Mark Bray

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Image of anarchist and other revolutionary workers holding flags and rifles atop an armored car.
Book cover featuring a burning Italian police vehicle. Title: From Riot to Insurrection by Tomás Rathaus
Poster with my face on it advertising “Fascismo y antifascismo en los EEUU” at Librería Ramon Llull
Tent with a banner that says “En esta casa defensem l’escola pública”
Poster for Confluencia de Luchas. My panel is at 11.
Photo of myself in front of a street sign that says “Passatge Walter Benjamin”
Mural of Lamine Yamal in Gaza where he is pictured raising the Palestinian flag.
Poster: Games Against Fascism May 19 4pm CET w/ Mark Bray and Marijam Did
Two paragraphs of the text starting with “The horror of The Tonight Show is perfected…”
Image of Thiago with text “Thiago is Free!”
Poster for talk: 21/05 18:30 El Casino De Washington a Catalunya: La Internacional reaccionaria
T-shirt with “Fuck Vox” written in a Wu-Tang logo design.
Image of the back of the book published by Momo Edizioni. It includes a synopsis of how the book discusses the criminalization of antifascism.
Black book cover for "Antifascismo Illegale" edited by Mattia Tombolini. It features an artistic depiction of a face behind which there are antifascists with flags and images of barbed wire and birds flying away.
Green book cover for: Michael Löwy, Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe
Poster with a photo of me and text “Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Trump’s United States” The address is Bvd. General Jacques 210 1050 Ixelles
Sticker displaying a black box with a red top around which is written “Archivists Against Fascism” in a black circle.
Banner at a march which says “Ni tradwives ni gymbros: por un transfeminismo anticapitalista contra la extrema derecha”
Green background with a bird spreading its wings. Text says: General Strike January 23. March downtown Mpls. Fascists not welcome. Protect each other. ICE OUT. No work. No school. No shopping.
Photo of Mark Bray for event Friday at 18:40 at the CCCB in Barcelona.
White mug with “Ama los libros, Odia el fascismo” written around red and black books
Page of text. “So what had changed? …The main reason was fascism.”
A page of text. The main takeaway from this page is the quote “For the mid-Depression Years—those years leading up to and culminating in the Spanish Civil War—were when the basic idea of the left as some great aggregate of people who find common cause with each other the world over finally took form.”
Book cover showing a fist and the title Everything is Possible: Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism by Joseph Fronczak.
Mural of antifascist red and black flags with the above text
Photo of me with Can Dündar in front of an open sky
147 weeks on the list 9 ON TYRANNY by Timothy SnyderCrown Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny. 10 New this week ANTIFA by Mark Bray Melville House The historian and scholar chronicles the anti-fascism movement from its opposition to Hitler and Mussolini to more recent events. 11 11 weeks on the list FRAMED by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey Vintage Our criminal justice system viewed through the struggles of 10 wrongfully convicted people to achieve exoneration.
La Pecera curso 2025-2026 Ciclo Viejos y Nuevos Fascismos Sesión Inaugural 24/11/2025 Ateneo La Maliciosa/ Calle de las Peñuelas 12 18:30 Presentación Ramón del Castillo (UNED) Conferencia Mark Bray (Rutgers University) 19:45 Debate Vicente Ordoñez (UNED)
Image of a monster next to someone dressed as a stereotypical anarchist with a circle a on their sweatshirt. Caption: “Hi. I’m the Boogeyman. A mythical creature used to frighten children into doing what they’re told. This is my buddy Antifa. He does the same thing but for Republican Adults.”
A Blue Lives Matter Punisher skull logo with the text "To Protect & Serve, Blue Lives Matter" but crossed out with three downward facing red arrows.
Mussolini and other fascists marching in black shirts
Photo of Gentile in a suit.
The fascist leaders themselves, as we observed in chapter 1, called their movements ideologies, and many interpreters have taken them at their word. It is commonplace to see fascism defined by extracting common threads from party programs, by analogy with the other “isms.” This works better for the other “isms,” founded in the era of educated elite politics. I tried earlier to suggest that fascism bears a different relation to ideas than the nineteenth-century “isms,” and that intellectual positions (not basic mobilizing passions like racial hatreds, of course) were likely to be dropped or added according to the tactical needs of the moment. All the “isms” did this, but only fascism had such contempt for reason and intellect that it never even bothered to justify its shifts.
Cover of The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton. It shows a woman giving a fascist salute.
“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument of Incorporated National Will…When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and that he will stand for everything traditionally American.” —Dorothy Thompson, 1935
A page of text from the essay with certain sections underlined. With dynamics already apparent from the early 2000s, but sharply worsening since2008-2010, the US polity has entered a steadily escalating version of the dual crisis outlined earlier, one suddenly magnifed and massively jolted by COVID-19: a crisis of cohesion, a crisis of legitimacy. Not only is the polity broken, but very large masses of people have stopped believing in its repair. On the one hand, we have the extreme atrophy of democratic practices in the state, whether inside the legislature or in the relations of the presidency, Senate/Congress, and Supreme Court; or in the attack on voting rights, voting access, and the conduct of elections; or in the curtailment of civil liberties and the scale and character of the carceral state. On the other hand, there is now a default conviction among the citizenry that government consists only in burdensomeness, corruption, incompetence, and nonaccountability– a still-widening popular belief in what I would call the nonintelligibility of power, the belief that power is exercised in a distant place, behind closed doors and opaque glass, by conspiracies of elites who are beholden to no one and simply do not care. crisis of consent; government paralysis, democratic impasse– the prospects can be severe indeed. If we add the fields of structural determation outlined briefly at the very start of this chapter, whose ruinous consequences are now immeasurably expanded and sharpened by the intervening calamity of the COVID-19 pandemic, the severity grows further again. The deeper structural setting will need to be fully proceeding from the huge transformations begun in the 1980s. Here, we need to talk about fundamental capitalist restructuring: deindustrialization and neoliberal globalization. We need to talk about drastic class recomposition, including the reorganization of work and labor circuits and the rewriting of the labor contract...etc
Cover of the book Fascism in America: Past and Present showing the Statue of Liberty doing a fascist salute.
Antifascist action red and black flags
Cover of the book “Another War is Possible” by Tomas Rothaus
The Anarchist of Chicago
London Anarchist-Socialist Groups. Chicago Martyrs Commemoration. A Mass Meeting will be held at the Holborn Town Hall. Gray’s Inn Road, W. C. Wednesday, November 11th, at 7.30 p. m. The speakers will be: Peter Kropotkin, Edward Carpenter, Tom Mann, Touzeau Parris, Louise Michel, John Turner, Lothrop Withington, Morrison Davidson, Jas. Tochatti, Ericco Malatesta, Frank Kitz, W. Banham, I. Caplan, J. Perry, Rudolph Rocker, Sam Mainwaring, H. Alsford, C. T. Quinn, and B. Leggatt.
The Struggle Against Fascism and White Supremacy in Spain: Past and Present. A virtual conversation with acclaimed journalist and writer Miquel Ramos and Mark Bray (History Department). Wednesday April 9, 12 pm est. Join us on Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/yfbaant6
A shamrock with a Palestinian flag inside.
Telegram dated Oct. 29, 1920. It reads: “Stoning of British Consulate at Barcelona. On hearing of the death of Lord Mayor of Cork some Catalan Separatists Students marched to British Consulate and broke some windows. Spanish Government have expressed their regret at nature of incident, which may now be considered as closed.”
Graffiti: “cualquier noche puede salir el sol” with a circle A after
Rutgers Must Divest from Genocide.