Read on TwitterHere’s an easy to follow (hopefully) Thread of Threads we’ve put together to help followers learn more about general trends in contemporary & historical fascism & anti-fascism as well as some specific instances relating to particular events
DEFINITIONS OF FASCISM
Thread is a mega-compilation of quotes from scholars & activists defining fascism.
If you want to know who the enemy is and what they believe & want to achieve, start here https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1264177193523044352">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Thread is a mega-compilation of quotes from scholars & activists defining fascism.
If you want to know who the enemy is and what they believe & want to achieve, start here https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1264177193523044352">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
VARIETIES OF FASCISM
Thread exploring how fascism mutated in the postwar era with a variety of ideological & syncretic currents drawing from right & left & perpetuated by small cadres - groupuscules - rather than the mass parties of classic interwar fascism https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1265973926519279616">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Thread exploring how fascism mutated in the postwar era with a variety of ideological & syncretic currents drawing from right & left & perpetuated by small cadres - groupuscules - rather than the mass parties of classic interwar fascism https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1265973926519279616">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
TRANSNATIONAL EXTREME RIGHT
Thread with sources explaining how postwar extreme right organised transnationally. While Fascism & Nazism were forever tainted as ideologies because of association with horrors of Holocaust, extreme right sought to rebrand & rebuild across borders https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1108207460769320961">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Thread with sources explaining how postwar extreme right organised transnationally. While Fascism & Nazism were forever tainted as ideologies because of association with horrors of Holocaust, extreme right sought to rebrand & rebuild across borders https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1108207460769320961">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
VARIETIES OF ANTI-FASCISM
Thread tracing different manifestations of anti-fascism over a century outlining key moments of resistance, range of participants, & tactical & ideological evolution & variation.
If you want to know historical tradition #antifa comes from, start here https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1269638608539049985">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Thread tracing different manifestations of anti-fascism over a century outlining key moments of resistance, range of participants, & tactical & ideological evolution & variation.
If you want to know historical tradition #antifa comes from, start here https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1269638608539049985">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
LABOUR PARTY DID NOT LEAD FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM
Thread with historical sources outlining why it is is wrong for Labour Party to claim mantle of anti-fascism in UK when it belongs to Jewish groups, BAME groups, anarchists, communists, Trotskyists & independent anti-fascists https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1044726519250083840">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Thread with historical sources outlining why it is is wrong for Labour Party to claim mantle of anti-fascism in UK when it belongs to Jewish groups, BAME groups, anarchists, communists, Trotskyists & independent anti-fascists https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1044726519250083840">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
TERROR FROM UK EXTREME RIGHT
Thread details convictions in UK of extreme right activists who were involved in terrorism, violence & murder.
Core of fascist vision for society is ethnic cleansing & genocide. These are UK extreme right activists who wanted to make that reality https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1072176860107202560">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Thread details convictions in UK of extreme right activists who were involved in terrorism, violence & murder.
Core of fascist vision for society is ethnic cleansing & genocide. These are UK extreme right activists who wanted to make that reality https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1072176860107202560">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
NAZI BOOK BURNING
Thread explaining historical background to Nazis burning books.
Why was it organised? Who did they target? What measures did they take? What happened at the book burnings? What was the aftermath? https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1259555946222796803">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Thread explaining historical background to Nazis burning books.
Why was it organised? Who did they target? What measures did they take? What happened at the book burnings? What was the aftermath? https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1259555946222796803">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
GREENSBORO MASSACRE
Thread provides detail on massacre in 1979 when Klan & neo-Nazis shot dead 5 anti-fascist activists.
Massacre took place with connivance of police & FBI who had informers in extreme right.
Fight for justice took many years hampered by institutional racism https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1190979339678031873">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Thread provides detail on massacre in 1979 when Klan & neo-Nazis shot dead 5 anti-fascist activists.
Massacre took place with connivance of police & FBI who had informers in extreme right.
Fight for justice took many years hampered by institutional racism https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1190979339678031873">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
DANGERS OF EMERGENCY LEGISLATION
Short thread on anniversary of Nazi enabling act to remind people that measures taken in times of crisis (like global pandemic) should be treated with vigilance in case measures taken in extremis become normalised at great risk to civil liberties https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1242022282303848453">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Short thread on anniversary of Nazi enabling act to remind people that measures taken in times of crisis (like global pandemic) should be treated with vigilance in case measures taken in extremis become normalised at great risk to civil liberties https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1242022282303848453">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
ITALIAN NEO-FASCISM: A READING LIST
Thread is intro to scholarly & journalistic investigations into ‘strategy of tension’ era in Italy which was proxy version of Cold War struggle between state sponsored far-right & far-left. Very complex subject but these books help to explain https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1258101722628665344">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Thread is intro to scholarly & journalistic investigations into ‘strategy of tension’ era in Italy which was proxy version of Cold War struggle between state sponsored far-right & far-left. Very complex subject but these books help to explain https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1258101722628665344">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
CONTEMPORARY FAR RIGHT IN GERMANY
This is a thread of academic scholarship on contemporary German far right including AFD, PEGIDA & neo-Nazi terrorism https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1256635827611996161">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
This is a thread of academic scholarship on contemporary German far right including AFD, PEGIDA & neo-Nazi terrorism https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1256635827611996161">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
WOMEN & ANTI-FASCISM
Short thread for International Women’s Day commemorating various examples of women fighting back against fascism from interwar era to the present https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1103922507088715776">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Short thread for International Women’s Day commemorating various examples of women fighting back against fascism from interwar era to the present https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1103922507088715776">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
WHEN ECO-EXTREMISM BECOMES ECO-FASCISM
Thread looks at group ITS Individualidades tendiendo a lo Salvaje, ITS (Individualists Tending Toward the Wild)
They started as supposedly anarchist group in Mexico before rejecting anarchism & morphing to eco-fascist accelerationism https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1263428119651913729">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Thread looks at group ITS Individualidades tendiendo a lo Salvaje, ITS (Individualists Tending Toward the Wild)
They started as supposedly anarchist group in Mexico before rejecting anarchism & morphing to eco-fascist accelerationism https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1263428119651913729">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
Thread exploring & celebrating most famous anti-fascist protest in UK history with links to other sources & resources & multiple accounts of the events that took place on October 4th 1936. Includes some critical/sceptical accounts https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/915493869814452225">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Thread exploring & celebrating most famous anti-fascist protest in UK history with links to other sources & resources & multiple accounts of the events that took place on October 4th 1936. Includes some critical/sceptical accounts https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/915493869814452225">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
RECOMMENDED READING LIST
We have done a number of threads on recommended reading on far-right, fascism, Nazism & anti-fascism. This one covers most recently published & forthcoming titles https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1254012678743511040">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
We have done a number of threads on recommended reading on far-right, fascism, Nazism & anti-fascism. This one covers most recently published & forthcoming titles https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1254012678743511040">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
CULTURAL MARXISM
Here’s our thread explaining the origins of this common far-right conspiracy theory, what it means & how it was disseminated from the fringe to the mainstream as well as looking at some contemporary examples https://twitter.com/ffrafaction/status/937747970061225984?s=21">https://twitter.com/ffrafacti... https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/937747970061225984">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Here’s our thread explaining the origins of this common far-right conspiracy theory, what it means & how it was disseminated from the fringe to the mainstream as well as looking at some contemporary examples https://twitter.com/ffrafaction/status/937747970061225984?s=21">https://twitter.com/ffrafacti... https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/937747970061225984">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
FASCISM & FAR RIGHT IN IRELAND
A short thread with a list of suggested books to read to learn more about historical development of Irish far right https://twitter.com/ffrafaction/status/1226184376809115648?s=21">https://twitter.com/ffrafacti... https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1226184376809115648">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
A short thread with a list of suggested books to read to learn more about historical development of Irish far right https://twitter.com/ffrafaction/status/1226184376809115648?s=21">https://twitter.com/ffrafacti... https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1226184376809115648">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
EXTREME RIGHT IN INTERWAR AMERICA - A READING LIST
Just to add to the thread of threads, our guide to the literature on fascism in the US between the wars
https://twitter.com/ffrafaction/status/1293030066855829509?s=21">https://twitter.com/ffrafacti... https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1293030066855829509">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Just to add to the thread of threads, our guide to the literature on fascism in the US between the wars
https://twitter.com/ffrafaction/status/1293030066855829509?s=21">https://twitter.com/ffrafacti... https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1293030066855829509">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
ANTI-FASCISM - A READING LIST
Thread of English language books exploring the history of anti-fascism from 1920s to the present day.
Focuses on UK and US in particular although also features some titles with regional or global focus. https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1300506113616621568">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Thread of English language books exploring the history of anti-fascism from 1920s to the present day.
Focuses on UK and US in particular although also features some titles with regional or global focus. https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1300506113616621568">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
BEST BOOKS OF 2020 ON FASCISM, ANTI-FASCISM, FAR-RIGHT & RACISM https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1337545575697440768">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
WHAT IS THE OVERLAP BETWEEN CHIVALRIC KNIGHTLY ORDERS & THE FAR RIGHT?
This thread looks at this within the US context from the 1920s onwards focusing in particular on the Shickshinny Knights, a chivalric order that attracted far-right ex-military & ex-CIA personnel https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1338973130400870402">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
This thread looks at this within the US context from the 1920s onwards focusing in particular on the Shickshinny Knights, a chivalric order that attracted far-right ex-military & ex-CIA personnel https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1338973130400870402">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Our first thread 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread"> of 2021 with a recap of books on fascism, far-right & anti-fascism from late 2020, and looking forward to some important new titles publishing in the first half of 2021 https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1349017845800329216">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
This thread summarises in one place the best pieces we have read on the post-Trump future of the American far right https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1350800328111874049">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
GLOBAL ANTI-FASCIST MONITORING ACCOUNTS TWEETING IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGES
Trying to break through the Anglophone bias in anti-fascism, this is a Threadhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread"> with details of primarily non-English language anti-fascists https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1355933620322635784">https://twitter.com/FFRAFActi...
Trying to break through the Anglophone bias in anti-fascism, this is a Thread
