Shane Little
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Researcher of anarchism and US radicalism. Podcaster: Little | Bigger | Anarchism. 🍉
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The Helsinki Notebooks
6 days ago
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.
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Chagos: British Necropolitics in the Age of Decolonisation
Introduction: From Paradise to Haunting Monument The Chagossians are a Creole people whose belonging and identity were once anchored in the Chagos Archipelago, shaped by the rythms of a gentle comm…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/03/16/chagos-british-necropolitics-in-the-age-of-decolonisation/
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Excited that my chapter on the history of anti-fascism in Croydon will be included in a new volume to be published by
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Forthcoming Edited Volume: Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity
In June 2025, the University of Helsinki’s Locating Global Protest (LGP) project team (PI: Kasper Braskén; postdoctoral researchers: Moshumee Dewoo and Shane Little) hosted the conference “Imaginin…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/03/02/forthcoming-edited-volume-imagining-the-anti-fascist-city-contested-geographies-of-resistance-and-solidarity/
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The Helsinki Notebooks
2 months ago
Introducing the forgotten mother of South African liberation, Zainunissa “Cissie” Gool, who envisioned an inclusive, feminist, and radically transformative South African democracy.
#CapeTown
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Mandela, the Father of the South African Nation: And Gool, the Mother It Chose to Forget
In the final years of apartheid and the dawn of independence (1990s), South Africa faced the immense task of reconstructing itself, united this time, despite its manifold differences, as one people…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/01/15/mandela-the-father-of-the-south-african-nation-and-gool-the-mother-it-chose-to-forget/
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The Helsinki Notebooks
3 months ago
What does the criminalization of Antifa mean? Stanislav Vysotsky (leading expert on US antifascism) explains the severity of the situation in this new essay:
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The Criminalization of Antifa
In the wake of the shooting of Charlie Kirk, and in response to ongoing protests against snatch and grab raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, the Trump administrat…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/12/16/the-criminalization-of-antifa/
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Kasper Braskén
3 months ago
Hello new followers! Be sure to follow "The Helsinki Notebooks: Global Dispatches against Fascism and the Far Right"
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, edited by Dr. Shane Little
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, Dr. Moshumee Dewoo and myself. We offer a global perspective on antifascist history and politics.
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The Helsinki Notebooks
4 months ago
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:
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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…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/12/01/the-politics-behind-the-612-torchlight-procession/
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The Helsinki Notebooks
4 months ago
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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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…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/11/17/aboriginal-leadership-and-anti-fascist-protest-in-australia/
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New episode of Little | Bigger | Anarchism is live. We chat with Peterson Silva on an anarchist conception of freedom. Check it out!
#anarchism
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An Anarchist Conception of Freedom with Peterson Silva - November 2025
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Kasper Braskén
5 months ago
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:
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The Helsinki Notebooks
5 months ago
In our latest essay, Andrés Brink Pinto (Lund University) discusses the differences between antifascist and fascist masculinity and their complex relations to violence.
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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...
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/10/15/masculinity-a-useful-concept-to-understand-fascism-and-anti-fascism/
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Kasper Braskén
6 months ago
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
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A quick dive by myself into Thyra J. Edwards' politics on race and anti-fascism for The Helsinki Notebooks.
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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...
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/10/01/remembering-thyra-j-edwards-anti-fascism-race-internationalism-and-world-building/
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Anarchist Studies
6 months ago
And, in the fourth article in this issue,
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introduces a previously unknown article by Voltarine de Cleyre, 'The Economic Phase of Anarchism', which is printed here. (4/8)
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Working Class History
7 months ago
#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
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The Helsinki Notebooks
8 months ago
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
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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…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/08/04/reclaiming-the-dabrowszczacy-memory-battles-and-antifascism-in-post-communist-poland/
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Kasper Braskén
9 months ago
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👇
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The Helsinki Notebooks
10 months ago
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.
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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…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/15/the-nemesis-of-fascism-faith-exclusion-and-migrant-lives/
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The Helsinki Notebooks
11 months ago
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!
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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.…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/07/imagining-the-anti-fascist-city-contested-geographies-of-resistance-and-solidarity-conference-5-6-june-2025-university-of-helsinki-finland/
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The Helsinki Notebooks
11 months ago
!! Read our latest essay by Ylva Perera on antifascist poetics, collective guilt and the role of art in resisting fascism !!
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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…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/04/15/the-writer-the-witch-and-jesus-the-prose-of-mirjam-tuominen-and-fiction-writing-as-an-antifascist-practice-in-the-1930s-and-40s/
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The Helsinki Notebooks
12 months ago
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
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new essay in The Helsinki Notebooks:
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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…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/04/01/erasing-the-yugoslav-revolution-mis-remembering-antifascism-in-serbia-and-the-post-yugoslav-space/
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The Helsinki Notebooks
about 1 year ago
Keira Anderson and
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have written an original essay for The Helsinki Notebooks: "Thinking Toward an Anti-Fascist Politic: Lessons from Buen Vivir and Pluriversality" /
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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…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/03/17/thinking-toward-an-anti-fascist-politic-lessons-from-buen-vivir-and-pluriversality/
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Co-authored a piece that is working towards a decolonial approach to antifascism.
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about 1 year ago
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The Helsinki Notebooks
about 1 year ago
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.
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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 …
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/03/03/remembering-dockworkers-and-their-fight-against-fascism/
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Jon Bigger
about 1 year ago
Resist Trump - Mar 15 - Trafalgar Sq - London - Noon I sat down with
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to discuss Trumpism and what any of us can do about it.
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Resisting Trump - February 2025
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The Helsinki Notebooks
about 1 year ago
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":
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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…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/02/17/rhodesias-settler-fascism-and-the-radical-imagination-of-liberation-reclaiming-anti-colonial-resistance-in-the-shadow-of-global-white-supremacy/
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New year, new archival work on Benjamin Tucker's publishing activities.
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Visited Walden Pond today...
about 1 year ago
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Christmas reading sorted 😏
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Jon Bigger
over 1 year ago
Catching up with
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and others over lunch - plotting potential podcast episodes and generally putting the world to rights.
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The Helsinki Notebooks
over 1 year ago
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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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…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2024/12/16/sacred-activism/
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The Helsinki Notebooks
over 1 year ago
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
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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…
https://helsinkinotebooks.com/2024/12/02/revisiting-brazilian-antifascism-continuities-of-a-transnational-movement/
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Jon Bigger
over 1 year ago
Here’s our latest offering - discussing the book “Fight for a New Normal?”
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Great piece on the lessons we can learn from Josiah Warren and his enduring relevance.
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over 1 year ago
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William C.
over 1 year ago
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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Anarchism & Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis with Jim Donaghey
Little | Bigger | Anarchism · Episode
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over 1 year ago
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New piece I wrote on what the Trump victory means for contemporary (US) anti-fascism.
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