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This is an original and timely book with a stellar line-up of scholars. While research on the far right and fascism in Australia has grown over the years, anti-fascism and resistance have remained under explored and this book flls this signifcant gap magnifcently. Aurelien Mondon, University of Bath, UK This collection brings together the leading authorities on fascism and anti-fascism in Australia with a new generation working in the archives. It challenges our inherited understanding of the militant anti-fascism of the 1930s, and the early movements against the White Australia immigration regime. Lively and accessible, it documents the immediate predecessors to the racial populists of our own times, and the generations who resisted them. David Renton, author of No Free Speech for Fascists In a world where right wing extremism continues to fourish, this history of fascism and anti-fascism is both timely and illuminating. There is an impressive depth of empirical research together with insights drawn from global fascism and anti-fascism studies, and it’s all told with clarity and style. The chapters, by both well-established and emerging scholars, explore in depth the shifting relationships between extremist and mainstream political movements. A key theme is the manner in which Australia’s distinctive forms of racism – expressed in Indigenous and immigration policies, public discourse, and popular culture – have shaped its historical experience of fascist ideas and movements. Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia also explores the achievements as well as the limitations and failures of anti-fascist movements in the past, making for a multi-faceted and nuanced work of history with both scholarly and practical value. Ann Curthoys, Professor Emerita, Australian National University, and co-author with Shino Konishi and Alexandra Ludewig of The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A Biographical History of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island HISTORIES OF FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM IN AUSTRALIA Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia provides a history of fascist movements and anti-fascist resistance in Australia over the past century. In recent years, the far right has become a resurgent force across the globe, resulting in populist parties securing electoral victories, social movements organising on the streets, and acts of right-wing terrorism. Australia has not been immune to this. However, this is not merely a recent phenomenon; it has a long history of fascist and far-right groups and individuals. These groups have attempted to situate themselves within the wider settler colonial political landscape, often portraying themselves as the inheritors of a violent and exclusionary colonial past. Concurrently, these groups have linked into globalised anti-communist and white supremacist networks. At the same time, Australia has often seen resistance to fascism and the far right, from the political centre to the far left. Covering the period from the 1920s to the present day, and featuring insights from historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this book provides the most detailed account of this fascinating and important topic. This book will be of interest to students and activists with an interest in the extreme right and anti-fascism as well as Australian history, politics, and society. Evan Smith is Lecturer in History in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in South Australia. He is also Visiting Research Fellow with the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Jayne Persian is a historian, predominantly of Central and Eastern Europe displaced persons, many of whom migrated to Australia in the post-war period. She is Co-chief Investigator on a 2022–25 ARC Discovery Project: Russian Immigrants and Anti-Communism in Cold War Australia, 1946–1966. Vashti Jane Fox is a PhD student at the University of Western Australia. She writes on the history of anti-fascism in Australia in the post–World War II period. She is also a socialist activist and an anti-fascist agitator. Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right Series editors: Nigel Copsey, Teesside University, UK and Graham Macklin, Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo, Norway. This book series focuses upon national, transnational and global manifestations of fascist, far right and right-wing politics primarily within a historical context but also drawing on insights and approaches from other disciplinary perspectives. Its scope also includes anti-fascism, radical-right populism, extreme-right violence and terrorism, cultural manifestations of the far right, and points of convergence and exchange with the mainstream and traditional right. Titles include: The Nazi Party and the German Communities Abroad The Latin American Case João Fábio Bertonha and Rafael Athaides The Nature of Identitarianism Göran Dahl Nazi Occultism Between the SS and Esotericism Stéphane François Inside the Black Box of ‘White Backlash’ Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968–1969) Olivier Esteves Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia Edited by Evan Smith, Jayne Persian and Vashti Jane Fox For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Routledge- Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR HISTORIES OF FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM IN AUSTRALIA Edited by Evan Smith, Jayne Persian and Vashti Jane Fox Cover image: Photograph by Kenji Wardenclyfe First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Evan Smith, Jayne Persian and Vashti Jane Fox; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Evan Smith, Jayne Persian and Vashti Jane Fox to be identifed as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Please note that this book contains some profanity which readers may fnd ofensive. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifcation and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Smith, Evan, 1981– editor. | Persian, Jayne, editor. | Fox, Vashti Jane, editor. Title: Histories of fascism and anti-fascism in Australia / edited by Evan Smith, Jayne Persian and Vashti Jane Fox. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. | Series: Routledge studies in fascism and the far right | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifers: LCCN 2022031761 (print) | LCCN 2022031762 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367638122 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367638139 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003120964 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Fascism—Australia—History. | Anti-fascist movements— Australia—History. | Political culture—Australia—History—20th century. | Political culture—Australia—History—21st century. | Australia—Politics and government—20th century. | Australia—Politics and government— 21st century. Classifcation: LCC DU116 .H57 2023 (print) | LCC DU116 (ebook) | DDC 320.53/30994—dc23/eng/20220822 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022031761 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022031762 ISBN: 978-0-367-63812-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-63813-9 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-12096-4 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003120964 Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC We would like to thank all those who contributed to and attended the original Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia and New Zealand symposium held in December 2019 at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. We would also like to thank Craig Fowlie and Hannah Rich at Routledge, as well as Nigel Copsey and Graham Macklin from the Fascism and the Far Right series, for their support for this volume. They Shall Not Pass! CONTENTS Notes on Contributors xi 1 Introduction: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australian History 1 Evan Smith, Jayne Persian, and Vashti Jane Fox 2 An Uncomfortable Past: Historiographical Refections on Fascism and Interwar Australia 20 Andrew Moore 3 Labour ‘Armies’ in the 1930s’ Depression: From Industrial Disputes to Anti-Fascism 39 Phoebe Kelloway 4 Egon Kisch and Black Australia 61 Padraic Gibson 5 ‘The Renaissance of our Fatherland’: Fascist Rhetoric and Intra-Communal Tension, Loveday Internment Group Camp 14A, 28 October 1942 80 David Faber 6 ‘War on the Whiteman’: Australia in the Racial and Political Imagination of Britain’s Far Right, 1945–1970 97 Luke LeCras 7 Fascism in Exile: Ustasha-Linked Organisations in Australia 115 Drew Cottle and Angela Keys
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