsky.social

Together with Sarah Albientz, Claire Aniel-Buchheit, Thomas Beugniet, Thomas Caubet, Léo Grillet and Léo Laglenne, I'm putting together a conference on Anarchist Spaces from c. 1870 to today. The CFP is here: echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event... Abstracts expected by 26 June!

Really good read on a neglected history of May Day.

A brief write up on the Anarchist Studies Network activities at this year's PSA conference. Anarchademics descend on Oxford freedomnews.org.uk/2026/04/10/a...

Yanee Dewoo (University of Mauritius) writes in the latest THN essay on the necropolitics of Anglo-American colonialism, the contestations over the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, and the efforts to mobilise cultural resistance in exile. helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/03/16/c...

Excited that my chapter on the history of anti-fascism in Croydon will be included in a new volume to be published by @histmat.bsky.social / @degruyterbrill.bsky.social! helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/03/02/f... @helsinkinotebooks.bsky.social @kasperbrasken.bsky.social @shanealittle.bsky.social

Introducing the forgotten mother of South African liberation, Zainunissa “Cissie” Gool, who envisioned an inclusive, feminist, and radically transformative South African democracy. #CapeTown #SouthAfrica #resistance helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/01/15/m...

What does the criminalization of Antifa mean? Stanislav Vysotsky (leading expert on US antifascism) explains the severity of the situation in this new essay: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/12/16/t...

Hello new followers! Be sure to follow "The Helsinki Notebooks: Global Dispatches against Fascism and the Far Right" @helsinkinotebooks.bsky.social, edited by Dr. Shane Little @shanealittle.bsky.social, Dr. Moshumee Dewoo and myself. We offer a global perspective on antifascist history and politics.

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...

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. helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/11/17/a...

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:

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...

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 !

A quick dive by myself into Thyra J. Edwards' politics on race and anti-fascism for The Helsinki Notebooks. helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/10/01/r...

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. (4/8)

#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...

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👇

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.

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...

!! 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...

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...

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.

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 helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/03/03/r...

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.

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.

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.

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?" helsinkinotebooks.com/2024/12/16/s...

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:

Here’s our latest offering - discussing the book “Fight for a New Normal?” @shanealittle.bsky.social

Great piece on the lessons we can learn from Josiah Warren and his enduring relevance.

Those who go out into the world and do as much work as possible to change conditions can't have a narrow perspective about people. The web of conflicts and contradictions is too intricate to think you get active just because you'll get something in return. This isn't a fantasy; it's an ugly world.

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New piece I wrote on what the Trump victory means for contemporary (US) anti-fascism.