The US Antifascism ReaderBill V. Mullen, Christopher Vials How anti-fascism is as American as apple pie Since the birth of fascism in the 1920s, well before the global renaissance of “white nationalism,” the United States has been home to its own distinct fascist movements, some of which decisively influenced the course of US history. Yet long before “antifa” became a household word in the United States, they were met, time and again, by an equally deep antifascist current. Many on the left are unaware that the United States has a rich antifascist tradition, because it has rarely been discussed as such, nor has it been accessible in one place. This reader reconstructs the history of US antifascism into the twenty-first century, showing how generations of writers, organizers, and fighters spoke to each other over time. Spanning the 1930s to the present, this chronologically-arranged, primary source reader is made up of antifascist writings by Americans and by exiles in the US, some instantly recognizable, others long-forgotten. It also includes a sampling of influential writings from the US fascist, white nationalist, and proto-fascist traditions. Its contents, mostly written by people embedded in antifascist movements, include a number of pieces produced abroad that deeply influenced the US left. The collection thus places US antifascism in a global context. |
Contents
Part | 17 |
Harry Ward Fascism and Race Hate 1934 | 40 |
Georgi Dimitrov Working Class Unity | 54 |
William Z Foster Fascist Tendencies in the United States 1935 | 64 |
W E B Du Bois Writings on National Socialism 1936 | 84 |
Charles Coughlin Not AntiSemitism | 97 |
American League for Peace and Democracy | 109 |
Felix Morrow All Races Creeds Join Picket Line 1939 | 122 |
Alson J Smith The McCarthy Falange 1954 | 234 |
Asa Carter and Jesse Mabry The Southerner 1956 | 244 |
Part | 253 |
Kathleen Cleaver Racism Fascism and Political Murder 1968 | 260 |
Black Panther Party Call for a United Front | 267 |
Old Mole UFAF Conference 1969 | 273 |
Ken Lawrence The Ku Klux Klan and Fascism 1982 | 289 |
Barbara Ehrenreich Foreword to Male Fantasies 1987 | 300 |
Avedis Derounian America First Meeting | 134 |
Franklin Roosevelt The Four Freedoms 1941 | 141 |
Henry Wallace The Danger of American Fascism 1944 | 161 |
Aimé Césaire from Discourse on Colonialism 1950 | 193 |
Civil Rights Congress We Charge Genocide 1951 | 202 |
Political Committee of the Socialist Workers Party | 218 |
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