An Anti-Fascist Bibliography

S. E. Wigget
4 min readJul 3, 2024

It’s high time we read up on antifascism, such as how activists have fought fascism in the past.

The front cover of Militant Anti-fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance by M. Testa (2015)

Fascism is on the rise around the world, and in the U. S. it’s blatant. I know — I’m stating the obvious. I first became aware of fascism after the 2020 election, when the Supreme Court gave Dubby-Shrubby-Poo the presidency. I became more acutely aware of it in reaction to the 2016 election results.

The need to read books on resistance again hit me extra hard right after the presidential debate — enabling and normalizing fascism and letting that dictator-wannabe spew lies and projecting unchecked. That dictator-wannabe belongs behind bars, not in a presidential race. (I’m all for abolition, but… not in this case. Fascists doing white-collar crime belong behind bars.) Meanwhile, mainstream American media — such as the New York Times — is enabling and normalizing fascism.

I’m old and disabled, so I don’t see myself fighting fascists in the streets. But I can share book reviews and my anti-fascist bibliography online (especially on Medium). Knowledge is power and all that.

I began collecting resistance and anti-fascist books shortly after the 2016 election. I don’t remember when I first began this bibliography, but it was probably circa 2018, after Brat KavaNO joined the Supreme Court, which is now dominated by fascists who…

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