‘The dark millions in the colonies are unavenged’: Anti-fascism and anti-imperialism in the 1930s by Buchanan, T

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Fascism, war and the British officer class: the case of Robert Gordon-Canning by Heyen-Dubé, T

Images of Italian Mathematics in France: The Latin sisters, from Risorgimento to fascism, by Frédéric Brechenmacher et al. (eds) by D Hollings, C

African anti-colonialism and the ultramarinos of the Casa dos Estudantes do Império by Reza, A

“…I situate this dilaectical approach in the context of Portuguese fascism, paying particular attention to the political poetry published in Mensagem, and analyzing the ways in which members of the Casa imagined their relationship to other African anti-colonial movements.…”

"If one day that hour returns". The New Left between anti-fascist memories and Third Worldism by Brazzoduro, A

“…A whole generation of activists appropriated the memory of the anti-fascist Resistance, giving it a function that was not simply defensive but also proactive and merging the myth of the “betrayed Resistance” with the idea of imperialism as the “new Fascism”. The European civil war, which Enzo Traverso has defined the distinctive feature of the first half of the twentieth century, was thus reconfigured worldwide as a “global civil war”.…”

Parkour Fails and Hébertisme: laughing at the New Man by Smith, M

“…While parkour athletes do not endorse fascism, many promote their practice with a rhetoric of decadence and decline, return to nature, and masculine power that echoes Vichy’s New Man ideology. …”

Racism in the theory canon: Hannah Arendt and 'the one great crime in which America was never involved' by Owens, P

“…Hannah Arendt’s monumental study The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, is a founding text in postcolonial studies, locating the seeds of European fascism in the racism of imperial expansion. However, Arendt also harboured deep racial prejudices, especially when writing about people of African descent, which affected core themes in her political thought. …”

"Se un giorno tornasse quell'ora": la nuova sinistra tra eredità antifascista e terzomondismo by Brazzoduro, A

“…A generation of activists re-appropriated the narrative of the Resistance as not merely defensive but proactive, merging the myth of the "betrayed Resistance" with the image of imperialism as the "new fascism". The European civil war, identified by Enzo Traverso as the main feature of the first half of the 20th century, was hence reconfigured anew worldwide as a "global civil war".…”