To start off in antifascist thought
Bray, Mark, Antifa, the Anti-Fascist Handbook, Melville House, 2017.
As long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism — also known as “antifa.” Born out of resistance to Mussolini and Hitler, the antifa movement has suddenly burst into the headlines amidst opposition to the Trump administration and the alt-right. Based on interviews with anti-fascists from around the world, Antifa details the tactics of the movement and the philosophy behind it, offering insight into the growing but little-understood resistance fighting back against fascism in all its guises.
Eco, Umberto, How to spot a fascist, Random House UK, 2020
How to spot a fascist is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance – including Eco’s iconic essay ‘Ur-Fascism’, which lists the fourteen essential characteristics of fascism, and draws on his own personal experiences growing up in the shadow of Mussolini.
Hill, Gord, The Antifa comic book: revised and expanded, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025.
With fascism in our midst, Indigenous artist Gord Hill revises and expands his brilliant graphic history of fascism and anti-fascist movements. When it was first published in 2018, Gord Hill’s The Antifa Comic Book was heralded for its searing imagery documenting the history of fascism and anti-fascist movements over the last century. In the years since its publication, the term “antifa” has been co-opted by the right to falsely describe far-left political extremism and even terrorism. But the role played by antifa movements in fighting fascism and racism around the world remains as relevant and important as ever.
The Current Situation Of The Far Right In Québec In 2026, Montréal Antifasciste
Three years have passed since the last report outlining the state of the far- right was released by Montréal Antifasciste in the spring of 2023. To put it mildly, the situation has not improved, either in Québec or elsewhere. For the most part, history has continued to move in the wrong direction.
On the international stage, Russia’s war of aggression is bogged down in Ukraine; the Israeli government, controlled by the country’s most fanatical elements, has carried out a genocide in full view of the entire world, taking advantage of the active complicity of the United States and the pitiful inaction of the rest of the Western world; seventy-seven million Americans re-elected a fascist pedophile rapist as president, plunging their country and the entire world into a state of chronic instability, of which the brutal Israeli-American aggression in Iran and Lebanon is merely the most recent grotesque manifestation. At the same time, the caste of technofascist oligarchs has tightened its grip on the instruments of algorithmic capitalism, including “artificial intelligence,” the consequences of which are impossible to predict.