The Helsinki Notebooks is an academic journal that unites scholars, activists, and cultural practitioners in rigorous, comparative analysis of resistance to far-right politics, examining its historical, strategic, and future dimensions at intersections with colonial legacies, racism, gendered oppression, and state violence.
The journal’s mission is to study how authoritarian and far-right formations emerge, adapt, and persist, and to understand how communities, movements, and intellectual traditions respond to them across local, national, and global contexts. Rooted in political history and informed by interdisciplinary approaches, it traces the connections between past and present struggles, the strategies of resistance, and the broader social, political, and cultural dynamics that shape them.
Key questions that guide the journal’s work include:
- How has anti-fascism emerged and evolved across specific historical and political contexts?
- In what ways have resistance strategies adapted to shifting forms of far-right power and authoritarianism?
- What solidarities — and tensions — have shaped alliances among racialised communities, feminist and queer movements, and the radical left?
- How do struggles against authoritarianism intersect with colonial legacies, extractivism, and racial capitalism?
- What roles do memory, history, and intergenerational transmission play in sustaining resistance across time and place?
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