The Helsinki Notebooks (ISSN 2984-5343) is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed online journal launched in 2024 as part of the University of Helsinki’s Locating Global Protest Against the Extreme Right (LGP) project.
The journal brings together scholars, activists, and cultural practitioners dedicated to popularising the histories, strategies, and futures of resistance to far-right politics, particularly where these shed light on both the complexity of far-right formations and the diverse responses they provoke, intersecting with colonialism, racism, gendered oppression, and state violence.
Published bi-weekly, the journal features essays, field reports, archival reflections, and creative works grounded in critical scholarship and interdisciplinary dialogue, typically under 800 words, with flexibility for exceptional or experimental submissions.
Volume 1 (2024-2025) included over 20 contributions addressing state violence, racial nationalism, and cultural repression, with examples ranging from Latin American grassroots movements to African decolonial efforts and Balkan feminist initiatives.
Volume 2 (2025–2026) built on this foundation by emphasising experimental approaches, theoretical innovations, and principled global solidarities. Essays examined topics ranging from colonial laboratories of fascism in India and British necropolitics in Chagos to Welsh working-class identity, Cuban maternal antifascism, and the weaponization of WWII memory in Ukraine.
Volume 3 (2026–2027), launched on 1 October 2026, advances the journal’s mission with a special call for contributions examining how anti-fascist practice takes shape through art, music, fashion, gender, queerness, street culture, digital spaces, and community action—broadening traditional views on where anti-fascism occurs and who engages in it.
Co-founded and edited by Kasper Braskén, Moshumee Dewoo, and Shane Little, The Helsinki Notebooks welcomes contributions that advance critical reflection, foster informed exchange, and expand understanding of how communities worldwide confront far-right politics.