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In Brazil, Bray's book was the target of a controversy involving the author and the so-called "Anti-Fascism Police Movement". A policeman published a photo of himself holding the book, to which the author replied that if he was really anti-fascist he should quit his job. Bray justified this later by stating that "it's kind of surprising from an American perspective to see such a political take by police officers. In the US, government workers in general just don't portray themselves as being so validly political, unless it's sort of in a right -wing direction. That's kind of strange because also like, theoretically if you take the position that police officers take, their job is to uphold the law. And so presumably their job is to stop fascist when they do something illegal as it is to stop anyone when they do something illegal, and anyone who doesn't do something illegal shouldn't be stopped. And so this notion of anti-fascist police officer to me is like sort of blurring the question of what is a police officer and what's their job".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schargel |first=Sergio |last2=Guimarães |first2=Julia de Oliveira Góes |date=2023-03-31 |title=Between Antifascism and Antifa: A Conversation with Mark Bray, Author of Antifa |url=http://www.scielo.br/j/rbh/a/NTRQWC8CGHQZnmmnYJktSyJ/?lang=en |journal=Revista Brasileira de História |language=en |volume=43 |pages=305–321 |doi=10.1590/1806-93472023v43n92-19 |issn=0102-0188}}</ref> |
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| Author | Mark Bray |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Keith Szarabajka |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Social movements |
| Publisher | Melville House |
Publication date | August 2017 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 978-1-61219-703-6 |
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook is a 2017 book written by historian Mark Bray and published by Melville House Publishing, which explores the history of anti-fascist movements since the 1920s and 1930s and their contemporary resurgence.
Content
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook details the emergence of anti-fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, and offers an analysis of contemporary anti-fascist movements, particularly antifa in the United States and Europe. Bray argues in his book that militant anti-fascism is a reasonable and legitimate political tradition, and describes his book as "an unabashedly partisan call to arms that aims to equip a new generation of anti-fascists with the history and theory necessary to defeat the resurgent far-right". Historical examples referred to in the book include the 43 Group, Rock Against Racism, the Red Warriors, and the Autonomen who popularized black bloc tactics.[1][2][3] It also details key events in the history of anti-fascist movements, such as the Battle of Cable Street.[4]
In addition to describing the history of anti-fascist movements, the book dedicates a chapter to "Five Historical Lessons for Anti-Fascists".[5][1] It discusses the subject of antifa as it relates to deplatforming and freedom of speech.[6][7][1] Interviews that Bray conducted with antifa activists are included in the book.[8][9] Bray conducted 61 such interviews across 17 different countries.[5][4] Bray uses the definition of fascism provided by Robert Paxton.[3][10] He defines anti-fascism as "illiberal politics of social revolutionism applied to fighting the Far Right, not only literal fascists".[10][11]
Reception
The San Francisco Chronicle praised the book's writing, calling Bray's analysis "methodical and informative" and his arguments "incisive and cohesive".[5][12]
Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post commented that "the book's most enlightening contribution is on the history of anti-fascist efforts over the past century, but its most relevant for today is its justification for stifling speech and clobbering white supremacists".[3]
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Luca Provenzano said that the book was "written from a commendable place of engagement and provides a serviceable genealogy for militant anti-fascism in the present", but was also critical of the book, saying that a "closer, more critical look at modern antifa's inception in the 1960s and '70s reveals some of the pitfalls of militant organizing, and a truly credible analysis of anti-fascist protest tactics would need to pay much closer attention to this period."[13]
Fred Shaw, writing in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, called the book "pointed with concise analysis provided by an insider’s perspective", but also said it was "not a page-turner".[10]
In Brazil, Bray's book was the target of a controversy involving the author and the so-called "Anti-Fascism Police Movement". A policeman published a photo of himself holding the book, to which the author replied that if he was really anti-fascist he should quit his job. Bray justified this later by stating that "it's kind of surprising from an American perspective to see such a political take by police officers. In the US, government workers in general just don't portray themselves as being so validly political, unless it's sort of in a right -wing direction. That's kind of strange because also like, theoretically if you take the position that police officers take, their job is to uphold the law. And so presumably their job is to stop fascist when they do something illegal as it is to stop anyone when they do something illegal, and anyone who doesn't do something illegal shouldn't be stopped. And so this notion of anti-fascist police officer to me is like sort of blurring the question of what is a police officer and what's their job".[14]
References
- ^ a b c Denton, Donald D. (January 2, 2021). "ANTIFA: The Anti-Fascist Handbook and From Fascism to Populism in History". Terrorism and Political Violence. 33 (1): 205–208. doi:10.1080/09546553.2021.1864970. ISSN 0954-6553. S2CID 231654301.
- ^ Mogelson, Luke. "In the Streets with Antifa". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
- ^ a b c Lozada, Carlos (September 1, 2017). "The history, theory and contradictions of antifa". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 3, 2017. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "Anti-fascist handbook explores long history of opposition movement". CBC Radio. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. August 24, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
- ^ a b c Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein (September 8, 2017). "'Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,' by Mark Bray". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
- ^ Burns, Chase (November 8, 2017). "Shut Up About Nazi-Punching and Pick Up Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook". The Stranger. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
- ^ Duford, Rochelle (January 30, 2019). "'Who is a Negator of History?' Revisiting the Debate over Left Fascism 50 Years after 1968". Journal of the American Philosophical Association. 5 (1). American Philosophical Association: 59–77. doi:10.1017/apa.2018.39. ISSN 2053-4477. S2CID 166995084.
- ^ Flood, Alison (August 22, 2017). "Antifa: the Anti-fascist Handbook – 'What Trump said made the book seem even more urgent'". The Guardian. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
- ^ Penny, Daniel (August 22, 2017). "An Intimate History of Antifa". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
- ^ a b c Shaw, Fred (November 5, 2017). "Mark Bray writes a roadmap to anti-fascist beliefs". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
- ^ Koch, Ariel (May 19, 2021). "The Non-Jihadi Foreign Fighters: Western Right-Wing and Left-Wing Extremists in Syria". Terrorism and Political Violence. 33 (4): 669–696. doi:10.1080/09546553.2019.1581614. ISSN 0954-6553. S2CID 197703519.
- ^ Tucker, Eric; Flaccus, Gillian; Madhani, Aamer (June 2, 2020). "A look at the antifa movement Trump is blaming for violence". San Francisco Chronicle. AP. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020.
- ^ Provenzano, Luca (October 21, 2017). "Street Fighting Men: Antifa's Origins in the '60s and '70s". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
- ^ Schargel, Sergio; Guimarães, Julia de Oliveira Góes (March 31, 2023). "Between Antifascism and Antifa: A Conversation with Mark Bray, Author of Antifa". Revista Brasileira de História. 43: 305–321. doi:10.1590/1806-93472023v43n92-19. ISSN 0102-0188.
