Thursday Seminars by Mark Bray

Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Trump’s United States 

Abstract

Mark Bray will speak about mounting authoritarianism in the United States through the lens of his experience fleeing the country after being targeted by the far right as a “domestic terrorist professor” for the publication of his 2017 book Antifa. He will analyze how the American far right has evolved over the past decade, how antifascist movements have responded, and what resistance to Trump and ICE looks like in the US today. Bray will situate such developments in a larger historical context and discuss what they mean for the future of far right politics in the US and Europe. 

Bio

Mark Bray is a historian of Modern Europe at Rutgers University focusing on themes of radicalism, political violence, and, more recently, scams. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook and The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists and Martyrs in Spain and France among other works.