**Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook** is a 2017 book by Mark Bray that
discusses the history and philosophy behind the
[anti-fascist](Anti-Fascism "wikilink") movement.

## Summary

### One: <em>¡No Pasarán\!</em>: Anti-Fascism Through 1945

### Two: “Never Again”: The Development of Modern Antifa, 1945–2003

### Three: The Rise of “Pinstripe Nazis” and Anti-Fascism Today

### Four: Five Historical Lessons for Anti-Fascists

This chapter draws on five key lessons that the anti-fascist movement
must learn in order to become more effective. They are:

1.  Fascist revolutions have never succeeded. Fascists gained power
    legally
2.  To varying degrees, many interwar anti-fascist leaders and theorists
    assumed that fascism was simply a variant of traditional
    counterrevolution politics. They did not take it seriously enough
    until it was too late.
3.  For ideological and organizational reasons, socialist and communist
    leadership was often slower to assess the threat of fascism, and
    slower to advocate militant anti-fascist responses, than their
    parties rank-and-file membership.
4.  Fascism steals from left ideology, strategy, imagery and culture.
5.  It doesn't take many fascists to make fascism.

### Five: “So Much for the Tolerant Left\!”: “No Platform” and Free Speech

### Six: Strategy, (Non)Violence, and Everyday Anti-Fascism

### Conclusion: Good Night White Pride (or Whiteness Is Indefensible)

## External Links

  - [Antifa: The Antifascist
    Handbook](https://libcom.org/library/antifa-anti-fascist-handbook)
    at [libcom](libcom "wikilink")