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• Resistance

  the LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII

  Cassell, Avery,

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  London, Paris, and Berlin were exciting and vibrant hubs for LGBT culture in Europe in the 1920s and early 1930s. All that changed with the rise of fascism and Hitler's power grab in 1933. LGBT people fought against the Nazis, but their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why We Fight

  Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse

  Burley, Shane

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  Why We Fight is a collection of essays written in the midst of the largest resurgence of the far-right in fifty years, and the explosion of antifascist, antiracist, and revolutionary organizing that has risen to fight it. The essays unpack…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How Fascism Works

  the Politics of Us and Them

  Stanley, Jason,

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  As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations don't have to be fascist to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blueprint for Revolution

  How to Use Rice Pudding, LEGO Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World

  Popović, Srđa,

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  Popovic outlines his philosophy for implementing peaceful world change and provides a model for activists everywhere through stories of his own experience toppling dictatorships (peacefully) and of smaller examples of social change.

• To Fight Against This Age

  on Fascism and Humanism

  Riemen, Rob, 1962-

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  An international bestseller, To Fight Against This Age consists of two beautifully written, cogent, and urgent essays about the rise of fascism and the ways in which we can combat it.

• We Refuse

  a Forceful History of Black Resistance

  Jackson, Kellie Carter,

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  Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Antifascism

  The Course of a Crusade

  Gottfried, Paul

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  This book deals with the continuing appeal of antifascism as a political concept and as a tool for fighting a real or imagined fascist enemy. Antifascism has undergone significant changes in how it has understood and combatted a perceived…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Who's Afraid of Gender?

  Butler, Judith, 1956-

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  A bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.

• Erasing History

  How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

  Stanley, Jason,

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  From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

• Why Civil Resistance Works

  The Strategic Logic Of Nonviolent Conflict

  Chenoweth, Erica • Stephan, Maria

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  By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It Did Happen Here

  An Antifascist People's History

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  Portland, Oregon, 1988. The brutal murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by racist skinheads shocked the city. In response disparate groups quickly came together to organize against white nationalist violence and right wing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Antifa Comic Book

  100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements

  Hill, Gord,

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  With a perceptive eye and a powerful sense of resolve, Gord Hill, author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years, and the concurrent antifa movements that have worked fastidiously…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Bold and Dangerous Family

  the Remarkable Story of An Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism

  Moorehead, Caroline,

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  The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything Is Possible

  Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism

  Fronczak, Joseph,

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  In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology, geography, race, language, and nationality. Joseph Fronczak shows how…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Late Fascism

  Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

  Toscano, Alberto,

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  Drawing especially on Black radical and anti-colonial theories of fascism, Toscano makes clear the limits of associating fascism primarily with the kind of political violence experienced by past European regimes.

• We Go Where They Go

  the Story of Anti-Racist Action

  Clay, Shannon,

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  We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for today's anti-fascist organizing in North America.

• Most Honorable Son

  A Forgotten Hero's Fight Against Fascism and Hate During World War II

  Jones, Gregg

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  The first comprehensive biography of unjustly forgotten war hero Ben Kuroki, a Japanese American farm boy from Nebraska who flew fifty-eight combat missions, fighting the Axis powers during World War II and battled racism, injustice, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fight Like Hell

  the Untold History of American Labor

  Kelly, Kim (Journalist),

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  In this definitive and assiduously researched work of journalism, Teen Vogue columnists and independent labor reporter Kim Kelly excavates that untold history and shows how the rights the American worker has today--the forty-hour workweek,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Antifa

  The Antifascist Handbook

  Bray, Mark

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  In the wake of tragic events in Charlottesville, VA, and Donald Trump's initial refusal to denounce the white nationalists behind it all, the "antifa" opposition movement is suddenly appearing everywhere. But what is it, precisely? And…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• That Librarian

  the Fight Against Book Banning in America

  Jones, Amanda,

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  Mapping the book banning crisis occurring all across the nation, That Librarian draws the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion, calling book lovers everywhere to rise in defense of our readers.